Right in time for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China the World Health Organization certified China to be free of Malaria:
The World Health Organization (WHO) today is certifying China as free of malaria, after a decadeslong effort drove an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle of transmission between the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria parasites and humans.
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“China’s ability to think outside the box served the country well in its own response to malaria,” Pedro Alonso, director of WHO's Global Malaria Programme, said in a statement.After maintaining zero indigenous cases for three consecutive years, China applied for WHO’s malaria-free certification, which is being granted following a May inspection mission by the independent Malaria Elimination Certification Panel. One requirement for winning certification is having a program to prevent the reestablishment of malaria, a particular challenge because China shares borders with three countries where the disease is endemic: Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos.
After the chaos created by European style imperialism in the 19th century China has made a great comeback. Its system of governance has allowed for great achievements like the above within a relative short timeframe.
Most remarkable is that China did this without imperial aggression towards the outside. The speech party chairman Xi Jinping held on the CPC's 100th anniversary promises that China will continue on a peaceful path while it will stay vigilant against exterior aggression:
The Chinese nation has fostered a splendid civilization over more than 5,000 years of history. The Party has also acquired a wealth of experience through its endeavors over the past 100 years and during more than 70 years of governance. At the same time, we are also eager to learn what lessons we can from the achievements of other cultures, and welcome helpful suggestions and constructive criticism. We will not, however, accept sanctimonious preaching from those who feel they have the right to lecture us. The Party and the Chinese people will keep moving confidently forward in broad strides along the path that we have chosen for ourselves, and we will make sure the destiny of China's development and progress remains firmly in our own hands. … We will continue to champion cooperation over confrontation, to open up rather than closing our doors, and to focus on mutual benefits instead of zero-sum games. We will oppose hegemony and power politics, and strive to keep the wheels of history rolling toward bright horizons.
We Chinese are a people who uphold justice and are not intimidated by threats of force. As a nation, we have a strong sense of pride and confidence. We have never bullied, oppressed, or subjugated the people of any other country, and we never will. By the same token, we will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress, or subjugate us. Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.
There is lot of anti-China propaganda in 'western' media. It is thus helpful to look at the conflict between the U.S. and China from the Chinese side. In 1989, ten years after China had opened its economy, the U.S. used legitimate student protests in Beijing to send the CIA and Gene Sharp, the inventor of 'color revolutions', to instigate a violent uprising against the Chinese government. The uprising was defeated but the U.S. used the tale of a 'Tianamen massacre', which in reality had never happened, to propagandize against China. Other 'color revolution' attempts were made in Hong Kong in 2014 and 2019. They were also defeated. When U.S. induced Islamic terrorism threatened China's western province Xinjiang the country introduced a development and education program that eliminated poverty in the area and thereby denied terrorism the necessary fertilizer. Groundless claims of genocide in Xinjiang and evidence-free Covid 'lab leak' theories are current propaganda efforts against China.
Other U.S. efforts to set up a conflict that could hinder China's further rise evolve around Taiwan and Japan. Taiwan is indisputably a part of China though with a different system of governance. The U.S. is pushing Taiwan to declare itself independent while it pushes a latent nuclear Japan to give Taiwan a security guarantee. That would set up east Asia for a huge (nuclear?) conflict during which the U.S. could stay on the side line while it watches how a lot of the world's production capacity gets destroyed. A remake of World War II which let the U.S. rise to primacy.
China is by its laws obligated to intervene should Taiwan ever declare independence. Xi Jinping's speech leaves no doubt that it would do so:
Comrades and friends,
We will stay true to the letter and spirit of the principle of One Country, Two Systems, under which the people of Hong Kong administer Hong Kong, and the people of Macao administer Macao, both with a high degree of autonomy. We will ensure that the central government exercises overall jurisdiction over Hong Kong and Macao, and implement the legal systems and enforcement mechanisms for the two special administrative regions to safeguard national security. While protecting China's sovereignty, security, and development interests, we will ensure social stability in Hong Kong and Macao, and maintain lasting prosperity and stability in the two special administrative regions.
Resolving the Taiwan question and realizing China's complete reunification is a historic mission and an unshakable commitment of the Communist Party of China. It is also a shared aspiration of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. We will uphold the one-China principle and the 1992 Consensus, and advance peaceful national reunification. All of us, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must come together and move forward in unison. We must take resolute action to utterly defeat any attempt toward "Taiwan independence," and work together to create a bright future for national rejuvenation. No one should underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
China has done well under guidance of the CPC. It is on its way to become the world's foremost power. But the U.S. is unwilling to relinquish that position without a fight. The party's most important task now is to find a way to avoid a conflict that could destruct a lot of the country's achievements.