Perhaps the most momentous part of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) was its acknowledgment that the U.S. government’s historical premise “that support for China’s rise and for its integration into the post-war international order would liberalize China” was wrong. Recent events indicate that not only was the theory underlying all U.S.-China policy for nearly 50 years incorrect, but that perhaps the opposite is true: Support for China’s rise and for its integration into the post-war international order has actually illiberalized America.
Stated differently, there is a case to be made that since President Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 visit to China, the United States has become more like China than China has become like us. We may have been sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is just one of many prominent Western industries as diverse as automobiles, fashion, and lodging that have cowed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) line, and engaged in self-censorship out of a desire for the almighty dollar. While the NBA is a particularly deserving target of ire, given the fact its social justice warriors have shown themselves to be hypocritical sellouts, one would be hard-pressed to find any entity with substantial profits or funding tied to China willing to permit the voicing of views that might rankle the CCP.
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I think it is too late to decouple from China (economically).
ReplyDeleteThe Walton Family almost single handedly destroyed American retail industry for ever by teaming with Chinese manufacturers. The CIA-controlled Amazon behemoth will finish it off.
The US manufacturing of autos went by the wayside a long time ago. It did not go to China. Instead it went to the conquered South Korea and the conquered Japan. Interesting isn't it?
China is accused of stealing industrial secrets and military secrets. But the truth is known far and wide that the US financiers are also the Chinese financiers. There are a handful of extremely powerful (Central Bank Owners) Families who control the world's governments. Checkmate happened a long time ago. Now they mess with our minds by creating silly stories about competition and free markets.
The world is Monopoly Capitalism.
A few people have a monopoly over everything.
ReplyDeleteMy interest in pro basketball in any form was very low to start with. The groveling to the Commies seals it.