Posted on 10/27/2019 9:55:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
According to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, why is communist-ruled China America’s greatest threat?
What did American leaders get wrong about China in the past decades, and how did this contribute to the Chinese regime’s rise? Why does it matter that it’s communist?
And what is the significance of Vice President Mike Pence voicing his support for the Hong Kong protestors, and the continued freedom of Taiwan?
This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek.
Today we sit down with Newt Gingrich, author, historian and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to discuss his new book, “Trump vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
We used to have that. It was called most favored nation status. It was granted by Bush, then permanently given to China by Clinton.
Bush the wimp gave it to China a year after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In the past we used to do a quid pro quo thing. Nations had to behave in a certain manner in order to earn most favored nation status. We gave it to a mass murderer immediately after their mass murder, and then Clinton made it permanent
Newt the strategy is the same as Reagan’s USSR strategy: We win, they lose.
Now, Newtie, why not run along and let the grown ups alone.
Give to them what we don’t have.
It is not our role in the world to “grant” citizens of another nation freedom.
Freedom is not free. If they want freedom let them earn the way we have, with blood, theirs not ours.
I am tired of “nation building”.
We gave it to a mass murderer immediately after their mass murder, and then Clinton made it permanent.
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And clintons wife was on the board of WalChinaMart at the time.
I love it when people out of power try to tell us what needs to be done, as if something wasn’t being done.
Don’t look now Newt, but what do you think the tariffs are partly about?
It hit’s China’s bottom line hard. This causes many ripple effects in China’s economy.
This makes China’s natives restless.
Change is coming to China, one way or another.
They just got religion (so to speak) in Hong Kong.
Exactly. This is just Newt being Newt, trying to seem forward looking, when he can’t even grasp what is taking place now.
True, but we needed that strategy starting in the late 1970s when Deng Xiaoping visited the US to set motion policies that resulted in the massive transfer of US technology, factories and jobs to China.
We should never have set out on those policies until China abandoned communism and extended more rights to their population, but US commercial interests got the upper hand in policy decisions, and here we are.
No we don’t. Nation restructuring is not our job.
With all due respect, Newt, we are losing our freedom in America, and should concentrate on stopping that first.
Uniparty has supported “constructive engagement” for decades. Since Nixon.
This is Clinton talking about it from 1997, reported by CNN.
Clinton of course was getting millions of dollars from the Chinese Communists.
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Clinton Defends ‘Constructive Engagement’ Of China
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Oct. 24) — In advance of his summit next week with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, President Bill Clinton addressed the politically charged issue of U.S. relations with China, arguing for closer ties with the world’s most populous nation.
In the first speech of his presidency entirely devoted to the subject of China, the president called next week’s summit the best opportunity since Richard Nixon’s breakthrough 1972 visit to China to forge a new strategic partnership between the two nations.
Outlining the stakes involved in the thorny U.S.-China relationship, Clinton said, “The emergence of a China as a power that is stable, open and non-aggressive ... rather than a China turned inward and confrontational, is deeply in the interests of the American people.” (480K wav sound)
Clinton strongly defended his continued policy of “constructive engagement” — promoting economic and political ties, while at the same time pressing for democracy, open markets and human rights — calling it “our best hope to secure our own interest and values and to advance China’s.”
“As always, America must be prepared to live and flourish in a world in which we are at odds with China, but that is not the world we want,” the president said. The U.S.’ objective? “Cooperation,” Clinton said. (352K wav sound)
The president has faced criticism from both the right and the left from people who want him to go slow on trade with China until it improves its human-rights record. “I believe that view is wrong,” Clinton said. (256K wav sound)
“Isolation of China is unworkable, counter-productive and potentially dangerous. Military, political and economic measures to do such a thing would find little support among our allies around the world, and more importantly, even among Chinese themselves working for greater liberty,” Clinton argued. (608K wav sound)
And though human rights has proved the most sensitive issue in the U.S.-China relationship, Clinton pledged to push the issue with the Chinese president. “Those who fight for human rights and against religious persecution at the risk of their jobs, freedom and even their lives find strength in the knowledge that they are not alone, that the community of the democracies stands with them,” he said.
“The United States must and will continue to stand up for human rights, to speak out against their abuse in China or anywhere else in the world. To do otherwise would run counter to everything we stand for as Americans,” Clinton continued. (384K wav sound)
But White House aides are attempting to lower summit expectations on human rights, saying they expect no major breakthroughs.
Presidents Clinton and Jiang have met four times over the past five years, but always at various international gatherings. Next week will be their first formal summit.
In addition to human rights, other issues Clinton intends to take up with the Chinese leader are more open and balanced trade agreements; the sale of nuclear and missile technology to Iran and Pakistan; the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions; multi-national coalitions against terrorism; law-enforcement cooperation to battle drug trafficking; and protection of intellectual property, such as CDs, movies and software.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer contributed to this report.
I did not know that
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