America: Responses to Tyranny

Nixon started building up China, even though it was a Communist heaven. Companies started to move there, since they didn't have to observe strict environmental laws and the workforce was cheap. This brought the price of some merchandise in America down and now they all wanted to jump on the bandwagon, because back home, in America, people wanted cheap things. GREED! None of them would mind exploting workers of other nationalities if it was allowed. Slowly, all the industry went to China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Honduras ... you name it. IT'S GREED, THAT'S ALL. It's our greed that helped it and it was also used for another purpose. Now, with China big and strong, people from villages moved into the cities, the source of their livelihood will be taken away and they will become poor, perhaps homeless, dying of hunger and illnesses. THAT'S THE PLAN. They, the globalists, have done it everywhere: first, they build the nation up, everything prospers and then they move away and it all goes to ruin. We are helping it, for which we are the biggest idiots of all. It's a plan and it counts on our gullibility, on differences between nations and races, opinions and other things. And the final stage will be, all this manufacturing will come back to America for sure. And Americans will be working for Chinese wages. THAT'S THE PLAN.

Roughly 250,000 Americans die each year from prescription meds. Since these are formulated in Red China we now know why don't we? See drywall, lead paint toys and antifreeze in toothpaste as reference points and do not forget the stucco catastrophe. Any questions?

I believe you are right. I was against the manufacturers being able to move jobs out of this country since the beginning. I wrote and telephoned my Representative Ralph Regula voicing my concerns at the time. But it fell on deaf ears. It makes no since to me. It has brought China from an oxcarts to a Cadillac. It has put millions of Americans out of work and on welfare. By so doing it has weakened our own economy and is a threat to our national security as well.

Accurate and timely, we must remain vigilant and become Trump's allies as he has the correct vision for our current situation.

We've made huge fundamental mistakes when it comes to China, Iran, the OIC and OPEC. However, recognition of an error is a step towards correcting that mistake before we see Iran lob a nuke our way or China militarily or economically blackmail us or the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia hold us hostage as in 1973. This is why we need our own resources, our own factories, craftsmen and professionals. Don't let anyone fool you into the profit equation because in the long run that can be taken away from you.

Very good article. It's scary to think how history repeats itself, and what could be next!

One of the leading phrases while Donald J. Trump has been President of the United States is "America First." Further, the President has continually stated clearly that America must make deals that a beneficial to the United States. Welcoming back American business to produce in America and leave behind the totalitarian corrupt regimes. During the Wuhan China Virus this has become absolutely clear. China is not America's friend nor will it ever be a friend. Incentivize businesses to return.

It has nothing to do with the people. The people didn't decide to build anything in China or anywhere else. The people didn't decide to sell technology to anyone. It was big corporations in hand with corrupt governments that made those decisions, for profit and leverage. If anybody ever asked the "people", I'm Sure the "people" would have said ages ago, keep the businesses at home, keep the technology at home so that there will be employment at home, and let whoever wants our products to buy them from us.

Well it is about time the US population got smart about China and it's lousy policies! Most of Asia did a long time ago!

America did not hand China hundred of millions of dollars to sell cheap goods to Americans, the CEO's of American companies took the shortsighted step to make lots of money for their shareholders and themselves by offshoring American jobs to China and take advantage of cheap labour. The technology transfer that took place enabled China to jump years of development, this is all due to the greed of CEO's and an economic system that rewards a minority at the expense of the many.

Change America for the United Kingdom and the same reasoning applies. Please send this article to UK newspapers, hopefully some will print itץ

What people in the west fail to understand is that China has a game plan and the communist party is all in. From their point of view we have already committed the worst of all sins, starting with supporting Taiwan, exposing the genocidal tendencies of the communist party in Beijing, the arrests of the falun gong practitioners, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, live organ harvesting from political prisoners, Huawei, incursions into our digital networks and subsequent arrest of their executive, their obvious nefarious activities in the South China Sea, the release of a dangerous pathogen timed for release just prior to the start of the Chinese New Year thereby ensuring its global spread via its foreign nationals. Collusion with socialist entities in developing countries, sending their intellectuals to study in the west to steal and copy our technological innovations, buying our assets, threatening our democracy through coercive practices against free speech and human rights, refusal to respect International maritime law. We hoped they would change but indifference has cost us dearly!

All of them are true. "We need to suspend imports from Civilization Abusers and all enemies of democracy."

