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CONTENTS CHRISTIAN TIMES MAGAZINE ISSUE 44 | AUGUST 2020

05 EDITOR'S NOTE At Christian Times Magazine, our mission is to distinguish ourselves from those who are providing the world with fake news.

06 THE TAKING DOWN OF AMERICA Should Christians Support Removal of Confederate Statues or memorials ?

By Katherine Daigle

10 ALL HANDS ON DECK By Paul McCabe

EXCLUSIVE!

CHINA: OUR RELATIONSHIP OF CONVENIENCE IS NOT QUITE SO CONVENIENT ANYMORE By Katherine Schoonover

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The Taking Down Of America Should Christians Support Removal of Confederate Statues or memorials ? By Katherine Daigle

WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD…… When our US president raised his Bible overhead at St John’s Church across from the White House it was a sign -mostly an appeal to his evangelical base as our country protested and riots thundered across the United States. Christians, Faith leaders, and Conservatives remained silent, where was the Silent Majority, our Republican leaders that united around President Trump in 2016? Very few Christians answered the call.

On June 1st, “The day after the protesters set fire to St. John’s Church President Trump walked across the street to

St John’s Episcopal Church, known as the

church of Presidents’, in nearby Lafayette Park. Protesters had turned the sanctified ground into a battlefield and the Church had been desecrated by those same anarchists that set fire to the church all while throwing bottles and rocks at local law enforcement that were protecting the White House. The next evening: : “as President Trump walked across the street to Lafayette Park many of “Trump’s evangelical followers saw his movement that night as a victory in a world rife with evil. In that moment – we all thought ‘God give him strength! He’s doing a Jericho walk!’”

“A Jericho walk, in some evangelical circles, refers to the biblical book of Joshua, where God commanded the Israelites to walk seven times around the opposing city of Jericho, whose walls then came crashing down. “As President Trump held the bible he looked as if he was wearing the armor of God'”

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cultural connection with religion from our Founding

political turbulence of today, people are taking it to

Fathers, in recent times religious faith has generated a

the streets, blindly consuming the unfounded rhetoric

culture war in the United States.

that pulling religious statues and monuments down is

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going to change the history, the present, and the ideals Most recently, the focus of the protesters and

attached to society as a whole.

extremists has shifted to historical monuments and religious statues, especially those representing the

In the time spent systematically organizing themselves

Confederacy – because one of the many issues they

and attacking public and private property, it would

stood for was slavery. This is alarming. Never mind

have done well for all of these mobbish thugs

the fact that the Confederacy was not a gang of one-

ruminated on what can actually be done to support

dimensional super-villains from a children’s television

their cause (irrespective of how far they’ve digressed

show – never mind that they also believed in states’

from the main point). The unfortunate aspect of this

rights and a limited scope of the federal government,

paradox lies in the absence of government

laudable principles quite aside from their repugnant

involvement in controlling the situation. Politicians

support of slavery. Forget all that.

are looking away so as not to stand up for our past they fear the political ramifications to their loss of

People calling for these historic monuments to be

power. The liberal left praise these acts as

taken down from public spaces they want to

monumental moments of ‘iconoclasm’ and applaud it

whitewash the past; to remove any possible reminder

for the underlying meanings of protest it contains is

than anything adverse ever happened, and why,

futile and wrong.

because someone might be “offended” by it? This is beyond regret; this is censorship by political

