Why is China so hostile to the western world? [closed]

Question

Through domestic education or propaganda, Chinese government is consistently educating its everyone who listens to the CCP mouthpiece that they should be careful of the western threat.

An example today is the Russia-Ukraine war. This is clearly an invasion from a western standpoint, but on China's official mouthpiece and domestic social media platform, the government and their influencers stands together with Russia and blames the western world, telling its people that if Russia is taken down by the west, China will be the next one.

What is the official reason (publicly stated or inferred from official document) that China distrusts the West? Is it true that China cannot get along well with the West? Then how come Singapore can be good friends with the West?

Answer 1

As an ordinary Chinese who was born, grew up, educated, and worked in China, I think the one who is so afraid of the western world is the CCP instead of China.

Especially since Xi came into power, China is becoming more and more like North Korea: a 100% dictatorship and autocratic state. The real voice of ordinary Chinese people can hardly be heard by foreign countries.

So, why is the CCP so afraid of the western world, and why is the Chinese government supporting Russia in the war?

1. The CCP is afraid of democracy. They are afraid of the culture, the movies (such as A Taxi Driver and V for Vendetta), and anything that may inspire the idea of democracy for Chinese people. Almost all of them come from the western world. Also, the CCP built a notorious Great Firewall to prevent Chinese people from using Google, Twitter, YouTube, and any other websites the CCP can't control.

2. Since the PRC was founded, Russia has always been the greatest supporter of the CCP, whether as the Soviet Union or as the current Russian Federation , from money to military technology.

Answer 2

USA is openly declaring China as one of its main adversaries. Perhaps China is aware of the principle "when somebody promises to kill you, do not hesitate to believe them".

China also considers Taiwan as part of itself which may be resolved with an invasion in the future, so there is a point of not being invasion-averse in their news coverage.

Finally, I'm pretty sure that Western countries stood together with the USA much more firmly when it invaded Middle East than the current Chinese benevolent neutrality to Russian actions. Relations matter.

Even Russia supported the USA's Afghanistan campaign by providing airport capacity for NATO supply missions.

Answer 3

China, despite sometimes being allies with the United States, has had a rough history with the West that even predates the current Communist party. While in United States helped support China against Japan during World War II, the aid was given to nationalist party (usually through Nationalist politician Chiang Kai-shek) with the idea that they could share it with the Communist party as the Nationalists saw fit. This decision was not liked by the Communist Party and when the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was established from 1955 to 1979, the United States did not recognize the Communist Party of China as China's rightful government. There was also a larger incident in 1993 where the United States government detained a Chinese ship in international water claiming it might contain chemical weapons intended for Iran, a moment that became known as the Yinhe incident. This history of hostility towards the CCP, in addition to what the other contributors have mentioned, have made the Communist Party and the people who live under their rule to be taught to be very distrustful of the West.

Answer 4

Consider:

• Racial unrest in the US.
• Mass shootings.
• Crime rate.
• Negative news coverage of minor events in China.
• The great recession of 2007-2009 crushing Western economies while China's grew substantially.

Add that up and it becomes conceivable that China legitimately thinks they are better than the West. And then there is:

• The West gives off the general feeling that their particular way of thinking is "good" and no free person disagree with them. Furthermore, they view it as their sacred responsibility to go and regime change these other countries even if their population don't want the intervention, because those same people will be happy once they've been enlightened. That's why there is the Iraq War (and Libya). We can see how those wars turned out for the Iraqi/Libyan people too.
• Covid pandemic. China did spectacularly well with managing the pandemic, but most of the Western coverage of China's Covid response has negative undertones (of the "look how repressive their government is" kind). Meanwhile China looks at the rest of the world and thinks "if only everyone else did what we did, the pandemic would have ended in 2020".
• US funding Hong Kong protesters after complaining about Russian interference in their elections.

You could realistically flip the question around and ask why the West is so afraid of China.

As for Singapore, the country is usually non-aligned. Their participation in sanctions on Russia is unusual in that sense, and was explained as how if invading smaller countries were commonplace things would be dangerous for small countries like Singapore. Non-alignment means they can maintain friendly relations with most countries. But check this out anyway. More news coverage emphasizing human rights issues in Singapore can easily flip public opinion (on both sides) around.

Answer 5

Through domestic education or propaganda, China is consistently educating its people or children that they should be careful of the western threat.

They have their own ideological path which needs to be propagated to their citizens. What is strange in that?

An example today is the Russia-Ukraine war. This is clearly an invasion from a western standpoint, but on China's domestic social media platform, the government seemingly stands together with Russia and blames the western world, telling its people that if Russia is taken down by the west, China will be the next one.

Because (1) the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident; (2) Russia is an ally of China.

Is it true that China cannot get along well with the West?

No, it is not true. China has good trade relations with the West. Even several Western countries have become part of China's BRI project, e.g., Itay, Greece, etc.

Then how come Singapore can be good friends with the West?

Singapore is not a one-party state.