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.
Whenever major trade legislation or any type of legislation comes up, the Republcians have at their disposal many fine think tanks that can give the Republican leadership excellent independent analysis of how this legislation will affect our nation. By not asking, or by not taking the advice of think tanks, the Republicans are partners with the RATs in the wholesale giveaway of American treasures.
Make no mistake about this--the Republicans have allowed this nation to give away its treasures and they are fully aware of what they are doing. We have weakened our own nation with full approval by Republican leadership.
Why?
(1) We have become globalists, not a nation that pursues "America First". The "we" hear includes the Republicans, of course. (2) Because politicians are more concerned about world popularity, constituent popularity and retainng their job than they care about the welfare of 290,000,000 Americans and our future descendants. (3) I am sure there is a third reason. Who wants to take a stab at it?
>I am sure there is a third reason. Who wants to take a stab at it?<
All I can think of is what Nicolai Krauschev said in the early '50's "We will beat you from within". And was it Pogo who said, "So we have met the enemy and he is us?"
Our President says it is his goal to free the world, would that his sights be peeled on the one country he presides over!
Still, I hopefully ask, "what do we do now?" How do we awaken this sleeping nation to stand up and roar?" Or do we just cower and whimper as we slip further into the communists control?
>I'm sure there is a third reason. Who wants to take a stab at it?<
DTOM, all I can think of is what Nicolai Kruschev said in the early '50's, "we will beat you from within." Was it Pogo who said, "So we have met the enemy and he is us?"
Still I hopefully ask, "what do we do now?" How do we awaken this wonderful sleeping nation to stand up and roar? Or do we cower and whimper as we slip further into the grip of, and eventual slavery, of communism?
Anyone, please, what do we do now?
Post 22 took so long to appear I thought I had'nt struck the second post. Sorry. M
The Clintons sure had their hand in the transfer of information but the Chinese Commies are doing just fine getting it on their own. They caught two tech spies at one of my companies subsidiaries a couple of years ago. My company hired them right out of college here in the U.S. even though they were Chinese citizens. It was one of those "diversity" hire things. The company then put them in a tech research environment where they could obtain maximum access to our latest information. They got plenty of diversity out of that decision. We are our own worst enemies.
Your criticisms are fair enough. Yet, the above from you is more illogical than anything in Paul Lin's piece.
That was Xiong Guangkai.
This week he has been conferring with Richard Lawless, undersecretary of Defense.
I found the piece to be exactly accurate, especially the part about this great plan of yours to "westernize" China is actually strengthening them and weakening us. The facts are as far as you have to look.
So should this current course of the US going down in debt and the Chinese economy leading the world continue indefinitely, what is your plan B? Or do you even have one? Haven't heard it yet.
Not only that, active duty congressional-level talks between politicians from both nations are commonplace. Taiwan even sent an active-duty high rankng government official to Bush's inaguration!
The MSM may credit that it was only Nixon, but the fact is Jimmy Carter also had a hand in de-recognizing Taiwan and recignizing red China (in addition to handing the Panama Canal to the chicoms).
Too many of our politicians is pro-China. Congress is the only part of our government with a pro-Taiwan majority. What a sad picture.
Unless we strike first and that is a perfectly viable option. Too many of our politicians are gutless and/or greedy!
if lenovo is a threat to our national security,
then, we've got some severe problems!
(/s)
A far better approach is to undermine the current political control of China. I would welcome China as a friendly democracy, and that's far more realistic than a pre-emptive strike against them.
Well the Chicoms have expressed their willingness to lose their economy several over the past two years. If they are as extreme as they say, then we have no choice. Too many times have the red Chinese have been appeased. We need to draw a line and if we lose LA, thats a price worth paying to stop them.
China isn't run by crazy people.
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