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Qilai! Qilai!
A history of Modern China



Zhao Ziyang (RKMT)
(1990 - 2002)
Part III​

A spectre was haunting the world -- Islamism, and growing militancy in race relations in both China and the United States. The Kargil War had complicated things immensely, bringing all three major superpowers into a position of close collaboration to prevent everything from spilling over into madness and chaos. But around the turn of the millennium, both the United States and China began to exhibit early signs of civil strife and unrest.

China had, for centuries, been a nation comprised of one central dominant ethnic group -- Han, and then dozens of smaller ethnic groups in orbit around them. By the 21st century, there were outremer ethnic groups growing discontent. Firstly, the Tibetans, having long since been conquered by the Chinese, were a point of contention for many in the West and East. Of course, nobody could dislodge China from control over the region, but it was certainly common for a Chinese state visit to the United States to be marred with American wannabe revolutionaries protesting "Chinese imperialism in Tibet."

The Internet, as infantile as it was, exploded in China at an even greater exponential rate after a Communist Party member of parliament posted a scathing criticism of American liberalism on his personal blog, in late 1999.

Kwan Wen said:

Often times, I hear in the news of American liberals protesting the arrival of Chinese diplomats, statesmen and athletes; vandalizing our embassies, our cultural icons and our heritage -- why do they do this? They do this because they decry our so called "imperialism" over the fraternal brothers of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, India, Bengal, Burma, Thailand and Indochina.

Is it truly Chinese imperialism to extend the hand of socialist fraternity to these nations to save them from rampant foreign imperialism orchestrated by foreign intelligence forces? The People's Republic of China has striven for decades to seed the seeds of fraternal socialism in Asia. Our diplomatic overtures of peace have been heard the world over, and have assisted in the unification of the Korean nation under the singular republican government of Comrade Park Chung-hee; and we have assisted in the unification of the Vietnamese nation under the singular government of the Honorable Imperial Comrade, Bao Dai, and the fraternal socialist movements in Free Indochina.

But my primary problem with these young impudent westerners criticizing our strides in peace and justice; is that they know not hardship and struggle. The Communist Party of China, and her fraternal socialist allies, the Revolutionary Faction of the Kuomintang, the People's Party of China, and those dedicated to anti-Japanese and anti-Imperialist maxims and doctrine push forward together have, for generations, worked for the betterment of a nation destroyed by Japanese imperialism.

The Long March, and the struggle of the Hunan Soviet and other communist revolutionary factions founded by the Great Reformer and his close ally, the Helmsman, who selflessly served the Revolution in his own manner in his youth. These young Americans have no sense of the struggles faced by the people of China and this so called "second world", where we must fight for socialist freedom against encroaching imperialism and corporate interests. They are raised on a diet of Musical Television and rich, fattening foods that are deep-fried and covered in grease...

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Zhao Ziyang's government hailed the statement as a significant declaration that the People's Republic stands by socialist principles and democratic ones as well, and will fight for responsible and organized freedom, not chaos and anarchy.

In June 2001, armed militants rose up in the city of Mecca, and in Medina, with the intent of declaring a caliphate. The Saudi Army, attempting to intervene, was crushed in battle, giving the militants time to seize the two cities. On June 18, 2001, the Islamic Caliphate was proclaimed out of Mecca, with the intent of uniting all Islamic persons, and liberating all members of the House of Islam from Judeo-Communist conspiracy in the whole world."

In the first doctrinal release by the Caliphate, they outlined their intent to create an Islamic Empire spanning North Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middle East to the ruins of Pakistan. They also intended on punishing the Communists of China for oppressing the Islamic peoples of Bengal, Xinjiang and Kashmir with their armed occupation of Islamic lands., as well as liberating the African-American race from their bondage under American occupation and to convert them to the faith of their ancestors -- Dar al-Islam.

The Caliphate faced condemnation from many Islamic leaders across the Middle East, and soon got into a protracted land-war against the Saudis through the rest of 2001.

In December 2001, the Caliphate captured Riyadh, and, aided by a large number of Islamists who prevented the Sultan from escaping the city, arrested the Sultan. In a public execution, the Caliphate put the entirety of the Saudi dynasty to death for decadence unfitting soldiers of Islam, along with most of their "rich elite", including Osama bin Laden, one of the richest men in Saudi Arabia.

Zhao Ziyang left office in 2002, preferring not to be involved anymore in politics, particularly as it seemed that a bad moon was rising over the world, with the rise of the Islamic Caliphate, and the eruption of growing civil strife in all sectors of the world.​