Either I win... or else!
Politicians get a bad rap, don’t they?...No, I didn’t think you’d agree.
Recently a Washington politician, while cackling on camera, argued that it was good for the
American spirit to have “global competition.” I don’t know about you, but a competitor is someone with whom I play a game of baseball, ping pong or chess. After the competition, we relax over a beer, a glass of wine, or friendly banter about the outcome.
But someone that seeks to destroy you or remove your ability to “compete” is not a competitor but an enemy. The government of China seeks to eliminate all democracies and replace them with its own power structure. That’s not a “competition”; that’s an enemy’s ploy to control or destroy.
Someone who plays a game of ping pong or chess against me and threatens to bomb my car if I park too close to his driveway is not a “competitor” but an enemy. When our American Navy commits the mistake of approaching the South China Sea to protect our allies like South Korea and the Philippines, China threatens us with powerful nuclear weapons to scare us out of the Western Pacific. Are those the actions of a friendly “competitor”? I don’t think so.
Because our American corporate leaders (and politicians) are making too much money in their trade with Communist China, we refuse to label the CCP-led Chinese government as the “enemy.” And that is exactly where China wants us. They bank on the assumption that Americans are too compromised, too weak, too scared to fight back.
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