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We have more than relative impoverishment to fear from the Chinese.
We have to fear the marriage of technology and totalitarianism.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
In the nearly 8 decades since Churchill exhorted his nation to its finest hour by warning of the danger of "perverted science" we face a larger, richer and far more technologically advanced potential adversary in China.
The repression visited by the Nazis on their own people and upon occupied peoples will be as nothing compared to a dark age empowered by modern technology. All that stands between that technology and our serfdom in a new dark age is our economy which funds our military. Lose that and then we have nothing left but to fall upon the mercies of a nation historically capable of horrors and murders on an inconceivable scale. The Chinese killed 60 million of their own in a great leap forward and they did it without technology. The madness of their cultural revolution exceeded even that of the French Revolution. For a quarter century we funded the stunning technological revolution of China, presuming their good intentions. Their history, their repression of their own people and their aggression both mercantilist and economic at strategic points around the globe, makes that presumption mortally dangerous.
The Chinese will not wage actual war on us until we are economically or technologically defenseless. They are waging preemptive war now, a war which if lost promises repression that will equal a sci-fi movie. To those who are inclined to discount the danger described here as gross exaggeration or cheap fear mongering, I ask only that the advantage of passivity in this war be compared to the downside of losing it.
This is not a war for economic dominance, this is a war for survival. The trade war is our 1940.
