{"id":1021,"date":"2020-11-18T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:11:19","slug":"u-s-must-face-up-to-the-china-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/general\/u-s-must-face-up-to-the-china-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Must Face up to the China Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past ten years that I\nhave been writing blog articles, one of my reoccurring themes has been the\ndanger posed to the U.S. by China because of their predatory mercantilism\nthrough product dumping, currency manipulation, intellectual property theft,\nand government subsidies. More recently, I have written about China\u2019s written\nplan to become the superpower of the 21st<\/sup> Century through a\ncombination of economic coercion, industrial espionage, and the buildup of\ntheir military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, I want to share\nsome of the points made in the September 2020 issue of Imprimis, published by\nHillsdale College. The article<\/a> was \u201cadapted\nfrom a speech delivered on September 29, 2020, in Rapid City, South Dakota, at\na Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar,\u201dby Brian T. Kennedy, \u201cpresident\nof the American Strategy Group, chairman of the Committee for the Present\nDanger: China, and a board member and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy catches your attention\nimmediately saying, \u201cWe are at risk of losing a war today because too few of us\nknow that we are engaged with an enemy, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that\nmeans to destroy us. The forces of globalism that have dominated our government\n(until recently) and our media for the better part of half a century have\nblinded too many Americans to the threat we face. If we do not wake up to the\ndanger soon, we will find ourselves helpless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He points out that our\nrelationship is based on two beliefs initiated during the Cold War: \u201cPresident\nNixon\u2019s strategic belief that China could serve as a counterweight to the\nSoviet Union\u201d and \u201ceconomic liberalism would lead to political liberalism, and\nChina\u2019s communist dictatorship would fade away.\u201d History has shown that these\ntwo beliefs were false and \u201cAmerica\u2019s China policy from the 1970s until\nrecently was very costly because it involved a great deal of self-deception\nabout the nature of the Chinese regime and the men who were running it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He comments that after the Cold\nWar, \u201cpursuing the China dream appeared a safe course of action, given that the\nU.S. was then the world\u2019s preeminent military power.\u201d During the last year of\nthe Clinton administration, \u201cChina was granted \u201cMost Favored Nation\u201d trading\nstatus and membership in the World Trade Organization.\u201d We know the disastrous\nconsequences of this action:  the lost of\nover 5 million good paying manufacturing jobs between 2001 \u2013 2010 and the\nclosure of some 67,000 manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the subsequent Bush and\nObama administrations, \u201cthe U.S. failed to build a military that could\nchallenge Communist China\u2019s aggression in the Pacific\u2014specifically its building\nof a modern navy and its construction of military installations on artificial\nislands in the South China Sea\u2014and acquiesced in the export of much of the U.S.\nmanufacturing base to China and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explains that China\u2019s 1.4\nbillion population is \u201cgoverned by the Chinese Communist Party, which has 90 million\nmembers, and by an elite class of approximately 300 million additional Chinese\nwho are deeply invested in the regime\u2019s success\u2026The system benefits these\nelites, whose businesses, mostly state-owned enterprises, are privately run\nwith active participation by the CCP. Once a business reaches a certain size,\nit will take on board a cadre of party members who serve as a direct liaison\nbetween the business and the government.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He goes on to explain that \u201cthe\nCCP operates a massive global intelligence network through its Ministry of\nState Security. This network does its part to assist Chinese business and\nindustry through industrial espionage, cyber warfare, and economic coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With regard to China\u2019s military buildup,\nhe states that China \u201chas a military of two million men, including the world\u2019s\nlargest navy. This military may not be qualitatively on par with the U.S.\nmilitary, but quantity has a quality of its own. In the last five years of U.S.\nnaval war game simulations, in which the U.S. is pitted against China, the U.S.\nhas failed to come out victorious. We do not have enough ships and munitions to\ndefeat China\u2019s navy absent the use of nuclear weapons\u2026 \u201cAs for China\u2019s air\nforce, it possesses and is building today advanced fighter aircraft that rival\nanything the U.S has built. They may not yet have the quantity, but that will\ncome with time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, he mentions the book, \u201cUnrestricted\nWarfare<\/em>, written in 1999 by two People\u2019s Liberation Army colonels. It argues\nthat war between the PRC and the U.S. is inevitable, and that when it occurs\nChina must be prepared to use whatever means are necessary to achieve victory.\nThis includes economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, political\nwarfare, terrorism, and biological warfare, in addition to conventional and\nnuclear warfare. The book\u2019s purpose was not only to shape Chinese policy, but\nalso to plant the idea in the minds of U.S. policymakers that China will\nconsider nothing out of bounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\ncomments that \u201cIn thinking about the implications of the word unrestricted<\/em>,\nit is useful to look at the CCP\u2019s treatment of its own people. Estimates\nput the number of those killed at the hands of the CCP\u2014whether through war,\nstarvation, or execution\u2014at roughly 100 million\u2026. And these numbers do not even\ntake into account the forced abortions stemming from China\u2019s one-child policy.\nThat number is conservatively estimated to be 500 million\u2014500 million children\nmurdered in the womb.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reminds us of \u201cCCP\u2019s imprisonment\nin concentration camps of one to two million Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang\nprovince. Fewer of us are aware of how the Chinese government facilitates the\nabduction of Uyghur women for sexual use by Chinese soldiers\u2014or even worse, if\nthat were possible, how the government harvests the organs of the Uyghur\npopulation for sale both in China and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, he states that \u201cThe CCP\noperates a vast intelligence network in the U.S as well. It is made up not\nmerely of intelligence operatives working for the Ministry of State Security,\nbut also a myriad of business and industry officials, Chinese scholar\nassociations, Confucius Institutes operating on American campuses, and 370,000\nChinese students attending American universities.\u2026It should not be surprising\nthat a combination of the efforts of this network and of China-based cyber\ncriminals yields $500 to $600 billion of intellectual property theft annually.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of particular importance to me is\nhis comment that \u201cPerhaps the greatest threat to the U.S. posed by the CCP is\nits corruption of America\u2019s business and financial elites, who view the\neconomic benefits of dealing with China as more important than America\u2019s\nnational interests. If there is a single group committed to the globalist\nproject and the delusory China dream, it is Wall Street. Our great investment\nbanks are now selling trillions of dollars in debt and equity in Chinese\ncorporations to American investors and retirees. They are literally betting on\nthe success of China at the expense of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve long written about how\nAmerican companies have put short term profits before their loyalty to America\nby transferring so much of their manufacturing to China. As a result, we have\ndecimated our middle class as manufacturing jobs are the foundation of the\nmiddle class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nconcludes saying, \u201cAmericans are not looking for war with Communist\nChina, but Communist China appears to be at war with us. As a first order of\nbusiness, we must continue what we have at long last begun: building a military\ndesigned to deter Chinese aggression and pursuing trade and other policies that\nput our own national interests first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally important\u2014especially given the\nviolence in our cities that our foreign enemies cheer\u2014is defending our American\nway of life and teaching our countrymen why America deserves our love and\ndevotion, now and in the days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s past time to wake up.  It\u2019s time for action. The next administration\nmust make putting American first if we want to remain a free democratic\nrepublic and maintain our national sovereignty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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