Third, Bush Sr. and Clinton opened the door and destroyed their own country
If the early 1970s was the U.S. eager to normalize relations with the communist countries, then after the establishment of diplomatic relations, it is the communists urgently need to normalize trade relations with the United States.
However, the U.S. was foolish and money-rich, and continued to misjudge the Chinese Communist Party, leading to the rapid deterioration and reversal of the U.S. (Communist) trade relations until they got out of control. The United States has been deceived, infiltrated, assimilated, and hollowed out by the Chinese Communist Party to the point that the country is no longer a country.
Specifically, there are three fundamental errors in the U.S. appeasement policy toward Communist China.
(1) No “normal” trade with the Communist tyranny
It goes without saying that evil can benefit from foreign trade and grow in strength, building up capital and power to do evil. The U.S. trade ban on Communist China began in the Korean War as a punishment for Communist aggression. The U.S. certainly knew the role of international trade in prospering the country’s economy, but at that Time the U.S. was more aware of its moral responsibility and historical mission. Mainland China’s market, no matter how large, could not carelessly do business with evil to nourish it. In other words, normal nations and evil tyrannies cannot be treated equally as far as commerce and trade are concerned.
Under the Jacoson-Vanik Ammendment to the U.S. Trade Act, which came into effect in 1975, non-market countries with egregious human rights conditions (primarily the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and also Communist China) cannot enjoy MFN status for trade unless they are exempted by the President of the United States, and the exemption is limited to one year.
Linking human rights accountability to trade with Communist China is a Trump card given to the U.S. from heaven and should be put to good use. In the late 1970s, after a decade of civil strife during the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party of China was so impoverished and its power so decimated that it was forced to open up to the West, especially the United States, to gain access to American technology and earn American money through investment and processing of incoming materials. The United States then used trade leverage to easily and effectively restrain the Chinese Communist Party from enslaving and persecuting its citizens, which was the intent of the trade law amendment.
In 1980, the U.S. conditionally approved the granting of Most Favored Nation status for trade to Communist China, opening the door to Communist China’s world factory and setting the stage for the subsequent trade war. Although Communist China was exempted every year due to the enlightened faction of Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, Congress had to review its human rights status year by year to decide whether to renew MFN status.
On June 4, 1989, the Communist Party’s top dictator Deng Xiaoping, who had appeared on the cover of Time several times, sent Communist troops to bloody suppress the student democracy movement. This new crime against humanity reminds the world that the nature of the CCP’s totalitarian tyranny will not be changed by the so-called reform and opening up. No matter Mao or Deng, they are both communists.
After the Tiananmen massacre, the United States was faced with a moral choice: should it unconditionally extend trade MFN status to the Chinese Communist tyranny, or make it conditional on mandatory human rights improvements, or even decisively end its MFN status as a punishment? Incredibly, President Bush Sr. chose the former for three consecutive years until he left office. His glib sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as his false moves of so-called constructive engagement and human rights dialogue, did not concern the CCP at all; the CCP tyranny was able to continue to reap the benefits of U.S.-China trade without fear or favour after slaughtering its people.
There is also a reason why President Bush Sr. abandoned his principles and sided with the CCP at this point in history. Before his visit to Beijing, Nixon had conferred with Kissinger about who would make the front run to Communist China. At the time, both of them thought Bush Sr. was too weak to do the job. But Bush Sr. later became the director of the U.S. Liaison Office in the Communist China. Upon his arrival, he was treated with unified warfare by the Communist Party, mistakenly believing that the apparently polite senior Communist officials were the same kind of people as himself. He secretly sent an envoy to Beijing as soon as possible after June 4, trying to impress and convince the Communist tyrant hitman, who was not a normal human being, by personal friendship, but ended up making a fool of himself and achieving nothing. But he remained obsessed after hitting a wall and helped the CCP through the June 4 crisis.
Clinton campaigned on Bush Sr. for his tolerance of the “Butcher of Beijing. In his first year in office (1993), he issued an executive order requiring the Communist Party to significantly improve human rights within one year or lose MFN. But a year later, after the U.S. State Department determined that there had been no significant improvement in the human rights situation in Communist China, Clinton blatantly backtracked and went back on his word. At a press conference on May 26, 1994, he announced that he had decided to extend MFN status to the Communist Party, even though human rights in China fell far short of the standards he had set a year earlier, and that he would henceforth delink trade from human rights assessments because the policy of linking MFN to human rights had “run its course of practicality. In fact, this policy was either vetoed or abandoned by the President, and has remained on paper or in words for several years. This sword hanging over the head of the Communist Party has not been dropped once. Since it has never been implemented, how can it be called ineffective?
Clinton did, however, take a number of actions, such as strengthening the broadcasts of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, suggesting that U.S. companies in China voluntarily follow business principles that protect human rights, and supporting non-governmental organizations that did not exist in mainland China at the time to spread democracy. But these official actions did nothing but make the CCP laugh and embolden them to do evil. No wonder the CCP returned the favor by making illegal political contributions to the Democratic Party during Clinton’s re-election campaign and directly interfering in the U.S. election and political direction.
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