How do we ensure that China gets on board with Western efforts – now, seemingly and finally, deserving of the term – to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, the quintessential challenge of our time? If the Chinese will not even agree to sanction the Iranian regime’s ruthless Revolutionary Guard, our current approach appears dangerously inadequate.
Quite simply, the United States should initiate a broad military agreement to supply anything and everything to Taiwan, the largest thorn in China’s expanding side.
If China comes on board, America wins a crucial partner in stopping Iran. We can certainly live with keeping Taiwan in limbo – they have been there for a while now – and compensating them in some other way.
If China balks, however, then America should execute its deal with Taiwan, supporting an independent and democratic ally. While Chinese power is undoubtedly rising, it is not yet in a position to blatantly challenge the United States military.
America thereby stands up, and not too late, to China, a country which continues to undercut our attempts to achieve peace and prevent a belligerent Iran from exploiting (and/or exporting) its nuclear capabilities.
Particularly in the international arena, China has proven to be a rapacious competitor, rather than a partner, and it is time to acknowledge this fact. At this time, with the US still clearly atop the military heap, it’s a win-win for America to force China into a quid-pro-quo – and not the other way around.
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Below is a recent e-mail that I sent to a correspondent- we were discussing the past 800 years of financing of war in Europe. as far as the Red Chinese are concerned we have nowhere else to go,,,,, rather than cut military spending and increase taxes- at the top- to build a 21st Century Country we choose to borrow from the Red Chinese and decrease taxes at top. Which naturally led to a huge deficit. The shrinking of the middle class in the mid-1970s was simply a beginning, which lower the percentage of Tax revenue available. Currently the U.S. is the second largest trade partner at 17% of Chinese output but falling. They don't need us….
The Red Chinese were well aware of Western history, they needed to build up their country's infrastructure quickly but they also had to keep their main enemy at bay- the U.S. S .R… they wanted open US markets…( so they needed a 2fer) so lending to the U.S. served two purposes- destroyed their main enemy and weaken their future one….. our leaders were more than happy to go along with it because of the above history… so here we have a Communist State lending money to a Capitalist State to destroy another Communists State. The main loser USA. who is now heavily indebted to a communist state and has little infrastructure to show for it. the big winner the Red China which was able to build its infrastructure and get somebody else to pay for the destruction of their main enemy.
Wayne