China is an Existential Threat to this Country

Any person who follows news about China must believe that it is a significant threat to the future of the U.S. And yet it’s possible that most people don’t take that fact to heart because we don’t feel the impact of China directly in our everyday lives. After reading Senator Tom Cotton’s latest book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, I’m convinced that the threat is massive, dire and personal to all of us and the future of this country. We must stop talking about the threat; we must take immediate and critical action.

The points that Tom Cotton highlights are concerning, but until you read the details of what they actually mean in our lives, it’s easy to imagine that people think he’s not talking about them.

Briefly, Senator Cotton tells us that we can’t say the following about China: China is an evil empire; they are preparing for war; they are waging an economic war on the U.S. and the world; they have infiltrated every segment of our society; they fill positions in our government; they are coming for our kids; and the direst prediction—they could win this global war, and we could lose. And we can’t say these things because if China finds a person who has said them, they will likely retaliate.

You still might think that Senator Cotton is indulging in hyperbole. So let me give you some examples. To begin, you can be certain that calling China evil is accurate:

The Great Leap Forward resulted in the worst famine in history. Between 1959 and 1962, the famine killed up to forty-five million Chinese and drove some to cannibalism.

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Xi Jinping has intensified the party’s anti-Christian crusade in recent years, banning kids from attending church, eliminating Sunday schools, and requiring schoolchildren to sign pledges to remain atheist—The party is literally rewriting the Bible and hopes to publish by 2029 a new ‘translation’ that will replace the Word of God with the word of Mao.

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China’s police and security forces have rounded up hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and leaders, throwing them in prison and forced-labor camps. In just the first decade of the party’s war against Falun Gong, it killed an estimated 65,000 practitioners for their organs.

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Though cloaked in Communist secrecy, life inside the concentration camps is hell on earth, according to accounts that have leaked out. Most sources estimate that the party has interned at least two million people, mostly Uyghurs, in these camps, though some believe the number is closer to three million.

But wait, you might say. That is happening in or near China. Why should we be concerned about the U.S.? Then again, if they are prepared to decimate their own population, why would they hesitate to destroy our citizens for not complying with the CCP?

We have evidence that China is in the process of devastating the economy of our own country. Trump’s tariffs will barely impact the control they have over our companies and industries:

The Chinese Communist Party’s economic strategy can be summed up in three words: ‘lie, cheat, and steal.’ China has stolen trillions of dollars of wealth, crippled entire industries, seized control of developing technologies, destroyed millions of American jobs, and extorted entire countries with its newfound economic power.

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According to the bipartisan Intellectual Property Commission, the United States loses between $225 and $600 billion from intellectual-property theft every single year.

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By 2023, Chinese producers accounted for 97 percent of domestic Chinese sales and dumped their products in foreign markets at prices 20 percent lower than those from Western competitors.

But it gets worse. American companies are complicit in helping China take over our companies and industries. American greed is high on their list of priorities:

But Silicon Valley isn’t the only accomplice in China’s crimes: a shocking number of American companies are complicit in the party’s use of Uyghur slave labor.

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These days, Chinese censors rarely need to suppress movies because American filmmakers do it themselves.

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To win even more business in China, many Wall Street banks hired the friends and families of senior Communist officials. The executives answered the call: in return for promises of greater access to the Chinese market, they furiously lobbied the White House and Congress on China’s behalf.

The worst part of the China “invasion,” however, is that they have penetrated every aspect of our personal lives:

Chinese Communist influence has warped, censored, or defiled something important in your life— whether it’s your entertainment, news sources, alma mater, employer, bank, or retirement fund.

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The ideological rot that besets their [Confucius Institutes on] campuses, along with cold hard Chinese cash, has turned many in the academy into accomplices and apologists for the worst human-rights abuser in the world.

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The Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America and now has an army of puppets, allies, and useful idiots in our midst. Stay quiet about our crimes and we’ll make you rich. Speak out and we’ll destroy you.

You may want to believe that you are free from the China invasion, but if you look a little more deeply into your circumstances, you will likely find their presence. Have you bought a new appliance lately? Solar panels? Generators? Clothes? The list of their penetration of global markets is alarming.

And I haven’t even described the expansion of their military or the infiltration of our own military.

Our own legislators are accomplices of the Chinese, too. But it’s time for them to let go of their greed and fear of China’s retribution against them personally, and to stop this devastating incursion into our lives.

Those efforts are way past due. Our future is at stake.

[Originally published in the American Thinker]