If bands of protesters and rioters, acting no less than a

correctness. Of particular concern here is the identity

mob, can go on a spree of carefully singling out the

of the ones calling for the censorship. These tend to be

public property, burning churches to the ground and

left-leaning liberal groups instigated by well-paid

segregating out the innocent for retribution as they are

activists and politicians, these are the culprits and they

doing now, and pulling these historical and sacred

are becoming very familiar, very organized, and very

figures down, they might as well venture into

well-funded. Antifa and the multimillion-dollar mega

subjecting further religious niches to the same fate as

liberal Black Lives Matter – all of these which are so

they have reached this tipping point – for the ‘anti-

accustomed to using violence and intimidation that

establishment’ sentiments coursing through the

they are considered as homegrown terrorist

assembled groups of people, this seems like the most

organizations. And these are the people trying to tell

obvious step to be followed next by these pack of

us that we are not allowed to remember our history or

thugs. If we allow these memorials and visual history

even speak of it aloud. Our history is a tricky box to

of our nation to be destroyed by anarchists in a

crack open and alter – the past cannot be changed or

moment of anger, how will we ever learn from that

subsumed into an opaque abstraction and this is a truth

history? Does removing and vandalizing a statue of

universally acknowledged. You can learn from it and

Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, really serve our

choose not to repeat parts of it that deserve to have not

country and our collective memory? God serves as our

happened. But what happened in the past century or

source of strength and power within us.

that before remains the same. In the early 2000s, the world watched as the Taliban Decapitating, Spraying, and destroying statues or

destroyed the globally admired statue of the Buddhas

religious figures of the past, of any sort, are not going

of Bamiyan. All it took was a few minutes to blow the

to help anyone achieve any particular objective. Yet,

historic monument – any hopes of restoring the figure

this war is taking on a rather militant stand in the

of faith too went with this destruction.


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‘Idols’ – the statues were idols and therefore, against

This year, we celebrate the 244th Independence Day

the beliefs of the self-proclaimed terror administrators

of the United States of America. The Declaration of

of Afghanistan and the solution lied in getting rid of

Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776; Thomas

anything that stood in the way of their own faith. This

Jefferson was a Founding Father of the United States

intolerance is disgustful. If not of the same scale as the

who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson

2001 destruction, the current sequence of pulling

drafted one of the most beautiful and powerful

down monuments and statues reflects a small fraction

testaments to liberty and equality in world history, in

of this event. Along the way, the alternatives do not

Jefferson’s original draft, its immortal words remain

feature prominently in the minds of fanatics acting on

essentially his own: “We hold these truths to be self-

their ‘instinct’ – for them, the only path ahead lies in

evident, that all men are created equal, that they are

destruction. Are we to not learn history as it

endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

happened? Should it be mandatorily restructured to

Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the

suit each of our comforts and interests? Sadly, this is

pursuit of Happiness.”

not how the order functions. We are the Republican party of and for the ordinary The memories that each statue lights in some can be

people “The Silent Majority” our American dream is

painful, but in decapitating these figures, nobody’s

dying today. Every Conservative, Christian, and Faith

getting the power of the last laugh. We are in

leader if you feel like you are losing our country,

desperate need to teach the historical and societal

remember this is NOT a spectator sport, get engaged,

contexts that led up to its construction. Rather than

get involved, stand for courage.

destroy and break the age-old works of history and art fall, it’s advisable to preserve them as symbols of the past that needs to be remembered, for all its bad and good.

We in America are extraordinary – OUR FREEDOM IS WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR!

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All Hands on Deck By Paul McCabe

A similar situation occurred in Europe, following Hitler’s declaration of war on the US. General George Marshall mobilized the country, trained millions of troops, and sent them off to defeat the forces of fascism. Private industry miraculously generated an ever-growing mountain of planes, tanks, jeeps, artillery, ordnance, and every kind of equipment.

The amounts were in the millions of tons, amounts unprecedented in history. US forces invaded North This writer is reluctant to make predictions about the future. “What is past is prologue” wrote Shakespeare long ago in The Tempest, and this is carved in stone outside the National Archives. But in the past, all the enemies of the US lost.

Africa in 1942, Sicily and Italy in 1943, and France, Belgium, and Holland in 1944. In all the countries they smashed and conquered the German and Italian armies and crossed the Rhine in early 1945. A few months later Germany surrendered to General Eisenhower as the country lay in the ruins of

The British surrender of the world’s largest army in

firestorms, bombing, and invasion.

