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I regularly take part in online surveys to earn a bit of cash on the side. Now, mostly it’s boring, standard surveys about some new toothpaste or the public image of insurance companies and banks. But ever so often there are political polls (especially before elections, naturally), which I always enjoy, or you learn about new films or new developments on streaming platforms ahead of time. Probably to nobody’s surprise, there were quite a few polls on the Russia/Ukraine war or the Israel/Gaza “conflict”. Strangely, I haven’t come across an Iran poll yet.
However, I recently got a poll that I had never seen before, commissioned by Renmin University, China. It was, of all things, a survey about China’s role in the Second World War. In short, the question was: Do you believe in China’s heroic fight against fascism, yes, no, or unsure?
“Fascism” was the key word here, appearing at least once in every question of the survey, until I felt I was listening to Russian TV or my ultra-leftist colleague.
A couple of choice quotes (my translation):
The nationwide resistance of the Chinese people, together with the support of the global anti-fascist alliance, was the fundamental reason for the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. While the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened Japan’s surrender, they were not the decisive factor.
The Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the global war against fascism were a great decisive battle between justice and evil, light and darkness, progress and oppression.
Well, that’s certainly bombastic, even if it’s lacking in historical accuracy.
But now I was curious. So I asked ChatGPT how China’s role in World War II is being taught in China. Its answer was extensive:
China’s role in World War II—referred to in China as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (抗日战争)—is taught in Chinese schools with a strong nationalistic and patriotic framing. Here’s a breakdown of how it’s typically presented in Chinese education, media, and public discourse:
Framing the War
Start Date: Chinese textbooks emphasize that the war began in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, not 1939 as is commonly recognized in Western narratives. China often considers itself as one of the first major Allied powers to resist Axis aggression.
Terminology: It’s called the “Second Sino-Japanese War” or “War of Resistance Against Japan,” emphasizing China’s prolonged and heroic struggle.
Main Themes in Education
Suffering and Resistance
Emphasis is placed on the brutality of Japanese occupation, including the Nanjing Massacre, biological warfare (Unit 731), and other atrocities.
Civilians’ suffering is heavily documented to foster a sense of historical victimhood and resilience.
United Front Narrative
The official narrative highlights the temporary cooperation between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT) as a patriotic united front against a common enemy.
However, the CCP’s role is typically elevated, while the KMT’s efforts are downplayed, despite the KMT bearing the brunt of the fighting and casualties.
Role of the CCP
The CCP is portrayed as morally superior, fighting not just Japan but also defending the Chinese people and culture.
Events like the Battle of Pingxingguan, where the Communist Eighth Route Army defeated Japanese forces, are highlighted as heroic milestones.
National Pride and Identity
The war is framed as a crucible that helped forge modern Chinese national identity and justify the legitimacy of the CCP’s rule.
Victory over Japan is celebrated as a symbol of China’s emergence as a strong, independent power after “a century of humiliation.”
Modern Political Use
The war is often invoked to strengthen nationalism and justify military modernization or assertiveness in foreign policy.
Anniversaries (e.g., September 3: Victory over Japan Day) are used for parades and speeches emphasizing China’s contribution to the global victory over fascism.
Textbooks and Museums
Textbooks are carefully curated under government oversight, ensuring alignment with CCP perspectives.
Museums and memorials (like the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre) play an important role in reinforcing this historical memory, often with graphic exhibits.
Comparison to International Perspectives
In contrast to Western curricula that may focus more on the European theater or the Pacific War led by the U.S., Chinese education puts China’s 8-year resistance at the center of the Asian front.
There’s often frustration within China that its role is underrepresented in global narratives about WWII.
The interesting thing is that the German version of this answer differed a bit – it had an added mention of the films that China produces on the topic, showing the war in strictly black and white terms. However, the German version didn’t mention the part about China’s frustration.
Well, I’m afraid I added to that frustration by not being impressed with the propaganda and saying so. While I agree with the atomic bombs not being a decisive factor, I am not aware of any “global anti-fascist alliance” at the time, or that the Great Leap Forward constituted justice, light, and progress. Maybe that’s just me.
But I find it interesting that China is now attempting to introduce that narrative in western countries, and wherever else this survey is making the rounds. China has been flexing its muscles quite a bit in recent years, and the development seems to be pointing to a future war – in whatever form – between the USA and China for global dominance. (Nate of Prepper News/Canadian Prepper suspects the current theaters of war to be stepping stones for the West’s ultimate goal, China.)
