Letters: Once were traitors

Our people who support Chinese aims would once have been labelled traitors, says a reader.

As a serving military person during the '60s and 70s, I, with my friends, watched very closely world events, from Vietnam to Israel, and particularly the Cultural Revolution staged by Chairman Mao of the People's Republic of China.

Somewhere along the process it was easy to see that this was an initiative for China to take control of the world. Chairman Mao expressed it thus: "We shall conquer the world without firing a shot."

"What happens when, having conquered the world, one discovers the whole world hates because one has conquered and subdued the culture that was someone's heritage."

In recent years this has manifested as reality. Such reality causes me much concern for several reasons.

Two questions I ask myself are: When did the world ask to be conquered by anyone, Chinese or otherwise? What happens when, having conquered the world, one discovers the whole world hates because one has conquered and subdued the culture that was someone's heritage.

There is ample evidence to show the folly of imperial design, whether by European, North African or Asian kings and warlords or modern day capitalist expansionists of any flavour.

My conclusions: 'world domination' is a stupid idea that lives among a few deluded and greedy people. Our people who support Chinese aims would once have been labelled traitors.

REV ROBERT URLICH
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