Miles Yu: Wang Yi Unwittingly Reveals the Truth — CCP Fears the U.S.

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[People News] According to U.S. scholar Miles Yu, a recent slip of the tongue by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi revealed a harsh truth: Beijing fears a Russian defeat in Ukraine because it would expose the CCP’s vulnerability and threaten its own authoritarian regime.

Miles Yu, Director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute and former chief China policy adviser at the U.S. State Department, wrote in The Washington Times that Wang Yi’s shameless behavior during his recent visit to Europe exposed Beijing’s strategic intentions.

As reported by Dajiyuan, Wang told EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas that Beijing cannot afford for Russia to lose in Ukraine, as such an outcome would allow the U.S. to shift its full attention to China.

Yu noted that the CCP’s unwavering support for Russia’s predatory war exposes its moral bankruptcy. At the same time, Beijing attempts to shift blame onto the U.S., as if its support for Putin’s atrocities is America’s fault.

“This is the CCP’s instinct,” Yu wrote, “to project its own complicity onto others and to turn its own shame into accusations against critics.”

During a tense four-hour meeting with Kallas, Wang portrayed China under the CCP as a victim of American "containment."

However, the CCP’s military provocations in the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and the Himalayas clearly show its ambitions are not defensive.

“This rhetoric of ‘containment’ is nothing more than a rhetorical shield,” Yu analysed. “It seeks to recast aggression as victimhood, arsonists as firefighters.”

Wang Yi Attempts to Divide the West and Weaken the EU

Yu pointed out that Beijing aims to render other democratic countries passive onlookers, while it builds its own Eurasian sphere of influence with Russia as its proxy and attack dog against the international order.

In Europe, Wang Yi tried to align the EU with Beijing in opposing alleged U.S. “hegemony,” spreading false narratives that Europe’s problems originate in Washington, not Beijing or Moscow.

“This is a classic Leninist tactic,” Yu wrote, “divide adversaries, undermine alliances, and lure others with the illusion of a shared cause. If Europe is foolish enough to swallow this poison pill, it will find itself shackled to a dictatorship that sees freedom as its mortal enemy.”

In truth, Yu said, Europe is no less threatened by the CCP’s ambitions than the U.S. is.

Why the CCP Fears the United States

Yu stressed that Wang Yi’s admission revealed that the CCP fears an American victory because it fears what the U.S. represents: freedom, democracy, the rule of law — a moral challenge to the CCP’s very existence. The CCP also fears Russia’s collapse not only because of their strategic partnership, but because Russia serves as a shield for China’s imperial ambitions.

Yu, who was born and educated in China, said: “In this shocking confession, the Chinese Communist Party exposed its deeply rooted worldview, born of moral nihilism, ideological fanaticism, and ruthless self-preservation in the pursuit of global dominance.”

The U.S.’s rule-of-law-based vision of freedom has long inspired the Chinese people, and this deeply unsettles the CCP. This is why the CCP always regards the U.S. with hostility and sees it as an existential threat to its regime.

“Freedom’s spark is the CCP’s worst nightmare,” Yu said. “A successful, confident America represents a blueprint that could one day topple the CCP’s tyranny. That is why Beijing finds American success intolerable.”

Since the Mao Zedong era, the CCP has viewed the U.S. as its ideological enemy. No matter how soft or tough the U.S. policy is toward China, Beijing’s hostility has never changed. This hostility is embedded in the CCP’s DNA because its Marxist-Leninist ideology cannot tolerate a thriving, competitive democratic system.

Yu pointed out that every dark period in U.S.-China relations stems from the CCP’s actions, not from the United States. Examples include Beijing’s military support for Kim Il-sung during the Korean War, the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, the suppression of Hong Kong’s autonomy, and its ongoing threats to invade Taiwan.

“Ultimately, the defining factor in U.S.-China relations has never been America,” Yu warned. “It has always been the CCP.” “The CCP is a globally focused, tightly disciplined Marxist-Leninist revolutionary party. It doesn’t passively react — it proactively creates threats. It’s not waiting to be provoked — it is the provocation.”

Yu concluded: “It is time to see the CCP for what it truly is: the world’s most dangerous disruptor.” △