Landers, CA – During the dark days of World War II, when the
racist, hateful, violent and barbaric hordes of the Nazi’s and the Imperial
Japanese Empire were sweeping the globe, in one of the few remaining islands of
freedom and capitalism, Great Britain, a symbol of defiance and optimism
emerged, the famous sign of the two uplifted fingers making a “V” for victory.
As the years have passed, as the World War and then the Cold
War ended in defeats of socialism, communism, and racism, and the world has
turned to fighting smaller, less dangerous wars which hinge more on the
interests of the world’s only superpower, the United States of America, and
less on the survival of capitalism, Christianity, and freedom, the symbol of
the two fingers raised in a “V” has come to mean peace. The peace symbol.
The President of the People’s Republic of China, (an
oxymoron, he is a dictator, not a president, it is not a Republic, and it
certainly is not run by the people), Xi, is on his way to visit to the White
House. Putting aside for a moment the debate about whether a twenty-one gun
salute should be fired for a man who hates freedom so much he only allows the
people of his country one child per family, there are larger things at stake
here that the White House and the Obama administration need to recognize.
The first one is that China is not our friend. They are
enemies of our ally, Japan, and are seeking to gain control and to subjugate
our ally of Taiwan, while they remain in control, against the people’s wishes,
in Hong Kong. China is a country where liberty is no sacred, where they rely on
aggression, and where they care very little about the planet, spewing out carbon at a rate worthy of some eighteen hundred coal refinery.
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| Mr. Xi Jinping, the communist, hatemongering leader of the anti-freedom rouge state of China |
In recent months China has hacked the US government multiple
times, and although Xi, who always was a bad liar, says his country had nothing
to do with it, there is evidence to the contrary.
China has a weak economy, as any country that does not rely
on capitalism is destined to have. Their leaders are overbearing and even
access to the internet is strictly controlled. The freedom of the press is not
allowed and free elections are only a pipe dream.
But the fact is that China, with its over one billion person
population is a nation very much on the rise in many people’s eyes. They are a
growing nuclear power, and they are a huge market which many would love to sell
to. So, thus, our president refuses to see China for what it is, a threat to
global stability, and at best rouge state, at worst a terrorist one.
Nobody wants a war with China, not even a cold one. But
conflict must certainly come, either in the form of war and blood spilled as it
was with Japan and Germany, or in the form of a long stalemate, as it was with
Russia, unless China backs down, realizes there is no rewards for aggression,
and becomes a country worthy of the respect of the world, which, at the moment,
it does not have, nor should it.
No one, including myself, looks happily on either of these
possibilities. The West, with its huge heart, would prefer to be taking in the
millions of refugees from the east rather than fighting trade wars or real wars
with China.
But what we must realize, what we have to be certain our
elected officials understand, is that losing is not an option. We cannot back
down. We have the moral high ground, and as the Chinese dragon advances, we
have to hold that high ground. The only one who can concede, the only one that
can surrender, is them. Their brand of tyranny must crumple up and cease to
exist, just as all before them have.
We love peace, and we love to make the peace symbol. But we
have to remember that we are only at peace today because we were victorious
yesterday, and our children will only be at peace if we are victorious now.
As the president meets with Xi, Mr. Obama needs to remember
that he is not talking to an ally; he is not talking to someone who likes us.
He is talking to an international enemy of freedom. And Mr. Obama needs to
remember, and indeed he should probably tell Xi this in their talks, that
America is going to win this one like they’ve won all the others. We aren’t
backing up, we aren’t giving in, and we are going to have peace, even if it
means peace while standing over a few dead dragons.
Andrew C. Abbott
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