1781 allowed the thirteen colonies to form a nation and a Constitution. After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861, the four-year war ended badly for the attacking side. It lost hundreds of thousands of troops and citizens while its lands were ravaged.

In the years after the Civil War the US, with factories and steel and gold and coal and railroads, quietly became an industrial power by 1900. This status changed and grew quickly into a world power, an atomic power, a superpower, and the world’s first

A few generations later, one million American troops arrived in France in 1917 and ended the long bloody stalemate of European trench warfare. Faced with

hyper-power. In practical terms this meant a nation so mighty and powerful by the end of the 20th century that a new word had to be invented to describe it.

fresh troops -- a million Yankees -- the German Empire capitulated fairly quickly.

Military power is not everything of course. But the post-war economic and trade system established by

About 20 years after that, on a sunny Sunday morning, the Empire of Japan attacked the US and awakened a sleeping giant. It took 44 months for Japan to be bombed into ashes and radioactive dust. US forces

the victorious USA still functions daily around the world. The country’s financial, productive, creative, and inventive power can hardly be quantified. No nation even comes close.

killed about 2 million members of the Japanese army and navy and perhaps 1 million civilians in Japan’s cities. The result was US military occupation which lasted until 1951. Many of the Japanese war-time leaders were executed after conviction of war crimes.

Long before he was elected President, Lincoln made an interesting speech in 1838. It is worth quoting at some length. "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow?


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Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you

combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own

only attack places which are undefended.

excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for

Hence that general is skillful in attack whose

a commander, could not by force take a drink from the

opponent does not know what to defend; and he is

Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a

skillful in defense whose opponent does not know

thousand years. At what point then is the approach of

what to attack.

danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy

abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be

from engaging us even though the lines of our

its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we

encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All

must live through all time or die by suicide."

we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. In making tactical

He went on to say that “whenever the vicious portion

dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to

of our population shall be permitted to gather in bands

conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you

of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage

will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies,

and rob provision stores, throw printing-presses into

from the machinations of the wisest brains. So in

rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious

war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike

persons at pleasure and with impunity, depend upon it,

at what is weak.”

this government cannot last. By such things the

Sun Tzu, The Art of War (540 BC)

feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it, and thus it will be left without

Commentary: The Art of War is a famous book, used

friends, or with too few, and those few too weak to

at West Point, Sandhurst, and every military school

make their friendship effectual.”

around the world. It has been the principal strategy book for a long succession of Chinese governments and emperors for 2,500 years. Its main theme can be summed up as “All warfare is based on deception.”

There is a widely-held view that China deliberately attacked the United States and the world late in 2019 by releasing and spreading a killer virus from the central city of Wuhan. This opinion is strong in the Trump administration, in the Republican leadership in Congress, and in the red states. The attack came at a time of tense relations between the US and China on a Surely the Great Emancipator’s words ring true 182

variety of issues. In line with the deception

years later with an astonishing clarity and foresight

recommended long ago by General Sun, a Chinese

about the present day. He made these educated

delegation came to Washington DC and signed a far-

guesses a dozen years before the Civil War even

reaching trade agreement worth hundreds of billions

began.

of dollars in terms of reduced tariffs, more sales of US agricultural products and energy, protection for US

“Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's

technologies, and some enforcement mechanisms.

troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their

"Today, we take a momentous step, one that has never

kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

been taken before with China," that will ensure ""fair and reciprocal trade


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the President said at the White House signing

In 2020, with riots, looting, and mayhem in the streets

ceremony. In a letter read by Chinese Vice Premier

of dozens Democrat-run cities, it is again possible to

Liu He, the Chinese President Xi said the deal is

turn to Lincoln for insight: “…our fathers brought

"good for China, for the US and for the whole world."

forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in

There were handshakes and smiles and banquets all

liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men

around.

