Update on China's Version of Free Trade
Communist China joined the World Trade Organization to implement its plan to grow into an economic superpower the same way the United States became powerful in our pre-New Deal century, i.e., by protecting local industries and financing our government with tariffs on imports. China enhanced its WTO membership with special breaks and loopholes that allow China to sell slave-manufactured goods worldwide but protect its own industries from foreign competition.
The result is that China sells microwave ovens for $49 in the United States, but the U.S.-built Jeep Grand Cherokee sells for $85,000 in China because the Chinese add tariffs and other fees to the U.S. price of $27,490. Since only a few Chinese millionaires can afford such a luxury, fewer than 2,500 have been sold in China in the past year.
The 25% tariff is only one reason why the Grand Cherokee costs three times as much in China as in the United States. China also imposes a sales tax of up to 40% of the price, based on the car's size.
Update on Predications About China
U.S. globalists for decades have closed their eyes to the fact that China is a Communist dictatorship. All during the '70s and '80s, and even the '90s, the globalists predicted that, as China pursued a market economy, China would evolve into capitalism, economic freedom, and then political freedom.
Dream on; it didn't happen. The Communist Party still runs the country, there is no democracy movement even 22 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, so-called reforms don't include changing the party in power, and the internet didn't produce freedom but instead became a device to monitor and control the people. China learned the lesson of George Orwell's Animal Farm: all are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Chinese spokesmen are bragging: "We believe that our 10-year arrangement has been successful." Indeed, it has. It's time for apologies from the U.S. free-traders who were so wrong in their predictions about China.
Update on China's Espionage and Plans for War
The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee accused China of industrial cyberespionage against the U.S., calling it "brazen and widespread theft of intellectual property from foreign commercial competitors." Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) also said: "China's economic espionage has reached an intolerable level. Beijing is waging a massive war on all of us, and [the U.S. and its allies] should band together and pressure them to stop."
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden agreed with Rogers' criticism, and argued for more transparency as well. Hayden said, "I think this information is horribly overclassified inside the government" and added that the agencies are reluctant to talk about any cyber issues. Navy Times, 10-5-11
A Pentagon report released in October states that China's sustained military investments are destabilizing and mean China is pursuing Marxist global ambitions. The Pentagon's annual report to Congress warns, "China's rise as a major international actor is likely to stand out as a defining feature of the strategic landscape of the early 21st century." Human Events, 9-5-11
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