What? America has just discovered that poop has a smell? You mean to say that no-one in the USA has noticed that a great many jobs have gone to foreign lands, contributing, heavily, to US unemployment. We in Australia are suffering from the same malaise. Must be contagious. I'm not sure whether we're waking up from our deep slumber either.

Thirty years ago I had a thriving business here in the UK, servicing printed circuit board manufacturing companies, most of the largest being American owned. About fifteen years ago virtually all major electronic companies uprooted and moved to China. I stated at the time we would all live to regret it.

It is inescapable that the West in general has sent trillions upon trillions of dollars and Euros and pounds to buy Middle Eastern oil. Which BTW was developed by the Western companies, until the Arabs and Iranians got smart and nationalised their resources, which of course they were entitled to do. How did these peasants (now billionaires) respond to all that cash? By exporting their religion along with terrorists to every country that will accept them.

I think the USA ought to withdraw diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China (Red China) and reinstate diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan/Formosa). That would rectify a historic wrong committed by Jimmy Carter over four decades ago.

Maybe some good will come out of this virus which has befallen us. We will no longer buy products that are less quality to sell for profit. We will make good quality products in our own country that will help small businesses thrive. We must demand payment for the damage and heartache caused by the negligence of the Chinese government. And we will, I think, be more grateful to our President, because he encouraged all these things right along.

Wow, thanks for revealing this great truth! That Americans helped build the Chinese economy so that they could get their iPhones and plastic junk a little cheaper. And topping that with even greater revelations - that the Chinese are out to destroy the US. I guess in that way everybody wins; the US brings home the production and pays more for its junk, and the Chinese are thwarted in their plan to destroy their biggest customer. Makes sense.

I completely agree with Lawrence Kadish, and suggest that the Gatestone Institute issue a petition on the lines of "I undertake not to knowingly buy Chinese goods and services, and urge everyone to do the same. I also urge Western manufacturing firms to relocate facilities they have set up in China, out of that country."

But will Americans stop buying cheap Chinese imports? Destroyed by their own greed! China found the weak spot!

Excellent article. Stop buying Chinese goods, often defective anyway, and let us in the West start manufacturing again. We need a whole new approach after this virus has been allowed to bring the world to its knees after the slow reaction initially by the Chinese, or was it intentional?

It is the right time for America to make more close relationship with Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, which still faces many challenges to consolidate democracy with Islamic tradition.

China's secret damping weapon & unfair competition.
Flooding the Western economies with by importing cheap workforce, goods, commodities and services wreaks enormous havoc to Western economies and to local workers' rights and wages.
Peter Rotberg
The Realist.

I'm no lover of the Chinese, but a lot of people can point fingers at the US, also. For example, the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 began in Kansas, USA, was far more deadly than C-19, killed 675,000 in the US and 50 million elsewhere.

The author is on target with reference to China's intentions. Regardless of the polls shown, it remains to be seen if the American people agree with his opinion. Their selection of president in November will determine their true feelings.

What goods were "we" buying from Japan before WWII?

I do not recall learning any history of US or any Western countries dealing much with Japan before WW2.

If you want to hang the capitalist, they will sell you even the rope // V.I.Lenin

Hooray ! A wake-up call. It's not too late to institute a sensible US foreign policy.

China puts vast amounts of money, mostly as loans, into its Belt and Road initiative which spans a huge area of the world and entrenches China's world influence.

China is playing to win.

Now that the US has woken up, it too must play to win!

Absolutely 100% correct. We can do it. We have to. We don't NEED all their stuff.

Australia has made the same mistake, merely on a smaller scale.
We need to resurrect industries that are core to our national security, indedpendence and survival, this includes oil refineries - there is little benefit in having our own natural oil reserves if in a crisis we are unable to process it into vitally needed petroleum products.
I trust that the major benefit of this crisis is an overdue wake up call to set up the industries and facilities essential for our economic and strategic survival.
When push comes to shove for essential products we don't want to be out in the cold.

It is about time this article was written. Send it to congress and lets do something about it before we are destroyed by China, before it is to late.

Civilization Abusers. Perfect.

Too bad these same people don't realize what buying all that Middle East oil is bringing to their doorsteps.

Not only did Americans provide Japan with the financial wherewithal that made the Pearl Harbor Attack possible, we also sold them vast quantities of US Scrap Metal that were used to build the weapons, and the ships that delivered them.

We didn't learn the hard lesson then, and we have failed to learn it at every point when it has once again been presented since. And we will continue to receive a failing grade in World Events as long as Liberals are in charge of the Public Education System.

