We need to respond to China much more aggressively, but primarily in a nonmilitary sense. We need to jettison and leave for dead notions of diversity and inclusion and identity politics in the military. The military should be almost singularly minded and focused on being effective. Our enemies should be terrified of our military. We need to keep modernizing and strengthening our military assets. We need to recruit the toughest, most focused, most patriotic service men and women we can get our hands on. And we need to discharge people from the military who lack patriotism or are in the military for social justice or any other purpose other than defending our country and destroying our enemies.
We are at war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) right now. The CCP is not our competitor; it is our enemy. They are deliberately poisoning our children with fentanyl, and are killing more Americans each year than we have lost in most wars. They are bribing our government officials, including President Biden and Mitch McConnell, and deliberately undermining American strength, wholesomeness, and sovereignty. There are many things Americans should be doing to respond beyond strengthening its military and getting rid of military personnel such as general Milley and other social justice engineers. Here are some of the things we could be doing to hit back at China, as well as other countries that are harming the US.
— We should expel or revoke the student visas for the overwhelming majority of Chinese college students. China sends the largest group of students to our colleges and universities each year. We generously allow over 300,000 students from China to study in the US each year. [This does not include students from Taiwan, who should be warmly welcomed]. I suggest that we go down from about 300,000 Chinese students a year in the US to about 5,000, which is about the number of students the European countries send to the US each year. A significant number of the Chinese college students are spies or are capable of undermining US institutions. We do not need them here.
— Close all Chinese police stations in the US and forbid any new ones from being established. China actually has the gall to put police stations in foreign countries. This practice should be rejected.
— Ban the CCP and China from owning farmland or other real property in the US, either directly or indirectly. China should not be allowed to own farmland, oil wells, buildings, or other assets in the US, directly or indirectly.
— Close any Chinese consulates implicated in spying. The Trump administration closed one consulate in Texas for spying. We should close any other Chinese consulates implicated in spying.
— Disclose investments by China in US universities and other institutions or in US political campaigns. Secret Chinese investments in US universities and other US institutions or in any US political campaigns, state or federal, should be banned and treated as felony criminal activity. US individuals and entities who receive such investments without promptly and properly declaring them should also be considered to have committed felonies.
— Any US person who knowingly sells or provides US military technology to China should be deemed guilty both of a felony and of sedition. It is literally traitorous to give China military secrets.
— US pension funds should be banned from investing directly in China or in Chinese companies operating or located in China.
— First Chinese death tax. At this point, the US does not need to investigate any further whether China spread the COVID virus to the rest of the world. Whether it bio-engineered the virus or not, we are 100% certain that China deliberately slowed transmission of the virus in China, while intentionally spreading the virus to the US and the rest of the world. The US should simply impose a death tax on China of something like $500,000 per US citizen who died of COVID. This money should simply be subtracted from any debt the US supposedly owes to China. US vaccines also should not be made available to China, since China did not cooperate by providing information to help make those vaccines.
— Second Chinese tax. The US should impose a tax on China for every person that dies from fentanyl poisoning. Since China is deliberately supplying the chemicals to make fentanyl to the Mexican drug cartels, knowing that the chemicals will be used to kill Americans, we should tax China and Mexico for each such death, reducing debt or aid payments accordingly. For each American who dies of fentanyl poisoning, we should tax China and Mexico 1 million dollars. This can simply be taken off any US debt or can be used to reduce any foreign aid, while the US takes credit for having made such payments.
— The US should create massive incentives and disincentives to get most of US manufacturing out of China. Let’s move our manufacturing to Central and South America, automating heavily to ensure quality, to give Central and South Americans noncorrupt work they can do in their own countries, so they do not need to illegally migrate to the US for jobs and welfare payments. Nothing important for the US should be made in China, such as antibiotics and computer chips. Let’s right off China until it radically alters its behavior towards the US and the rest of the world.
— Let’s significantly ramp up US energy production of all kinds, including liquid natural gas and other hydrocarbons as well as nuclear to become overwhelmingly energy dominant. Let’s sell our energy to allies, such as Europeans and Canada, while refusing to sell to China or at inflated prices, and other adversaries.
— Let’s ban the sale of all Chinese products in the US made in whole or in part in concentration camps or with slave or child labor – whether in China, in North Korea, or anywhere else.
— Let’s ramp up munitions production in the US on an emergency basis and quickly arm Taiwan so that it bristles with US weaponry. We should give Taiwan long range missiles, so Taiwan can hit Beijing directly with a massive attack if China invades Taiwan.
— If China invades Taiwan, the US should look into taking out the governments of Venezuela and Cuba.
— The US should ban the use of any Chinese technology in its infrastructure.
— The US should ban Chinese companies from being listed on US stock exchanges.
— The US should limit the number of Chinese that are allowed to immigrate to the US.
— The US and its allies in the South China sea could begin to militarize their own islands to provide bases for military operations and power projection if needed, just as China has. Let’s adopt an official policy that the US and its allies will militarize an island for every island China militarizes. That might get the CCP to stop doing it.
— US allies that are too cozy with the CCP and China, that will not condemn Chinese genocide and child labor, or that are trying to keep their options open because they are cowardly or opportunistic, should be subject to US sanctions. As shown by the above list, the US has numerous nonmilitary actions it can take to strike back at the CCP, which is literally treating the US as its enemy. We should be fully prepared for war, but we do not have to engage in actual military conflict to strongly signal to the CCP about our extreme displeasure with its hateful conduct towards the US. Even a subset of the nonmilitary responses detailed above would send a powerful message. If Biden would stop stuffing CCP money in his pocket, he could review this list and perhaps take actions that actually help his country instead of constantly undermining his own country and taxpayers. The CCP and China are the closest thing we have seen to Nazi Germany since WWII. The CCP is hostile, expansionistic, engaged in genocide and slave labor, and perfectly willing to kill its enemies through undeclared, asymmetrical warfare. US policy makers and companies need to desperately wake up and get a lot more aggressive in countering China. It is their moral, constitutional, and political duty.
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