America's Future Update on China

Update on the Military Threat from China

Communist China is developing what our experts call a "game-changing weapon" that can end U.S. dominance of the high seas -- an unprecedented carrier- killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D, that could be launched from land with sufficient accuracy to penetrate the defenses of our most advanced aircraft carriers at a distance of 900 miles. The final testing of this extraordinary missile could come as soon as the end of this year. It has already been displayed in a Chinese military parade. It could seriously weaken our ability to intervene in any conflict over Taiwan or Korea, and deny U.S. ships access to international waters in the Pacific.

Dong Feng 21D, is not a nuclear missile, so it is not raising the specter of nuclear war. However, its ability to hit a powerfully defended moving target, like a U.S. aircraft carrier, with pin-point precision, is unique and frightening. Americans must realize that Communist China is not just a good-fellow trading partner that makes cheap articles for U.S. consumers. China is a Communist dictatorship determined to become the world's number-one superpower.  Wall Street Journal, 4-9-09

Update on China's Real Communism

The insignia of Communist control is the red phone. As one Chinese CEO said, "When the 'red machine rings,' you better make sure you answer it." Encrypted for secrecy, the red phones are a hot line for the Communist bosses to give their orders and maintain their grip on every aspect of life. Like Communism in its heyday, the Party in China has wiped out political rivals, eliminated autonomy of the courts and press, restricted religion and civil society, centralized political power, established extensive networks of security police, and sent dissidents to forced labor camps. "Vladimir Lenin would recognize the model immediately."

Free traders in the U.S. have been telling us that China is a valued trading partner and it's a plus for America to build our factories in China to take advantage of cheap Chinese labor and to import cheap Chinese products we can buy at WalMart. Now, even the Wall Street Journal admits that China is really a totalitarian Communist country that tightly controls the government, the people, and the economy.   Wall St. Journal, 5-24-10

Update on Frank Talk About China

Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke out frankly about China -- surprise, surprise. He talked frankly about how China's military buildup is threatening peace and security in the Pacific. He said, the U.S. supports "freedom of navigation, and free and unhindered economic development" and that we object to efforts "to intimidate U.S. corporations or those of any nation engaged in legitimate economic activity."

The Obama administration has been bending over backward to please China, but China is not reciprocating. The Chinese military has begun to push into other nations' territorial waters from Japan to Vietnam, harassing naval vessels, and calling the South China Sea "core interest" (that's diplomatic language for claiming Chinese sovereignty over those international waters). Wall St. Journal, 6-6-10

A Chinese graduate engineering student, Wang Jianwei, published a paper called "Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid" in an international journal called Safety Science. This set off alarms in the U.S. because it indicates Chinese involvement in plans to disrupt the U.S. power grid. New York Times, 3-20-10