Update on China's Fakery About Free Trade
It's time for Americans to face up to the fact that we are in a trade war between a militantly protectionist Communist government and a U.S. that is shackled by illusions about "free trade." China is pumping public funds into its government-run companies, such as the airlines and steel mills. The World Bank reports that the proportion of industrial production controlled by the Chinese government is increasing rapidly, driven by hundreds of billions of dollars of government spending.
The Communist Party is in the driver's seat, so China violates all international law and trade agreements, slaps taxes and regulations on U.S. plants in China, and forces U.S. corporations to give their trade secrets and manufacturing know-how to Chinese competitors.
The Chinese government passes short laws on complex subjects and leaves unlimited discretion to bureaucratic regulators to reward their friends and punish their enemies.
China's strategy for economic development specifically includes stealing our intellectual property and innovations. China's goal is to be the world's biggest exporter based on stealing U.S. know-how and subsidizing Chinese manufacturers.
Update on China's Ingenious Use of 'Indigenous Innovation'
When U.S. companies build plants in China, Beijing forces them to disclose their technology in order to gain contracts. Major U.S. corporations, including our biggest technology companies, have given away their most valuable industrial secrets.
It gets worse. China has adopted an official policy called "indigenous innovation." This means China has issued anti-American trade rules that prohibit imports or U.S. manufacturing in China unless they are based on intellectual property developed and owned in China, with its trademarks registered in China. This new rule targets our most innovative manufacturing and service industries, including computers, software, and telecommunications.
China's "indigenous innovation" rule requires U.S. companies to give China their patents and advanced technology. U.S. products cannot be sold in China unless the U.S. companies give China their current patents plus their research and development of new products.
China has no plans to be a market for U.S. products. China's principal imports are and will continue to be U.S. jobs.
Update on Military Threat from China
China is not just a trading partner that manufactures cheap goods for us to buy at Wal-Mart. China spends the money it gets from its sales to Americans to build the most formidable military force in the world. China is building strategic nuclear weapons with delivery capabilities, submarines and ships, fighter planes and bombers.
China has already tested and is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers. Using ballistic missiles against ships at sea is a difficult task that requires air, sea and space sensors, navigation systems, and precision guidance technology.
China recently conducted a space test involving two satellites that rendezvoused several hundred miles above Earth in a maneuver that boosts Beijing's antisatellite weapons program. That's a key capability for space warfare, intelligence gathering, capturing and destroying enemy satellites.
Communist China can afford to build its military power because China has billions of U.S. dollars. China is doing it on our money. The bottom line is that American needs an anti-missile defense and we need it now.
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