Update on U.S. Policy about China

• An important analysis of "China's Long March to Global Dominance" by Steven W. Mosher charges that U.S. policy is "naive because China, unlike any other country, threatens to completely undermine the current, U.S.-dominated international order." He asserts that "China is a semi-terrorist outfit, a dictatorial regime that is extending its influence throughout the world by creating a network of like-minded dictatorships. Pick a tyrant at random, and you will find that his principal foreign backer" is Communist China.

  Mosher lists some of the countries that China has brought into this network. Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "may not be welcome in most Western capitals, but he is feted in Beijing" and accorded rare privileges. China uses its seat on the UN Security Council to oppose sanctions against Iran, and "Iran is reportedly being used as a conduit for advanced weapons and weapons technology from China" that are finding their way to Iraq to kill our soldiers.

  Since China rescued Cambodia with $600 million in grants and loans after the World Bank threatened to cut off aid because of violations of civil liberties, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that his country's relations with China are "entering into the best stage in history."

  The International Monetary Fund tried to get oil-rich Angola to slash graft and improve economic management, but China came to the rescue by offering $6 billion in loans and credits on condition that Chinese firms rebuild Angola's important oil infrastructure.

  China has been courting Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who now says that Beijing and Caracas have forged a "strategic alliance."

  Mosher points out that China goes after democracies, too, with "a potent combination of state-driven investment, trade, arms sales and aid (including bribes to high officials and secret subsidies to political parties). China's aim is to cement "the allegiance of governing elites to Beijing."

  Leaders in dozens of small countries have cozied up to China "in return for football stadiums, public works projects, exchange programs, and generous aid packages." Mosher said the result is that "China's brand of National Socialism and its disdain for human rights has begun to infect local leaders, and anti-American rhetoric is on the rise."

Update on U.S. Expectations about China

• The prevailing thinking in Washington, DC is that trade with China will encourage both economic and democratic reforms and bring the former Communist dictatorship into the so-called family of nations. There is little evidence to support that theory since China still practices population control abhorrent to civilized people as well as tight censorship. Mosher reminds us that there isn't a single known dissident in China who is not in jail or in exile, and the Chinese Communist Party ordered its members to study a book entitled Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin Discuss Materialism and Atheism.

  Mosher says that China is attempting to create a world which "pays tribute to China's preeminence and preferentially sends its raw materials to Chinese ports, a world in which corrupt oligarchies rule and human rights are relegated to the dustbin of history."

  Chinese strategists predict that it is not China, but the United States that will change, that the U.S. will "transition away from capitalism . . . toward some type of socialist market economy."

  America should wake up and realize that Communist China is not a friend and not merely a trading partner. China is determined to become the world's one and only superpower, and China is building its military power with American dollars.