Attacking China Is a Terrible Idea and Would Be a Disaster for America
All we are saying is "Give Peace a Chance!"
Editor’s Note: Based on a couple messages I got from readers, it seems that at least some of you all were confused by my most recent article about the Chinese Balloon Hoax. To clarify, I want to say right now: I disavow the theory that President Joe Brandon is in the pay or service of the Chinese Government. This theory is breathlessly stupid; but I was trying (and evidently failing) to debunk it by pushing it to absurd levels of cringe, like believing China has to use balloons to spy, or somehow ignoring that the Brandon government has been aggressively sailing war ships in and out of Chinese waters, and openly stating that he sides with Taiwanese rebels who want to become their own country.
The following article is a slightly edited and expanded transcript of a speech I gave to a local Speaker’s Club this week to discuss the news of the Chinese delegation to Taipei which took place over the weekend and which appears to be moving Taiwan firmly in the direction of reunification with the mainland government. I post it here in hopes of completely clarifying my actual sincere position.
I am pro-China.
Actually I don’t really care about China at all, because it is a country on the other side of the world which has little or anything to do with daily life in my own country of America, beyond being deeply involved in weird trade deals with our government.
But as an American patriot, I am compelled to sympathize and stand with anyone or any nation who find themselves in the economic or military crosshairs of the evil and despicable US Government. So I find myself in the weird position of having to write articles about how totally bizarre and asinine it is for the alleged President Joe Brandon doing aggressive things to provoke war in China.
Our enemies are not in Russia. Our enemies are not in China. As Americans, our enemies are mainly in Washington, DC, sending our tax dollars overseas to do endless, pointless, obscene wars that have zero bearing on American peace or prosperity, and which actually undermine both of those.
According to a story Monday in Yahoo News, over the past few days, a Chinese delegation to Taiwan got a warm reception in Taipei, the first such visit to the island since the pandemic. The delegates hope to warm up relations between the mainland and Taiwan ahead of the island’s 2024 presidential election.
The first Chinese delegation to visit Taiwan since the pandemic enjoyed a "warm reception", the opposition-led Taipei city government said on Monday.
The three-day visit by the delegation from Shanghai, which began on Saturday, is part of a series of recent exchanges that have taken place as Taiwan gears up for elections in 2024.
Beijing claims the democratic island as part of its territory to be seized one day, and has ramped up military, diplomatic and economic pressure during President Tsai Ing-wen's tenure.
The six-member group from Shanghai met Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party on Monday.
Their rare trip follows another cross-strait exchange this month when Beijing said it wanted to enhance cooperation with the KMT, Taiwan's main political opposition.
Officials "exchanged views on municipal issues such as culture, sports and tourism... The Shanghai delegation also said they felt a warm reception," Taipei's city government said in a statement on Monday.
The city government of Taipei is opposition led, which means they oppose President Tsai’s anti-unification policy, her attempts to expand gay marriage in Taiwan, and her weird decision to host then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a visit last August.
When Pelosi landed in Taiwan there were massive military protests all over the island. Meanwhile, over the weekend, there were only 12 protestors to the Chinese delegation on the island.
The group arrived on Saturday, and were quickly driven away without answering questions from gathered reporters, local media said. Around a dozen pro-Taiwan independence supporters protested against their arrival outside the airport, shouting “Taiwan and China, separate countries” and “Chinese people, get out”, while on the airport road another small group of pro-China supporters shouted their welcome.
I think you can do the math. Massive military protests last year against Pelosi urging independence vs. 12 people shrieking about gay rights during a visit from a Chinese delegation.
Nobody in Taiwan wants war against China, and everybody wants reunification and peace.
I stand for the reunifiers.
China Calling Out Bizarre Western Claims About Taiwan Being “The Next Ukraine”
Bloomberg also reported yesterday that China is ‘urging the world to stop saying Taiwan is next after Ukraine,’ and to ‘stop fueling the fire, shifting blame to China, and drawing parallels between Ukraine and Taiwan.’
Now let me lay my cards on the table. I am anti-war.
Not in a pacifist sense, but in the sense of noting the absolutely fake and specious reasoning being used to stage endless global conflicts by the rogue US Government.
Nobody voted for these wars in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or the Ukraine, and nobody wants any new war with China. These wars were extremely unpopular from the beginning, and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 rode a campaign in which he constantly and popularly denounced the Mideast wars.
Remember during the 2016 GOP Debates when Trump would point out that the Bush wars were a disaster? And all of the audience cheered at the tops of their lungs? He blew everyone off the stage by saying what everyone in the room was thinking but were afraid to say.
