China humanized West, but it made much inhuman one

Frank（Hongde）Li   July 28, 2024, in  Canada

YouTube video Germany Begin Destroying Islamic Mosques Spreading Extremism: How Germany Tackled Immigration Crisis: July 24, 2024, Germany starts to ban radical Islamic mosques known for spreading extremist ideologies as strategy to promote peace, tolerance, and security within the country.

However, the humanized action of Germany has too late to uproot the fatal harm of the harmful religions due to that they have dehumanized human world into the inhuman state in the individualistic values; individualistic social elements and its dehumanized people in individualistic  quality with warlike genes.

Any way; as long as did it, it's better than not doing it. I think that the rational practice of the Germans will promote the progress of human civilization by humanizing social governance, which can be regarded as the second Renaissance, Enlightenment and Reformation towards completely secularized.

As my view, among above three, the greatest one is the Reformation that promotes the progress of human civilization from the root of humanizing social governance from religions dominated.  

Talk about the contribution for the Reformation, it should attribute to Italian poet and politician Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), in around 1319, who wrote Divine Comedy that can be regarded as sounded the death knell for religious rule; however, it was the enlightenment of the civilization of China to have promoted it practical effect.

The civilization of China enlightened the end of European Dark Ages

British submarine lieutenant-commander Gavin Menzies, as career life, once visited many countries and shocked by the ancient monuments that left by Zheng He Fleet of China. After retirement, on own spending, he cost 14 years to have researched on Ming treasure Voyages by visiting historic sites of 120 countries and more than 900 libraries, museums and archives. Then accordingly wrote books 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (2002) and 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (2008).

In the book, Mr. Gavin Menzies appreciated the practice of Zheng He Fleet with 7 times around the world, besides fair trade, did not carry out colonial ruling. He wrote that, in 1434, a Chinese fleet arrived in Tuscany Italy and presented the pope with a large amount books, from a diverse range of fields: geography, astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacturing, civil engineering, military weaponry, surveying, cartography, and more. The knowledge of China sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance to have formed the basis of European civilisation. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese ideas, discoveries, and inventions.

In Chapter 15 – Leonardo da Vinci and Chinese inventions, Mr. Gavin Menzies wrote that, In my youth, Leonardo da Vinci seemed the greatest genius of all time: an extraordinary inventor of every sort of machine, a magnificent sculptor, one of the world’s greatest painters and the finest illustrator and draughtsman who ever lived. Then, as my knowledge of Chinese inventions slowly expanded, more and more of Leonardo’s inventions appear to have been invented previously by the Chinese. I began to question whether there might be a connection – did Leonardo learn from the Chinese?

Mr. Gavin Menzies wrote that Da Vinci drew all the essential components of machines with extraordinary clarity – showing how toothed wheels, gear wheels and pinions were used in mills, lifting machines and machine tools. All these devices had been used in China for a very long time. In the Tso Chuan are illustrations of bronze ratchets and gear wheels from as early as 200 BC which have been discovered in China.

What describes by Mr. Gavin Menzies turned out historical scandal that the one of the greatest admirable inventor and painter so far Leonardo Da Vinci who was a copycat that became famous by plagiarizing the arts of ancient Chinese people.

Also since 1400s, European missionaries continuously enter China and they translate the culture of China back home to have triggered great response. Europeans ask themselves why the Chinese enjoy peace while we plunder and kill each other inhumanely. Human civilization is in the East China. The discussion was throughout the Europe to have enlightened the development of modern economics; also triggered Renaissance, Enlightenment and French Revolution by a genetic hobby of bloody killing to push Europe entered the new Dark Ages with new type of barbaric play, and continued provoking wars driven by warlike genetic hobby. 

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination#West, Imperial Examination was introduced to Europe as early as 1570; and was disseminated broadly in Europe. During the 18th century, the Imperial Examinations were often discussed in conjunction with Confucianism, which attracted great attention from contemporary European thinkers such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Montesquieu. Voltaire claimed that the Chinese had ‘perfected moral science.

“François Quesnay advocated an economic and political system modeled after that of the Chinese. According to Ferdinand Brunetière (1849-1906), followers of Physiocracy such as François Quesnay, whose theory of free trade was based on Chinese classical theory, were sinophiles bent on introducing "l'esprit chinois" to France. He also admits that French education was really based on Chinese literary examinations which were popularized in France by philosophers, especially Voltaire. Western perception of China in the 18th century admired the Chinese bureaucratic system as favourable over European governments for its seeming meritocracy.”

According to François Quesnay from Wikipedia, Quesnay is known for his writings on Chinese politics and society. His book Le Despotisme de la Chine, written in 1767, describes his views of the Chinese imperial system. He was supportive of the meritocratic concept of giving scholars political power. The rational and knowledgeable Voltaire and Leibniz, who both highly appreciated China’s governance in selecting learned people; and Voltaire and Leibniz were both specially wrote about the rational practice of China.

According to the practice of François Quesnay, Voltaire, Leibniz and other enlightenment thinkers of Europe; the Europe was nearly successfully following the political practice of China in Technocratic Democracy through Examination selecting learned people as officials; then Human society would avoid the catastrophes of many manmade disasters. However, the good was turned bad by French Montesquieu.

In Mar 24, 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron who presented the one of only two original French version of "An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius" that published in 1688 to President Xi Jinping as a national gift.

