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rhetoric. This New War is existential and will determine whether the free world will, in fact, remain free. It could very well be won without a shot ever being fired.
Through all my activity in China and the region, one thing became painfully clear: The CCP firmly believes its rightful destiny is to reclaim its historical position as the hegemon of the world order — and convert the world to Marxism. He has reinforced China’s neo-Marxism that combines traditional principles with modern market-driven strategies. State-owned enterprises are emphasized, and the economy is clearly state-controlled. The paradox is that wealth generation and private enterprise within socialist principles are allowed, but this has fostered widespread corruption and dramatic income disparity. The conflict between wealth generation and socialist egalitarianism continues to be a challenge for this model.
Our fight is not with the people of China but with the CCP. Only 6% of the population are members of the CCP. How do the other 94% feel about living in an authoritarian state? Well, in 1989, at Tiananmen Square, they let the world know exactly how they felt: They wanted freedom! Meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies got it wrong. Until then-President Donald Trump stood up to China on trade, the U.S. had pursued a strategy of engagement, allowing China into the World Trade Organization, giving it “most favored nation” status, giving it total access to our consumer markets, providing capital, and turning a blind eye to much of its bad behavior. The hope was that as China grew, it would liberalize and join other countries to pursue peace and prosperity.
China has moved from being a growing economic competitor to becoming a very aggressive adversary. The U.S. poured billions into its economy, educated hundreds of thousands of its students, ignored most of its aggressive behavior, and only just now is awakening to the fact that it really does want to do us harm. Imagine, in 1939, having our supply chain dominated by the Axis powers., published in 2015, told the world exactly what China was going to do.
The irony of ironies: The Bible I was given by the Senate when I was sworn in, you got it printed in China — a country where your social credit score would be destroyed if you owned it. As damaging as China’s cyber warfare has been already, it is intensifying at an alarming rate. FBI Director Christopher Wray said recently, “The PRC’s targeting of our critical infrastructure is both broad and unrelenting. It’s using the immense size of its hacking effort to give itself the ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing.”
The CCP has infiltrated the U.S. education system and media to affect the way Americans think and behave dramatically. Movie studios must oblige CCP censors if they hope to distribute any production in China. The CCP has also used U.S. social media to indoctrinate generations of Americans with its propaganda.
The most important thing the U.S. can do immediately is mobilize its allies and reassure them of its friendship and commitment to mutual survival. “America First” never meant “America Alone.” The free world must act now and not get distracted by events elsewhere. This will be painful, but China is using our consumer dollars against us. We have to jump-start domestic manufacturing and accelerate workforce development.
U.S. energy independence should be reestablished by reopening ANWR and the Keystone Pipeline. Energy is one of our most potent weapons geopolitically. We should withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, as it commits the U.S. to fund it primarily while giving China a free pass. New technology needs to be developed with this New War in mind. We may be in a world now where a $50,000 missile could take out a $20 billion carrier. We also have to guard against overspending and falling into the Reagan/Soviet trap.
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