What happens when the people who invented the rules discover that China is finally strong enough to enforce them?
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The Anglo-Saxons love preaching the “spirit of contract,” but history keeps revealing the truth:
They don’t revere contracts, and they certainly don’t respect dignity.
They only respect themselves, and the power to seize whatever they want.
China calls the Opium War a century of humiliation, yet it still honored the unequal treaties signed by the Qing government and regained Hong Kong only when the 99-year lease expired.
The West, meanwhile, treats the forced seizure of Chinese companies as a “national security exception.”
Huawei. Nexperia. China Telecom. Chip bans. Trade wars. Panama ports. The Port of Darwin.
For them, contracts are never rules, they are gift-wrap for appetite and coercion.
But here is the part they refuse to accept:
China is no longer the country it was a hundred years ago, the one they could loot at will.
If Canberra tears up Darwin Port, every Belt-and-Road investment becomes a target for copy-and-paste expropriation.
And China will not, unlike the United States, send troops to occupy foreign territory and then declare:
“We’re protecting Chinese assets.”
So the question is no longer about who respects contracts.
It’s this:
What happens when the people who invented the rules discover that China is finally strong enough to enforce them?
posted by Satish Sharma at
03:57
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