I live in New Zealand. Back in the 90's I use to attend trade shows in the USA. Often I would see many Chinese factory owners using their cameras. One year I gave my card to several I saw taking photos. Within a few weeks samples arrived -- I still have them and still wrapped -- golf clubs. Brand names PING, CALLAWAY. I wrote the USA companies about the situation, but my faxes fell on deaf ears. I could purchase these brands - of course in numbers - for like US$15 to US$20 each. Back then the retail in the USA of those same Clubs were ten, fifteen times those amounts - even more.

Truth is we should never be dependent on ANY other nation for ANYTHING necessary to our health and daily lives, not even so-called allies. While China may be the most aggressive and the most dangerous, it is certainly not the only foreign nation to which our American big businesses have, over the decades, have chosen to move their productions. What about Mexico, South Korea, etc? We should be producing everything we NEED ourselves, as the USA did once upon a time. It is great that we are producing our own oil now, but I often wonder why are we sell our oil to other nations. Oil is not a never-ending resource, so why aren't we conserving this most valuable and critical resource for ourselves, producing only what we need today and conserving the rest for an unknown future?

The whole stupid western world is doing this because of socialist/communist tendencies in the West. China is winning. The US corporations will continue benefit China unless people start boycotting the goods made there (although it is doubtful, as greed clouds the common sense).

I couldn't agree more. Even Ghandi knew the oppression of globalization and said each village should be self sufficient. Of course your idea, which I agree with, won't sit well with the globalist progressives, Democrats by name, Marxists by faith and practice.

I hope Americans will consider not buying anything made in China. Check the labels before buying any product,

Also, it would be in America's best interest not to renew any student visas for Chinese nationals. Some of you may not be aware of the thousands of Chinese nationals studying at our universities and colleges in the various science and engineering fields. When they return to China they will be able to compete against Americans and allow them to have a major advantage in consumer and military applications.

The same principle should be applied to our relationship with other autocratic regimes, like the one in power in Hungary.

All the above - or almost - is true. But who did the deed? Americans, that's who. The addiction to cheap garbage has become an American way of life.
Changing habits will be a difficult job. And who is going to initiate it?
Not a Democrat, and much less a Republican. They all have become too attached to money, not country. Seeing their chest-thumping is just ridiculous. Their "patriotism" is green: dollar bills.

The problem in all this is a US government that's in the majority corrupt, self-serving, socialist and stupid. Those with real money to spend to influence government in their favor (both foreign and domestic) have bought the leadership establishments of the major political parties, and generally get what they want from Congress. The socialists feel a kinship with the communists who rule China, and most of the people in Congress are too stupid to see communist China as an enemy that intends on being the only super-power in the world (after disposing of the US).

China needs to be isolated, embargoed, and beaten back to the Mao-era level of poverty, so that they haven't the resources to continue as a major economic, political and military factor in the world. Manufacturing of labor-intensive products needs to be moved to more friendly countries, and products that can be made in the US at a competitive price (not as cheap as China but close), or those related to national security, should be made here. Trump, if he doesn't already see the problem, can be made to see it, but it's not in the interest of those who run Congress to cut off relations with China.

Right on! However, is anyone in power in our government listening? And do they realize how much every aspect of our daily lives has come under Chinese control? Try buying a TV, phone or computer that's not made in China, then think about what it would take to rebuild all these industries and careers that have been dismantled and transferred to China, with the loss of the skills that built them. This will not be an overnight recovery!

If we could be sure that higher wages would prevent employers from outsourcing or importing migrant laborers it might be worth it, but all we are likely to get now is a deep depression. And unions? In the USA they may as well be Baathists.

We buy Chinese because American manufacturers decided to close down their American plants and subcontract the manufacturing to China where costs were must less. It's capitalism destroying itself.

I'm no fan of China's regime, but trade with China has been very beneficial for Americans and the rest of the world. Our government has shifted from its primary tasks including defense and championing human rights and individual freedom to entitlement spending and bureaucratic regulation of almost everything.

If the USA can get its fiscal house in order, it can achieve the same kind of independence from China that has been achieved with oil independence from the Middle East.

It isn't complicated. It's not even political. We wanted the $5 t-shirt. and the rest of the $5 and $10 and $19.95 stuff. We knew it didn't last and it was no damn good in comparison to the way things were made here when we took pride in our products. Then we said the hell with it. We knew they are brutal. They use children in these countries, not just China. Children without childhoods imprisoned at sewing machines 24/7 until they die young. We wanted cheap stuff. We said yay to what were laughingly referred to as "lean" companies. Lean meant corporations ridding themselves of American employees and devastating communities by suddenly pulling up stakes and heading for the cheap seats. And we supported it because we believed that the market would give us dividends from all those profits and we could retire on our investments like rich people. Only we aren't rich people, we're workers. We're middle class. We rely on paychecks and savings. That's who we are. The $5 t-shirts are the dodo birds of the 21st century.

