The regime of oppression
I remember celebrating my 28th birthday during a TDY trip to Dallas. It was June of 1989, and the Communist regime in Beijing had just brutally attacked student protestors in Tiananmen Square. As far as the Marxist Chinese regime was concerned, it never happened. It is estimated that 10,000 Chinese student protesters were murdered that day. How did U.S. President George H.W. Bush respond?
The globalist elites in America’s upper echelons of government were determined to not allow the actions that occurred during the first week of June to derail the economic partnership that flourished since Nixon’s historic trip in 1972. President Bush reacted to public disdain against the Chinese regime by suspending all military sales and military contacts between the two countries. Big whoop. This was just about the extent of the punishment for the murder of 10,000 reform-minded students who longed for Democratically-based reforms in their homeland.
But that wasn’t the extent of Bush’s actions. The president went straight into appeasement mode, unbeknownst at that time but published in his memoirs. There were no economic sanctions and no recalling of the U.S. Ambassador to China. Instead, it amounted to a level of appeasement not seen since Neville Chamberlain. In a moment of extreme naivety, Bush suggested to President Deng Xiaoping that he show forgiveness to the student demonstrators (I suppose this includes forgiving the 10,000 murdered students). Deng promptly reminded the American President that he should not meddle in China’s internal affairs.
Fast-forward to the next U.S. President, Bill Clinton. Soon after taking office in 1993, the Democrat, in a move labeled as a “good-will gesture” toward China, sold sophisticated supercomputer hardware to China for $8 million. At the same time, they also lifted the ban on the sale of nuclear power plant generators.
It is said that the mindset of the U.S. globalist elites was to bring China onto the world stage and they would be forced to slowly relax authoritarian rule over their people. After the Clinton administration, the U.S. continued to appease the Chinese for the next 16 years under the Bush (George W) and the Obama administrations. The Chinese enjoyed unparalleled economic growth during this period. Meanwhile, the government became more repressive than ever. Government-forced abortions continued on a regular basis. Religious worship was tightly restricted, with surveillance and intimidation through the most brutal means imaginable.
The Trump administration reversed course and U.S.-China policy began to change. President Trump called out their unfair trade practices and used this as leverage to a new trade deal. But being more forceful with the Chinese did little to stop 2019’s complete and total takeover of the Hong Kong government. What did the world do to stop this brutal repression? They talked a big game and did very little.
Enter President Joe Biden. He and son, Hunter Biden, starting in the Obama administration, embarked on a mission to enrich themselves via the Biden name. They made millions of dollars in China and other parts of the world, as documented in (U.S. Senator Ron Johnson) the Johnson Report. Of course, no one in our government has the intestinal fortitude or impetus to investigate, much less prosecute any of this. This is strikingly opposite of the never-ending efforts of the Uniparty to remove President Trump from office for getting gum on his shoe.
Where do we now stand? Last week, the new Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska for a two-day meeting. The results were disastrous. The Chinese did what they wouldn’t dare do to the Trump administration—they slapped the United States in the face by reminding the U.S. entourage, “many people in the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.” China also reminded the world in this meeting that Taiwan and Tibet are “an inalienable part of China’s territory.”
The United States is obligated by treaty to defend Taiwan, should it be invaded by the Chinese. Without a doubt, China has Taiwan on their radar. It will be interesting to see how the United States responds.
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