Victor Davis Hanson
First, tell the Chinese that Pelosi is flying to China and will be escorted there militarily. Two, inform the Chinese that there is a new policy of reciprocity. Anything China outlaws in relation to America, America will outlaw to China.
Farmland? If Americans cannot buy it in China, Chinese will not buy it in America. If there are only about 2,500 American students in China, then there will be about 2,500, not 380,000, Chinese students in the U.S. For every Chinese tariff, an American one follows. If Chinese companies violate international copyright and patent laws, then the U.S. will sanction the Chinese companies that do that.
The U.S. should inaugurate a Marshall Plan to focus on producing all strategic products and natural resources at home. It should not sell China any oil or natural gas and be prepared to provide 100 percent of our own food, energy, and strategic minerals.
We should strengthen our mutual defense forces with Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
The U.S. should invest in a multilayered missile defense system to protect the homeland and expand radically our nuclear triad, navy, and air forces. It must deter in space all Chinese initiatives aimed at gaining strategic advantages below.
Our tax code should discourage mutual and joint investment projects inside China and forbid all technological transfers. Universities should shut down their Chinese campuses.
Hollywood, professional sports, and corporations should have taxed heavily all their Chinese investments. All federal health agencies should cease aid, funneled through third parties, to any Chinese agency. We should immediately strengthen our bio-weapon defense capabilities, in anticipation that COVID-19 will have a successor very soon.
The wall on the southern border must be finished as soon as possible to stop all Chinese-origin fentanyl drug shipments into the U.S.
We should expect within the next year a serious Chinese effort to first intimidate into submission Taiwan, perhaps followed by an armed attack—and so should craft the appropriate response in advance.
The entire hierarchy of the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon is hopelessly politicized. At a time of national crisis, it is wasting billions of dollars chasing pseudo-Russian conspiracies, pseudo-white “rage” cells, social-justice virtue signaling, and veritable interference in U.S. politics and campaigns.
The top ranks of all three government organizations must be replaced by a new apolitical generation of competent officials. If we don’t stop these beltway elites from becoming corporate grifters or political players or television celebrities, then our intelligence, investigatory, and military assets will become mere Third-World apparatchiks, hired to protect the regime rather than the people. As a last resort, the CIA should be moved, along with the FBI, out of Washington, DC., along with three to four cabinet agencies—if for no other reason than to stop the incestuous media-corporate board-deep state nexus that ensures politicized incompetency in these institutions.
Former military officers, politicians, intelligence and investigatory officials, and government employees should be barred upon retirement for five years from lobbying or representing any Chinese interest.
Vladmir Putin is a villainous character. But the Russian people are not now our chief worry. A Russian-Chinese Iranian-North Korea-Turkish strategic axis is. To prevent a new Chinese-led Warsaw Pact, we need to triangulate with Russia, isolate North Korea and Iran, coordinate with our front-line allies, and prepare NATO for even scarier times ahead.
An America armed to the teeth and equipped with a deterrent foreign policy toward an aggressive China will not have to ask Beijing whether its officials can visit Taiwan.
All the above is safe, conservative, and prudent, what Biden and the Left are now doing is dangerous, radical, and insane.
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There are way too many American business people making a fortune in China, which is the biggest obstacle to implementing Victor's recommended policies regarding China. I agree with him 100%, but what he advocates is clearly easier said than done. Somewhat off point, I was speaking by phone to an employee of a company located in Georgia that sells their excellent product directly to consumers, bypassing a middleman. He mentioned that their product is made in China, but the Georgia company owns the factory. I told them "they'll own it till they don't." The CCP, at their whim, could simply nationalize the factory, just as Fidel Castro nationalized many American businesses in Cuba in the 1959 Communist revolution. I don't see why the same couldn't happen in China.
Very few Americans know much of the truth about Ukraine. The people who live there are largely innocent and trying to eke out some kind of a living. But the level of corruption that goes on there is much higher than most European countries. The U.S. got itself involved in corruption there with the Bidens. Remember that we had the likes of Vindman, Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill, (who also sponsored Russian Igor Danchenko, now on trial with John Durham, for creating lies for the Steele Dossier.) Watch Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, questioned Marie Yovanovitch on you tube. Obama knew about Hunter Biden in Ukraine. So Joe could not possibly have not known. It was revealed in the impeachment hearings that each of these megalomaniacs was running his/her own personal foreign policy while acting under the authority of President Trump. As Putin looked at Ukraine, these were the clowns who were playing footsie with Ukraine over setting up weapons and with E.U. and NATO membership. They were playing Ukraine like a banana republic on Putin's border.
Words spoken as if Victor were a Prophet telling us what we must do if we are to survive all the threats we face both foreign and God help us domestic! Trump is the answer but only if he leaves his daughter and son-in-law out of the picture and truly decimates and salts the earth of All the alphabets soups who are and will destroy us all! So well said and related to all us Citizens......God bless you Victor and keep spewing truth bombs and trying to open the eyes of America before its too late!
Obama, Trump & Biden ensured any future alliance with Russia is now in severe jeopardy. It could have been the opposite. The Russian Federation's citizens will never forgive the USA for their dead soldiers killed mostly by American-made weapons. Obama allowed Biden to be the de-facto colonizing authority in Ukraine. Obama, Trump & Biden allowed the training, supplying & arming of Ukrainian troops that INCLUDED NAZIS, who proudly posted social media photos/videos with USA/CA/UK trainers, along with weapons supplied. Unwisely, Trump was manipulated by the Washington, D.C. military-intelligence-congressional-media complex cabal and supplied weapons to "prove" he was not a Russian asset. If Trump becomes president again, my hope is that he cleans house, but I don't see the aforementioned cabal allowing him to do just that. Biden is aware enough to approve this insane neocon war against Russia. How Biden Crime Family corruption this war is covering up is anyone's guess. Had Russia not invaded when it did, it sure looked like Ukraine was poised to attack Donbas and possibly Crimea this spring. Lastly, in future years, I believe historians will conclude that Ukraine, supported mainly by Western Ukrainians, committed genocide against the Russo-speaking peoples of the Donbas since 2014. Under the "rules-based order" the USA has established, the break-away republics had every legal right to seek independence. After all, the USA recognizes Kosovo.
Hear! Hear!
Every word uttered by Pelosi is a manipulative lie. Everything she does is theatre intended to mislead and pretend. She always cries about the 'children' while making them debt slaves to her $trillions in insanely wasteful spending. What kind of human being needlessly provokes China, risking the very lives of people in Taiwan just to stage another one of her silly little photo ops? How dumb are Republicans who thump their chests and applaud her cynical posturing? The Democrats are the party of liars telling constant lies. Too many pathetic Republicans keep on falling for them. All while China keeps on stealing our technology and our wealth by corrupting our government with sellout lobbyists. Consider how many former members of Congress are getting rich from China to sell us out. Lying traitors like Pelosi and Biden love to remind us that 'No one is above the law.' While untouchable deep state Democrat operatives goes to work each day laughing about what fools we are.
From your pen to God's eye...
Bravo! A magnificent checklist to strengthen America and weaken our largest adversary. I wish we had the leadership to make it happen.
Sounds like a good strategy to me. Do we have anyone whose not writing a book that can get us started in that direction?
BRAVO, if only we had a political party to do it. We need more Trumps even with his baggage, at least something would be done before it is too late. God help us.
Absolutely correct! DeSantis and Trump (and prospective administration associates), along with prospective Republican congressional leaders, need to hear and heed this multifaceted call to arms.