The Global Times editorial today takes on the hype associated with the anti-China fanaticism about China opposing “our values.” It is worth remembering Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s comment on this — that when the war party in the West talks about defending “our values,” that they should reflect on the fact that their values are not the values of their grandparents.
The Global Times editorial headline is: “China-US conflicts not about values but interests.”
They write: “With the Chinese people’s livelihood getting closer to that of their Western counterparts, the value differences between the two sides are no longer as large as a great gulf…. From our point of view, the competition between China and the US is mainly about interests. The real intention of the US launching an ideological offensive against China is to safeguard its hegemonic status. It is an absurd argument that the essences of the two political systems are two different ways of social governance that cannot coexist on Earth. A look at China-Europe relations can clearly illustrate this. Although there are frictions between China and Europe, cooperation constitutes the fundamentals of bilateral ties.
“Washington has continued to intensify China-US ideological conflicts and distorted them as a confrontation between Chinese and Western values. The Chinese side should not fall into its trap. We must continue to promote common values of humanity and deal with China-US and China-West ideological frictions in a calm manner. We should not actively escalate them, but seek to define their impacts based on facts, making it clear that ideological frictions are more about conflicts of interests rather than the so-called conflicts of values.”
