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#ClimateChange “the biggest top threat to our national security”? Only if you are living in an alternative universe where China does not exist.
In the actual universe we inhabit, China is working toward becoming the world’s preeminent military and economic power.
“Since the accession of Xi Jinping to leadership in Beijing five years ago, China has stepped up its drive to expand the reach of its armed forces and leap ahead of the United States in technologies crucial to 21st-century warfare.”
Simultaneously, China is engaging in economic warfare against the United States. This involves:
… protecting its home market from American imports with high tariffs, tricky non-tariff barriers, and costly, constantly changing regulations.
… subsidizing the exports of government-owned “national champions” to crush its free market competitors and dominate global markets.
… preying on weak counties, locking up their natural resources with “debt traps” in an obvious effort to gain a global stranglehold on key resources like bauxite, copper, nickel, and rare earths. These monopolies are not only being used to fuel China’s industrial machine, but to punish those countries who would oppose its predatory policies.
… subsidizing manufacturing with cheap loans and cheap energy, and also by turning a blind eye to environment, health and safety standards. Because of its cheating, it already dominates industries ranging from ship production and refrigerators, to color TV sets, air conditioners, and computers.
… stealing key technologies and intellectual property from the United States and other countries. These activities range from cyberespionage and forced technology transfer down to massive open-source collection and plain-old physical theft.
And if that is not enough to make China “the biggest top threat to our national security,” China is also the major source of fentanyl in the United States. In other words, China is poisoning tens of thousands of Americans annually.
