Could we do it again?
After over a half century of Socialist stagnation, the Chinese Communist Party embraced free market reform. With the brakes off, an economic miracle ensued.
Sadly, civil and political rights for the Chinese people did not follow economic prosperity as China trade advocates had promised.
China used its newfound wealth and industry to rapidly expand its armed forces. China has shamelessly stolen our technology, and has worked politically and economically to weaken the United States and our allies. China now feels emboldened to make provocative moves against Taiwan.
China used its newfound wealth and industry to rapidly expand its armed forces. China has shamelessly stolen our technology, and has worked politically and economically to weaken the United States and our allies. China now feels emboldened to make provocative moves against Taiwan.
In 1940, President Roosevelt told Americans that, “we must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself.”
China, along with Russia, North Korea and Iran, must be deterred from risking conflict. While Europe and our allies need to do more, American industrial might continues to be the essential component to give peace a chance.
CFACT has warned for years, that in addition to its massive factory production, China has cornered the market on essential raw materials, including the rare earth elements modern technology cannot operate without.
Trade with China? Sure. Dependence on China? Not a chance.
To his credit, President Trump is doing all he can to rebuild American industry and supply our factories with the energy and materials they need.
Whether looking to Ukraine, Greenland, or here at home, President Trump is scouring the globe to supply us with independent sources of rare earths.
In 1790, President Washington instructed that, “to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.”
In an emergency, could the American arsenal of democracy defeat China’s arsenal of autocracy?
China, I wrote at NewsMax, is getting the message that “a new sheriff in town is keeping an eye on them.”
Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C. This article was sourced HERE
China, along with Russia, North Korea and Iran, must be deterred from risking conflict. While Europe and our allies need to do more, American industrial might continues to be the essential component to give peace a chance.
CFACT has warned for years, that in addition to its massive factory production, China has cornered the market on essential raw materials, including the rare earth elements modern technology cannot operate without.
Trade with China? Sure. Dependence on China? Not a chance.
To his credit, President Trump is doing all he can to rebuild American industry and supply our factories with the energy and materials they need.
Whether looking to Ukraine, Greenland, or here at home, President Trump is scouring the globe to supply us with independent sources of rare earths.
In 1790, President Washington instructed that, “to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.”
In an emergency, could the American arsenal of democracy defeat China’s arsenal of autocracy?
China, I wrote at NewsMax, is getting the message that “a new sheriff in town is keeping an eye on them.”
Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C. This article was sourced HERE
5 comments:
Americans thinking they are the arsenal of democracy is as delusional as Maori thinking they are they are the superior race.
"American industrial might won the First and Second World Wars and prevented a third.
Could we do it again?"
Simply put, no.
America doesn't have any industrial might any more. This is a direct result of "free market" policies (meaning off shoring manufacturing) and the financialisation of the economy (meaning unproductive arbitrage of numbers on a screen or ledger).
In contrast to the terminally declining and doomed "democracies" we are supposed to hold up as the gold standard, the "autocracies" such as China and Russia have access to all the natural resources they could ever need and have strong manufacturing industries, because, whatever label you give to their different ways of doing things, those things are done for the good of Chinese and Russians, not in the interests of an unaccountable and opaque cadre of largely hostile elites who hold sway behind the curtain in "democracies."
"In 1790, President Washington instructed that, “to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.”"
Washington also warned Americans against the perils of "foreign entanglements," something that subsequent US presidents ignored almost immediately and the thing that has come to define US policy.
It's completely hypocritical to warn against prospective "world domination" by other countries, when the United States has dominated the world for the last 100 years.
The reason we are increasingly hearing calls for taking action to ward off "rising power X" is simply because the rise of X entails the displacement of the USA.
Let me play Devil's Advocate here. Democracy only works in cultures that were shaped by the Enlightenment of the 18th century when the radical notion that everyone has human rights by virtue of being human gained the ascendancy. China never had an Enlightenment and arguably neither did Russia - while some members of the literate classes were 'enlightened', most were not.
People in 'unenlightened' societies value stability. They regard a system whereby you get a change of government every few years as unstable and thereby undesirable. And so we see 'dictators' across the 'unenlightened' world thriving with the apparent approval of most of their people - Putin, Assad, Ghaddafi, Hussein, Mugabe all come to mind. (That's until there is a real upheaval and people see which side their bread is buttered and hurriedly switch sides.......)
When parliamentary democracy was introduced in China in 1912, people generally regarded it as a sick joke (well, it doesn't go well with the Confucian system of governance!) Likewise, the first Russian Duma was very poorly supported.
Foisting parliamentary democracy on many societies merely adds another fracture line where society is already divided. Just before I left Lebanon in 2021, one of the most common things I heard people wishing for was a 'benevolent dictatorship' to steady the ship and once again point it in the right direction.
"Foisting parliamentary democracy on many societies...."
The best way for a foreign power to rule another nation is democracy. What is "democracy"? An opening up of a society, allowing money and information to come in and both influence how that society is run.
Does anyone seriously believe that the United States would spend hundreds of millions of dollars "democratising" the world, simply because they want these people to vote? No, not at all.
What they want is access to the countries' resources and financial system and control thereof, which requires pumping funds into the place and replacing the nation's "autocratic" leader with a "democratic" puppet, as well as spending money on information propagation in order to convince the populous to vote for and "choose" the puppet who they control.
Why, for example, does the US denounce the "Great Firewall of China" vis a vis Chinese control of the Chinese internet? Because they can't (at least easily) access the minds of the Chinese people in order to subvert the Chinese government.
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