However that potential war might end, I can say this: The last thing I need is another people playing the victim and claiming hero status in the “fight against fascism”.
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I am not aware of any “global anti-fascist alliance” at the time,…
Great article! Maybe they are “virtue signaling” to the jews. Hopefully, the jews will take them up on their subtle offer, and move to China. The jews would be right at home—they are oriental! 🙃
Except that they wouldn’t just live there, be happy, and leave us in peace. They’d use China to do to the West what they did and are doing to Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran…
A war between China and U.S. could quite possibly be a cyber warfare. In that aspect it has already begun, with espionage and whatnot.
Another thing to consider is the growing military presence of China in the waters and air of neighbouring countries (waters it says belongs to China). Japan being the main ally of the U.S. in the region is rather concerned about China’s “muscle flexion”. It remains to be seen whether or not U.S. will step up on that front.
Unfortunately it’s a rather one-sided war so far. They’ve been stealing our technology for decades and colonizing the West by the millions but we haven’t, to my knowledge, been doing any of that back to them.
Don’t forget about the fact that China has been buying up a lot of farmlands in the U.S. as well as land close to U.S. military bases. it remains to be seen whether or not anything is done about that. Also, don’t forget about the Chinese spy balloon that was discovered flying over the U.S.
Good points. I do remember. But we’re too weak and unserious to resist…
Never forget:
China will not be based unless Taiwan takes over.
“The nationwide resistance of the Chinese people, together with the support of the global anti-fascist alliance, was the fundamental reason for the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. While the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened Japan’s surrender, they were not the decisive factor.
“The Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the global war against fascism were a great decisive battle between justice and evil, light and darkness, progress and oppression.”
I don’t even see a question. So was it a survey or a propaganda piece? 😛
“The interesting thing is that the German version of this answer differed a bit – it had an added mention of the films that China produces on the topic, showing the war in strictly black and white terms. However, the German version didn’t mention the part about China’s frustration.”
For what it’s worth, LLM AI responses are somewhat randomized so you’ll rarely get exactly the same answer twice, at least to any complex question.
I don’t even see a question. So was it a survey or a propaganda piece?
You were supposed to agree, disagree, or be unsure. 🙂 I left that part out.
Still sounds like it’s propaganda under the guise of a survey. 😛 It’s just too… “educational”… to sound like a simple survey to my ears.
That’s what I thought. You don’t commission those kind of surveys just to find out what the West thinks of China.
I get those kind of propaganda surveys sometimes, and they are actually fun (compared to “Rate our newest toothpaste ad”) – mainly because they are so blatant about their messaging. Before the elections here, for example, I got a whole series of anti-AfD TikTok videos to rate. And I was wondering the entire time: Who would pay to conduct surveys like these? You just put the damn videos up on TikTok and see how people like them.
China is buying companies, castles, and land in Europe. We are slowly but surely becoming a Chinese colony. So far, China has not attempted to influence European politics, but once it does, we will be defenseless.
That isn’t surprising considering the fact that China has been buying up land in the U.S. as well.
So far, China has not attempted to influence European politics
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It has and it is doing this just now. See Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg.
Of course, both writers (Australian and German) are very political correct and use the words Chinese Communist Party instead of saying that this is just many thousands years old and not good Chinese Imperialism.
Interesting. The Chinese were simply trying to defend themselves, and there was no ideological angle besides the ChiComs and the KMT putting aside their differences. It looks like someone is angling to retcon the story.
By the way, Renmin University appears to be busy at the moment. I had another survey by them in the meantime, about Chinese-German economic “cooperation” (yeah, right). They probably did a similar survey in other western countries, as well.
I don’t usually vouchsafe about the Global American Empire, but I do think that losing Taiwan to the Red Chinese would be disastrous.
Taiwan produces over 60 percent of silicon chips worldwide, and 90 percent of the most advanced electronic chips.
If Red China took this over, it would be a disaster not easily recovered from.
That we are not making our own silicon chips so much anymore is a disgrace already, but it would be even worse it we could not get them from Taiwan.
I am an Isolationist and a non-Interventionist, but I think we need to find good ways to deter Red Chinese ambitions somehow.
One of the things that Senator Joe McCarthy did was to accuse General Marshall and Gen. “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell of undermining the contribution of Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist Chinese in fighting Japan during WWII. Sen. McCarthy could not understand why the elites thought the Communists to be such great Jap-fighters unless they were fellow-travellers themselves.
