HOW THE CHINESE PARTY-STATE TEACHES CHILDREN TO HATE AMERICA

For the past twenty-five years, largely unnoticed by the outside world, anti-American propaganda of the most vicious kind has been taught to Chinese children in an effort to inoculate them against American democratic ideals. The most telling example is the recent reprinting of a 1951 “history textbook” called A History of the U.S. Aggression in China. Written by a Party hack by the name of Wang Chun, the book was commissioned by Chairman Mao himself. In his 1949 speech, “‘Friendship’ or Aggression,” Mao directed that “The history of the aggression against China by U.S. imperialism, from 1840 when it helped the British in the Opium War to the time it was thrown out of China by the Chinese people, should be written into a concise textbook for the education of Chinese youth.”

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The first villain to be trotted onto the stage of this modern Beijing opera is the hapless John Tyler, the accidental American president whom Mao claims imposed upon China “the first unequal treaty signed as a result of U.S. aggression against China.” America had not been a belligerent in the First Opium War (1839–1842), but that didn’t relieve Tyler from responsibility for what followed. In the Chinese view, the devious American president had cleverly adopted the Warring States stratagem of “waiting at leisure while the enemy labors.” Then, when British seapower had brought the Qing dynasty low, he struck. He demanded that the Emperor sign the Wangxia Treaty, granting to the United States all the concessions that Great Britain had wrung from China. This allowed the United States to join Great Britain in engaging in what one textbook calls “illegal actions to exploit China.”

From Mao’s perspective, which now animates the history that Chinese students are force-fed, all early American activity in China, from the trade that flowed innocently through the treaty ports to the hospitals, universities and churches started by missionaries was “spiritual aggression.” The United States “worked so hard and deliberately at running these undertakings” as part of a secret, long-term plan to manipulate, control, and ultimately assert complete hegemony over China.

The next American leader to earn the wrath of Chinese hawks was that evil genius, Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe may be fondly remembered in America for preserving the Union and freeing the slaves, but in China he is regarded as just another grasping American imperialist. The “unequal treaty” that he forced upon China after the Second Opium War was a further step in the enslavement of the Chinese people.

Source: Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order (2017) by Steven W. Mosher.

If you want to know how a country’s leaders views America (or any other country for that matter) read what’s in the grade schoolers textbooks about the country. That propaganda will give you insights to the leader’s views probably more than anything else.