What U.S. National Strategy Should Look Like In The Wake Of Coronavirus
If China’s actions in the coronavirus catastrophe offer any window into this communist regime, it is that their threat is unlike anything America has faced.
thefederalist.com
Actions the United States Must Take
The problem is not the Chinese people, nor their proud heritage that stretches back thousands of years. It is communism. We must challenge China:
- Return all production of our medicines, medical supplies, and equipment to the United States or to countries that are our allies;
- Enact severe limits on Chinese graduate students in all scientific subjects; shutter all Confucius Institutes at American universities until they be stripped of their propagandistic mission;
- Entrench principles and restrictions so that China can buy no more of our corporations, universities, or national assets;
- Help deny, across the world, the ability for China’s Huawei to deploy its 5G networks, systems, phones, and devices, as tools for espionage, industrial and otherwise, could be implanted in these systems;
- Threaten to extend tariffs substantially if the PRC does not make all virus data and sites available to our scientists, so that we may understand fully the genesis and the spread of the present pandemic; the PRC must also release any COVID-19 whistleblowers and eliminate all wet markets;
- Put into law criminal penalties for any American company or individual who shares proprietary or sensitive information with China, when such information has application to our defense, high-technology, or energy-related industrial base;
- Accelerate Freedom of Navigation passages and exercises through waters that China falsely claims, with maximum U.S. naval power expressed; in this, we should include, when possible, ships of the British, the Australian, and the Japanese Navies;
- Undertake determined efforts to deny China’s Belt and Road Initiative, especially in Africa; extend alternative terms to key nations on the brink of asset appropriation due to China’s predatory lending practices;
- Announce a new military package to reinforce Taiwan’s defensive capabilities. To this end, we should consider the sale of the F-35 due to the deployment of the advanced Chengdu J-20 fighter by China. This sale would either be as a replacement for the pending transfer of less-advanced F-16Vs to Taiwan or as a supplement to this force;
- Radically reduce IP theft. Explicate that China’s economic expansion would have been impossible without their theft of American technology; produce and distribute lists of American technologies and products stolen or copied by China; urge other free countries to do the same, so that the world will recognize this danger.
Everyone wants to be a winner. Part of the allure of surfing is the constant quest to improve, no matter ones age. Staying fit, remaining competitive in the line-up, focusing on getting better in different areas/types of waves, etc are part & parcel of the surfing lifestyle.
However, so too is life in general and the desire for the freedom financial independence brings. And the number #1 aspect is to be both observant and objective, to deal with life as it is, rather than what it could be. Ya know, "if wishes were horses, peasants would ride."
So, that brings us to the current state of affairs, where we as a nation now turn our attention to China. (The 4th turning as it were after WWII, Cold war and the WoT.) It would be behoove one to read & understand what this article is presenting. Because, for the clever, they will immediately recognize that this policy paper is basically a tip-off of what's coming down the pike.
PS As an aside, if one ever wonders why the Weider erBB mirrors much of mainline media, look no further than China. For it is Chinese influence in both direct investments, and the coercion applied to any companies seeking to expand into the promise of a vast Chinese marketplace, that helps explain many of the curious and inherently contradictory member posting histories/moderating activities in the different forums.
