[Peace-discuss] "think about the hate there is in Red China..."

[E. Wayne Johnson]

This piece of drivel from World News Daily is just about too ridiculous 
to share.
Ok it IS too ridiculous to share, but it does provide insight into the
extreme jingoism that afflicts some people in the USA
and provides some of the xenophobic undercurrent that supports 
militarism and war.

There are America-first-ers who will consume this poisonous catcrap with 
great relish
To their Islamophobia and triskaidekaphobia they can add Sinophobia and 
Consecotaleophobia.

So I offer with great apology ---

/"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."

(pant, pant...)
/
China's nationalist kleptomania
by Phil Elmore
Posted: January 27, 20111:00 am Eastern
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255913 
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255913>

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Read more: China's nationalist kleptomania 
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255913#ixzz1CI4IBb6W

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