Trying to unravel China's sometimes contradictory and conflicting policies and actions without understanding their ideology is fruitless and confusing however. Without understanding the ideology that motivates them and underlies their actions, would be like trying to unroll "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Furthermore, it is naive to think that the Chinese worldview is the same as ours.

What is the Chinese Worldview? On June 28, 1999, President Jiang Zemin, in a speech given to the Communist Party of China (CPC) marking the 78th anniversary of the founding of the party explained, "The Chinese government will continue to look on both the domestic and international situations with dialectical conceptions of marxism." There you have it. The marxist dialectic is the key, the sword to slicing through the gordian knot mystery surrounding China. Let me explain why.

First, The importance of the dialectic is highlighted by how the Communists use the word. Chairman Mao once said that the "Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie [because] . . . they understand dialectics and they can see further" (Mao, _Selected Works_, 1961), while Stalin declared that "dialectics is the soul of Marxism" (Stalin, _Problems of Leninism_, 1940), and Lenin wrote that dialectics is "as living, many sided knowledge." (V.I. Lenin, _On The Question Of Dialectics_, 1925)

Put in simple terms dialectics is just a high-falutin philosophical word for the "struggle" that goes on between two belief systems, capitalism and socialism, or the thesis and the antithesis. Out of the struggle would emmerge an entirely new sytem, the synthesis--Communism--and Marxists the world over are engaged in the "struggle" to help bring it about. America, and the rest of the free world, represent the so called "Thesis" while China and the other "progressive" countries represent the "antithesis" which confront and struggle with each other until a final synthesis is reached. In other words, This thesis, antithesis and synthesis process would continue until a great merger is effected and the whole world becomes communist.

Until that final synthesis is reached however "contradictions" would characterize each worldview. Lenin called such contradictions the "unity of opposites" (Lenin as quoted by Mao Tse Tung, in _On Contradiction_, August 1937) Lenin further taught that these contradictions could be a tool to hasten the revolution. For example, although marxism is atheistic and against the traditional family, Stalin encouraged religion and strong family life during World War II in order to help save the "Fatherland". When the war was over Stalin reversed these policies. Likewise marxist countries could engage in "free market capitalism" in order to build up her economic infrastructure and military. This is exactely what Lenin instituted in the Soviet Union between 1921-1928 with his New Economic Policy (NEP).

In China, however, all advantages accrued as result of such free market capitalism, are in the words of the China dissident Harry Wu "used to build the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) . . . every penny . . . is used to build up the military." Or as Lenin�s strategy suggests, �[the West--lead by the United States--would["labor to prepare their own suicide" by "furnish[ing]credits . . . [which] would rebuild our war industry, which is essential for our future attacks on our suppliers." Plain enough, and their failure of an economic system needs such aid.

China, admitted in an official White Paper that it, �suffers from capital constraint And relatively under-developed scientific and technological development." All it exports are �labor-intensive (slave labor) products such as textiles, garments, shoes, toys, electric home appliances and luggage." Thus, China is dependent upon the sale of those goods to acquire hard cash so that they may then purchase �capital and technology intensive Products such as aircraft, power generation equipment, machinery, electronics, telecommunications equipment and machinery.�

In the United States our foreign policy is guided by intellectual confusion and moral lethargy because we fail to understand the Marxist Dialectic which characterizes the Chinese Marxist Worldview. We make deals with communist agents and officials as if they represent their peoples. We engage in diplomacy as if it were an old fashioned power struggle. We sign treaties and agreements, accept promises and declarations as if the Chinese were receptive to our values. We trade with China as if we were exchanging goods and services with London Merchants. And while our State Department and business officials fraternize with Chinese officials in political, economic, social and cultural matters, thousands of individuals linger in the LaoGai Slave labor camps.

Isn't it about time to cut through the Gordian knot of ignorance concerning China and let freedom reign as Lord of Asia?