Posted on 02/05/2005 9:04:03 AM PST by Willie Green
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On Jan. 20, in US President George W. Bush's second inauguration speech, he said that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world." He pointed out that "it is the policy of the US to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."
But before the US plans what measures it needs to realize this goal, it has to face the question of how to tackle its national security issues resulting from the acquisition of US-based IBM's PC division by China's largest personal computer vendor, the Lenovo Group.
These worries are understandable because China's authoritarian regime not only regards the US as an ideological enemy, but also as a potential military adversary. China has conducted repeated military exercises simulating assaults on US forces, and there have been many incidents of the theft of military technology through commercial or research channels that have involved people of Chinese descent.
Possession of IBM's PC division doubtlessly creates an even more convenient way for China to steal US military and technology secrets. I therefore believe that US regulators will challenge Lenovo's acquisition bid. If not, the US' insistence that the EU retain its arms embargo on China would no longer seem persuasive.
Bush also mentioned in his speech that the objective of ending tyranny is not primarily based on the "task of arms." If that is the case, I wonder, what is the basis to put an end to China's tyranny?
The US used to think that China's economic development would certainly facilitate its democratic reform. However, economic cooperation between the US and China has not only failed to achieve greater democratization, but has sowed seeds of trouble for the US.
While US enterprises have profited from China, Beijing has profited even more from the US politically, economically and militarily. Now China has lost its fear of challenging the US hegemony. US hegemony can be seen as a guardian angel for the whole world, while the hegemony that China is seeking to establish is a source of global evil. Aren't evil states like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar and the former Iraqi regime all closely connected with China?
To safeguard its own security and avoid direct military confrontation with China, the best approach the US can adopt is to help the people in China end this tyrannical regime. The last line of defense for China's leadership, other than resorting to force, is to block people's access to information and implement an obscurantist policy so that the idea of freedom will not spread within the country.
Unfortunately, to continue gaining profits in China, some US multinational conglomerates even bend over backward to help Beijing prevent information from spreading freely. This goes against Bush's ultimate goal of spreading the idea of freedom and ending tyranny across the globe, and may even jeopardize the security of the US.
Furthermore, some US high-tech companies have had a hand in China's so-called Golden Shield Project. Not only have they helped China's rulers install an Internet firewall to prevent the free flow of information, but they also monitor e-mails of dissidents.
The recent the death of Zhao Ziyang, the former premier and Communist Party chief, should have been a chance for people to disclose the evil nature of the communist regime and spread the idea of freedom. However, major Internet portals in China, including Yahoo! China, a US-based dotcom, filtered out content containing Zhao's name. It was as though Zhao never existed. Although the US government and public opinion praised Zhao for his achievements in reforming China and his objection to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, an overwhelming majority of people in China are kept completely in the dark about Zhao's contributions to the nation.
China's state-owned and private enterprises, and the so-called patriotic businessmen, long ago began investing in US enterprises associated with security. With its economic power growing stronger than ever, China will continue its acquisition of foreign enterprises.
Even if the US government forbids China's purchase of US enterprises, China is still likely to target similar enterprises in other countries. This will allow the tyrannical Beijinh government to pose a growing threat to the US. China's recent interest in oil wells in foreign countries is also closely related to its ambitions to expand.
If the terrorist approach adopted by Osama bin Laden is portrayed as guerrilla warfare, the approaches that China is adopting include both "mobile warfare" and "positional warfare." If the US continues to take an equivocal approach in dealing with the tyranny of the Chinese government, fantasizing about establishing a human rights dialogue with China, and forgets to assist the people of China in gaining access to the idea of freedom and opposition to tyrannical rule, Taiwan will face a double assault from both China and the US and be forced to become a second Hong Kong.
In this case, tyranny will never be terminated in the world. Instead, the consequence will be suicidal.
Recently, we commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Meanwhile, France and Germany have begun flirting with the Beijing regime, which is more cruel and treacherous than the Nazi regime. If the US can no longer act as a bastion of freedom, the mob under the tyrannical rule of the Chinese government will bring an unprecedented catastrophe to the world.
And Presidential ones too.
The Red Chinese don't need to risk stealing anything when the Clintons will sell it to them for a kickback.
The Clinton administration was YEARS ago, Eric. There's a whole new set of traitors in town, selling us out.
Yet, George Bush has abandoned Taiwan and said the U.S. will pusue the "One China" policy.
If Clinton did this, the entire forum here would be calling Clinton a liar.
