American scholar Yu Maochun stated that from the Korean War to Ukraine, from the Himalayas to the South China Sea, historical records reveal a starkly different truth – Communist China has never been a peaceful country. Since 1949, it has been supporting enemies of the United States.
Director of the Hudson Institute’s China Center, Yu Maochun, recently wrote in The Washington Times that the historical records are undeniable. Since 1949, the Communist Party of China has initiated or instigated more wars than any other country. Its ideology advocates for struggle; its diplomatic tactics create instability; its economy fosters tyranny.
Yu Maochun is a former chief China policy expert at the State Department.
He stated that the CCP has always claimed to be “peace-loving” and alleged persecution by imperialism. However, in reality, the CCP has been a major instigator of global instability since the end of World War II. Today’s China is a revolutionary regime, whose survival depends on continuous struggle, conquest, and deception.
Yu Maochun said, “Communism is inherently a bellicose ideology. It does not view peace as a moral good, but merely a pause between wars. Mao Zedong established his regime on the basis of continuing revolution, asserting that ‘political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ Like the former Soviet Union, the CCP must constantly demonstrate its existence through conflict to maintain its myth of absolute correctness and invincibility. To the CCP, aggression is not abnormal, but a necessary condition for survival.”
Just a year after the establishment of the CCP regime, they dispatched millions of “volunteers” to Korea, turning a regional civil war into a global conflict that claimed millions of lives.
In 1954 and 1958, the CCP shelled the Taiwan-held islands of Kinmen and Matsu, starting decades of armed intimidation across the Taiwan Strait. In 1962, China invaded India under the guise of “self-defense” and occupied border territories.
A few years later, bloody clashes erupted between Chinese and Soviet troops along the Ussuri River, nearly triggering a nuclear war between the two major Communist camps. In 1979, Beijing invaded Vietnam, leading to a month-long war that resulted in tens of thousands of casualties on both sides.
Yu Maochun pointed out, “Every war initiated by the CCP, regardless of size, is not defensive but ideological, aimed at highlighting the revolutionary leadership and telling the world that any challenge to the CCP will come at a cost.”
Unable to directly confront the United States, the CCP has devised a long-term strategy of proxy warfare. Since usurping power in 1949, Beijing has supported America’s enemies and exacerbated global turmoil in every major global conflict.
The “unrestricted partnership” between China and Russia has made Beijing a primary driver of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, providing around 90% of dual-use military-civilian components, electronic products, and machine tools for the Russian war machine.
In the Middle East, China signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with Iran in 2021, providing up to $400 billion in aid, greatly enhancing Iran’s ability to support terrorist proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and others.
In Latin America, Chinese funding and political support have transformed Venezuela under the leadership of Chavez and Maduro into a regional aggressor, openly threatening to annex two-thirds of Guyana’s territory.
Yu Maochun said, “These are not random opportunistic events but constitute a coherent global strategy: deplete America’s strength through endless border wars, undermine the Western alliance system, and reshape the world order to normalize dictatorship and punish democracy.”
He stated that the CCP equates peace with surrender and cooperation with obedience. Wherever the CCP’s influence reaches, repression, conflict, and fear follow closely. Unless the world responds to the existential threat posed by the CCP, it will continue to live under the shadow of Beijing’s aggression and strategic deception.
“Anyone examining the wreckage of modern history can see that the truth is that the CCP has never ceased its wars, whether through the military, proxies, economic coercion, or ideology,” concluded Yu Maochun.