Is it Time to Social Distance from China?

In addition to what the U.S. is learning in the coronavirus pandemic about public health, our country should make sure from here on to build American and buy American. National security includes economic security,

If the consumer has to pay a little bit more for goods at Walmart, for example, so be it.

The globalist geniuses who thought it was a just fine to outsource the supply chain — and massive numbers of American jobs — to a country controlled by the Communist Party of China have some explaining to do.

As Donald Trump has warned for decades, China and other countries have been ripping us off in trade, and his administration has been the only one to do anything about it.

Upping the ante massively, globalism has also made America and the world vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19.

While obsessing over virtually nonexistent Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign in the last three or four years, the political class (and their media enablers) allowed China to continue expanding its geopolitical, economic, and military imperialism across the globe. Media outlets skeptical of virtually everything Trump says — or in love with taking him out of context — seemingly meekly accept CCP propaganda and censorship.

China Outclassed the American Ruling Class

Steve McCann of the American Thinker puts it all in perspective about how American picked up the tab China to become a dangerous world power:

“While the American public has long been suspicious of Chinese influence in America, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed for all to see the extent of this nation’s reliance on a global adversary for necessities such as medical and pharmaceutical products.  And that the single-minded pursuit of wealth and power prompted the American ruling class to proclaim over the years that it was a great benefit for the United States to empower China.

“China owes its faster than expected rise as a world power to the transfer of American jobs, technology, capital, and business acumen to China so that US shareholders could receive capital gains, US executives could receive incentive pay for producing consumer products at a much lower labor cost, and the nation’s elites could, using riches from Chinese investments in the US, consolidate their retention of power.

“Apparently, the American ruling class could not comprehend that if US corporations produce the goods they market to Americans offshore, it is the offshore countries that benefit the most from the economic activity.  If that location is an authoritarian regime bent on world domination, then they will use their newfound wealth to build up their military, exploit and suppress their citizenry, promote manufacturing dependence, and corrupt the governing classes of their potential adversaries.

“And a substantial segment of the American ruling class has been corrupted by the Chinese Communists…The coronavirus crisis has revealed to an increasingly larger percentage of the populace the extent to which they were sold out by a now compromised ruling class…This nation has survived wars, depression and seven global pandemics yet the Wuhan Virus has revealed that the current American Ruling Class is most serious long-term threat to this nation in its 244-year history.

Liberal Hollywood and the woke National Basketball Association have already sold out to China.

Miss Canada Weighs in on China’s Human Rights Abuses

Last month, Anastasia Lin, Miss Canada 2015 who immigrated to that country at age 13, delivered a compelling, extemporaneous speech at the prestigious Oxford Union in the U.K. about the multi-front dangers China poses to the world and the advisability of a new Cold War with the Asian superpower. [H/T to Gateway Pundit.]

Lin’s family still lives in China and has been threatened by security officials there, and prevented from traveling.

Lin started out by underscoring that she loves China and the Chinese people.

We all would agree that over thousands of years, China has contributed to the world beautiful art, poetry, literature, and philosophy, Traditional Chinese medicine, internal arts like Tai Chi and Qigong, and much more.

It’s today’s dictatorial regime run from Beijing to which she objects:

“We’re now dealing with a one-party, authoritarian regime, mercantalist state that is openly hostile to western values and the international system. In considering communist China’s threat, there are many angles we could explore. We could talk about China’s economic warfare, how its state-sanctioned intellectual property theft, has caused western nations trillions of dollars annually, or its exploitation of the [World Trade Organization]. We could talk about China’s cyberwarfare…we could talk about China’s military buildup. It’s aggression in the South China Sea not only threatens regional peace and open trade, but undermines the international law that preserves openness and order. We could talk about China’s support of North Korea or Iran or how it hijacks the Human Rights Council in the U.N. or its support for undemocratic and kleptocratic states in Africa or how it exports its technology to help other nations crack down on dissent. We could talk about its lax regulatory system that brings dangerous exports to our shores or its censorship of information that endangers global health and the coronavirus outbreak is a perfect example….

China’s government denied Lin a visa to compete in the 2015 Miss World pageant because of her human rights advocacy.

“The Chinese government claims that the west is behind Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and the Taiwanese government…While western ideas are not allowed in Chinese classrooms, western universities have ceded control of their own program to the Communist Party through the Confucious Institute [which] which presents itself as a non-profit program, but is directly controlled by the Communist Party, including its propaganda ministry…China obsessively censors the Internet. It only allows a small number of foreign films into the country each year, carefully screened, carefully edited…Companies with deep ties with the Chinese Communist Party are now buying or entering into joint ventures with major Hollywood studios, creating strong financial incentive for self-censorship…

“One may say our open and democratic western values are more resilient than China’s brutal authoritarianism. I wish that were true. But it isn’t. Lured by self-interest, our institutions are proven all too willing to give up human rights and free speech. Western companies know their technology is helping the Chines government to surveil its own system through its infamous social credit system. Yet they still deal with them…

“Let me remind you that the human rights atrocities, the injustice, that are happening within China’s border cannot be contained. It will bleed out to every silent bystander in the world. And the coronavirus outbreak is a perfect example of that…the sole purpose for the Chinese Communist Party is to stay in power, disregarding the cost of human life…

“I want to close by reminding everyone that supporting a Cold War with Communist China, you’re standing with the Chinese people by confronting a regime that has brought turmoil and suffering upon this ancient land for decades.

“I also want to leave you with this question: If the Chinese communist government does not treat its own citizens with any respect, why should us in the west expect ourselves to be treated any differently.”

A quote attributed to Lenin observes that “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Another version is “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”