Why Do Western Countries Hate China? A British Scholar Nails It

By China view

British scholar Jason Hickel spoke a hard truth: The West hates China not because of democracy or human rights, but because China smashed their 500-year rice bowl.

The Belt and Road Initiative lets African, Latin American, and Southeast Asian countries finally build infrastructure without kowtowing to the IMF. China provides tech, loans, and no political strings attached. Whose cheese got cut into here?

Hickel ran the numbers: The West extracts $2.2 trillion a year from the Global South—enough to wipe out extreme poverty 15 times over. Aid can’t make up for it—aid’s just $150 billion a year, a left-hand-to-right-hand heist.

Five hundred years ago? China held a third of the world’s GDP, all nations paid tribute, and it didn’t rely on plunder. The West’s “civilizational order” was the real historical aberration.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance looted 1.5 million artifacts from the Old Summer Palace and hauled off 130 million taels of silver from Beijing, did they talk human rights then?

They laughed when China made shirts; now they’re panicking when China makes chips. It’s not China that’s changed—it’s that they can’t harvest the leeks anymore.

Capital is a vampire, and war is its cutlery. Only when this order shatters will the world truly know peace.

 

Original Source: https://x.com/Chinaview0022/status/2091350506002436241