On April 15, the U.S. Congress held a hearing before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) and invited two special individuals to discuss the economic ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party.
These two individuals do stand out among China experts in the United States and the free world. One is Dr. Yu Maochun, a Chinese-American who has been called a “traitor” by the Chinese Communist Party, and the other is Bo Ming, an American who speaks fluent Chinese and has been terrorized by public security officials in China. These two men are well-deserved experts on U.S.-China relations. In the last Trump administration, one served as Secretary of State Pompeo’s chief China adviser and the other as the White House’s deputy national security adviser, playing a key role in how the Trump administration dealt with the Chinese Communist Party. Now the U.S. Congress has asked these two to testify again, suggesting that Congress will seriously consider their advice when formulating U.S.-China economic policy.
Bo Ming’s speech, which was more Western in its directness and to-the-point character, analyzed that the CCP has a complete plan to conquer the world. Beijing is already out in full force, using trade, data, loans, fisheries, social media, diplomats and other people and events as its weapons. For example, it uses Australia as a lab rat to see how and to what extent Australia will cave in after cutting off its exports. If it succeeds, it will then extend this experience to other countries. Bo Ming proposes that the U.S. countermeasure to the Chinese Communist Party is to analyze, no matter what economic decisions are made, whether the U.S. will be robbed of jobs by China, whether there are any security risks, and so on.
Yu Maochun is an orientalist thinker, more profound and rounded. First he talked about “why” and then “how”. He first analyzed why all other communist countries were economically impoverished, but only the Chinese Communist Party’s economy was growing. It is because the Communist dictatorship can, on the one hand, deploy huge resources and completely squeeze the rights of workers; on the other hand, it takes advantage of the free world’s huge capital market and advanced technology, turning China into a cheap sweatshop where the whole world comes to buy goods. This communist monster, nourished and grown by capitalism, was actually foreseen by Nixon. He said back then that by opening the door to the CCP, he might have unleashed a monster. The Chinese Communist Party survives entirely on the body of the West, so how could they possibly decouple themselves from the West? No wonder Pompeo often said that the CCP needs the U.S. far more than the U.S. needs China, and it seems that Dr. Yu’s theory resonates deeply with him.
Knowing the reason, we can deal with the CCP with a clear mind. Basically, the solution Yu proposes is to do unto others what they do unto you. He suggested that every year, the CCP’s Development and Reform Commission would come up with a negative list of areas where foreign investment is allowed and those where it is not. The U.S. and the West could do the same, you don’t let me in, I won’t let you in. And he suggested setting up a complaint system so that U.S. companies in China could have a channel to complain about unfairness and regulation by the CCP.
Dr. Yu also suggested a very important principle for U.S.-China economic dealings: the United States should not continue to ignore the vast political and ideological differences between the CCP and the free world system. A completely free international trade market system cannot peacefully coexist with a “socialist market economy with Chinese Communist Party characteristics.
No wonder the Chinese Communist Party hates Dr. Yu Maochun and his former boss Pompeo so much, because he peeled off the attractive skin of the Chinese Communist Party in just a few words. Now he is proposing the theory that the free world cannot coexist with the CCP, which is even more chilling to the CCP’s back because it implies the destruction of the CCP. What new label is the CCP going to put on him this time?
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