How China ‘Woke’ America
National Review,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/3/2019 6:56:51 AM
In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China.
For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities and political dissidents.
Almost every assumption Washington made, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, was logically flawed at best. At worst, these calculations were a weird mix of conservative commercial greed, liberal political correctness, and shared screwball naïveté.
American trade and political appeasement were never interpreted by
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/3/2019 8:55:31 AM (No. 196428)
And our wealthy elite globalists remain in 'thrall' to the Chinese Communists. Our manufacturing and monetary masters still don't give a damn for American workers. Trump has captured the hearts and votes of America's heartland precisely because he represents the average American who thinks a job is more important than murdering infants in the womb.
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RuckusTom 10/3/2019 8:59:53 AM (No. 196431)
This is a great article. "It was always ludicrous to think that the more concessions on trade and human rights the United States gave, the more China would Westernize and begin to resemble America or an EU nation." Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. 18 years later our betters say, "We're spreading freedom and democracy!" The question I'd ask is, what if they don't want freedom and democracy? Same thing with China. We'll give them all our industry and they'll become like us. Well, what if they don't want to become like us?
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stablemoney 10/3/2019 9:35:46 AM (No. 196472)
Trump has exposed the fraud of globalism, formerly called socialism or communism or progressivism.
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Frankly, "human rights" are not part of our national interests. How cultures evolve; how they select their despots; how their despots treat the population is NOT an American issue. The American way is to serve as an example of a free, prosperous nation.
I'll go with George Washington's thoughts: "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible." Unfortunately, we are far beyond that with our numerous trade agreements and treaties.
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bighambone 10/3/2019 10:07:42 AM (No. 196510)
The current political battle is between the globalist investor class and ordinary working Americans who actually are the people who make America go. Caught in between is the largely two faced DC political “UniParty” that depends on the globalist investor class to make them rich, but only if they play their political cards right; and the vast number of Americans across the country who make the country go, and who actually vote and are necessary to keep that political class in power.
That is the DC “System” or “Swamp” that President Trump “outed” after ordinary working American people elected him and sent him to DC. In one way or another that “System” or “Swamp” and its beneficiaries, much of the DC “UniParty” political class, and their sycophants in the DC administrative “Deep State” consisting of career Federal super bureaucrats that have “resisted” Trump all the way.
Now what happens depends upon if the two faced UniParty can fool enough of their outside the beltway constituencies to support them, as they continue to look for any grounds to remove Trump from office, who they or the global investor class cannot control, through impeachment, after conducting a dragnet investigation initiated after a misuse of the Whistleblower laws, hoping to find any grounds to get that job done, or if not, to politically tarnish Trump, thinking that will cause Trump to either be defeated in the 2020 election or scare enough wimpy Republican “UniParty” “System” supporters to dump Trump and nominate some other “get back to normal” candidate who with a wink and a nod will go along with the established DC “System and “Swamp” if elected.
Will the ordinary working Americans who make the country go who elected Trump outside the DC beltway roll over and abandon Trump, I doubt it, but we will see.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GO3 10/3/2019 10:14:52 AM (No. 196517)
I agree that this is a great article. It lays out the real reasons for US business interests in China. It isn't about profits as much as it's about money grubbing on a massive scale. The globalists still promote the reason for these dealings as wanting to expand to China as wanting their market to increase in the massive Chinese population. This is a lie as VDH points out. Basic due diligence such as analyzing salary structure would show Chinese cheap labor couldn't purchase the very very goods they were making on a scale to make the investment worthwhile. NFL looking to establish expansion teams do this all the time. Just because a large city may have a population who are interested in a team, does not mean they have the means to support that team with dollars.
Also #4, I agree. And one of the reasons for this entanglement is not only treaties and trade agreements, but that so many businesses are tied to the government directly or indirectly via government contracts especially in defense, IT, and consulting.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/3/2019 10:44:58 AM (No. 196560)
But Vice President Joe Biden said we have nothing to fear from China. Who to believe?
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