Chiang wanted a bottomless pit of Lend-Lease aid to fight with, while the Americans wanted somebody willing to bootstrap this downlow WWII theater on the cheap, which the revolutionary Reds were already doing. The generals under Chiang ultimately fled to Formosa (Taiwan) after the United States indifferently allowed Mao and his Yenan Reds to win the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
I don’t see how we are very well served letting Taiwan go Communist today, and even if we successfully reshored silicon chip manufactures to home, we should be very wary in foreign policy.
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Just bring home chip manufacturing.
Good idea.
The USA leads in semiconductor design but only produces about 10 percent of world’s supply, down from 37 percent in 1990.
It will take hundreds of billions of dollars of new infrastructure, and a decade or so to train American engineers and technicians to change this. A good portion of the thousands employed will likely be brought in as H-1B workers from Asia, however.
Losing Taiwan to China also lets them corner the silicon chip market. China currently produces about 15 percent of the world’s semiconductors but consumes about 75 percent.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has annual earnings of 75 billion dollars and is the world’s leading semiconductor manufacuturer.
TSMC plans to manufacture 30 percent of its most advanced chips in Arizona once all six planned fabs are operational.
The first fab in Phoenix is already producing 4-nanometer chips, and a second fab is under construction to produce 3-nanometer chips. A third fab, expected to begin production by the end of the decade, will manufacture 2-nanometer chips or even more advanced technologies.
“This represents a significant investment and a major step in diversifying TSMC’s manufacturing footprint outside of Taiwan, with a total investment of $165 billion.”
TSMC said that their third facility will create roughly 6,000 jobs and will manufacture chips using 2 nanometer or even more advanced process technology, with production starting by 2030. And half of those new jobs will be foreign imports.
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The Global Chinese Empire which is emerging just now, will consist of China (+ Taiwan), Russia with Belarus and Ukraine (maybe not fully), Iran, maybe Pakistan, North Korea, and African and South American states, dependend on China. This empire will have Chinese labor ressources, Russian and Iranian mineral ressources, corn fields of Ukraine, potato fields of Belarus, nuclear weapons, strongest armies in the world and strongest fifth columns in all Western states. (Well, such well known German politician as Hans Dietrich Genscher, who died in 2016, was strong lobbyist for Chinese interests in the BRD. And also everybody knows that the second campaign of Bill Clinton was financed by the Chinese.) Such empire will dominate the world and will be ONE superpower and THE world cop of the near future.
Hi guys Greg and everyone, have a good one! Sorry for my belated arrival and it has been quite a while since my last comment. I’ve been extremely busy with my job and private life during the past 300 days or so if not longer. Just want to make a few quick points randomly, with perhaps a little nutrition (referential and/or entertaining value) or no.
1) I fully, strongly and earnestly agree with Scott on the immense importance of not allowing China to take over Taiwan, considering the former’s baleful intent and overarching ambition against the West and the White race and the latter’s technologically strategical and (presently and in a foreseeable intermediate future) irreplaceable position in chip manufacturing.
2) Renmin (meaning “the people” in Chinese) Unversity’s survey as commented and discussed interestingly and insightfully by Clarissa presents another thought-provking case about China’s premeditated, meticulous and pernicious plot to infiltrate, manipulate, brainwash and potentially subvert, colonize and seize control of the Western public arena and thus also should constitutes an awakening call to all White nationalists in particular and conscious Western people on the whole. By the way, “Renmin University” is a prestigious comprehensive unviersity in China that belongs to the top tier group of universities in China, with a focus on the liberal arts and social sciences domains. This university, unlike the Peking University and Qinghua University, also has an umistakable “red badge” in the sense that it was founded by the CCP during its fledging “revolutionary” years before power takeover of 1949. Thus this unversity has always been assigned the role of carrying out communist ideological education, disseminating official propagandas and traning Party cadres for which it is famous and renowned in the Chinese public. I know this better than anyone here in our community because I used to live in Beijing for a decade and at a location not far from Renmin University, and one of my ex-girlfriends studied there and graduated from it with a Master’s degree in a major called Diplomacy Studies. So I often went to the university to visit her during our relationship and even audited one of her courses once or twice by sitting in her class with her quietly.
