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In fact, today's example may even be worse than that of Nazi Germany because,
in the case of Red China, the United States is taking an active part in
helping to build an avowed enemy; one that openly states its hatred of the
United States. We know the Chinese are preparing for world domination, yet we
continue to build their treasury by importing goods and supplying them with
vital tools needed for weapons and defense systems they intend to use against
us.
Why do we do this? The official government explanation is a confused strategy
aimed at "westernizing" the Communists. The idea is that, if we feed their
economy and create more consumer demand for goods and services, we will
somehow create a new capitalist nation and ally.
Is it working? China has certainly become a world leader in exporting goods.
Communist-government-owned businesses are sprouting up in countries all over
the world. Communist Chinese businesses now control both ends of the Panama
Canal. Chinese diplomats and "business" leaders are visiting countries all
over South America, hoping to strengthen their influence in America's back
yard.
They invest, they buy, and they grow richer and stronger by the day.
Are we "westernizing" the Communists? Are they learning to like us? The truth
is they mock us. Like any con artist who sees his mark falling into his trap,
the Red Chinese feel little more than contempt for what they consider to be
an easy foe. As their contempt grows, so grows their boldness to act with
less caution. The result leads toward a dangerous world.
Consider the following examples of growing Chinese boldness:
The Chinese make an international incident out of a collision with an
American plane, which THEY caused. They took the plane and held the crew
until they were satisfied that the U.S. had been sufficiently humbled. Our
response? The Congress voted to grant the Chinese "permanent normal trade
relations," a position the Chinese had to have in order to be awarded
membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). China won membership in
November. A month earlier, The Washington Post reported that the US was
thinking about waiving the sanctions imposed on China following the 1989
crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators.
For several years, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, China has
pursued a massive buildup of strategic missile capability that has shown
Beijing's "seriousness of purpose" in becoming a global power. Many of the
missiles are aimed at Taiwan, a free-market nation the Communists call
"terrorists," comparing them to Osama bin Laden.
Needless to say, the Chinese oppose the creation of a U.S. missile defense
system that they say would "upset the international strategic balance of the
past 50 years." Is this because they are planning to send some of their
missiles our way?
Within twenty-four hours of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, the Communist Chinese government had begun to produce
books, films and video games glorifying the strikes as a humbling blow
against an arrogant nation. According to The Washington Times, "Video discs
filled with lurid images have flooded markets across (China) in the wake of
the attacks. Disc after disc bears the imprimatur of the Communist
Party-controlled media." Communist Party officials say President Jiang Zemin
has obsessively watched and re-watched pictures of the aircraft crashing into
the World Trade Center.
On the most popular government tape now selling briskly in China, rescue
workers are shown picking through the rubble of the twin towers as the
commentator proclaims that the city has reaped the consequences of decades of
American bullying of weaker nations. "This is the America the whole world has
wanted to see," he says, "Blood debts have been paid in blood." On another
film the commentary goes on to say, "Look at the panic in their faces as they
wipe off the dust and crawl out of their strong buildings, now just a heap of
rubble. We will never fear these people again, they have been shown to be
soft-bellied paper tigers."
The American response? The US has made the Chinese part of the coalition to
fight terrorism, but the Chinese have been closely allied with every one of
the regimes supporting terrorist organizations, not the least of which was
the Taliban the US is in the process of destroying. On September 11th, the
same day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked, China signed a
defense cooperation agreement with Taliban officials. China has been the
largest foreign investor in Afghanistan while, at the same time, domestically
seeking to suppress Islam because it poses a threat to their authoritarian
regime.
To induce further Chinese cooperations, however, the Bush Administration is
considering a waiver on sanctions barring the sale of military-related
equipment. The sanctions deny the sale of spare parts for Black Hawk
helicopters the US sold to China during the 1980's. According to The
Washington Post, we are told this would make the Chinese "another weapon in
the war on terrorism."
The United States is using a wrong-headed strategy with the Chinese that can
only result in one outcome, a day of reckoning with China. If the strategy is
not changed, if the U.S. government continues to build the strength of our
enemy, then one day it will be the United States that faces the prospect of
being "bombed back into the stone age."
A world dominated by the Communist Chinese is the most horrifying scenario
one can imagine. Compared to them, Osama bin Laden is a pussycat.
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of
the American Policy Center, a Warrenton, Virginia grass-roots think tank. The
Center maintains an Internet site at www.americanpolicy.org.
Published by permission.
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