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The Chinese Challenge
Claremont Review of Books ^ | 5 May 2020 | David Goldman

Posted on 05/05/2020 5:52:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Over the past decade America has been in denial about China’s emergence as a global power. We couldn’t believe a country that for generations was a byword for poverty could compete with us. With Donald Trump’s election in 2016 we’ve transitioned to anger. As matters stand, we’ll be bargaining before long.

For thousands of years China’s internal weaknesses—natural disaster, famine, plague, civil unrest, and foreign invasion—kept its attention inward. We are now at the greatest turning point in Chinese history since its unification in the 3rd century B.C. China is turning outward—but doesn’t want to rule you. Like the Borg in Star Trek, it wants to assimilate you.

President Trump is right to insist that America’s status quo with China can’t continue. He campaigned against their systemic theft of U.S. intellectual property and the migration of our manufacturing to China. He reversed 20 years of benign neglect toward China’s challenge to our strategic dominance and took vigorous steps to check China’s expansion. But he hasn’t succeeded. Thus far he has addressed symptoms rather than causes. Our trade war with China settled into an uneasy truce by the end of 2019, with modest damage to both economies but no clear winner.

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Downright scary....
1 posted on 05/05/2020 5:52:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
By the end of 2019 there were 285 billionaires in China—including Alibaba’s Jack Ma, who, like many of his fellow billionaires, is a Communist Party member. There are more Marxists in Cambridge, Massachusetts, than in all of China. I met a professed Marxist over dinner in Beijing a couple of years ago—a pleasant fellow who taught Marxist-Leninist doctrine at the Communist Party’s cadre school. His daughter had just graduated from a top American university; he asked if I could help her get a job on Wall Street.
2 posted on 05/05/2020 5:53:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Rummyfan

Goldman has bordered on being a ChiCom apologist for several years.


3 posted on 05/05/2020 6:01:46 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Rummyfan; All

Beside his efforts to return industries and services which had gone to China back to the the US .Opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership. Wave the American flag and present his name when doing so.All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump

Would a runaway plague threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election. Preventining the replacement of any industries from China

The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CCWV (Chinese Communist Wuhan Virus) breakout occurred in Wuhan the politburo closed off Wuhan but did not warn the Italian Socialist government or the Pope with whom the Chinese government had good relations with.

But certainly violated it when the socialists should have been informed and allowed to deny those Chinese workers who replaced Italians in those factories taken over by the Chinese, travel to and from China particularly for their New Year while this was occurring. Which Trump did with the exception of only allowing American citizens returning.

Which also affected workers at the Chinese owned Smithfield Pork Processing and had the China backer US media charging racism but may have prevented an Italy from happening here .

To stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who’s family members are making millions from China through their political connections will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its rapid transmission .


4 posted on 05/05/2020 6:59:12 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Praxeologue

“Goldman has bordered on being a ChiCom apologist for several years.”

Read this. Especially the last portion of it.

https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/


5 posted on 05/05/2020 7:43:14 PM PDT by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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I read it...confirmation of the war this is...but try and get people to believe it


6 posted on 05/05/2020 8:30:27 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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Read this.

This General was stripped of his title shortly after this speech. I believe that he was accurate, but revealed too much without permission. Of course this is chilling. The challenge is to rally Americans to action on the subject. In that sense, the economic devastation of the ChiCom virus will be a small price to pay. It could be like Pearl Harbour. The Democrats have been on board with the project for a decade or so. Trump is the right President to suppress the corporate interests in the U.S. that have sold out to the ChiComs. Trump needs to act quickly and decisively, including a re-election campaign that focuses on opposing the ChiCom. We cannot allow the ChiComs to form an alliance with the Leftists in the Democratic Party

7 posted on 05/05/2020 8:46:04 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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