This is an excellent, though too brief report. Let's hear much more from Lawrence Kadish. I very much like his reasoning. He is right on! Americans should harp on this subject unequivocally, and try to awaken the sleeping beauties in Congress until they weep for mercy. Congress needs desperately to be pressured by American influence (as lax as it is) to pull their pants on and zipper up after their long hibernation... Lunch and dinner are over, and it's time to roll up their sleeves and start sweating the truth.

I will only buy items that do not come from China as I have found them to be in the main of I inferior quality. I expect to pay a bit more when I buy British but safe in the knowledge I will be helping a democratic society.

We must also work to cause the collapse of this evil psychopathic regime.

If we bring the wind of large-scale manufacturing back to our country, might we not also bring with it the whirlwind of industrial pollution? And if we continue fracking, a practice which dumps millions of gallons of unidentified (by the general population) contaminants into our groundwater, might we not end up poisoning our fellow Americans? I cannot think of a way in which we might import or replace clean water. I am wondering if it might not be better to let China handle the problem of industrial manufacturing waste than to recreate this problem for ourselves. Covid19 has shown us we can all adapt to a more modest lifestyle than we did before. That is good news, when we all know that 'growth' cannot continue infinitely and indefinitely. Let's rethink this problem and keep a long-term solution in mind as we do so.

It is too little, too late.
Politicians have been too preoccupied for too long with infighting and gathering power for themselves instead of looking after the welfare of the nation.
The bottom line is greed.

Chinese workers have subsidized American living standards... I speak Chinese, read it, worked there. The masses of workers expect no welfare payouts from the communists; they want to work. Meanwhile, Democrats are enticing willing Americans to accept money for nothing.

A brilliant appeal to patriotic Americans by a patriotic American. We must get rid of the greedy corporate executives such of Apple or the pharmaceutical firms who have left the U.S. dependent upon foreigners -- especially Red China -- for vital needs. Our top priority much to achieve maximum autarky -- that is, self-sufficiency -- in all areas. Even for example, to assisting American oil producers suffering from the current abnormally low prices. Where such self-sufficiency is not possible, the gap should be filled by bilateral quid pro quo arrangements with foreign providers.
Short-term higher costs will be more than compensated for by more and better paid American jobs. The critical issue for the next election is freeing ourselves from the Red Chinese grip.

I've been saying it for years - we need to go back to manufacturing in America. No doubt about it. The trend to manufacture in China began with Walmart's demands of American manufacturers - in order to get their product on their shelves, an American company had to manufacture in China. That started in the 1970's and here we are today! Time to get all American companies back to manufacturing on American soil, hiring American workers!

As much as I enjoyed the friendliness of the Chinese people when I was over there two times, I also learned since those visits that the Communist Chinese Party leaders are stepping up their campaign against the existence of any religion in mainland China. At first, it was against the Muslims (which I thought was a wise course of action given their intent towards world dominion), and against the Tibetans (and I thought that was horrible of the CCP to go against such peaceful people), but now against the Christians (where churches are being closed, ministers are being persecuted and even imprisoned, violators of the CCP bans are being arrested and imprisoned).

The problem of the CCP from the beginning is that it operates without any moral codes at all; it is about greed and manipulation and theft. The CCP steals copyrighted and patented material, inventions, industry, etc, produces them cheaper and sells them around the world. It's tariff practices are totally lop-sided. Trump is doing his best to force China into some kind of ethical practices in dealing with the USA (and the rest of the world) so CCP does not continue taking advantage of every country outside its borders. If CCP operated with some kind of moral guidelines, life would be better for its own people and for China itself in doing business around the world. Over the years, I've seen many calls asking Americans to stop buying cheap Chinese products but Americans are too self-centered to stop. 90% of everything we buy is now Made in China. Too many Americans take the cheaper road as a short-term decision and ignore the long-term effect destroying America itself. Time to promote patriotism in mind and deed.

President Trump was the first president ever to push back on abusive China.
He will be reelected so as to keep on pushing for good.
Biden and his son Hunter were easily bought by the Chinese dictatorship when Biden was V.P. and a Biden presidency would allow China to carry on its abuse freely. It will NOT happen!

One word only: BOYCOTT.