are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure… we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Was the timing of this a feint, a charade, a trick to deceive and mislead the attention of the United States? Surely China’s target was not northern Italy, where the virus killed 34,000. In early June, Bloomberg News reported that the Chinese government appears to be reneging on the trade deal, telling state-owned agricultural firms to halt purchases of US soybeans, one of the major agricultural exports to China and a pillar of the deal’s promised $200 billion in extra

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exports. This year has seen a dramatic deterioration in the US-China relationship in a variety of ways:

It is very very unusual, in fact impossible, that all

disputes over freedom and autonomy for Hong Kong,

these calamities – including a bitter partisan failed

human rights in China’s west, its foreign policy

impeachment struggle -- should happen one after the

aggression in SE Asia, spying by high-tech companies

other in a short space of time in an election year.

Huawei and ZTE, and many others. The leftist media eagerly amplified and repeated the The President and the Secretary of State have gone so

Democrat’s spurious and specious song of “Blame

far as to talk about US “decoupling” from China’s

Trump” over and over again. “Blame Trump” for

economy, which would be a catastrophe for that

winning the impeachment vote, for the Wuhan virus,

country and its Chinese Communist Party masters. For

for the spring riots.

example China sold $558 billion worth of goods and services to the US in 2018. Decoupling would put a

The real culprits of course are mis-educated college

very large hole in its national pocket. In the same year

kids and 20-somethings, gangs, newly-released

EU imported only E395 billion worth from China and

criminals, and their millionaire funding sources,

cannot afford to buy more. This year EU’s imports

encouraged by leftist D officials at the city, county,

have plummeted.

and state levels.


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Never in the history of the United States has the

In a speech in May, billionaire investor Warren

country been in such a position, attacked from inside

Buffett – “the Oracle of Omaha” – gave specific

and from outside by real enemies – both foreign and

instructions to listeners: “Nothing can stop America

domestic -- of freedom and justice and the American

when you get right down to it. Never bet against

way of life. The real culprits are in the blue cities in

America,” he said. There is a long list of historical

blue states, and less frequently, in the blue cities in red

examples from the US Civil War to the Spanish flu to

states.

the Great Depression to 9-11 to illustrate America's ability to withstand adversity.

In summary, to paraphrase the great patriot Patrick Henry of Virginia, “Now is the Time for All Good Men and Women to Come to the Aid of their Country.”

Comments welcome at mccabepaul@hotmail.com

Please recall the oath of office of the President, the military, and even federal officers who “do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” It is time now for every American to take this oath and to carry it out with the high resolve that Lincoln recommended. Once again an old text gives insight to the present situation.

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”

-- W. Shakespeare, Hamlet’s Soliloquy (1600)

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China: Our Relationship of Convenience is Not Quite So Convenient Anymore By Katherine Schoonover

Washington D.C. – The United States (US) has had a

China. They complained when Trump demanded that

complex relationship with China over the years. They

China start operating on an even playing field with the

have offered us cheap labor and cheap products and

US, and scoffed at warnings that we needed to bring

we have gladly taken it all in exchange for quietly

some of our critical manufacturing back to the United

turning a blind eye to their spying, stealing, strategic

States. Then the pandemic hit and the reality of just

investments, trade deficits, slave wages, human rights

how much we had come to rely on China became

violations, and what it would all mean for the US and

clear. Not only did we realize how dangerously

the world in the long-term. Some opportunists got

overly reliant we had become on China, but we also

rich by making business deals with the Chinese but

discovered just how unreliable and untrustworthy a

most simply enjoyed being able to purchase

trading partner China really was.

inexpensive products. While many failed to recognize, or chose to disregard, the broader implications of China’s activities, others have been watching their maneuvering like hawks with deep concern.

