Commentary Historically, communist regimes in the world have shown a pattern of survival anxiety due to their fear of losing power, causing them to commit similar crimes. For example, several decades before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese regime killed several students protesting for democracy, the communist regimes of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland had all committed similar crackdowns to suppress free speech. Likewise, out of this same survival anxiety, communist regimes block out the truth of their heinous crimes. These emotions or inferiority complexes usually come from internal weaknesses within the regime that in turn lead to jealousy, provoking hatred toward developed societies. The weaker the regimes are, the more hatred they have, resulting in an extreme ambition to unscrupulously dominate the world. Despite the obvious machinations throughout the past 40 years, world governments tend to take a hands-off approach to China. For instance, most U.S. …