Recognizing that one was wrong is the first step towards getting on the right track.
For decades, experts told us that engaging economically with Communist China would lead the regime to adopt free markets, the rule of law, and eventually democracy.
Instead, Beijing modernized and perfected their totalitarian controls, modernized and expanded their military, rejected the rule of law, returned to Maoism under Xi, and through their secrecy, lies, and obstruction of citizen efforts placed millions of lives at risk around the world, and crippled whole economies.
Communist China's international leverage led the World Health Organization (WHO) to repeat their talking points on the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 virus while slavishly praising its response. On January 14, 2020, nearly two months after the first case in mid-November 2019, the WHO was claiming that there was "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus." Sixteen days later there was a change of message, but the pro-Beijing slant continued.
Will Senator Bernie Sanders revisit his repeated claim that Communist China has achieved "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization." The reality is just the opposite with the cover up of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, and the true number of death their are not known, and the failure to report in a timely fashion led to the spread of this virus into a deadly pandemic.
Mercantilism with the People’s Liberation Army is not free trade. Embracing and legitimizing a totalitarian regime that murdered over 37 million of their own people is not a good idea. It is the equivalent of giving steroids and weight training equipment to a serial killer who is a 98 pound weakling with the belief that by making him strong he’d change his ways.
We have not had free trade or “liberalization” with China. What there has been is trade subsidized by the US government via American corporations that have done business with companies that by in large are owned by the People’s Liberation Army (i.e. the Chinese government). It is a sordid business and we are now in the midst of suffering the moral hazard resulting from this disastrous policy.
We should never had gone into business with a mass murdering dictatorship, and pursued a policy of sanctions instead. Ayn Rand, was wrong on many things, but she was right about free trade with free nations. She also declared, "I do not believe that an individual should cooperate with criminals, and, for all the same reasons, I do not believe that free countries should cooperate with dictatorships."
Sanctions are a nonviolent alternative to war, and often a refusal to cooperate with dictatorships. Not engaging in business with another country is a choice not an obligation. Globalization and trading relationships with the outlaw regime in Beijing was the Chinese people’s problem before Western nations economically linked up with them. Now it is the West's problem and is destroying Western economies, and many others.
For most of American history citizens organized and pushed for sanctions. The anti-apartheid struggle began with local and city sanctions that ended in Congress passing national sanctions against the racist regime in South Africa. At the state level Massachusetts passed a law against trading with Burma. Other sanctions had been voted in at the city and municipal level. This is a historic reality, and part of an American tradition of liberty that was gutted by big corporate interests and a friendly Supreme Court in 2000.
In 2000 the Supreme Court in Crosby versus National Foreign Trade Council decision stripped that power from states and localities and left it in the hands of the executive branch. Soon after, the Supreme Court forced Massachusetts to do business with companies that had done business with the military junta in Burma.
It is time to revisit these decisions, along with the policy of exporting the industrial base of the United States to mainland China, and pursue a policy that empowers liberty and not a mass murdering totalitarian dictatorship.
This will necessitate the China experts and the Chamber of Commerce recognizing that they were wrong on engaging with Beijing's communist regime.
Hopefully it is not too late to break the narrative and the lies of the communist tyranny in China, it is literally killing us.
For decades, experts told us that engaging economically with Communist China would lead the regime to adopt free markets, the rule of law, and eventually democracy.
Instead, Beijing modernized and perfected their totalitarian controls, modernized and expanded their military, rejected the rule of law, returned to Maoism under Xi, and through their secrecy, lies, and obstruction of citizen efforts placed millions of lives at risk around the world, and crippled whole economies.
Communist China's international leverage led the World Health Organization (WHO) to repeat their talking points on the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 virus while slavishly praising its response. On January 14, 2020, nearly two months after the first case in mid-November 2019, the WHO was claiming that there was "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus." Sixteen days later there was a change of message, but the pro-Beijing slant continued.
Beijing's cover up of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is sending billions into poverty with a global economic collapse. To those experts and cheerleaders for doing business with and amorally engaging communist totalitarians one question: Will you finally admit you were wrong?"[We must:]— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 30, 2020
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The only way we will defeat this outbreak is for all countries to work together in a spirit of solidarity & cooperation. We are all in this together, & we can only stop it together"-@DrTedros #2019nCov
Will Senator Bernie Sanders revisit his repeated claim that Communist China has achieved "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization." The reality is just the opposite with the cover up of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, and the true number of death their are not known, and the failure to report in a timely fashion led to the spread of this virus into a deadly pandemic.
Mercantilism with the People’s Liberation Army is not free trade. Embracing and legitimizing a totalitarian regime that murdered over 37 million of their own people is not a good idea. It is the equivalent of giving steroids and weight training equipment to a serial killer who is a 98 pound weakling with the belief that by making him strong he’d change his ways.
We have not had free trade or “liberalization” with China. What there has been is trade subsidized by the US government via American corporations that have done business with companies that by in large are owned by the People’s Liberation Army (i.e. the Chinese government). It is a sordid business and we are now in the midst of suffering the moral hazard resulting from this disastrous policy.
We should never had gone into business with a mass murdering dictatorship, and pursued a policy of sanctions instead. Ayn Rand, was wrong on many things, but she was right about free trade with free nations. She also declared, "I do not believe that an individual should cooperate with criminals, and, for all the same reasons, I do not believe that free countries should cooperate with dictatorships."
Sanctions are a nonviolent alternative to war, and often a refusal to cooperate with dictatorships. Not engaging in business with another country is a choice not an obligation. Globalization and trading relationships with the outlaw regime in Beijing was the Chinese people’s problem before Western nations economically linked up with them. Now it is the West's problem and is destroying Western economies, and many others.
For most of American history citizens organized and pushed for sanctions. The anti-apartheid struggle began with local and city sanctions that ended in Congress passing national sanctions against the racist regime in South Africa. At the state level Massachusetts passed a law against trading with Burma. Other sanctions had been voted in at the city and municipal level. This is a historic reality, and part of an American tradition of liberty that was gutted by big corporate interests and a friendly Supreme Court in 2000.
In 2000 the Supreme Court in Crosby versus National Foreign Trade Council decision stripped that power from states and localities and left it in the hands of the executive branch. Soon after, the Supreme Court forced Massachusetts to do business with companies that had done business with the military junta in Burma.
It is time to revisit these decisions, along with the policy of exporting the industrial base of the United States to mainland China, and pursue a policy that empowers liberty and not a mass murdering totalitarian dictatorship.
This will necessitate the China experts and the Chamber of Commerce recognizing that they were wrong on engaging with Beijing's communist regime.
Hopefully it is not too late to break the narrative and the lies of the communist tyranny in China, it is literally killing us.
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