“One of the state controlled newspapers in China explicitly threatened...to cut off pharmaceuticals to the American market”

The situation has now become one that we can no

Beyond merely withholding critical information

longer afford to ignore. The reality of the precarious

regarding the dangerous new coronavirus "China has

position that we have placed ourselves in became

systematically targeted the U.S. supply chain...going

apparent to us all as the repercussions were thrust in

after critical infrastructure,” according to Senator Ted

our faces by shocking shortages and misinformation

Cruz (R-TX). “Just a few months ago, one of the state

relating to the pandemic. We discovered that we had

controlled newspapers in China explicitly threatened

incrementally outsourced so much of our critical

during this pandemic to cut off pharmaceuticals to the

manufacturing over the years that we did not realize

American market as a tool of economic

just how vulnerable we had made ourselves to a

warfare...That's not economic warfare, merely, that is

trading partner who is more of an adversary than an

actual warfare. That is literally threatening the lives

ally.

and safety of millions of Americans who rely on medication to just stay alive and healthy.”

Not long ago there were numerous skeptics who thought that President Trump and others who voiced

In addition to China’s perfidy, we were shocked to

concerns over China were merely alarmists, and that

discover that individuals and organizations that we

these alarmists were the ones causing the trouble with

believed that we could rely on, at least when it came


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to a worldwide health crisis at least, had been lying to

For far too long the US has based the vast majority of

us. The World Health Organization (WHO), which we

its strategic planning relating to China on a

help fund, was apparently in China’s back pocket the

dangerously shortsighted view of our trading partner.

whole time and had been lying to the world in order to

We have allowed China to walk all over us when

protect the Chinese government. The coverup by

making trade deals that routinely left the US with a

China and its allies prevented us from taking critical

trade deficit, in addition to not using the opportunity

steps to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading

to address their routine espionage and theft of

throughout the globe, which may be why it ended up

intellectual property. Whether our actions were based

becoming a pandemic in the first place, and one that

on naivete, incompetence, self-interest, or any variety

we are still struggling with today.

of lack of long-term strategic planning, we have foolishly left ourselves exposed to a dangerous enemy.

Short-Term vs. LongTerm Strategic Thinking

China’s Methods

While China’s actions have been unacceptable, so is

Although the US remained oblivious to the war that

our failure to adequately monitor and interpret the

China

actions of a key trading partner, as well as developing

simultaneously trading with us, China has been busy

proper long and short-term strategies to deal with our

and effective.

was

waging

on

our

country,

while

“frenemy” (friend-enemy) China. Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, outlined We did not merely allow ourselves to become overly

the depth and breadth of China’s efforts in July.

reliant on a single hostile trading partner. We seriously

explained that what “the American people need to

underestimated and misjudged a dangerous opponent.

understand

We have not taken China and its long-term goals

sophisticated

seriously and are paying the price for our arrogance

intrusions to corrupting trusted insiders. They’ve even

and

engaged

neglect

as

we

speak.

China

has

been

in

an

economic war with us for years and apparently, we

pioneered

were too blind to realize it.

is

in

that

China

uses

a

diverse

techniques—everything

outright an

physical

expansive

theft.

approach

He

range

from

of

cyber

And

they’ve

to

stealing

Our dealings with China

innovation through a wide range of actors—including

have been shortsighted, to say the least, and almost

not just Chinese intelligence services but state-owned

entirely

enterprises,

focused

short-term

goals

while

China

has

been playing the long game from the beginning.

kinds

of

ostensibly

graduate

private

students

and

companies, researchers,

certain and

a

whole variety of other actors working on their behalf.” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) described China’s long-term strategic goals well.

"In my judgement, China poses

Director Wray went on to elaborate on the techniques

the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United

used

States

to

engage in what China believes is “a generational fight

short

to surpass our country in economic and technological

over

understand

the that

next

century.