Chinese Balloon Was a Weather Device
On Feb. 4, the US Air Force shot down a flying object that was alleged by Brandon to be a Chinese Spy Balloon. The demolition happened just off the coast of South Carolina. The Brandon administration has insisted all month long that it was a surveillance device, while Beijing has countered that it was always a weather balloon blown off course.
What I want you to know is that any theory about China spying with balloons is embarrassing for the person mentioning it, and that nobody uses balloons to spy. Maybe 200 years ago that would make sense, but we have since invented satellites for such skullduggery.
Meanwhile, as reported by the Chinese government, ten similar objects belonging to the American government have been detected flying over China during the past year. Plus tons of jets and ships and saber rattling. And yet nobody in China worried about those balloons or planes, nor were any shot down or attacked.
What we have here is a case of moral panic set off by the Biden administration and a complicit American media. The purpose is to stir up xenophobic anger against China among clueless Americans whose enthusiasm for the always-unpopular aid to the Ukraine is now completely gone. Why stir us up against the Chinese? The answer is to foment a new war.
The US State Department managed to create an extremist anti-Russian force in the Ukraine, but they’ve been unable to accomplish anything similar in Taiwan. The idea is impossible, in light of how Chinese people actually view reality. Nobody in Taiwan is remotely interested in fighting a war against mainland China, people they rightly regard as fellow Chinese. They are looking at the situation in the Ukraine right now and asking, “Why would we want to do that for Americans? What would we gain from that?” Nobody is on board with this.
Few Americans realize that our federal government has an official policy in place, the One China policy, which affirms that there is only one China, and that Taiwan is a part of China. That has been official US policy for over 50 years, stretching back to the Nixon administration.
The policy has never been revoked, and it remains the official position of our government with respect to the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. And there is little political will to change that policy now, either among voters in America or among inhabitants of Taiwan or Mainland China. One China is also affirmed by many other countries around the world, most of whom officially recognize the PRC as the rightful seat of government to Taiwan.
Taiwan Is Heavily Nationalist for China, Doesn’t Want Democracy or Gay Stuff
Today, almost everyone in Taiwan is strongly supportive of full, official reunification with China as a single nation. Opposition to the idea within Taiwan is a tiny group of people who are paid shills of the US State Department, clamoring for gay rights on the island.
The inhabitants are all Chinese; that is their language and their ethnicity. They don’t care about, or even understand bizarre Western ideas about democracy or our values of who we are in a rules-based order. They care mainly about doing business and making money, and offering high quality product at fair price.
If you aren’t familiar with the history of Taiwan, the main thing to note is that when the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with the Communist takeover of Mainland China, the party that was defeated was the self-styled Republic of China. The KMT, which was the party led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan and claimed to be the remaining legitimate government of all of China.
Initially, the island of Taiwan was far more prosperous than its mainland neighbor. That explains why anyone there went along with US occupation propaganda for a time; because it was financially useful to ‘oppose’ reunification. But today, mainland China has never been stronger economically, and so everyone is saying “Let’s reunify completely with our brothers.”
But the Biden administration is asking the Taiwanese people to go to war with China and commit themselves to bizarre financial sacrifices by refusing to do business with the extremely rich mainland Chinese.
While the KMT party that first landed in Taiwan in 1949 self-identified as nationalist, and were opposed to communist rule on the mainland, none of that matters today. It’s bizarre to even think of China as communist, because it is only so in name, and is extensively pro-business and free-market.
The English translation of the PRC name is also misleading. It has nothing to do with Mao anymore, and more to do with a Chinese reluctance to abandon traditional terminology. Today, the KMT party in Taiwan is extremely pro-unification.
Most people in Taiwan see the opponents of reunification as anti-nationalist rabble-rousers, and I agree with that judgment. Most Taiwanese are very traditional and are astounded when they hear that they have a few neighbors who are pushing for gay marriage and gay rights in their country.
I want to see friendship between the USA and China. There is no reason on earth to oppose this, and as Chinese dominance of the global economy increases and its ties to most Eastern bloc countries increases, peace with China is in fact looking like the only happy outcome for Americans.
China does not want a war; not with the US, and certainly not with a puppet minority erected in Taiwan by the US State Department and its willing media. As the Chinese economy grows, everyone in Taiwan is going to be more and more open to reunification. Washington trying to force-meme war against China would be funny if it were not so horrifying.
Biden’s people could easily put together a list of trade deals they want from Beijing in exchange for dropping our weird activity in Taiwan. China would sign off on pretty much any deal like that to help both sides economically and head off any kind of conflict with the US. But peace and prosperity are not the goals of the US Government.
They want war, they’re committed to war for no apparent reason, and that’s it. This is obvious. Anyone in the media telling you differently is either ignorant or lying on purpose.