Gertz's article hints at China supplying weapons. Just recently, 1200 Chinese AK47s are sent to Maoist terroists in India. Not to mention awhile back, the 2000 that came into the U.S. via China's shipping company that were headed for gangs.
Islam in China is historically the preferred religion and is becoming the "preferred" religion now. The religious reform will continue to persecute Catholics.
In Turkmenistan, the self appointed "communist president" just constructed the world's largest mosque and the U.S. embassy advertises this as religious reform. No sign of christian support. Why is it that we have a habit of supporting muslims and not christians when it comes to "economic reform" in foreign countries?
I have been arguing for well over a year that our economic policies (particularly where the "saving graces of western materialism" are concerned) are part and parcel of the soulless western capitalists' merger with (if NOT acquisition of) communist and totalitarian leadership.
At its heart, the imposition of "top-down" economic constructs as means to re-form a state/society and vouchsafe individual liberty is not simply utopian but -- IMHO -- a calculated and deliberate deception.
I believe history bears me out.
I think the case can be made that -- as this so-called perestroika opened up the markets, privitized the corporations and allowed for individual initiative in the "former Soviets" -- the West experienced a decided shift toward the totalitarian as water found a level.
(I could start with the icemen CEO's and their five-year plans for liquidating the masses as they jettison America's manufacturing capability, destroy her steel mills and mow down what's left of the independent companies and suck them into the leviathan mega-corporations the likes of which the evidently fascist Clinton proposed turning into State Corporations by investing our so-called "surplus" for us ... but I won't.)
I guess the folks for whom I feel the most sorry are the starry-eyed libertarian sorts who've somehow confused capitalism with democracy or freedom and missed entirely the lessons of Lenin's NEP.
Where capitalism and capitalists have failed to heed the essential Christian caveats on capitalism, they end up far more closely aligned with fascism and socialism than they do Christianity.
Perhaps that's one reason George H. Bush (in a 1991 commencement address at Yale wherein he laid out "Clinton's" China policy) sounds so similar to Peter Singer and his discussions of how the New Left needs to acknowledge that the Right had certain things correct the whole time ... both excerpted here: A World Trade Center Discussion of Doing Business with China