Posted on 04/21/2007 7:55:32 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
In March of 1941, Rep. Carl Anderson from Minnesota warned America about the danger of arming potential adversaries. He said then that the chances of war with Japan were 50-50, and that if our Navy were to meet the Japanese, we would encounter a fleet which was built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum. A few months later at Pearl Harbor, 21 American ships were sunk, 300 planes were destroyed, and 5,000 Americans were killed and wounded by a Japanese fleet that was indeed built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum.
Why is it that we still have not learned from this valuable lesson? Today, China is using its $80 billion trade surplus with the United States to build a formidable military. Tragically, the weapons China procures are targeted toward the very Americans who supplied them through their trade dollars.
With some of the $350 billion that they have amassed in trade surpluses over the last eight years, China has purchased two Sovrenny class missile destroyers from the Russians. These destroyers are designed for one purpose . . . to kill American aircraft carriers. Ironically, China did not have the finances to purchase these destroyers until money from U.S. trade made it possible.
Our nation's trade surplus with China has allowed its Communist leaders to purchase the SU-27 fighter, a high performance aircraft capable of effective warfare against America's top-line fighters. The Chinese bought kilo class submarines, AWACS aircraft with air-to-air refueling capability and sophisticated communications equipment, all with U.S. trade dollars.
Compounding this danger, China continues to sell components for weapons of mass destruction to nations like Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and North Korea. Last month, China signed a treaty agreement with Russia dedicated to the opposition of America's efforts to defend itself against ballistic missiles.
As Congress debated China's trade status, advocates argued that America was dealing with a new China, a friendlier China, a country that would become an economic partner with the United States. So, despite evidence that China continues to engage in unfair trade practices, violate human rights, and pose a threat to our national security, Congress supported President Bush's decision to provide China with "normal trade relations" status, the same trade status given to our friends across the world including Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan.
This was a mistake. China's initial refusal to release our military personnel and plane earlier this year is indicative of the regard in which the Communist regime holds our government and serves as a strong reminder that China does not consider America an economic partner, but an enemy.
The hard-liners of the Communist regime continue to view America with cynicism. They see the United States as a country anxious to make a profit at any cost, even if it means allowing them to pose a major threat to our national security. The fact is, while we trade with China, they prepare for war.
America has just left the bloodiest century in the history of the world, but it was also a time of triumph for America. It is the story of a great Democrat president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who stood with Winston Churchill against Hitler's German. It is the story of a great Republican President, Ronald Reagan, who faced down and disassembled the Soviet Union.
These successes, however, did not come without cost. America lost 619,000 service personnel in the 20th century. These brave men and women lie in cemeteries across this country and in the oceans and battlefields around the world, many of them fighting in wars for which we were unprepared; that is a tragedy. The greater tragedy will happen if this country, by our own hand after having fought and bled and sacrificed defending freedom, allows another military superpower to fill the cemeteries of this nation with the bodies of Americans killed with weapons purchased by American trade dollars.
China is clearly one of the biggest threats to our nation in the 21st century and has not earned the right to have normal trade relations status. China's past actions reveal its intent. America's leaders cannot send mixed signals and our nation's economic and military interests must be consistent, not in conflict. This is why I believe normalizing trade relations with China was the wrong decision.
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/622675/posts
read the book The Venona Secrets.
One of the biggest revelations was how the USSR had a big hand in Pearl Harbor happening. Required reading for all.
This is my ref. thread
>Anyone who loves freedom has a stake in the success of Indian development model to show that a giant, poor country can achieve economic develpment and poverty reduction...<
We’ve raised China to a world power, and now we’ve exported our jobs to India who is benefiting at our expense! They are gaining wealth, while a large part of our middle class is disappearing, creating, gradually, but eventually, a giant, poor country! Americans are clamouring for government jobs, because they are and will continue to be the most secure.
Unbelievable! And we sit still for it, preferring to watch Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and Reality Shows!
Today, China is using its $80 billion trade surplus with the United States to build a formidable military. Tragically, the weapons China procures are targeted toward the very Americans who supplied them through their trade dollars.
The USSR did not make it's workers available to certain people at an average wage of $.16 an hour. If they had of, they'd still be around ;^)
bump for later
The fact that they are contaminating our food supply is cause enough.
...agreed. More than 150,000 businesses in China are owned by the PLA.
Good speech by Duncan.
I would boycott China products but that’s all I can find.
After googling for an answer about the Soy sauce from human hair, I still have not found a definite answer if it was true or another hoax.
Then I realized - do I really trust ANY foodstuff from China, knowing what I do about agricultural techniques they use?
True or not, I am sticking to Japanese soy sauce.
“Congress supported President Bush’s decision to provide China with “normal trade relations” status,”
Another sign W is a one-worlder.
He’s too late. What do you think the Trans TX Corridor is for? China’s imports.
They might not have ‘earned the right’ but believe me it has already been conferred. Now they’re just waiting for the superhighway. Like Muslims putting in mosques in the country and making the county pay for bigger roads.
This is one of the many reasons our country NEEDS Duncan Hunter!
Yes. Not getting yet another establishment President is even more important than the WOT.
Well, maybe if you dropped a few notes in the campaign chest with a tactful note to that effect, that would happen.
;^)
“The hard-liners of the Communist regime continue to view America with cynicism. They see the United States as a country anxious to make a profit at any cost, even if it means allowing them to pose a major threat to our national security. The fact is, while we trade with China, they prepare for war.”
This is called outsourcing national security.
>Yes, the Chinese Communists are a bunch of dangerous ————. Is that your point?
My point is that out of the entire field of candidates, and too many of our past, and present, presidents, only Duncan Hunter seems to be at all concerned about China, or has any inclination to discuss it.
Because they are globalists who would sell their Mama for a nickel.
fair trade bump
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