Topsy-turvy land

The Halifax Forum’s Anti-Democratic Agenda

by Roland Boer

An organisation of supposed statesmen and intellectuals was formed in the city of Halifax in Canada with the aim of reigniting and overthrowing the people’s government in China.
This so-called “Halifax Forum” held a meeting in Taipei, the capital of the breakaway Chinese province of Taiwan, last month with both open and closed sessions to discuss issues of “security” and “democracy”.
To begin with, this gathering of the representatives of the parasite class was clearly a provocative move, since the island of Taiwan is recognised internationally as an inalienable part of China. It is clear that despite all the nice “buzz words” the Halifax Forum promotes, it actually supports separatism, extremism, and terrorism.
However, let us have a closer look at what the Halifax Forum claims to be. Initially established on a Canadian initiative (hence “Halifax”) it has on its board of directors and team people from Canada, the USA, various countries in Eastern and Western Europe and one or two from African countries. No one, it seems comes from China, Australia, or New Zealand.
Further, the funding of the Halifax Forum is revealing, since one of them is NATO – the aggressive military alliance led by the USA that has attacked countries such as Yugoslavia (and dismembered it), Afghanistan, and more recently Russia. NATO is, as we know, facing a crisis, with the USA at the time of writing disdainfully casting aside “old Europe” in its direct suing for peace with Russia in relation to Ukraine.
While the Halifax Forum boasts such funding – and there are others – it claims to be “non-partisan” in its promotion of “democracy”. Readers will know that “democracy” here stands for Western political systems imposed on countries against their will and indeed against their historical logic. In other words, they try to promote capitalist democracy and refuse to recognise the superior form of socialist democracy practised in People’s China. Indeed, if one looks at the “Halifax China” page, one sees the lies and distortions concerning China that have become common in some corners of the West. We are led to the following conclusion: since the Halifax Forum takes an anti-China stance, it is in essence a partisan and ultimately anti-democratic organisation.
However, there is a deeper problem that is endemic to Western approaches: they think that the political system determines everything else. Thus, if they can change a political system in their favour, they think that they have solved the problem. This is topsy-turvy. Why? It is the economic system that determined and shapes in complex ways the political system. Real and qualitative change takes place through socioeconomic transformation, as we see with China’s revolution, socialist construction, and reform. Suitable political structures emerge as a result.
In socio-economic terms, we note the following: that the island of Taiwan’s derivative and imbalanced capitalist approach has led to economic stagnation is clear; that it relies on the mainland for its economic survival is also clear; that it will in due time normalise relations with the mainland is the path of history. The Halifax Forum’s inverted approach simply tries to delay the reality of Chinese compatriots across the straights coming truly together once again.