I'm not worried. We'll fatten them up with hamburgers and sue them into oblivion.
So let's hear your PROOF, not just your interpretation of diplomatic BS.
Is it ANY coincidence that since the Presidency of one Bill Clinton, highlighted by his posing with Chinese "businessmen," China has exploded out of nowhere to become a space, military, economic, and technology "leader"?
And on the issue of China's "chipping away at US national security," shall we mention Jimmy Carter's giving away the Panama Canal to the Chinese?
No coincidence at all, of course. .....and they both get a free pass! Hopefully one day history will set the record straight.
No, it's not coincidental. Clinton still has official contacts inside China, as well as people inside our government doing his bidding. Same goes with Bill Gates, and his shameful ChiCom ass kissing the other day. Gates evidently has some serious cash riding on the demise of the US and the ascendancy of China.
There's no shortage of traitors in high places these days.
By the time "historians" from liberal academics are done re-creating his "legacy," I'm afraid Washington will be replaced by Bubba at Mount Rushmore.
Unfortunately, the term "traitor" no longer exists.
Nowadays, there is only a hue and cry for the death penalty if prison guards wrap underwear around perps' heads.
There is absolutely no way to prevent it.
>Yet George Bush has abandoned Taiwan and said the U.S. will pursue the "One China" policy.<
Some puzzlements:
Actually wasn't 41 deep "into" China, with 42 a devoted follower? Anyone know who China may have backed for president in 2004?
This guy goes back and forth, all over the map, arguing with himself. He crabs about IBM selling them a PC factory, but then tells us that the best way for the communists to stay in power is to block the people's access to information. Well, which is it? Should we encourage the proliferation of PCs in China, or not? There is no better tool for spreading information around quickly than a PC. Shouldn't we hope they're stupid enough to put a PC on every desk? The Russian dissidents had their Samizdat illegally xeroxed books and pamphlets that they passed around. The Chinese could have the electronic version, running at the speed of light. But nooooo, we should keep PC technology out of the hands of the Chinese because of all the national security secrets in it. What a joke. The Cray XT3 we should keep secret. But PCs? Come on. The stuff is all made in China now anyway. Then he crabs that if we don't sell them a PC factory, somebody else will. And he winds up by saying we shouldn't forget "to assist the people of China in gaining access to the idea of freedom and opposition to tyrannical rule." Idiot. Could we get somebody in here who can think before they rant? |
I've got bad news for you: China already has ICBM's fully capable of striking the US mainland. One of her top generals (=warlords) openly threatened to nuke Los Angeles if we tried to prevent the "unification" (=conquest) of Taiwan. North Korea is on the brink of being able to reach the US mainland with their missiles as well.
Good points about Carter and Clinton. To be fair, however, let's not forget that the current president has allowed the sale and transfer of the facility responsible for manufacturing smart bombs to be relocated to China. He has moreover done zero to prosecute the treasonous activities of Loral, Clinton, et al. His father, George H. W. "Deep Throat" Bush, was gung-ho for "free trade" with the slave-masters of Beijing even as the Red Army mowed down thousands in Tienamen square.
China enjoys "Most Favored Nation" status now, despite the slave-labor camps, the crony-capitalist arrangements, complete violations of treaties they signed regarding US intellectual property, etc. Republicans are all in favor of this, naturally. All of the grand rhetoric about "freedom" and "democracy" sounds a bit empty when you look at reality.
The Clintons did the most damage.
As this article below states, Feb., 2002, Bush quoted as saying he adheres to the One China policy. When Bush "adheres" to the "One China" policy, it means that the U.S. backs the Chicoms and tells Taiwan that they can't seek their own independence.
Just Google and search for the following:
Bush One China policy
You will find plenty of other instances where Bush, Colin Powell and others in the administration stress that they back the "One China policy"--those are fancy words for "screw Taiwan".
Bush seeks freedom and liberty for nations, but when it comes to a threat by China and Russia, all of a sudden he no longer seeks freedom anymore.
IBM is small potatoes.
The mass manufacturing exodus by greedy corporations led us to this. By giving away our technology and jobs to line their own pockets, they have strengthened the rest of the world, but put America into deep trade deposits, a falling dollar, thus making us vulnerable to the whims of foreign governments.
The crack in the formerly solid wall of our Republic widens as do the eyes of Americans at where we now find ourselves.
The questions should be: Why did our government adopt NAFTA, GAT and the WTO? Why couldn't they see this coming, or did they see exactly what these treaties would lead to? And what do we do now, Mom?
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