3) I have a Ph.D. in Japanese History. Though my main research focus was on the cultual aspects of it, I also has had a long history of intense interest and extensive knowledge on the political history of Japan and the Japanese-Chinese relations. I don’t have much free time now to write and contribute any humble new essays to CC, but I used to write a dozen of pieces on the intriguing and meaningful topics such as China’s ambitions and goals, its menace to the West and the White nations, Japanese politics, history and culture, and Sino-Japanese history etc. I will certainly write more when I can get hold of more free time in my life. For those who may feel interested and titilated by the areas mentioned above, you are welcome to search”Comtaose” on this site and read the relevant articles as you like.
It’s good to see you back! I hope all has been well. I’ll be looking forward to your upcoming contributions when you have time.
The Second World war for the Chinese was mostly a civil war Chiang Kai-shek against Mao Zedong, rather than the Chinese against the Japanese.
The Chinese DID make a contribution to the war on the Allies site, but Chiang’s Nationalists did it, not Mao’s communists. So if you want to thank the Chinese for the fight during the war, you should thank the Taiwanese Chinese, not the continental ones.
The Nationalists were betrayed by the US and the US has given China over to Mao Zedong. All later events are consequences of this betrayal.
In 1970-1980’s Nixon, Kissinger and all later administration helped to make RED China an emerging industrial superpower.
Now the PRS IS a new world superpower and soon WILL be only ONE world superpower and the new world cop. You should live with it. Or die with it in “re-education camps’. In Europe those camps would be ruled by Russians, maybe.
Those surveys are slowly preparing Westerners to new reality, the world dominated by the Chinese as “always good force in history”. And the Chinese are achieving their goals with Russian and Iranian help. Wolf Stoner”s estimate is correct. https://nationalvanguard.org/2025/08/the-advent-of-great-chaos-what-should-conscious-whites-do
Viktor: thank you for referencing Wolf Stoner once again. Yes, his analysis of China’s growing influence and bid for Global Domination is spot on. The essay you link to clearly delineates this, should be read by all.
Riki-Eiki: August 1, 2025 … I don’t have much free time now to write and contribute any humble new essays to CC, but I used to write a dozen of pieces on the intriguing and meaningful topics such as China’s ambitions and goals, its menace to the West and the White nations…
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Riki, you may be interested in the menace Wolf Stoner says China poses to the West and to White nations, including his own nation, Russia. You can probably find some agreement with him on the ambitions of China.
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Viktor Schmidt: August 23, 2025 … [T]he Chinese are achieving their goals with Russian and Iranian help. Wolf Stoner”s estimate is correct. https://nationalvanguard.org/2025/08/the-advent-of-great-chaos-what-should-conscious-whites-do
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Wolf’s estimate is correct. His latest essays on NV could be here on C-C. but are not. Here is the first part of his latest one that you link to:
by Wolf Stoner
National Vanguard Russian correspondent
First: The Ukraine War Has Now Changed its Nature
THE GLOBAL SITUATION continues to deteriorate. What is most remarkable is the acceleration of the downslide into chaos in recent months. Trump’s ascent to power is a remarkable token of this process.
Although the war in Europe has gone on already for more than three years, the first half of this year evinced a substantial change in rhetoric among the “Western” ruling classes.
Back in 2022, the prevalent mood was of initial irritation but complacent assuredness about the West’s ability to handle the crisis. It seemed that a few modern artillery systems and some mild sanctions would do the job — and everything would return to business as usual.
This mistaken view was the result of a deep misunderstanding of the root causes of the war, and its real progenitors. Yes, if the war was just a result of a stupid decision by the Kremlin’s blockheads, like the one in 1979 in Brezhnev’s Politburo, then, surely, the Western approach of gradual pressure was logical and would eventually do the job. But now some new factors were in play.
The year 2023 was spent in futile attempts to push the same failing strategy of “cautious containment,” with Ukraine given just enough to hold the line but not enough to achieve any real success.
October 2023 marked the start of the new stage of the war. The Hamas attack had diverted American attention, together with weapons supplies. Israel is always a priority above everything else for the Western “liberal” bloc, therefore Ukraine was no longer first in line.
This opportunity was instantly used by Russia (and its shadow handlers), which initiated a new mighty effort. Slowly but surely the neo-Bolshevik monster started crawling forward, grinding Ukrainian forces and exhausting the dwindling Western military supplies. This phase continued throughout the whole of 2024 and well into the spring of 2025.
The Western political establishment started noticing that their strategy was failing — and began to see that this war has far wider implications than the preservation of Ukrainian borders.
