With specific reference to Chinese young women......
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm after they've got Daisey Maes?
Posted on 05/19/2020 9:01:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
from post:
10 Actions the United States Must Take
The problem is not the Chinese people, nor their proud heritage that stretches back thousands of years. It is communism. We must challenge China:
Return all production of our medicines, medical supplies, and equipment to the United States or to countries that are our allies;
Enact severe limits on Chinese graduate students in all scientific subjects; shutter all Confucius Institutes at American universities until they be stripped of their propagandistic mission;
Entrench principles and restrictions so that China can buy no more of our corporations, universities, or national assets;
Help deny, across the world, the ability for China’s Huawei to deploy its 5G networks, systems, phones, and devices, as tools for espionage, industrial and otherwise, could be implanted in these systems;
Threaten to extend tariffs substantially if the PRC does not make all virus data and sites available to our scientists, so that we may understand fully the genesis and the spread of the present pandemic; the PRC must also release any COVID-19 whistleblowers and eliminate all wet markets;
Put into law criminal penalties for any American company or individual who shares proprietary or sensitive information with China, when such information has application to our defense, high-technology, or energy-related industrial base;
Accelerate Freedom of Navigation passages and exercises through waters that China falsely claims, with maximum U.S. naval power expressed; in this, we should include, when possible, ships of the British, the Australian, and the Japanese Navies;
Undertake determined efforts to deny China’s Belt and Road Initiative, especially in Africa; extend alternative terms to key nations on the brink of asset appropriation due to China’s predatory lending practices;
Announce a new military package to reinforce Taiwan’s defensive capabilities. To this end, we should consider the sale of the F-35 due to the deployment of the advanced Chengdu J-20 fighter by China. This sale would either be as a replacement for the pending transfer of less-advanced F-16Vs to Taiwan or as a supplement to this force;
Radically reduce IP theft. Explicate that China’s economic expansion would have been impossible without their theft of American technology; produce and distribute lists of American technologies and products stolen or copied by China; urge other free countries to do the same, so that the world will recognize this danger.
Total simplistic myopic BS. We need to be self sufficient in EVERYTHING at this point. Tariffs will repatriate industry faster than anything else possible.
To the end retail purchaser the increase in cost is negligible when tariffs are in place. Perhaps pennies on the dollar at most. This is because modern automated manufacturing is not labor intensive, no matter where it is done.
Another thing you anti-patriot globalists overlook is that the tariff raises revenue. It is the best consumption tax there is far superior to the evil income tax. In addition to raising revenue a tariff promotes domestic industry at the same time. WIN - WIN.
Anti -nationalist globalists are the biggest threat to national security we face, even more so than the leftist MSM or even Democrats.
John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and Richard Levine are all confused gloBULLists. It laughable that these pundits can write this many words about what the USA should do about CHINA and neglect to mention tariffs. WOW, Just WOW.
Hear, hear!!!
This is a very good piece worthy of thought and debate.
The CCP are like our democrats - they fight to win by any means possible - damn the law, ethics, and Judaeo-Christian values.
If the DNC and CCP had a motto on their t-shirts it would be “just win baby!.”
The GOP on the other hand would print “please like us” on theirs.
I think the solution is disengagement first and foremost.
Right now, this is what would hurt the CCP the most. This may not be true in 10 or 20 years, but they must have our dollars right now.
Tariffs. Everything else is BS. When will Republicans learn this?
With specific reference to Chinese young women......
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm after they've got Daisey Maes?
I am not worried about the Totalitarians outside America. I am worried about the Totalitarians INSIDE America that receive Aid and Abetment from Totalitarians outside America
I feel exactly the same way. The RATs Useful Idiots are the enemy as much as their masters.
We should support free trade. The People’s Republic of China is an intensely unfree, oppressive regime that uses slave labor to support its centrally directed economy, so free trade is impossible. Obviously, we need tariffs, the revenues from which might help to rebalance the federal budget if Congress ever decides to slash and restrain spending. But we may need more complex barriers and outright bans.
Consider that the People’s Republic of China may want to make economic war against the American economy. They decide to sell the door locks for a penny a piece. They lose money on the deal; even slaves need some food. But the enormous financial capacity of their totalitarian government subsidizes the losses indefinitely until the other factories throughout the world close. Then, the Chinese can hike the prices and take the profits. After several decades, Americans have forgotten how to make the door locks and depend entirely on the Chinese. With one product, that perhaps represents an insignificant problem.
But if the Chinese do likewise with thousands of problems, then they can wage economic warfare to their profit and our peril.
Beijing Biden, unlike Trump, long has stood with the Chinese Communist Party in making economic warfare against American society.
bttt
Though long, this article should be required reading for all. Distribute it as best you can.
Replace #1 on the things to do list with the re-election of President Trump. An incapacitated and malleable pro-China Biden as US president will surely hasten our demise, as well as that of the free West.
This coronavirus, is simply put,a biological weapon of war. China, in other words,both an act of war and a war crime.
Correction: as an act of war and a war crime.
The article is BS because it doesn’t discuss the best weapon we have in our arsenal - TARIFFS!!!
Tariff’s keep us engaged with China and they are NOT the long-term solution because they invite a tit for tat and carrot and stick approach when the CCP will simply outlast us. While I support tariff’s I am uncertain how/why they would fix the problem long-term. They are great for modifying our trade policies and agreements as Trump has used them, but where will we be in 10 years?
The CCP has ironclad political power in their country with a clear plan over decades. We have a 4 year plan. Biden would be easy on China. Trump is not. The next democrat might be milquetoast or the next republicrat might be the same, but all China has to do is wait us out while we continue to fund their build-up via dollars, investment, IP theft, etc.
China is playing a long game. Our political system and divide is chaotic and inconsistent with no consensus on a national strategy to address the China problem.
Here is a simple fact - if we do not fix and drastically cut our entitlement spending all China has to do is wait until we collapse under debt. Period. They will be #1 without firing a shot despite their impatience. We are going to drown ourselves in debt and much like this virus, we might wake up to a new world unexpectedly.
“But if the Chinese do likewise (target certain industries with subsidized dumping, to bankrupt competitors) with thousands of problems, then they can wage economic warfare to their profit and our peril.”
They have been doing that very systematically and deliberately, for decades. Since the Clinton Administration, it has been a large scale Government effort to prioritize their target industries, and subsidize their “National Champions” to take the market share.
Free land, free electricity, no tax, unlimited loans - whatever it takes.
It has been conducted very strategically by the communist government, with a lot of people dedicated to the effort full time.
Not free trade at all - the very opposite. Not random at all, but carefully, planned, prioritized and sequenced - deliberately targeting National Security capabilities, as well as economic gain.
Very good post.
There is more and more talk about boycotting Chinese goods but enough people going along with that might be a problem.
LOL! You're crazy. We only export $150B to China while we import $850B/yr from there! We can only win. Your facts are wrong. You know little about macro economics.
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