Understanding The Chinese Communist Party Will Help The U.S. Respond Post-Pandemic

The Federalist ^ | 04/03/2020 | Chris Fenton

[ealgeone]

We have to recognize they are China first.

IF we can recognize we have to be USA first we might be able to figure this thing out.

[dp0622]

That’s why we pulled the lever for Trump.

Well not me. I was disabled for a few years in my 40s and they send you vote from home packages automatically for 20 years afterwards :)

So I fill them out and mail them in Lazy #### that I am :)

[thoughtomator]

We have to recognize that they are Communists first. Taiwan is also Chinese, and nothing like the Communists.

[ealgeone]

yep...we backed the wrong side.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

First, the Chinese government wants their 1.4 billion people just happy enough that they don’t revolt.

Excellent article. As a Chinese friend once told me, there are 1.4 billion Chinese but only 500 million have participated in the CCP's 'new economy'. The rest are living in 3rd world conditions. Many factory workers send money home to feed their family. If that is disrupted, as the Wuhan Virus has done, there may very well be large scale unrest. It could be ugly. Very ugly.

[chuckee]

“Each time the Chinese watch a Hollywood movie, cheer during an NBA game, study at an American college, drive an American car, or run in a pair of Nike shoes, they are touched by the subtle soft power of ingenuity, initiative, democratic principles, and culture from Americans. Economically, the growing Sino-consumption of American products and services creates jobs and increases our nation’s gross domestic product.
I implore steadfast hawks to recognize this opportunity. The continued bilateral exchange of culture and commerce can benefit Americans greatly. “

Where have we heard this globalist garbage before. Gove our economy away to them and perhaps they will be nice. The Chinese have nothing to offer in this relationship so as any good business would do, we jettison them. Simple as that

[LouAvul]

the important macro lessons of my book

No agenda here. /sarc

China is the enemy. They must be put on the no fly list. And round up all chinese nationals here and ship them back. Pronto.

[farming pharmer]

IMHO American blue jeans sent to the Soviet Union was the USSR’s undoing.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hell, only those of us who were alive during the Cold War seem to understand Communism.

[dadfly]

bookmark.

(CCP and Chamber of Commerce agit prop)

[MichaelRDanger]

How has the CCP spent their wealth? Modernizing their cities and infrastructure? Cleaning their cities and educating their population? No... building up their military, buying weapon systems, militarizing islands outside their coastal regions and intimidating their neighbors.

[Nothingburger]

My respect for the Taiwanese has increased as a result of this crisis. Lord, protect them. They represent what’s best in the ancient culture of China.

[glorgau]

Pretty straightforward, do a social connection analysis and then start peeling off selected members of each sub group. Liek the arrest of the Huawei founders daughter. Work that part of the graph for a bit and then work another sub-graph.

The in-fighting will be spectacular to watch.

[House Atreides]

“...Where have we heard this globalist garbage before. Gove our economy away to them and perhaps they will be nice. The Chinese have nothing to offer in this relationship so as any good business would do, we jettison them. Simple as that”
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“globalist garbage” indeed! WTF is it doing in ‘The Federalist’?

[canuck_conservative]

Yup, more of the same “sure, China is bad, but the trade benefits each country” apologists

For those jerks it’s all about the $$$, nothing else

That’s how we wound up with everything being made in China - a sheer focus on greed

[logi_cal869]

I thought the same of the author’s naïveté.

We can accomplish exports without giving them license to steal IP and permit businesses to relocate for profit.

So-called Conservative icons such as Lars Larson use deceptive arguments to justify their “free trade” talk as license for the freedom of American companies to relocate manufacturing overseas to capitalize on child/slave labor.

I denounce him/them at every opportunity to expose their hypocrisy.

The victims are the American middle class, the purse by which liberals seek to buy their votes...and the Chinese people that both sides claim they are “helping” by enriching the regime.

[fuzzylogic]

This is a warning.

China will become the worlds most dominant economy. Technologically they can catch up extremely quickly. The groundwork of science has been done, published, and exported. Couple this with the fact they don’t play by the rules regarding intellectual property and patents.

We are helping them accomplish it. What do we think will happen once they no longer need us? The CCP is evil. Evil does what evil always does, expand power and influence regardless of whom dies.

The real danger now is that our corporations are addicted to them, not just for cheap labor but also as a market to expand into. This is where future revenue growth will come from. They WILL pander to the CCP, they already are. It will only get worse. Censorship will become worse. The news propaganda will only get worse. We all know globalists will sell us all out as they’ve been doing for decades.

The only difference is that we now see how vulnerable we are. We MUST change course now or concede a future that doesn’t respect individual liberty. Which means each of us are selling out future generations and wasting the lives of those that defended it.

I created another thread about not buying anything from China. Some of the responses, FROM FREEPERS, were alarming to say the least (paraphrasing):

- Good luck with that
- Not possible
- Will never be made here, costs too much
- This is beyond useless

Does anybody understand that we’re AT WAR? This is a different kind of war but this defeatist weak-kneed attitude will just put the last nail in our coffin.

I’m not even saying that we must bring all manufacturing back to the USA - just don’t make it in China. Buy “not in China”. I’d prefer “Made in America” but that doesn’t have to be the solution.

I’m really disappointed at some of the attitudes. Right now I feel the future is China’s and the world will regret it. Yet we saw it coming and did NOTHING. UNACCEPTABLE.

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[canuck_conservative]

Good rant.

Will never be made here, costs too much

Yes items may cost more to produce in the US, but they also have the advantage that they can be be promoted as "Made in the USA" - and there IS a potential market for that, with people even willing to pay more.

Never could see why that isn't happening now ... does nobody understand marketing anymore??!

[Sequoyah101]

I skipped to the end and this was all I needed to see to know this piece is just another bit of soft hearted and soft headed propaganda.

The writer can implore all he wants to but the chicoms are dead to me. If the people want to revolt and change their government I’m all for them but they have to do it on their own.