Xi Jinping is Right About the United States Empire By Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2023-11-18 at 22:06:28 )

Xi Jinping is Right About the United States Empire By Jacob G. Hornberger!

On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinpings current visit to the United States, the New York Times published an article detailing some of Xis thoughts about the United States.

The article states:

In Mr. Xis telling, China sought to rise peacefully, but Western powers would not accept the idea that a Communist-led China was catching up and could someday overtake them in global primacy. The West would never stop trying to derail Chinas ascent and topple its Communist Party, he said in speeches to the military that are largely unreported by the media.

In 2015, Xi told military commanders: "Some Western countries absolutely never want to see a socialist China grow strong under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party."

The Times writes that Xis speeches "voiced an almost fatalistic conviction - that Chinas rise would prompt a backlash from Western rivals seeking to maintain their dominance." Xi told Chinese Air Force officers in 2014, "The faster we develop, the bigger the external shock will be, and the greater the strategic blowback." According to the Times, "In Mr. Xis worldview, the West has sought to subvert the Chinese Communist Partys power at home and contain the countrys influence abroad."

The problem, one that all too many Americans are loathe to confront, is that Xi Jinping is right about the United States Empire.

Throughout history, empires have loathed rivals, opponents, adversaries, and competitors. They do everything they can to prevent them from rising, including the imposition of harmful economic measures but even going so far as to initiate wars against them, all with the aim of weakening what they perceive as a rising rival to their empire.

Of course, such measures inevitably also damage the people living in the empire, but the idea is that the empire, because it is already economically stronger, can withstand the economic deprivation better than the targeted nation, which ordinarily has a lower standard of living.

For decades after the Communist Party took control over China, the Party established and maintained a strict socialist system, one in which the government owned and controlled most everything. The result was massive poverty across the land, which, of course, meant a Chinese communist government with relatively few resources.

Then a few decades ago, China began liberalizing its economy, permitting the Chinese people to engage in economic enterprise, engage in trade, open businesses, and accumulate large amounts of wealth. The result was a tremendous increase in economic prosperity.

For a time, Americans celebrated this economic phenomenon. And why not? For decades, many Americans had criticized Chinas socialist system precisely because it generated so much poverty among the Chinese people. Now the standard of living of people was soaring. Why would everyone not celebrate the fact that people in other parts of the world are escaping poverty?

Moreover, the rising prosperity in China meant that the Chinese people were increasingly able to purchase goods and services from Americans. The resulting trade made everyone better off.

But the United States Empire - specifically, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA - saw trouble in all this. That is because Chinas economic prosperity meant vast new tax revenues for the Chinese communist regime - resources that enabled the regime to increase the size of its military and also to increase its influence around the world.

During the 20 years that the United States government was waging war against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, China had no such burden.

Rather than using its tax revenues to kill large numbers of people, as the United States Empire was doing, China was using them to expand its influence around the world by helping countries with big, grandiose socialist projects.

Thus, in the eyes of the United States national-security establishment, Chinas rise posed a grave threat to its post-Cold War role as the worlds sole remaining empire.

Something had to be done to bring China down, even if it harmed the American people at the same time.

By suppressing Chinas economic prosperity, the empire aimed to diminish the amount of tax revenues flowing into the Chinese governments coffers, thereby limiting its ability to expand its military and its influence around the world.

It is just the way empires have always worked!!

Questions naturally arises though for the United States of American people: Is it right for the United States government to be wreaking economic damage on the people of another country??

Indeed, is it right for the United States government to even be an empire?

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!