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This piece of drivel from World News Daily is just about too ridiculous
to share.<br>
Ok it IS too ridiculous to share, but it does provide insight into the <br>
extreme jingoism that afflicts some people in the USA<br>
and provides some of the xenophobic undercurrent that supports
militarism and war.<br>
<br>
There are America-first-ers who will consume this poisonous catcrap
with great relish <br>
To their Islamophobia and triskaidekaphobia they can add Sinophobia and
<font color="#000000" face="new gothic nt">Consecotaleophobia.</font><br>
<br>
So I offer with great apology ---<br>
<br>
<i>"The Chinese aren't innovators; they're thieves. They aren't world
power; they're a world bully. They aren't an expanding economy; they're
a slave-labor command market. They aren't a rival; they're a military
and socio-political opponent with a long history of enmity to every
ideal held by right-thinking Americans."<br>
<br>
(pant, pant...)<br>
</i><br>
China's nationalist kleptomania<br>
by Phil Elmore<br>
Posted: January 27, 20111:00 am Eastern<br>
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It's been difficult to be a proud American over the last several days.
When U.S. citizens weren't hammered by the incessant media drumbeat
concerning the rise of "rival" China, the expansion of the Chinese
economy, the seemingly imminent global supremacy of China as a military
power, a sea power, a manufacturing power, a superpower, we were
watching the Chinese humiliate our leaders. President Obama gave his
State of the Union address recently, which served as a line break at
the end of this degrading paragraph in national history. He spent that
address lying to the American people, proclaiming all income and
endeavor the property of government. His message was clear: You will be
allowed to earn, to make, to keep and to do only what your government
grudgingly permits you – and America, in turn, will make do with the
crumbs from its new Chinese masters' table.<br>
<br>
The last straw, at least in terms of propriety, was the playing of an
anti-American war anthem by a Chinese pianist during the state visit of
Chinese "President" Hu Jintao. (Hu is more accurately termed China's
"paramount leader." As general secretary of the Communist Party, he is
the ChiCom's highest authority; calling him "president" is
euphemistic.) Americans have by now become accustomed to Obama's
sniveling obeisance to foreign leaders. It was not a surprise when our
community organizer in chief bowed and scraped in greeting Hu, nor was
it a shock when Obama claimed the American people "welcome China's
rise." There was no doubt in any observer's mind that Obama's warm
greeting to Hu was that of a cowed debtor attempting to curry favor
with his chief creditor. China owns vast quantities of U.S. debt
precisely because this gives it power over us – and it is pushing for
the Chinese yuan to replace the U.S. dollar as the world's currency
standard.<br>
<br>
Americans know all this. No, what bothered decent people most was not
that the Chinese leader had deigned to make his presence known so that
Obama could kiss Hu Jintao's ring. It was that the Chinese delegates'
histrionics were, essentially, rudely rubbing our noses in China's
looming threat to American exceptionalism. As their red star rises, our
faded stars and stripes are doomed to fall. China, so dynamic, so
vibrant, so powerful, seems poised to crush all resistance; Americans
are, our media says or implies, already relegated to the position of
also-ran, destined to be pitied or tolerated as global economic
opportunity passes them by. That is the mantra chanted by foreign press
and domestic media alike.<br>
<br>
The truth is that China has, at every turn, achieved its position in
the world through theft, espionage and murder. Totalitarian states are
notoriously unresponsive to their subjects' true needs, legitimate
dissent or individual rights. They do, however, get things done.<br>
<br>
Most of the time, the Chinese method of "getting things done" is
stealing. They sold more cars than the U.S. in January of last year.
(Keep in mind that General Motors sold more cars in China than in the
U.S. last year, too.) But how have the Chinese achieved such great
strides in automobile manufacturing and sales? They've copied Western
autmobiles. They've copied everything from luxury cars to the smallest
of compact cars. They even copied the Hummer, that quintessential
symbol of American vehicular and military excess – because they
couldn't conceive of its equal themselves.<br>
<br>
Recent Chinese military advancements are no different. China previously
copied the obsolete Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker" fighter. This is part of
what Pravda has asserted (echoing a Wall Street Journal report) is a
campaign to "disrupt military balance globally" by selling "cheap
rip-offs of Russian weaponry" to developing states. China's newest
military aircraft, purported to be a stealth fighter, is visibly a copy
of the United States' F-22 Raptor. The Chinese have had ample
opportunity both to recover the technology and to use espionage to
further their understanding of it.<br>
<br>
There is almost no market that Chinese thieving has not affected. From
handbags to microchips, from inkjet cartridges to counterfeit art
treasures, there isn't a thing in the world not now made in China –
legally or illegally. While the thefts of military technology are the
most disturbing, every one of these expressions of China's global
economic kleptomania is damaging to greater or lesser degree. We seldom
ask, though, just why the Chinese steal.<br>
<br>
Not too long ago, Judith Apter Klinghoffer wrote that Communist China
"has hit the innovation roadblock." She explains that a society that
prevents freedom of expression and the exchange of ideas – a
totalitarian state like China, whose human rights abuses abound –
cannot compete with free societies. The latter encourage innovation,
while the former suppress it. "If Chinese military buildup is moving
faster than some expected," she indicts, "it is because 'European
nations have been selling China hundreds of millions of dollars worth
of dual use military equipment each year, but as long as the embargo is
in force, explicitly military gear can only be sold under the table and
smuggled in.'" The "Chinese totalitarian system," she writes, "depends
on continued democratic aid."<br>
<br>
In other words, China steals what it wants but cannot produce. Obama
and his ilk help the Chinese cut our throats by selling China our debts
and absorbing without protest its nationalist antagonism. The proof is
found in the patent system, which until recently the Chinese largely
ignored as inconvenient. Despite a huge increase in patent applications
from China, the director of the Beijing Intellectual Property Institute
says that "valid patents in China accounted for less than half of the 6
million patents granted, and two-thirds of the valid patents consisted
of design and utility patents." What this means is that many of the
patents are worthless.<br>
<br>
The Chinese aren't innovators; they're thieves. They aren't world
power; they're a world bully. They aren't an expanding economy; they're
a slave-labor command market. They aren't a rival; they're a military
and socio-political opponent with a long history of enmity to every
ideal held by right-thinking Americans.<br>
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