RATHER than simply insulting visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping or their fellow Chinese countrymen as “communists”, the Malays must start asking themselves if there is something good about communism for it has propelled China to be a much-dreaded global economic powerhouse today.
Such is the calling by human rights activist and lawyer Siti Kasim to her brethren as her Malay WhatsApp chat group is rife with despicable remarks made against Xi who is on a three-day state visit to Malaysia, chiefly by labeling him as a “communist”.
Moreover, she revealed that many unsuspecting Malays were also fed with racist sentiment of DAP having subtly brokered the visit of Xi who touched down at 6.30pm yesterday (April 15) when this was at the invitation of Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia.
“Xi’s visit to Malaysia is monumental with vast diplomatic, economy and geo-political implications, hence incessantly labelling China as communist is sheer stupidity,” she rebuked in her latest YouTube rant.
“China has undergone significant market reform and embarked on massive privatisation spree which has very much shed its communist image.
“Xi aside, the communist label has even become synonymous with Raub durian planters amid the land row with ustaz claiming that the Pahang town is filled with communists.”
In schooling her brethren, Siti Kasim enlightened them that China has departed from the so-called orthodox communism model of the Mao Zedong’s era which advocated absolute control or no freedom of speech.
Remarkable progress
“But this is not the case with modern day China where its citizens haver rights to property ownership, private businesses or investment opportunities,” she explained, pointing to China having gradually opened up to embrace private manufacturing and welcoming foreign investment since 1978 under Deng Xiaoping.
“The ensuing ideological pluralism was soon replaced with pragmatic discovery of economical wealth with culminated in a very famous quote, “it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice” (taken to mean that as long as the economy works, it is a good economy).
“This has led to a meteoritic expansion of China’s GDP (gross domestic product) at the rate of 10% per annum between 1980-2010 with 800 million of its citizens removed from the poverty cycle.”
Lamenting the short-sightedness of the Malays, Siti Kasim stressed the need to realise that regardless if China is communist or otherwise, it has pursued the right development strategy which has become an envy of the developed world.
“China’s ability to propel its economy and alleviating poverty is so telling with its emergence as the world’s second largest economy behind the US in terms of GDP size or undisputed manufacturer of advanced technology products,” lectured the Orang Asli advocate.
“This is till western free trade advocates having to resort to protectionism (the latest being US president Donald Trump who is engaged in a tariff war with China) to safeguard their manufacturing sector (economic interest) from Chinese exports.”
To sum up her lesson, Siti Kasim wants the Malays to remember:
Even if you allege them as being communists, doesn’t this go to show that communism is able to promote viable socio-economic foundation that is now being emulated by the global south?
Don’t fall for the LIE propagated by western democracies to undermine China and the Chinese.
On the other hand, the Malays should be more concerned that autocratic nations which rely on religion to govern as they have proven to be major flops both from both economy and social perspectives.
Instead, they should learn from those with Chinese blood on the latter’s recipe of success in the realms of business or science & technology … This is something with their genes which we must appreciate.
I truly hope the Malays will stop perceiving every Chinese as communist for such ideology doesn’t exist anymore or no longer practical in this day and age. – April 16, 2025
