It’s Time To Acknowledge The Truth About China

American Thinker 

In a world filled with challenges, threats, and dire enemies, it’s easy to lump them all into a single bucket labeled “future priorities.” Unfortunately, the reality is that we’ve been kicking far too many of those “future priorities” down the road, likely leaving America to face several nightmare scenarios at once.

President Donald Trump is not the first president to understand the threats we face, but he is the first in a very long time to decide to do something about them and no longer defer action. Delays will only make matters worse, and the American people are unlikely to be supportive after generations of getting by while letting major issues fester.

A list of our challenges is daunting:

• The national debt
• Growing numbers of Americans believe socialism is superior to capitalism, and that almost everything can be obtained without effort
• Millions of unassimilated immigrants threaten to derail what used to be understood to be standard and essential American mores.
• China has co-opted our manufacturing sector, often using theft, massive government subsidies, and slave labor
• Radical Islam abroad and, increasingly, at home.
• The rise of expansionist countries that seek to end America’s preeminent status, a status that has elevated the standard of living across the globe.

No threat, not even that of Russia, which has designs on Europe, is as great as the one China presents. China, with its vast natural resources, giant population, and disciplined, ruthless government that thinks in terms of centuries, not quarters, has identified our various soft spots and intends to confront us and ultimately dominate us at every level and opportunity. China is willing to incur massive losses, spend whatever it takes, and take whatever time it takes to accomplish its objectives. China wants to dominate and surpass us on every single level of importance. The question is: What are we willing to do about it?

Nothing happens in China unless it is approved and part of Xi’s plan to win his 100-year war. Each of the following events originated in China and represents a deliberate plan:

• China has killed roughly 500,000 Americans over the last ten years with fentanyl. China has been the sole source of the precursor chemicals and could stop their production and distribution in a heartbeat, but it will not. Fentanyl is a weapon deliberately used to weaken our society.
• China’s Belt and Road Initiative has as its primary focus containing American influence and power, replacing the U.S. as the world’s leading economic power, including its vital status as the world’s Reserve Currency.
• China uses economic coercion and trade leverage—tariffs, export controls, investment screening, and targeted sanctions or threats to market access— to influence U.S. policy choices or corporate behavior.
• China’s cyber operations and espionage are state-sponsored intrusions aimed at intellectual property theft, data collection, and operational disruption of critical infrastructure. These range from commercial espionage to targeted hacks of government and private networks
• China uses transnational repression and coercion (intimidation, surveillance, or pressure on diaspora critics, journalists, and dissidents abroad) to silence dissent and influence communities. This includes leveraging platforms like WeChat to monitor and pressure individuals. China has been caught operating “Police Stations” in several American cities!
• China funds political and institutional influence, creating partnerships and academic or cultural programs that create favorable access or shape elite opinion; also, covert attempts to cultivate proxies.
• China seeks to kill Americans through covert means, including sending thousands of tons of Ammonium Perchlorate to Iran for rocket fuel, technology to produce deadly drones, military hardware to our enemies, and targeted espionage inside our homeland on a scale not to be believed. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly stated the FBI opens a new China-related counterintelligence case “roughly every 10 hours,” and that the Bureau now treats China as its top counterintelligence priority, with thousands of active cases.
• China is responsible for counterfeiting American currency and aids and abets transnational criminal groups that steal the identities of millions of Americans and engage in massive fraud against American citizens. Fake Chinese websites steal billions of dollars each year from Americans.
• China’s role in the COVID outbreak remains a mystery, but some, perhaps many experts, believe that COVID-19 was created as a potential bio-weapon program. In any case, COVID disrupted America’s economy and changed its political trajectory.

The above is a partial list of China’s many malign and devious endeavors to weaken America and dominate us. We have been their patsies for too long. While this may be news to you, it is not news to our leaders.

Many critics and analysts observe that Washington has long treated Beijing’s harmful actions with a mixture of public rebuke and private restraint, even as evidence accumulates that a range of Chinese state and state-adjacent activities have inflicted real harm on the United States. They point to many of the items I bulleted above, which the U.S. complains about but, other than Trump’s tariff efforts (which the D.C. Swamp hates), leaves unaddressed.

No wonder many argue that the U.S. government fully understands the scope of the problem but views economic ties and diplomatic stability, no matter the downsides for America, as a lesser risk than a more forceful confrontation. Critics call for tougher, more coordinated measures to protect national security and public health to little avail.

Reclaiming our sovereignty requires a coordinated whole-of-government and society strategy: secure critical supply chains and domestic manufacturing, harden cyber and law-enforcement capabilities, tighten financial and export controls, rebuild alliances for collective pressure, and invest in community resilience and public health responses. These steps are practical, scalable, and already reflected in President Trump’s recent U.S. policy efforts on supply chain resilience and overdose prevention.

The more existential question is who, other than President Trump, is willing to confront China on such a broad and consequential scale? No one’s saying it, but China intends to make America a vassal state. The Chinese don’t want us destroyed; they want us as a vital market for their products, while dominating us politically, militarily, and socially.

They are well on the way. Other than President Trump and a few other Senators and Representatives, greatly in the minority, few see China as the danger it represents and have the resolve to explain to the American people how dire the situation is because it removes the veil on our past decisions and actions that have led us to the weakened position we find ourselves in today.

The stark reality is that people don’t want to be bothered by anything that intrudes on their perception of reality, which is almost totally false and self-serving. When President Trump is gone, who will pick up the mantle?

God Bless America!