[George W. Bush]

It’s no different with China today. if they are ever able to really compete with us, it means they are no longer Communist.

China bears watching. Their octogenarian communist leadership is unchanged. Their intent is still evil. They merely exploit capitalism to extend their rule and enhance their power.

They are totalitarians with massive military forces and spending and therefore always to be regarded as a potential threat to us. Their bragging about targeting Los Angeles and other American cities cannot be disregarded.

We can and should have hopes for the Chinese people to have liberty and a government with a real judiciary and genuine human rights that serves the Chinese people, not its aged Maoist ruling elite.

However, our deep trade relationship with the well-armed Chinese does illustrate Ron Paul's policy of trade with all and peace and advocacy of liberty and democracy. Our engagement and trade with China are the greatest prospects for improvement there and the resulting final liberation of a quarter of humanity from the chains of communist ideology.

But make no mistake. The old Maoist hardliners have the blood of tens of millions on their hands. They are a danger to the West even if we do trade with them. They must never be allowed to believe it is in their interest to challenge us militarily or that aggression will be rewarded.

[Bastiat_Fan]

Yes they are evil. But the fact remains, we will remain ahead of them in the economy department, and there for the military department, simply because they do not run their country the right way. If they do not continue to liberalize their economy, it will collapse, just as the Soviet economy collapsed.

We must be always vigilant, and keep a big friggin army, but we remain, 66 years after Pearl Harbor, the sleeping giant. Simply because no one has a better form of government, no one can compete in the long run.