The New Dark Age

Thursday, 10 April 2025 — The Cradle

It’s always the same voice that calls others aggressive.

Always the same hand that draws the knife, then accuses the wound of hostility.

So let’s speak with clarity.

It was the U.S. that imposed gunboat trade on China in the 19th century—demanding markets at cannonpoint while preaching the gospel of free enterprise.

The U.S. that armed Japan’s rise with steel, oil, and scrap—feeding the empire that would rape Nanjing, only to recoil when its creature turned back on its maker.

The U.S. that propped up the corrupt, crumbling Kuomintang—then tried to strangle the People’s Republic at birth. Because a sovereign, united China was never part of the imperial script.

The U.S. that refused to recognize Beijing for three decades, while calling a U.S.-backed military regime in Taiwan “Free China.”

The U.S. that firebombed Chinese volunteers and civilians in Korea, turned cities to ash with napalm—and threatened nuclear annihilation in 1950.

The U.S. that trained Tibetan separatists in secret CIA camps, armed them, sent them across frozen peaks to bleed China from within.

The U.S. that cheered as Britain clung to Hong Kong—then wept colonial tears when the city returned home, like a thief mourning lost loot.

The U.S. that flooded Xinjiang with propaganda, foreign funding, and proxy groups—planting the seeds of unrest to fracture Chinese sovereignty.

The U.S. that funneled millions into the Hong Kong riots—watched train stations burn, civilians beaten—and called it “democracy.”

The same U.S. that now rings China with military bases, floods Taiwan with weapons, bans Chinese tech, and incites war in the Pacific.

And still—without a flicker of shame—it dares to call China the aggressor?

A country that has spent over a century trying to divide, weaken, isolate, encircle, and provoke China… Now cries foul when China stands unbowed.

But history remembers.

And so does China.