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Learning from Years of Accomodating China
American Thinker ^ | 18 Jan, 2025 | Erik Durneika

Posted on 01/18/2025 4:39:21 AM PST by MtnClimber

News stories of a China increasingly belligerent both at home and abroad are widespread. But in an attempt to understand how we have gotten into this position, many have assessed the growth of Beijing without fully examining the policies of previous U.S. presidential administrations.

Years of accommodation and so-called mutually beneficial bilateral agreements have all enabled the rise of China. Such is the dangerous legacy of the strikingly identical China policies under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations that have left us with the short end of the stick and have made the international stage less stable, while presenting novel risks to the homeland.

In the 1990s, the Clinton administration’s democratization project firmly held the belief that free trade with and the integration of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) would bring about change inside the East Asian country, ushering in a period of democracy and international compliance. During this time, the Clinton administration resisted criticisms of the China-U.S. Relations Act of China of 2000, which granted the China a place in the WTO.

Consequently, this trade deal lifted trade restrictions on China by granting it permanent normal trade relations, causing a sharp decrease in U.S. manufacturing jobs and putting American workers at a disadvantage. This outsourcing of jobs only increased rapidly thereafter and has contributed to the $1 trillion in trade surplus that China enjoys today.

All of this was done despite many warning signs of China’s capabilities -- crackdowns on Uyghurs; the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners; and the CCP’s intimidation of Taiwan days before its election by firing missiles across the northern portion of the island. Not to mention China’s relentless covert operations and military/intellectual theft in the years prior.

The Bush administration followed suit, pursuing a policy of engagement even further.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: agreements; bilateral; ccp; chicoms; china; commerce; communism; freetrade; wto

1 posted on 01/18/2025 4:39:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Never trust a communist. The problem is that out government and education system are full of them now. We are being defeated from the inside.


2 posted on 01/18/2025 4:39:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

This all started with Clinton. When the political class began to see the payoffs from the Chinese, they were all for it.


3 posted on 01/18/2025 4:46:27 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 01/18/2025 4:50:51 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

To understand China’s mentality and strategies, the book “The Art of War” should be read and studied.

I read it many times and then read “The Art of War” by Chairman Mao telling how he used this book’s strategies to take over China. It was an eye opener.

“The Art of War” by Mao Tse-tung contains his four most important discourses on warfare: “Problems of Strategy in China’s Revolutionary War” “Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan” “On Protracted War” and “Problems of War and Strategy.”


5 posted on 01/18/2025 4:58:56 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: MtnClimber
The second comment to the AT article says simply, "China played the US like a fiddle."

The unwritten corollary is that successive administrations have acted as the "fiddle" to be played. America First, as a strategy, was attacked by Democrats as racist, so in part they assisted greatly in "resining the bow" to play the "fiddle."

6 posted on 01/18/2025 5:10:48 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

I recommend a visit to the “China Observer” YT channel. China is currently going through something very similar to America’s Great Depression - it’s really quite amazing. My concern is that something like this could be contagious to the rest of the world.


7 posted on 01/18/2025 5:20:30 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: MtnClimber

I favor a US sourcing strategy.

The things that can be economically made in the USA by highly automated means should be made in the USA.


8 posted on 01/18/2025 5:23:25 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

General “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell must be turning over in his grave


9 posted on 01/18/2025 5:25:03 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

The Japanese are trying to shift production of their branded products out of China.


10 posted on 01/18/2025 5:25:09 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: The Duke

“very similar to America’s Great Depression”

In the 1920s, Americans bought new houses, new cars and new radios.

There was less demand in the 1930s for new houses, new cars and new radios.

Rapid change and a booming economy are followed by a bust.


11 posted on 01/18/2025 5:28:57 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber
Being weak and soft produces bad results?

Wow!

What a Revelation!

Next they are going to discover water is wet.

12 posted on 01/18/2025 8:28:06 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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