As far as I am concerened, the leaders of China are not now and never will be our friends or allies. The leaders of China do not care about anything other than amassing power and destroying their enemies and since everybody not Chinese is their enemy they feel that it is their duty to someday rule the world. As far as they are concerened the United States is the largest hurdle to their attaining their dreams, therefore the first thing that they have to do is destroy us. They are not currently capable of defeating us militarily so they have decided to attempt to defeat us economically and so far they are doing a fairly good job at it. They are not our trading partner, they are our trading enemy and they are currently trading us into the ground.
Shock of shocks, today I was reading the op-ed section of the paper and found myself according with the author about American relations with China and the Vip treatment Chinese President Hu is recieving in this country. Both of us agreed that President Hu does not deserve such treatment. My shock was, I was according with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. I never agree with her.
Trickle Up Poverty
Her narrative stated in part "Today, President Bush will roll out the red carpet for Chinese President Hu Jintao, a leader whose government brutally crushes freedom, democracy and the religious expression of the Chinese and Tibetan people. Hu will receive the best welcome U.S. Taxpayer money can buy, together with full military honors and a 21-gun salute.
This is the same regime that provides military technologies to countries that threaten international security, together with Iran and North Korea. The same regime that threatens Taiwan with a military attack, detains and tortures Chinese citizen for expressing their political and religious beliefs and arrests Tibetans for carrying a photograph of the Dalai Lama.
While open dialogue is essential, many of us on both sides of the aisle in Congress oppose the celebratory nature of this official visit.
This is not about isolationism. We must have engagement with China, but it should be sustainable engagement that enables us to assert our values, continue our economic increase and uphold our national security.
Our growing national debt to China is a national protection issue. Countries such as China that own our debt will soon not only be production our toys, our clothes and our computers, they will be production our foreign policy.
U.S. Course toward China is ineffective in upholding the pillars of our foreign Course -- promoting democratic freedom, stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and growing our economy by promoting exports abroad. Instead, we have pursued trickle-down liberty -- promoting economic leisure first, assuming that political leisure will follow. Reality exposes this Course as the illusion it is."
There was more to her article, some of which I agreed with and some of which I disagreed with. The point is, though, that we should not be treating the President of one of our most perilous enemies like he is a favored long lost friend and ally. He is not a favored long lost friend and ally, he is our enemy and should be treated with caution and firmness. It is right that our President should meet with him but it is wrong that our president should treat him with such a show of pomp and ceremony.
Relations With China
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