Posted on 07/15/2024 8:21:20 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The United States and our allies have a waning opportunity to preserve peace through strength. But we must be willing to do something that was just some years ago unthinkable: combat the true engine of our enemies’ power, the Chinese economy.
Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Xi Jinping has undertaken "the largest military buildup since World War II," in the words of former Indo-Pacific Command head Adm. John Aquilino. Xi has also fortified the Chinese economy against international sanctions and told his generals to prepare for war.
Simultaneous with a robust policy of military deterrence, America and our allies must strike the root cause of 21st-century geopolitical upheaval – the rise of China’s economic power. Decades of wishful thinking that economic integration between China and the West would create international stability have failed.
Instead, Beijing has successfully converted economic engagement with the West into burgeoning military power and support for America’s enemies. The result of decades worth of Western economic engagement with China is a higher risk of wars across the world, including Beijing-instigated wars in Asia.
Businesses, investors, universities, tech innovators and others must understand that weaning themselves from decades of economic engagement with our primary adversary in Beijing will not be cost-free.
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It’s like thinking Iraq would end up like us.
I agree. But try and find anything not produced in China. How long will that take on both counts?
Because right now we depend on the so much. Look at the necessary drugs. If we just stopped all trade with China tomorrow, many drugs people rely and, and some the probably aren't necessary would be gone for quite a while.
Someone has to find a way to replace things. We are so reliant on them right now, our whole economy would collapse.
Well, it took around 3 decades to get here. I recall seeing more and more Chinese-made goods beginning with the Clintons in office. Bush didn't do squat to slow anything down. Obama accelerated it. Trump tried to rein it in. Biden put it on overdrive.
Yes.
We don’t need their cheap/slave labor.
We don’t need their subsidized garbage product, sent as economic warfare.
It would take decades to move production of meds, parts, and whole devices to other countries but you know what, today is a good day to get that started.
“The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.”
Flourishing communist nations depend on capitalism to survive
All it would take is what Trump tried his first term:
Impose high enough tariffs that it becomes cheaper to make it here.
We also need the EPA to stop being ridiculous.
True. If people stop buying the products from TOTALITARIAN CHYna, their economy collapses very fast and a revolution against the CCP starts from within.
As we speak, grandpa and grandma Han are oiling their wheelchairs to better sneak up on enemy positions.
I had no idea who JD Vance is. I found this speech of his given just last week on July 10th. He discusses the same thing about how we need to have a strong economy at home to be able to secure our peace. And not having China making all of our stuff. (20 minutes long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXH1p8_jhc8&t=346s
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