{"id":12026,"date":"2019-10-21T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12026"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:14:15","slug":"is-america-becoming-sinicized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-america-becoming-sinicized\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America Becoming Sinicized?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alittle over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results of Deng\u2019s revolution astonished the world. In four decades, China went from a backward basket case to the second-largest economy on the planet. It lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese into the global middle class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deng\u2019s revolution came at a cost of terrible environmental damage, the rampant destruction of local communities, and continued political repression. A more efficient economy empowered dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abroad, China systematically violated every tenet of international trade and commerce. It stole copyrights and patents. It ran up huge trade surpluses. It dumped products at below the cost of production to hook international customers. It threatened critics with boycotts, divestments, and expulsions. It manipulated its currency. It demanded technology transfers from companies doing business in China. It created a vast espionage network in Western countries to steal technology. And it increasingly bullied and threatened its Asian neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/10\/is-america-becoming-sinicized\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Alittle over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976. The results of Deng\u2019s revolution astonished the world. In four decades, China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11340,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinese-foreign-investment-a-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Foreign Investment: A Perspective","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read the following editorial by my college\u00a0James D. 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Imagine if there were a South Korean dictatorship that had been in power, as a client of the United States since 1953.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;China&quot;","block_context":{"text":"China","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/china\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11848,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-high-wire-act-of-reestablishing-deterrence-without-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":2},"title":"Trump\u2019s High-Wire Act of Reestablishing Deterrence without War","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump inherited a superficially stable world from Barack Obama that, in fact, was quite volatile. There had been no tense standoffs with North Korea, but also apparent intercontinental ballistic missiles with possible nuclear warheads now pointed at the United States. Obama more or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4369,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-global-shift\/","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":3},"title":"The Global Shift","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The world will soon better appreciate the United States by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Radical global power shifts have been common throughout history. For almost a millennium (800-100 BC) the Greek East, with its proximity to wealthy Asia and African markets and a dynamic Hellenism, was the nexus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;June 2005&quot;","block_context":{"text":"June 2005","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2005\/june-2005\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11824,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinas-brilliant-insidious-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":4},"title":"China\u2019s Brilliant, Insidious Strategy","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Chinese Communist government does not have so much a strategy to translate its economic ascendance into global hegemony as several strategies. All of them are brilliantly insidious. On matters of trade, China is always flexible in responding to critics of its asymmetrical, 30-year\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;China&quot;","block_context":{"text":"China","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/china\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10977,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/whos-really-winning-the-north-korea-standoff\/","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":5},"title":"Who\u2019s Really Winning the North Korea Standoff?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There have been wild reports that the United States is considering a \u201cbloody nose\u201d preemptive attack of some sort on North Korea\u2019s nuclear arsenal. Such rumors are unlikely to prove true. 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