Has China Already Taken Over the World?
Has China Already Taken Over the World?
Despite far more totalitarian and murderous policies, Xi gets a pass while we foolishly focus on Putin.
Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that China is now the largest exporter of new automobiles in the world, surpassing Japan for the title with big help from Russia and the feckless foreign policy of the United States. You see, a big reason that China is now the world leader is that all of the American car companies that used to sell Russia high demand gas-powered vehicles left the country due to the war in Ukraine. This enabled China to increase their sales in Russia from 160,000 autos in 2022 to more than five times that amount in 2023. Mexico was also a large customer of Chinese gas-powered vehicles.
This is yet another notch in China’s world domination belt. For a generation, the Chinese Communist Party has plotted to overthrow the “New World Order” of the post-Cold War era - with roaring success. China has become the benefactor of many countries around the world that used to rely on the West through its belt and road initiative.Third world countries around the globe are receiving large infrastructure investment from China, while the US has dithered on meaningless regime change wars in places halfway across the globe, and struggled to simply maintain its own borders. China has the largest Navy in the world by far, and is slowly encroaching on the free trade routes across the Pacific, protected by the US Navy since the end of World War II. It was recently reported that China has been operating a military spy base on Cuba for years - 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Worse, it was reported today that a Chinese-born Navy Petty Officer was convicted of selling military secrets to the Chinese Communist Party. It has also been known for years that China has been buying up properties in the US near important military facilities, presumably to spy on them as well.
At the same time, the brutal, murderous dictatorship run by “President” Xi of China is well documented. Whether it is the concentration camps of the Uighars in Xinjiang or the regular imprisonment and disappearance of any political detractors, Xi rules China with an iron fist which Vladimir Putin can only admire.
Indeed, the Xi regime is one of the most brutal in history, only surpassed by 20th Century totalitarians like Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Here’s a recent description of his consolidation of power through imprisonment, disappearance and murder over the past decade, again from the Wall Street Journal (emphases added):
With echoes of Mao Zedong’s “continuous revolution,” Xi has sent fear rippling through the ranks of the Communist Party for more than a decade with the largest campaign against corruption in modern Chinese history. It is now threatening to petrify the party as it tries to steer the world’s second-largest economy through its greatest period of uncertainty in a generation.
Since he came to power in 2012, party enforcers have punished roughly five million people for offenses as serious as abuse of power and as innocuous as creating excessive red tape.
In 2023 alone, the unrelenting campaign swept through the worlds of finance, food, healthcare, semiconductors and sports—taking down scores of senior officials, bankers, hospital directors and even soccer administrators. China’s foreign and defense ministers went missing in the summer before being abruptly removed from their posts, leading to suspicions that they, too, have been purged. Beijing’s recent ouster of a dozen senior military and defense-industry officials from the national legislature and a government advisory body have fueled speculation about a broader shake-up of the country’s military establishment.
As Putin is rightfully called every name by US officials and media - murderer, brutal dictator, etc. - Xi gets a pass in the US press. Notice how careful the language is in the Journal, refuses to write that he has murdered 5 million people - instead they are just “punished” or “purged.” (It should be noted that Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” - which the Journal is comparing Xi’s purge to - likely led to millions of deaths, one of many such purges Mao led.) Indeed when Xi showed up in San Francisco, the President of the United States rolled out the red carpet, infamously hanging Chinese flags everywhere, cleaning up the Gotham-like city in a few days when it had been said for years it couldn’t be done, and hosting a dinner in which American business leaders gave a standing ovation for the totalitarian murderer. Even when President Biden said Xi was a “dictator” it was big news that was later walked back by surrogates.
At this same “summit” - which more resembled a vassal’s honoring of his liege lord - it was reported a month later that Xi informed President Biden that China will be taking Taiwan, whenever Xi decides the time is right. These are not the words and actions of a competitive adversary; they are the words and actions of a leader informing his surrogate the way of things.
Indeed, with China’s focused and efficient foreign policy that identifies key long term strategic goals and produces tactical results to that strategy year in and out, and the likelihood that China’s economy will surpass America’s as the largest in the world as soon as 2027, it is clear that China will emerge as the lone superpower soon, if it is not already so in practice.
So as the media and the US government continue to sell the American people an irresponsible boondoggle, sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into a useless war in Ukraine-Russia with heated rhetoric reserved only for Russia and Putin, we should be asking ourselves why these institutions refuse to confront the real threat. It’s as if they’ve all been bought or blackmailed by our lone rival, Xi, and the Communist Party of China. We need new leadership and institutions to confront this threat yesterday. Vote accordingly.