The National Pulse reports that Trump has tried to save Washington from itself when it comes to the Chinese communist state.
From the George H.W. Bush Sr. administration, through Clinton and George W. Bush Jr. to Obama, the simple and stark truth is – our national security leaders have failed the American people.
The growth of the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has occurred for decades without being identified, let alone countered, by American strategists.
Artificial Decline
As an inexhaustible source of cheap labor for manufacturing, China’s growth was supported by these governments . In the 1990s, after Beijing joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), China’s economic growth accelerated dramatically.
The Chinese communist state has prospered more rapidly than any other country before it – going from abject poverty to economic superpower in the space of a generation.
The rapid economic and military growth of the Communist Chinese state should have alerted the U.S. government and people and forced them to respond to the Chinese Communist Party.
But this has not happened, and it is, first, a colossal failure of U.S. grand strategy and, second, a condemnation of every U.S. administration and national security community that has failed, year after year, to take notice of what is right in front of them.
Regrettably, the United States has taken historically unprecedented actions that have made a “tremendous contribution” to creating its most intractable and equivalent competitor. It is both shocking and reprehensible that U.S. policymakers have strained to create this challenger.
U.S. policymakers did not heed the warnings of this adverse shift in the balance of power.
Instead, too many in Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley have pursued policies that emphasize cooperation, bringing the Communist Party into the international order and promoting its development in the hope of making it a “responsible stakeholder.
Photo: Trump, Abe, Xi Jinping
Trump has changed all that.
The Trump Administration has awakened the American people and government bureaucracy to the threat from the Chinese Communist Party. It has also implemented a response that has achieved significant success.
Trump is here
First, Trump has changed the strategic direction and tone of Washington, calling for a focus on great power competition in key strategic policy documents that should have guided U.S. strategy since the end of the Cold War. Given the scale and scope of the Chinese communist threat, he has strengthened the military’s nuclear and conventional capabilities and shifted the focus from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific region.
Other measures include establishing a Space Force, expanding the size of the Navy, and ensuring that all branches are focused on the Chinese Communist threat. By withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Missile Treaty, Trump has signaled that the United States will not allow violations of the treaty to go unanswered and has freed up the military to work with U.S. allies in the region to develop the missile systems needed for a credible confrontation with the Chinese communist states.
Second, in the diplomatic arena, Trump recognizes that challenges to the United States exist from the Arctic to the Antarctic from the Chinese Communist countries, and that competition is fierce on all continents.
Trump has increased the reliability of U.S. alliances against Chinese communist states globally, and in the Indo-Pacific region as well. Washington must stand with its allies and other countries in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Australia, India, Japan), which are working increasingly closely together and could become a force for an emerging balanced Chinese communist state.
But the United States under the Biden regime must continue to lead them.
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and the Future
The Indo-US 2+2 ministerial meeting in October 2020 was an important step in diplomatic and military cooperation. The Australia-India-Japan-US Malabar Joint Naval Exercise is also constructive. These efforts must be sustained, developed and deepened.
In addition, the Trump administration has called attention to and punished the Chinese communist state for its brutal human rights record, including its detention and persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in East Turkestan.
Third, on the technology front, he is committed to protecting U.S. networks and critical infrastructure, and has called attention to Beijing’s efforts to dominate 5G through the China 2025 project and the Digital Silk Road.
These efforts (by the Chinese Communist Party) are aimed at building the next digital 5G infrastructure and, over Time, quantum and artificial intelligence, with the goal of digitally controlling the Internet, gathering intelligence, and coercing other nations. In addition, the Chinese communist state is increasing its efforts to integrate global data collection as part of an ongoing, comprehensive effort to build its economic power and shape international information flows in line with its geopolitical and security interests. Technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), telecommunications systems, apps such as TikTok, and even health and exercise monitoring are all vehicles for information collection.
Concerns about Biden’s China Policy
The integration of data owned by the Chinese Communist Party jeopardizes the privacy of U.S. citizens, undermines American prosperity, and helps the Chinese Communist Party control its population both inside and outside the Communist Party’s borders, as well as contributing to the Communist Party’s ability to adversely affect Americans.
In response to this situation, Trump warned the rest of the world of the dangers of relying on information technology from the CCP. In addition, he has imposed tariffs and banned the use of U.S. chips and other 5G technology by Chinese communist country tech giants such as huawei and ZTE.
Fourth, he recognizes the importance of protecting American workers and American industries as a matter of national security.
Trump has helped the U.S. economy prosper by identifying and stopping the Chinese communist regime’s predatory economic practices against the United States – including intellectual property theft, counterfeiting and piracy, and the use of forced labor to produce goods. As Americans have witnessed for decades, these practices have eroded America’s economic strength, killed American jobs, and destroyed American industries and communities across the country.
The Chinese Communist Virus
The Communist Chinese state has caused long-term damage to the economic prosperity as well as the health and well-being of Americans.
The lure of Beijing’s vast market has attracted many American companies to China. Economic decisions that benefit individual American and Western businesses in the short term put their own business interests, the country and the American people at risk in the long term.
The United States’ over-reliance on the Communist Chinese state as a supplier has allowed it to manipulate prices and drive out free market competitors. The Chinese Communist virus pandemic has increased the vulnerability of the U.S. supply chain, as a disproportionate amount of U.S. medical supplies, technology and electronics are controlled by U.S. rivals. In addition, the CCP has no qualms about shipping fraudulent, counterfeit and banned PPE supplies, drugs and test kits to U.S. consumers.
What Trump has accomplished is significant. For the first time, the United States has a cogent, dynamic and sustained response to the threat from the Chinese Communist countries. These efforts must be maintained and expanded if the United States is to remain secure, especially in the U.S. and Western capital markets, which still finance the growth of the Chinese Communist military.
At the beginning of the Biden regime, it remains to be seen whether to continue what Trump began or return to the flawed and dangerous strategy of the past of accommodating America’s greatest adversary. But it probably won’t take long to figure that out.
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