CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - Time for a second Declaration of Independence – this time from Communist China
Originally posted by AND Magazine
The United States is in bad shape. Economically, politically, socially, and militarily, we are getting weaker. There are a lot of reasons for this, but at the heart of them all is the same bad actor, the Chinese Communist Party. From 1945 until 1991, when the Soviet Union finally disintegrated, we kept our eye on the ultimate prize. We formed alliances worldwide to contain the Russian Communists. We maintained a military force of a size never before fielded by our nation in peacetime. We challenged the Soviets, walled them off, and finally consigned them to the dustbin of history. We ought to have done the same with the Chinese Communists. We did not. Under the cover of the rationalization that we would liberalize the CCP by doing business…Open