I wrote an article for the Charlotte Sun-Herald newspaper back in 2005 that floated back up through my memory as I watched the world news recently about China arbitrarily and unilaterally expanding its Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ, far out into the China Sea in an area considered International waters. The United States responded by flying two B-52 bombers through the area without prior announcement, but cautiously advised all commercial airplanes to comply with the new Chinese ruling. Vice President Joe Biden is in China as I write this, and spent two hours this morning behind closed doors with the Chinese Prime Minister specifically addressing the ramifications of this almost war-like move.
This article is the only article I submitted in the six years I wrote for the Sun-Herald they refused to print. My editor wanted to run it, but was overridden by the executive editor.
Read it and see what you think.
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For
Immediate Release
George
Mindling Column 7-19-2005
Paper
Tiger
"The
Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them." While
Lenin's exact words were far more verbose, they apparently did not
fall on deaf Chinese ears.
According
to a report published in the summer of last year, the Communist
Chinese government held 790 billion dollars of U.S. currency and
bonds! Chinese General Zhu Chenghu told the world the very same week
of the report they WILL attack the United States with nuclear weapons
if we try to defend Taiwan, the Republic of China, from Communist
takeover. We are paying for the two largest military buildups in
recent years: Ours
and the very forces we may have to go to war with, the Communist
Chinese.
Why
do American companies, especially those that purport to be Christian
based, do business with the godless dictatorship that is Communist
China? Which is the real answer: morals or money? Are we so busy
trying to create a Christian, democratic utopia that selling our
energy and technology assets to a security threat to our country in
the name of "Growing Democracy," is
naively
ignored? What will we sacrifice chasing the 490 billion dollar market
China appears to offer to American retailers in 2006?
A
year ago this February, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld testified at a
Congressional hearing on the Chinese buildup and the Chinese policy
paper challenging the U.S. military presence in the Pacific. The
Chinese Navy will soon be the largest in the world. They will have
one of the largest, modem submarine forces in the world.
(http://www.jeflhead.comlredseadragonJplanbuildup.htm)
U. S. intelligence believed China to have a fleet of only "60 to
70 operational submarines, most of which are aging, and only a
handful of which are nuclear powered."
However,
the June 9th
2005, the Washington Times reported a U.S. security document found
that American intelligence has missed the Chinese naval buildup for
TEN years! Among the items missed were China's development of a new
long-range cruise missile, deployment of a new attack submarine known
as the Yuan class that was missed by U.S. intelligence until photos
of the submarine appeared on the Internet, and development of
surface-to-surface missiles for targeting U.S. aircraft carrier
battle groups. This from a country from which we borrow two billions
dollars daily! If we default, how will they foreclose?
Secretary
of State Condoleeza Rice warned on August 18th,
2005,
that China must make significant structural changes in its economic
policies, lest it remain "a problem for the international
economy."
"The
overwhelming sense I got was that they do not want a conflict with
the United States," said Robert B.
Zoellick,
the Deputy Secretary of State. But he said that he, too, "tried
to get them to see how their actions are perceived by the other
side," particularly "if they were not transparent, they
would create uncertainties, and uncertainties lead people to hedge."
The
patient Chinese are not stupid. They measure time by generations, not
fiscal years. By then, we will be the Paper Tiger.
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