In the seven decades since October 1949, millions of Chinese have perished in ideological pogroms like the "Great Leap Forward" of the '50s and the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" during which President Nixon came to China.
In terms of national and state power over those 70 years, and especially over the last 30 years when America threw open her markets to Chinese goods and Beijing ran up $4 trillion to $5 trillion in trade surpluses with the U.S., a new China arose.
Under Xi Jinping, the mask of benign giant has slipped and the menacing face of 21st-century China is being revealed, for its people, its neighbors, and the world to see.
China now claims as sovereign territory virtually all of the South China Sea, which encompasses territorial waters of six nations.
In its Belt and Road projects to tie China to Central and South Asia and Europe, China has lent billions to build ports, only to take possession of the facilities when local regimes default on their loans.
The people of Hong Kong, who are surely being cheered by many on the mainland of China, have been protesting for months, demanding the liberty and independence for which American patriots fought in our Revolution, not Mao's revolution.
The question for America's statesmen is how to cope with the rising challenge of China while avoiding a war that would be a calamity for all mankind.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/american-blunder-throwing-open-our-markets-to-china/
In terms of national and state power over those 70 years, and especially over the last 30 years when America threw open her markets to Chinese goods and Beijing ran up $4 trillion to $5 trillion in trade surpluses with the U.S., a new China arose.
Under Xi Jinping, the mask of benign giant has slipped and the menacing face of 21st-century China is being revealed, for its people, its neighbors, and the world to see.
China now claims as sovereign territory virtually all of the South China Sea, which encompasses territorial waters of six nations.
In its Belt and Road projects to tie China to Central and South Asia and Europe, China has lent billions to build ports, only to take possession of the facilities when local regimes default on their loans.
The people of Hong Kong, who are surely being cheered by many on the mainland of China, have been protesting for months, demanding the liberty and independence for which American patriots fought in our Revolution, not Mao's revolution.
The question for America's statesmen is how to cope with the rising challenge of China while avoiding a war that would be a calamity for all mankind.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/american-blunder-throwing-open-our-markets-to-china/
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