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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - November 23, 2010
Who Fed the Tiger?
by: Pat Buchanan
Townhall.com
Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy
five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East.
So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and
Security Review Commission, adding:
"Saturation missile strikes could destroy U.S. air
defenses, runways, parked aircraft, and fuel and
maintenance facilities. Complicating this scenario is
the future deployment of China's anti-ship ballistic
missile, which could hold U.S. aircraft carriers at bay
outside their normal operating range."
Opposite Taiwan, China's missile force has reached 1,600.
Beijing is also building rockets, submarines and surface
fleets to extend her dominance out to the third chain of
islands, enabling the People's Liberation Army to strike
U.S. carriers and bases as far away as Guam.
Since the demise of the blue-water navy of Russian Adm.
Sergei Gorshkov, the Pacific has been an American lake.
No more.
China lays claim to all the Paracel and Spratly islands
of the South China Sea, all the Senkakus in the East China
Sea, and all the oil and gas beneath and around those
islets and reefs.
America's offer to mediate these claims, which involve
half a dozen other anxious Asian nations, has been rudely
rebuffed by Beijing.
At the G20 gathering in Seoul, South Korea, Barack Obama
got an earful from China about the Fed sinking the dollar
and learned that Beijing would not be revaluing its
currency to help with our chronic trade deficits.
As China holds a huge share of U.S. debt, Obama is not
about to get sassy with our banker, who might just cut
off the credit America, running a budget deficit of 10
percent of gross domestic product, desperately needs.
Napoleon said of the Middle Kingdom, "Let (China) sleep,
for when she wakes, she will shake the world." The shaking
has begun.
So the question arises: Who put us in this predicament?
Who awakened, fed and nurtured this tiger to where she is
growling at all Asia and baring her teeth at the United
States? Answer: the free trade uber alles Republicans.
Richard Nixon opened China. His 1972 Shanghai communique
pointed inexorably to what Jimmy Carter did in 1979: break
relations and abrogate our security pact with Taiwan,
and recognize the People's Republic as the sole legitimate
government of China.
In 1982, the Ronald Reagan White House signed on to a
communique with Deng Xiaoping's China by which we agreed
to reduce and eventually end all arms sales to Taiwan as
tensions in the strait diminished.
Under George H.W. Bush, Beijing's crushing of the Tiananmen
Square protest with tanks was not allowed to interfere with
business.
Repeatedly, Republicans voted to extend most-favored-
nation status to China. Dissenters were castigated as
"isolationists and protectionists."
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Under Bush II, the GOP made MFN permanent and sponsored
Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization,
despite China's downing of a U.S. surveillance plane and
incarceration of its American crew on Hainan Island. Colin
Powell was forced to apologize.
For decades, corporate America championed investing in
China and trade with China, though the massive transfer
of U.S. factories, technologies and jobs was clearly
empowering China and weakening America.
Now, with U.S. political, military, industrial and
strategic decline vis a vis China manifest to the world,
we hear the wails of American businessmen that they
are not being treated fairly by the Chinese. And the
politicians responsible for building up China are now
talking tough about confronting and containing China.
Sorry, but that cat cannot be walked back.
Review commission chair Dan Slane says his members have
concluded that "China is adopting a highly discriminatory
policy of favoring domestic producers over foreign
manufacturers. Under the guise of fostering 'indigenous
innovation'... the government of China appears determined
to exclude foreigners from bidding on government contracts
at the central, provincial and local levels."
Imagine that! The Chinese are ignoring WTO rules and
putting China first. Don't they understand how the Global
Economy works? You're not supposed to tilt the field in
favor of the home team.
One knows not whether to laugh or cry.
The policy the Chinese are pursuing, economic nationalism,
was virtually invented by the Republican Party. Protection-
ism was the declared policy of the GOP from the day its
first president took office in 1861 to the day Calvin
Coolidge left in 1929.
Free trade was the policy of a Great Britain whose clocks
those generations of Americans cleaned, even as the
Chinese are cleaning ours.
As for a U.S. policy of containment, we have no vital
interest in China's border dispute with India, or
Beijing's claims to islands in the South and East China
seas, or in China's claims against Russia dating to the
ninth century.
Time for our Asians friends to take responsibility for
defending their own claims. As LBJ said in 1964, "We are
not about to send Americans boys 9 or 10 thousand miles
away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for
themselves." This time, let's mean it.
The day of the globalist has come and gone.
Copyright 2010 Salem Web Network
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