Posted on 10/17/2019 3:30:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.
The results of Deng's revolution astonished the world. In four decades, China went from a backward basket case to the second-largest economy on the planet. It lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese into the global middle class.
Deng's revolution came at a cost of terrible environmental damage, the rampant destruction of local communities and continued political repression. A more efficient economy empowered dictatorship.
Abroad, China systematically violated every tenet of international trade and commerce. It stole copyrights and patents. It ran up huge trade surpluses. It dumped products at below the cost of production to hook international customers. It threatened critics with boycotts, divestments and expulsions. It manipulated its currency. It demanded technology transfers from companies doing business in China. It created a vast espionage network in Western countries to steal technology. And it increasingly bullied and threatened its Asian neighbors.
Such criminality abroad and such repression at home was contextualized and mostly excused by Western nations.
U.S. foreign policy toward China seemed to be based on the belief that the more China modernized and the more affluent its citizens became, the more inevitable Chinese political freedom would be.
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It is a situation similar to Japan. A backward tyranny allows market reforms in order to modernize People , now with the means to resist , do so. It’s an unstable situation so the tyrants divert attention with warfare.
of course it is...China has financed Capitol Hill’s excesses for 30 years....
The closed up factory, monuments to Americas stupidity and greed.
Sinicized bad... Islamized worse.
I thought Sinicize was some type of porn-based workout program.
China was an environmental basket case under Mao as well.
It has been a filthy country for a long time
Quote misattributed to Voltaire.
Chinese resaurant bathrooms in America are uniformly gross, not having been properly cleaned in years.
Just goes to show the bribe is cheaper than the labor.
VDH at his most brilliant.
<< Loud college students who disrupt campus speakers and forbid free speech never say a word about the horrendous human rights record of China. >>
Yes, the “Free Tibet” movement on college campuses and other lib enclaves is long over. It was one of the exceedingly rare occurrences when they supported a decent cause.
Not only have the Chinese been allowed to steal our technology, not only have the jobs Americans used to have in manufacturing been transferred wholesale to China, but the Chinese are, as I type this, busy conquering America, without a shot being fired. How? They are freaking BUYING it! Virtually the only buyers of real estate around here, paying CASH, are Chinese buyers. I’ve worked hard for several decades, lived frugally, and I sure don’t have the funds to buy a home for cash. And, the current crop of Chinese coming in look like ragamuffins. Ragamuffins toting bags of greenbacks. The Chinese are also buying up businesses like Smithfield Hams, ranches, all kinds of property. How are they being allowed to acquire so much U.S. property? It seems suicidal to me, to allow them to simply BUY America.
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