Well, why not, madam secretary? The United States should be holding the Chinese economy back. In fact, we should be doing more than just that. Washington should be trying to end the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is time to declare a “people’s war” against the CCP. We are in an us-or-them fight.
That phrase carries great meaning.
What exactly are “multiple forms of struggle and combat methods”? Although it denies doing so, China’s regime is conducting “unrestricted warfare” against the United States.
Most Americans have chosen not to see the Chinese regime’s hatred of the United States. Those who have noticed are probably perplexed by its overheated rhetoric.
Why should Americans be concerned?
The Party, with strident anti-Americanism, is establishing a justification to strike the United States. As James Lilley, the great American ambassador to Beijing, said, the Chinese always telegraph their punches. They are now telegraphing punches.
They are telegraphing punches when their country is facing severe economic and other problems. For ideological reasons—Xi Jinping is a Maoist at heart—China’s leader is unwilling to adopt those measures that would stabilize the situation. Instead, he is pursuing strategies that are clearly making matters worse.
As Mr. Xi’s regime telegraphs punches, U.S. President Joe Biden appears oblivious.
Going one step further, President Biden wished his Chinese counterpart well.
“I want to see China succeed economically,” the president said.
“That’s not good, because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things,” he noted.
Mr. Sullivan and others are willing to impose, for instance, technology sanctions on China, but they are largely ineffective. The general approach of the Biden administration is to prohibit transfers of technology to military-related parties in China—that’s the reference to “small yard”—but allow transfers to nominally civilian parties.
The United States cannot enforce Mr. Sullivan’s “high fence,” unfortunately.
Mr. Xi has a policy of “military-civilian fusion,” which means that anything a civilian organization possesses can be—and is—pipelined to the Chinese military. In the Communist Party’s top-down system, every individual and entity in China must obey every Party order.
Why would Commerce ever think SMIC would keep that promise? The only realistic solution is to treat all Chinese parties as one and prevent tech transfers to all of them.
Mr. Xi’s regime is mobilizing all of the country’s civilians for war. The Chinese leader never misses an opportunity to talk about it. China’s regime is clearly planning to wage “kinetic” war—the type Americans are used to seeing in the movies—on the United States.
Obviously, American parties, especially businesses, should not be enabling the Chinese regime to kill Americans. This means they should not be engaging in any transaction that can strengthen any part of China. We should think of all of China as military.
Americans should take their enemy as it is, not the way they would like it to be. So Secretary Raimondo needs to say that, yes, the United States will take all measures to defend itself from China. And President Biden must start telling the world that China is the United States’ enemy.
Yes, Americans have been warned. All of China is one military machine, so it is time to declare an American “people’s war” on the Chinese Communist Party.