As I have mentioned in previous Townhall articles, I lived about ten years of my life in Communist China (2011 to 2021). I am also an historian by trade and have done extensive studies in Chinese history, especially since the communist takeover in 1949. I do not necessarily consider myself a Chinese “scholar,” but I do think my studies and life experience give me some insights into that country. Take my historical studies and ten years living in the country however you will.
I want to say, up front, that there are some very good people in China. Some of my best friends on this planet now live in China and they are grand people. Don’t judge all Chinese people by the CCP. That would be grossly unfair. I still teach online English classes to a few Chinese students and I enjoy those students very much.
The problem is, China is a two-tiered society, like the Democratic Party is trying to create in America. That’s part of the Left’s ideology—elitism—and it has set up that kind of society wherever it has gained power (e.g., the Soviet Union’s “nomenklatura.” China has one, too, believe me.).
China has basically two classes of people, what I call the “master” class and the “slave” class. I, of course, was one of the slaves while I was there, thus had no rights at all, except what the government gave me. And when the government decided to take away my rights, I had nowhere to appeal; appealing to a government that gives you whatever rights you have in the first place won’t get you very far. Only a system, like the one set up by America’s Founders, where the people’s rights are superior to government’s, does the individual have any chance against tyranny. Our Founders knew that, most Americans today don’t. And the Chinese don’t know it, either, because they’ve never lived under such a system.
The “slaves” in China are the “good people” I talked about; they are just trying to raise families, make a living, have a decent existence. The “masters” are those who rule—not just government, but anyone with “power,” whether it be Xi Jinping, a business owner, a local guard at a school—they run the country, or their petty fiefdom, and they’ll do whatever they want to, and, again, there exists no right of appeal.
The “master” class in China is composed of thieves, liars, cheats, thugs, the scum of the earth. I know that from history, I know it from personal experience. In the last two jobs I had in China, I worked for Chinese employers (my first two jobs were with Western schools/companies). The two Chinese employers lied to me repeatedly, cheated me, literally stole thousands of dollars from me (and my brand-new computer)—in other words, exploited my labor and treated me like a slave. I sued, in a Chinese court, one of those employers who stole the most from me. Do I need to tell you how a Chinese judge decided the case? I didn’t get a penny. I left China three years ago, during the middle of a contract, when I got tired of being robbed and lied to by the Chinese scum I was working for.
It doesn’t just happen to foreigners, folks. Since I’ve been in Thailand, I have talked to several former students who are now working on the Chinese economy, and they tell me the exact same story—their employers are ripping them off, stealing from them, and lying to them incessantly. That’s the Left, that’s communism, that’s the “elite”—they do whatever they can get away with. And, as one of these former students told me, “the government doesn’t give a s**t.” Of course it doesn’t. The Chinese government cares nothing about its people being robbed because the Chinese government cares about only one thing—power. I feel sorry for the Chinese people, I really do.
I think Mr. Trump, so far, is handling the tariff issue very well. His recent announcement of a 90-day moratorium on most tariffs is brilliant because it gives countries an opportunity to work out a fair-trade deal. Trump, as all Americans should be, is tired of our country getting cheated by foreign nations. Any country that cheats should be penalized. Let’s talk. Let’s work out a fair-trade deal, equitable to the countries we are negotiating with. If they cheat, crucify them. Lots of countries are willing to talk now, and that’s excellent.
But not China. The CCP doesn’t want to talk because the CCP wants economic dominance, especially over America, its greatest enemy. As Elon Musk recently pointed out, the Chinese haven’t invented anything since the communist takeover in 1949. All they’ve done is steal, lie, cheat, and borrow their way to economic “prosperity.” The Chinese economy is not built on market-based, consumer-driven spending, it’s been built upon theft and lying. But that’s what the Left does, folks. It steals, it cheats, it lies, because Marxist policies do not work; stealing, cheating, lying, and tyranny are their only possible roads to power.
It’s also why the Democratic Party doesn’t want tax cuts for Americans. It wants your money because your money means more power for them. And the Left cares nothing for people; it cares only for power.
Thomas Sowell brilliantly wrote, “I haven’t been able to find a single country in the world where the policies that are being advocated for blacks in the United States have lifted any people out of poverty.” But the Democratic Party cares nothing about lifting black people out of poverty, they only want to KEEP them there—masters over slaves. Power. Elite tyranny. I lived it for 10 years in China and I see it plainly in the Democratic Party in America.
Don’t give an inch to those thugs in China, Mr. Trump. Or to the Democratic Party thugs in America.
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