Democracies cannot be sustained in the 21st century. Autocracies will run the world. ——Xi Jinping
Things are changing.
The paradigm has shifted. It is no longer a race between capitalism and communism. It is a race between liberal democracy and totalitarian authoritarianism.
First of all, I support advancing the integration and federalisation process in Europe and the establishment of a unified European army, which will work in concert with the United States and Canada under the NATO system and act as a guarantee of military deterrence under a value-based foreign policy.
I support the formation of a world liberal democratic coalition led by the European Union and the United States, supplemented by Japan and Canada, against the totalitarian authoritarian camp led by Russia and China, supplemented by North Korea and Iran.
Following the restoration of national sovereignty and territorial integrity. I support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and NATO after the war. I am in favour of the UK rejoining the EU.
Support the transition to secularism in Islamic countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Trying to use techniques such as non-violent communication to resolve grievances and hatreds
Just as I strongly oppose Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, I strongly oppose China’s aggression against Taiwan.
Prevent Tiktok from stealing user data by having the capital of a liberal democracy acquire Tiktok, prevent the CCP from stealing high tech by preventing the CCP from purchasing advanced process lithography, etc., defend academic freedom by shutting down Confucius Institutes…sanction human rights abusers except Xi Jinping with a human rights accountability bill (as much as I would like to want to sanction Xi Jinping, but isn’t that too unrealistic? I would also like to encourage liberal democracies to establish diplomatic relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan, but I don’t know how to react to the CCP’s response)…
To use an analogy, non-liberal democracies are joint-stock companies in which the rulers and a few elites seize the lion’s share of the shares, and the rulers and elites of liberal democracies, although also owning more shares than the general class, have significantly fewer shares than in non-liberal democracies, where the power of the people is significantly stronger and the balance of power is altered. It is important to note, however, that totalitarian states like China manipulate public opinion by monopolising every aspect of socio-economic and political life, guiding the population to selectively hate the US and Japan, and kidnapping the wealth of the population into China’s real estate market, thus forcing the Chinese people to accept the stable rule of the CCP.
The success of the CCP’s totalitarianism lies in the fact that it has monopolised the machinery of violence and propaganda, abolished the freedoms of association, speech, information, press, demonstration, etc., and enabled the general public to have a bigger share of the cake in the process of making the cake bigger through the reform and opening up of the economic system that has made the vast majority of the Chinese people richer than before. However, as China’s population declines rather than grows, the demographic dividend disappears, political polarisation leads to the withdrawal of foreign investment, and other economic downturns could seriously undermine the system of distributing the benefits of dictatorships to elites and the general public, making the state more reliant on the legitimacy of violence and ideological legitimacy rather than the legitimacy of performance.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), through the strictest censorship of information and monopoly of education and propaganda (brainwashing) in the world except North Korea, has convinced a large number of Chinese people, like the people of North Korea and the people of Oceania in Orwell《1984》, that “we are the happiest,” and “they are unfortunate”. The difference is that the CCP ideology of Mao Zedong’s time also advocated internationalism and the export of communist revolutions to save unfortunate foreign peoples, and it was in this context that the Korean and Vietnam wars broke out, which has led to the current situation of communist domination in Vietnam and nuclear in North Korea. More frighteningly, China is now the only totalitarian state in the world that possesses nuclear weapons and has the ability to threaten liberal democracies all over the world (North Korea also possesses nuclear weapons but is too small that that it can only be a threat to peace and stability in East Asia). The resilience of totalitarian states is that the Communist Party of China (CPC) will survive if Xi Jinping dies, the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) will survive if Kim Jong-un dies, and the Islamic system will survive if the Islamic leader dies. Authoritarian states like Russia, after all, still have the trappings of a liberal democracy and visible domestic opposition, rather than the trappings of Leninism or Islam, and it is much more difficult to perpetuate the collapse of their own institutions after the death of the dictator Vladimir Putin.
Based on the theoretical principles of balanced nuclear deterrence and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, it is undeniable that the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons play a significant role in preserving dictatorships and deterring the onset of global conflicts. This is contingent upon straightforward rational calculations, assuming that decision-makers possess the necessary rationality to act accordingly.
This dynamic prevents external forces from pursuing military interventions to topple dictatorships, as these regimes can instead focus on managing internal threats. Moreover, dictatorships are disinclined to engage in direct conflicts with nuclear-armed liberal democracies.
The liberal democracies, represented by the United States, which did not prevent the CCP from occupying China in the 1940s because they believed the CCP would become part of the international system of liberal democracy, which abandoned Taiwan in the 1970s to contain the Soviet Union, and which wishfully allowed China to join the World Trade Organisation in order to gain access to the Chinese market in the early twenty-first century, thereby facilitating China’s rapid economic growth. The domino effect of deliberately forgetting the lessons learnt from the 1989 Beijing massacre unleashed by the CCP and underestimating the CCP’s determination to defend its own power, which allowed the CCP to grow in strength, has led to the grave consequences of a major threat to the liberal democratic camp in the world today.
