Modern China is making inroads into the West in often illegal and draconian ways – perhaps, tragically, imitating the methods by which the Western Powers in the 19th Century in the 1st and 2nd Opium Wars and in the 20th Century in the Boxer Rebellion made inroads into Imperial China.

(I am concerned that China’s aggression will affect my zoo. If China continues unchallenged, we may see the Pandas promoted – and perhaps my bananas restricted to enable the zoo administrators to buy bulk amounts of bamboo shoots.)

In 1900, in what became known as the ‘Boxer Rebellion’ (or the ‘Boxer Uprising’), a Chinese secret organization, called ‘The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists’, led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels, referred to by Westerners as ‘Boxers’ – because they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets – killed foreigners and Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property. From June to August, the Boxers besieged the foreign district of Beijing (then called Peking), China’s capital, until an international force – that included American troops – subdued the uprising. By the terms of ‘The Boxer Protocol’, which officially ended the rebellion in 1901, China agreed to pay more than $330 million in reparations. Most of this sum was repaid by China.

N.B. Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission, refused to accept money as reparations for the missionaries who were killed. He desired to honour Christ in the eyes of the Chinese obeying the sacred words in Matthew 5:44 to ‘Love Our Enemies’.

Present day China is a Totalitarian State. Like the Boxers, it does not allow Christianity – nor does it allow freedom of thought.

The leadership of the United States and all nations involved in trade – especially Australia – with China need the wisdom of Solomon as they engage with this increasingly powerful nation. (Ironically, the Western Powers:

• Austria- Hungary Empire
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Russia
• The British Empire
• The United States

and Imperial Japan united to defeat the Boxers.)

Perhaps, a united show of diplomatic strength by Christian Western Democracies could once again curtail Chinese aggression and find a chink in the armour of President Xi Jinping – as the western powers did in China’s Empress Dowager Cixi in the Boxer Rebellion.

The question, of course, is:
Is there such an entity in the modern world as a Christian Western Democracy?

It seems that most supposedly Christian Western Democracies are now almost totalitarian in their:

• atheism
• upholding of politically correct speech
• denial of freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
• hatred of Christians
• Anti- Semitism

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The Peace-Loving – but not at the price of my bananas – Chimp