We must take into account that the Nixon/Kissinger era (1966-74) of dealing with the Chinese Communists was in the midst of the reign of Mao Zedong (croaked 1976), the fanatical instigator and absolute ruler of the Chi-Com regime, who had killed untold millions establishing his rule and then starved to death 30 million more in his “Great Leap Forward” plan only to replace that with his “Cultural Revolution” (1966-1976), which demanded total slavery to communist ideology and featured widespread mob enforced death squads publicly murdering or shaming intellectuals and other achievers to bring the masses into line and teach them absolute fealty to communism was their only path...which it did spectacularly well. Nixon and others in succeeding ranks operated on the proposition that if we (the West) welcomed them into the world’s economy that they would “see the light” of peaceful benefit of common trade and intercourse or be beguiled by it into changing their spots. They should have known better, as the Cultural Revolution abomination was in full swing during the Nixon years and only ended in 1976 with the welcome death of its hideous perpetrator. There was zero chance Mao was ever going to see the light of free market power or be enticed by it except to take advantage of it, as his successors have done.
Instead, it was the West that was beguiled into accepting a ravenous tiger into our midst, which has lied, cheated and stolen its way to the top of the world economy, while we have put ourselves in its thrall for what first were mere trinkets, then dependence on vital core products. The CCP has not so much changed its spots as it has hidden them only to come out occasionally when it imprisons a few million Uyghurs, or crushes Tibet, or harvests organs from live prisoners for sale, or boards up WuHan Virus suffers until they die, or “disappears” doctors warning of the virus, quarantining tens of millions of its own citizen while send infected all over the world, or steals wholesale trade secrets, or is suppressing and subjugating a free Hong Kong against their treaty to not do so.
As I see it, there are two paths to follow with regard to Red China — (A) accept the current status quo and trajectory of increased reliance with eventual subservience in critical resources & functions of our society, or (B) chart a path away from China control of critical resources and rebuild our own. Any cursory examination of the well documented history of the two current protagonists in our political story, Joe Biden vrs. Donald Trump, will tell you which is offering you A and which is offering B. At the core of our political divide are those on one side who believe that individuals exist to serve government (this would most assuredly contain the CCP), and those who believe government exists to serve individuals. I think these two candidates exemplify that difference whatever their other frailties. Upon that difference should a choice be made because that is the difference in the direction their administration will point and lead.
Here’s some more entre into that history for those willing to look —
https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...candidate.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...ith_china.html
https://thenationalpulse.com/coronav...n-china-trade/
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bide...d-david-bossie
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Originally Posted by Sandman
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