[China’s]

It's

objectives

important are

not

by

the

term. They are fighting a thousand year war and their

leadership.”

objectives

espionage,

are

nothing

short

of

complete,

global

Chinese

They

Communist

have

clandestine

Party

engaged

operations,

in

(CCP)

to

economic

infiltration

of

domination [...] I think the most lasting foreign policy

academia, “malign foreign influence,” violations of

consequence

of

the law, and have been “exploiting our openness” for

fundamental

reevaluation

relationship

with

the

coronavirus

China

relationship with China.”

of and

the

pandemic United

indeed,

the

is

a

States world's

their benefit. espionage

by

China has been engaging in economic stealing

intellectual

property

and

“violating our export controls and conflict-of-interest


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rules.” They are using hackers to “steal our corporate

Huawei and ZTE are both examples of Chinese tech

and personal data” and are “using both military and

companies that have just recently been designated as

non-state hackers to do it.”

national

security

threats

by

the

Communications Commission (FCC). They

are

infiltrating

academia

through

“recruiting

programs like the Thousand Talents Program” where they

pay

“scientists

at

American

universities

to

secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China—including valuable, federally funded research. To put it bluntly, this means American taxpayers are effectively

footing

the

bill

for

China’s

own

Federal

Until mid-July,

the UK was considering allowing Huawei equipment access to its 5G network but has since banned it. Senator Rubio (R-FL) and other top US officials were concerned that this would “endanger” the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance, as we share information between us.

No doubt we are all breathing a sigh of

relief now that the deal is dead.

technological development. China then leverages its ill-gotten gains to undercut U.S. research institutions and companies, blunting our nation’s advancement and costing American jobs."

China has had spy cells everywhere, including the US. Just

recently

described “central

China is using malign foreign influence, a term to describe the use of “subversive, undeclared, criminal, or

coercive

attempts

to

sway

our

government’s

policies, distort our country’s public discourse, and undermine

confidence

in

our

democratic

processes

and values.” This is done through “bribery, blackmail, and covert deals. Chinese diplomats also use both open,

naked

economic

pressure

and

seemingly

spying

by node

a

Chinese

Senator in

operations

the

Marco

and

Chinese

government

Rubio

Chinese

that

security

consulate

sought

democracy,” was

was

in

Houston,

(R-FL)

Communist to

undermine

shut

engaged

as

in

a

Party’s

down.

our The

“commercial

espionage, defense espionage, also influence agents to try

to

influence

“businessmen

as

Congress.” fronts

in

They

many

were

cases

to

using try

to

influence Members of Congress and other political leaders at the state and local level.”

independent middlemen to push China’s preferences.”

They

are

using

a

variety

of

pressures

to

force

academics, journalists, diplomats, and elected officials to “self-censor” and this includes public remarks about

We Need to Get in the Game

China and COVID-19. Unlike the US, the Chinese have not been letting the China is also targeting Chinese nationals around the world

through

“a

program

known

as

‘Fox

Hunt’”

which pressures and threatens those who may discuss “political

rivals,

dissidents,

and

critics

seeking

to

As China is a Communist nation, unlike the US which a

free

country,

China

requires

that

there

be

“Communist Party ‘cells’” placed within all Chinese companies. business

government risks.”

Any individual or company engaging in

with

a

Chinese

opens

itself

company up

to

or

us everywhere, planting spies, stealing our intellectual property, selling our own ideas back to us for half the price, and most importantly, making plans for the future.

expose China’s extensive human rights violations.”

is

grass grow under their feet. They have been watching

the

Chinese

significant

security

We cannot afford to ignore what is now crystal clear. China has been at war with the United States, whether we knew it or not. They were not interested in working as our slave labor force, cheerfully making a thousand plastic cups for 10 cents. We allowed our monumental egos to cloud our judgement and to convince us that their willingness to do our dirty work was nothing more than a few simple business deals, or them wanting to be our permanent underclass overseas.


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“China has been at war with the United States, whether we knew it or not” We cannot continue to trade our future for temporary convenience or a little amusement. We have to draw lines in the sand and say no to Trojan horses like TikTok and Huawei’s 5G. It is not going to be easy because we have become a little spoiled, but we either deal with this now or we wait until the problem is even harder to solve.

I suggest that we tighten our belts a bit, eat a little humble pie, learn to do our own dirty work, and stop jeopardizing our future for the present.

By Katherine Schoonover









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