Based on the principle of reciprocal open markets, just as China blocks connections to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, etc., liberal democracies can block connections to WeChat, Tiktok, etc. Chinese capital is also prohibited from entering the mobile operator market in liberal democracies, as China also does not open access to foreign capital. Liberal democracies can also impose special measures on the renminbi as China imposes foreign exchange controls.
On the topic of the global climate crisis, I would like to remind that wars and munitions industries also lead to increased carbon emissions. Climate activists should also focus on how to help Ukraine win the counter-offensive to stop the war and achieve peace, and how to deter the Chinese Communist Party from invading Taiwan. Meanwhile, the irrational behaviour of dictatorships such as Xi Jinping’s China’s ZERO covid policy of pushing for Universal Regular Nucleic Acid Testing is also driving an overall increase in carbon emissions and the manufacture of plastics.
Despite the difficulty in making such a decision, we must explore whether we should support nuclear power against the background of insufficient green energy and make a decision that is responsible for the future.
But in addition to the external threat from dictators, we also face internal threats from the far right and from populists. We need to unite all possible forces, including those of capitalists and society, such as the Open Society Foundations, as well as the left, which supports liberal democratic values and the self-defense counterattack of Ukraine, to prevent these threats from gaining ground. We also need to invest heavily in inclusive education and find the optimal solution between economic development and social welfare to prevent parts of the population from becoming a vote bank for the far right and populists.
However, we are not naive far-leftists and communists who ignore reality. We are realists and pragmatists who realise that, in the geopolitical context of the expansion of the global totalitarian authoritarian camp, peace needs to be defended by strength, peace needs to be sustained by deterrence, and peace needs to be achieved by arming ourselves to ensure that, in the event of regional peace being threatened by an aggressor, we will be able to To ensure that when regional peace is threatened by an aggressor, we will be able to deal a swift, irreversible and unacceptable blow to the other side, to realise the equilibrium of terror in the theory of games, to ensure mutual destruction, and to prevent wars of aggression from occurring by raising the cost of aggression, thereby preventing wars between countries.
I believe that the global liberal democratic camp should do whatever it takes to stop the foreign expansion of totalitarian authoritarianism, especially all-out efforts to help Ukraine restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity and all-out efforts to curb China’s attempts to invade Taiwan and its stranglehold on Taiwan’s sovereignty. Supporting arms sales and military assistance to Taiwan by liberal democratic countries to help Taiwan develop asymmetric warfare power and effectively stop the Chinese Communist invasion.
Attempt to establish an Indo-Pacific version of NATO, with the United States, Canada, and the European Union as leaders or playing a coordinating role, and with the liberal democracies in the region as members, including Japan South Korea Taiwan Philippines Indonesia Malaysia India Australia New Zealand, with the defence of Taiwan and South Korea as the main strategic objective, and with the establishment of a collective defence of the liberal democractic camps in the region as a means of curbing the regional Totalitarian authoritarian hegemony China, North Korea, and Russia as a threat to world peace and liberal democratic values.
We are also aware that peace means not only that there will be no more wars between States, but also that there will be no wars within States. However, dictators, rulers and people with vested interests in totalitarian authoritarian countries are waging “invisible wars” against their own people all the time. Because of the lack of freedom of the press, it is difficult to know how many dissidents and human rights defenders are suppressed by the state police and tortured in prisons every day. Although flawed, we accept the inference of Democratic Peace Theory. We believe that the ultimate solution to peace is for all nations of the world to share basic, core, universal, common values, and for different systems to be designed to achieve the goals of liberal democracy and human rights, thus preventing dictatorships from waging wars against dissidents.
Therefore, the World Alliance for Liberal Democracy should also give its full support to the struggles of peoples against tyrannical dictatorships and, in particular, give full support and shelter to human rights defenders. Support for freedom of access to information for all peoples of the world (freedom of the press, dismantling of Internet blocking firewalls). Freedom of access to information as a fundamental human right. We believe that the twenty-first century is not the century of totalitarianism and authoritarianism, but the century of liberal democracy. Our children, our younger generation cannot live under the threat of totalitarian authoritarianism any longer. I have a dream that before I die, there will be no more dictatorships in the world, dictators will exist only in history textbooks as extinct characters, and the relics of totalitarian authoritarianism will be seen only in museums.
