Monday, October 17, 2016

CHINESE HARMONY POWER IS REPLACING AMERICAN HEGEMONY POWER IN PHILIPPINE

CHINESE HARMONY POWER IS REPLACING AMERICAN HEGEMONY SOFT POWER IN PHILIPPINE BY FRANCIS C W FUNG, PH.D. American soft power trying to force our value system such as one man one vote to the rest of the world led to disastrous results in Iraq and Afghanistan. These countries with democracy but weak government collapsed and created the world terrorist movements that tormented the world today. By contrast the Confucian tradition of hard work and affinity to learning has empowered the Asian nations such as China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan to become world economic powers. Confucian philosophy of “Harmony Power” also teaches harmony as a way of life, world unity, mutual development and community of common destiny. This is exemplified by President Xi Jinping’s promotion of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (One Belt One Road) for world connectivity and prosperity. I have written many essays on Harmony Renaissance, Harmony Diplomacy and Harmony Virtues (see my blogsite worldharmonyforum.blogspot.com ). The future trend of the world is for peace and development and multipolar world not American hegemony. It is inevitable that “Harmony Power” will triumph over American hegemony soft power. An outstanding current example of the failure of American hegemony soft power is Philippine’s rejection of U.S. subjugation and turning to China for friendship and cooperation. Since Philippine’s independence America kept Philippine under hegemony soft power control. Recent pronouncement from Philippine clearly spell out Philippine’s resentment of U.S. hegemony dominance. President Duterte is quoted as saying that “Philippine does not like to be stepped on as a doormat by America”. He also said that “America must not treat Philippine as little brown brothers by big brother America”. In a recent interview, Duterte also lauded China’s commitment to and generosity of helping others as a major player of the international community, adding that besides its own development, China has never forgotten those underdeveloped nations, as illustrated by its devotion to helping African and Southeast Asian countries to promote development. Speaking of the two countries’ economic and trade cooperation, Duterte said that since his country is abundant in tourism, mineral and agricultural resources, and China boasts a huge lucrative market, the two neighbors enjoy high complementarity and considerable potential for further cooperation. The Philippine leader said his country needs to retain its friendly relationship with China and learn from the latter’s success in economics and trade, especially in times of global financial crisis. The top Philippine leader also extended his gratitude to China, which, in stark contrast to some Western countries, has extended support for Philippine efforts against illegal drugs, as proved by the funding of a rehabilitation center which is about to open. “Some other countries know we are short of money, (but) instead of helping us, all they had to do was just to criticize. China never criticizes. They help us quietly. and I said that’s why it’s part of the sincerity of the people,” Duterte noted. The philippine president also expressed his desire to let Manila jump onto the bandwagon of the Beijing-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, as his nation is short of funding for infrastructure such as railways and seaports. He added that rapid development is hard to accomplish for any country without railways, saying he hopes China could offer soft loans. “There are so many things in my country which I would like to implement, but for lack of the capital stock,” he said. The Philippines also hopes to realize common prosperity. “If we can have the things you have given to other countries by the way of assistance, we’d also like to be a part of it and to be a part of the greater plans of China about the whole of Asia, particularly Southeast Asia,” Duterte said. Speaking of his upcoming China tour, Duterte said he will take the opportunity to conduct dialogue with China so as to enhance mutual understanding and partnership. “All that I would need to do is just to talk and get a firm handshake from the officials and say that we are Filipinos and we are ready to cooperate with you, to help us in building our economy and building our country.” Chinese Confucian philosophy of “Harmony Power” also teaches harmony as a way of life, world unity, mutual development and community of common destiny. This is exemplified by President Xi Jinping’s promotion of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (One Belt One Road) for world connectivity and prosperity. Duterte’s above statements about China show great admiration of Chinese Harmony Soft Power. The “One Belt One Road” initiative is the grandest initiative ever for the world common good. In time it will connect and spread world mutual development and community of common destiny to the whole world. Under this Second Globalization, led by China, the world will recover from the fading of the 20th Century American led globalization and march towards the greatest prosperity of mankind as well as true World Harmony!!! This is the great teaching of Confucian Da Tong and Tien Hsia Wei Kong!!!! World Unity, Community of Common Destiny!!! American human rights is all about political ideology. No poverty relief, education improvement or women hi-tech jobs. Francis C W Fung, Ph.D. Director General World Harmony Organization San Francisco, CA

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