The Most Significant Factor Is China — and its Anti-White Coalition
At the start of the war, the Chinese factor was barely mentioned. Three years later almost everyone speaks about it — and for good reason. Most probably, the decision to start this war originated not in the Kremlin but in Beijing. The Chinese are masters of deception and double-handedness. They have successfully weaponized the latent Russian imperialist mentality and put it to use — for the great Chinese empire.
What is happening now is a war of China against the West, by means of decadent and dying-out Russia. Russia is hardly more than an obedient powerless puppet in Chinese hands (the blustering rhetoric of Russian “patriots” notwithstanding). The widely-advertised mighty Russian bear image is a screen behind which the chief actor prepares the main strike.
Yet, a year ago this view was very uncommon among Western politicians and analysts. Now it is accepted by many, in some variant or another, as self-evident.
The war in Ukraine is the first strike of the global anti-Western coalition, which is centered in China. This is why any attempt to find a “mutually acceptable peaceful solution” is doomed to failure [sorry, Donald]; because the ultimate goal of this coalition is the total destruction of the West.
The war in Ukraine is the perfect use of Sun-Tzu’s theories: winning a war without even participating in hostilities.
I suspect that the ultimate idea of the plan is to mutually destroy both the West and Russia, thereby clearing the field for a Chinese global empire. The Chinese are not squeamish; they will not balk even at the prospect of provoking a nuclear war, if they calculate that there is a good enough chance for them to survive it in an advantageous position….
Wolf may or may not be correct, but his big picture view of the West, Russia and China appear to be substantive. He knows what he is writing about, more so than anything C-C contributor Lipman Matthews can ever offer to long-suffering Whites.
Another excellent essay of Wolf’s from June is “Identity, Loyalty, Determination” also at nationalvanguard.com. Wolf is not only a National Alliance member who rightly puts the welfare and future of his race ahead of his Russian people, but he is also a Cosmotheist who says the following, which is an unpopular view among some at Counter-Currents:
FOR ANY WAR to be successful the fighting community must have a clear vision of its goals, the right set of priorities; what is most important, and what is secondary or even totally irrelevant.
The main problem of the White societies of past centuries was that they were guided by arbitrary sets of ideas that didn’t correspond to the real long-term interests of those societies. The idea of “Christendom” is the main folly of the White race in the last millennium. The alien, blood-thirsty, insane cult beliefs of Christianity were imposed on Whites as the supreme guiding principles to which all aspects of private and social life had to be subordinated. Little wonder that the end result of this mental subjugation is the total destruction of the White racial community, with our nations becoming prey for all the savages of the world.
For millennia, Whites had our own native religious beliefs which corresponded to our biological essence. We do not need any alien preachers with bizarre fairy-tales about “resurrection,” “the second coming,” or “paradise.”
The task of purification of the White collective mind is of paramount importance. We cannot hope for any positive development if we allow the seeds of self-destruction to remain inside the future White community.
The main difference between Cosmotheism and Asiatic “inspired” religions is that Cosmotheism is based on reason, not someone’s delusions and drug-inspired hallucinations. Cosmotheism is a scientific religion, meaning that it bases all of its assertions on provable facts. But in contrast to many materialistic scientists, who can’t see the bigger picture, Cosmotheism leaves a wide scope for the possibility of the yet unknown. That is the religious part of its teaching….
When I taught Japanese students, my take on the matter wasn’t much different than the Chinese–lol; it was the only time as a White man I could talk freely, me being a gaijin visitor, not beholden to the Japanese feudal mannerisms.
I don’t have much to dispute with the Chinese position, other than their “fight” against the Japanese amounted to much at all. The Communists and the Nationalists fought each other more than the Japanese, both not having the basic advantage of a state.
The Great Leap Forward, though noble, was poorly executed in an country with zero information technology, including telephones. That it is championed over the Cultural Revolution, says volumes for the current Napoleonic Capitalists running the Party today. Many more people died during the The Great Leap than the Cultural Revolution, but the current leadership was persecuted during the spontaneous “revolution within a revolution” of that time, where the Great Leap constituted a legitimization of unilateral party organization of society.
P.S. Unlike what we have bought taught by career historians in USA, the Great Leap did provide many important public works achievements and the Cultural Revolution did break up much of the backward Chinese cultural retardations and experimented with different forms of workers control before being crushed by the resurgent, authoritarian wing of the Party.
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