Explore new forms of global governance that consider the right to health, education, housing, commuting, and freedom from hunger as basic human rights, and develop all-round social welfare, build social safety nets under the premise of capitalism, market economy, protection of private property, and economic globalisation, and help to guarantee the human rights of the most disadvantaged groups and minorities in the country with the power of the State’s finances. Promote free public health care for all, free or low-cost public education, public transport and social housing, and explore a universal basic income.
Promote the visibility, understanding, respect, support and inclusion of these minorities in society. Safeguard the human rights of the LGBTQIA+ community by legalising civil unions, same-sex marriages, adoption rights, banning gender-corrective surgeries, supporting gender-replacement surgeries, adopting anti-discrimination legislation, and promoting pluralistic sexuality education. Safeguard the human rights of the physically and mentally challenged through the provision of social services and accessible design. Safeguard the human rights of sex workers by legalising the sex work. Safeguard the human rights of cannabis users by legalising limited cannabis consumption, funding cannabis addiction treatment, and promoting education on cannabis using. Guarantee the human rights of the terminally ill by legalising euthanasia. Promote science by legalising psychedelic personal use and research. Abolish the death penalty and progressively promote restorative justice instead of punitive justice by supporting psychosocial services.
European statehood will be our opportunity to make history, and the United States of Europe (or European Commonwealth) will provide a new paradigm for human politics, supranationalism, human community, regional alliances, global governance, social democracy, and the promotion of mandatory English language education, with English as the lingua franca, along with legislation to protect linguistic diversity.
Before ideology, there is individual human suffering. The purpose of politics is not to achieve the highest good, not to establish a utopia, not to build a paradise on earth, but to protect human rights, to respect diversity, and to create a social environment that promotes fair competition and positive gamesmanship. Strive to find the optimal solution between promoting social dynamism and achieving social justice.
Thank you all of the Volters, and if you have any insights, additions or criticisms to this vision, initiative or concept, please feel free to point them out!
Good morning, good afternoon and good night to all!
We’re living through a global struggle between autocracies and democracies. And I will note — and my co- — I’ve met more with Xi Jinping than any other world leader has. When he called me to congratulate me on election night, he said to me what he said many times before. He said, “Democracies cannot be sustained in the 21st century. Autocracies will run the world. Why? Things are changing so rapidly. Democracies require a consensus, and it takes time, and you don’t have the time.”
He’s wrong.
Each of you, as you go out into the world, will not only be a proud member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, you’ll be representatives and defenders of our democracy. It sounds corny but, literally, our democracy.
That’s why you swear an oath not to me as your Commander-in-Chief or to any political leader, but to the Constitution.
——Joe Biden
Afterword: I suddenly got excited and wrote this text in Bulgaria without sleeping for one night. I still wrote it in Chinese and finished the English version with the help of DeepL and ChatGPT. It started because I think people still have a lot of romantic illusions about totalitarian states like China, that they don’t threaten our lives. However this is wrong. The chain reaction from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation in Europe, saturation of refugees, the election of the far-right, and carbon emissions from the war have also slowed down the pace of carbon-neutral climate action. Once China invades Taiwan, the world’s supply of semiconductors will be seriously threatened, and all sorts of advanced-process electronics such as the iPhones we use every day will disappear. Biden’s quote of Xi Jinping’s blunt prophecy of the eventual triumph of dictatorship over democracy in the 21st century lingered in my mind. I was reminded of Xi’s words after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow in March this year: Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together. Please, take care, dear friend. https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/22/xi-jinping-tells-dear-friend-putin-change-is-coming-as-he-leaves-moscow-18481305/
Can those who still have illusions about the totalitarian authoritarian states of China and Russia wake up?
Will history be written this way in the future?
The beginning of the new Cold War: Russia invades Ukraine. Xi Jinping backs up Putin. The liberal democratic camp led by NATO, the US and the EU supports Ukraine.
Beginning of the old Cold War: North Korea invades South Korea. Mao Zedong supports Kim Il Sung. UN forces, liberal democratic camp led by the US, support South Korea.
The difference is that at the beginning of the old Cold War neither China nor North Korea had nuclear weapons, so the US could directly intervene in a hot war. Now that Russia and China and even North Korea have nuclear weapons, direct intervention in a hot war is feared to lead to nuclear war and world war.
A Response to Trumpism：
Populism increases the unpredictability of politics. It can be said that Trumpism is the enemy of liberal democracy. We should do all we can to prevent Trump’s election. In fact, thanks to Italy’s far-right prime minister, Trump’s good friend Meloni, who has shown herself to be a staunch Atlanticist, Italy’s political prospects are instead better predicted than those of the United States, which has suffered from Trumpism.
PS：https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-kim-jong-un-to-hold-arms-talks-with-putin-says-us/live-66721543
And now Kim Jong-un is coming to Putin’s aid.
Rainbow Pie 
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