While Macron said, the early translations of The Analects of Confucius had inspired French thinkers Montesquieu and Voltaire. The only other remaining book from this version is now kept at his country's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts.

However, the An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius was unable to humanize French man Montesquieu in humanized thinking; in the "Spirit of Law", Montesquieu defined China as an autocratic country and an imperial dictatorship; by which he provided confidence for people condemning China as dictatorship until this day; so that misled the West to abandon Technocratic Democracy to choose liberal democracy of childish play as this days. 

Democracy is still relying on deception to survive

If you trace back to the origin of the civilization of China, it is to humanize its citizens by developing humanized ideologies, but the origin of Western civilization is by coining toxic ideologies brainwashing to dehumanize its citizens.

After self-proclaimed secularization, in addition to continue to play deception by religions of howling for freedom of belief, there were more deceptive tools of deception have been added; such as the liberal democracy by the people, for the people, the universal values, the freedom, the human rights and more; which have been in playing as evil role as a deceptive flag and burqa, so that a few low quality people who act irrationally and recklessly able to seize the administrative power of the government to endanger the survival of mankind by venting their evil mentality.

The wu wei of ancient thought of China enlightened modern economics & Neoliberalism

In 1750s,  the term wu wei of Tao Te Ching enlightened French Physiocrat François Quesnay to have coined economic idea laissez-faire – free market without Gov-intervention; which inspired Adam Smith writing economic bible the Wealth of Nations to have further coined Invisible Hand in 1776 . Then later the Invisible Hand encouraged greedy people to have further advocated as lawless Neoliberalism to advocate cutting off all of the supervisions of Government; thereby developing various financial instruments to freely plunder on real economy to endlessly make disasters.

The fatal harm of laissez-faire in over freed market inspired British economist John Keynes considers for the solution, since 1919, he put forward macroeconomic ideas successively, 1926 published the End of Laissez-faire, and 1936 further detailedly put forward The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, since then all countries have regarded controlling currency issuance, adjusting interest rates in 2%, and actively Gov-investing to stimulate economic development as a essential means of regulating the national economy.

In the word of wu wei, wu means none, and wei means ability, capability or the accomplishment from action; so that the term wu wei means that government must reduce the excessive harassment on the livelihood of people, for example, reduce excessive taxation, avoid arbitrary assignment of labor and so on; which was a government could do in the ancient backward agricultural economy. This was not as recklessly complicated as the West clamoring in today.

As my view, Tao Te Ching may understand as The Doctrine of Morality. It emerged around 400 BC China to have summarized the lessons of history, put forward suggestions and advice in social governance and personal behavior, by which contributed philosophies and wisdoms to have promoted the humanized development of civilization.

The Tao Te Ching traditionally credited to the sage Laozi who was the founder of dialectical philosophy Daoism in mandarin or Taoism in Cantonese; it dialectically views the universe as a system of the unity of opposites in composed of many components - subsystems with own feature of unity of opposites in a state of constant self-regulating balance. By Yin and Yang represent the two sides of the opposites as the interdependent in contradiction and reunification.

The Daoism was adopted as the dominant philosophy, its principles and terminology promoted development of Traditional Chinese medicine – TCM.

But in the west everything evilly used to make evil. The Laissez-faire was not only developed lawless evil of Neoliberalism; but also developed lawless evil term of “individual has a natural right to freedom”. According to Laissez-faire Wikipedia gave explanation:

1... Laissez-faire is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or transfer payments). The markets should naturally be competitive with the aims of maximizing freedom by allowing markets to self-regulate. In the mid-18th century, the laissez-faire capitalism emerged. 

2... As a system of thought, laissez-faire rests on the following axioms: "the individual is the basic unit in society, i.e. the standard of measurement in social calculus; the individual has a natural right to freedom; and the physical order of nature is a harmonious and self-regulating system."

In the west, the economic ides wu wei of Tao Te Ching was evil used to coin too many evil ideas to deliberately create disasters to destroy human life until this days.

But in the birthplace of wu wei of the mother of laissez-faire or Capitalism; China did not make the tragedies as that of in the Europe and the United States in past and today, right now; everything comes from humanized social governance by selecting humanized people in humanized manner performing social governance.

Here is a good example; August 2012, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Silicon Valley Bank jointly established SPD Silicon Valley Bank China. In view of the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank US, on March 11, 2023, SPD Silicon Valley Bank China specially announced that the bank has been operation strictly following the laws and regulations of China, with a standardized corporate governance structure and an independent balance sheet; which means that the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank US cannot affect the operation of SPD Silicon Valley Bank China.

From the announcement of SPD Silicon Valley Bank China; we may get the feeling of that; before the U.S. bank crisis, the bankers in SPD Silicon Valley Bank China would hate the strict supervision of the government of China. However, the strict supervision has helped them to avoid operational crises, and now they are grateful and thank for the strict supervision of the government of China; and proudly declare our operation is safe.

The root reason of all these lies in the difference between Chinese Collectivistic Culture and American Individualistic Culture; and which result in the difference in the social governance concept and the governance practice.

Since the practice of nationalization in capitalist countries, capitalism has almost been eliminated. Today, capitalist countries all retain state-owned economic elements, but democratic politicians still claim that they are pure capitalism. The best example is the practice of Keynes' macroeconomics, by controlling money issuance and adjusting interest rates to 2%.