Opinion
What Do You do When You Live in a Totalitarian Country?
By Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D.
Jun 29, 2008, 14:11

            The girl's family said there was evidence she had been raped

            and most likely murdered. Three suspects who had been seen

            with the girl shortly before she disappeared were brought in

            for questioning but released the next day. Two of the suspects are

            relatives of local public security officials, the reports said.

            Last week, the girl's uncle went to the public security bureau

            but was severely beaten by people who relatives believe are

            connected to the police, according to Internet reports. The uncle

            reportedly died from his injuries Saturday afternoon…

            Jill Drew, The Washington Post, Sunday, June 29, 2008

Ever since President Nixon played what was then called “the China card,” America’s foreign policy toward communist China, officially known as the Peoples Republic of China, has been one of accommodation.

“The communist Party governs the country, so why do anything but live with them,” seems to be the general rule.  Besides, Americans trade with the PRC and vice versa to the advantage of the economies of both countries.

Occasionally you hear voices from the Defense Establishment of the United States that we’re trading with a potential enemy, one that flexes its muscles periodically as when the PRC launched a spy satellite and then shot it down with an intercontinental ballistic missile.  “This time our satellite, next time yours” was the message that the PRC sent to the U.S. Department of Defense even as Communist China attempted to seduce the world by hosting the Olympics.

Adolph Hitler did the same the 1936 Olympics so many years ago that we don’t remember anything more than the gold medal won by non-Aryan Jesse Owens. 

Those of us who have been critical of the Bush Administration’s imperial foreign policy toward Iraq have to justify changing America’s foreign policy toward Communist China and we do so in these terms:  The PRC is a totalitarian regime that carefully balances trade against long term military/political objectives.  Long term the PRC seeks to dominate South Korea, the Republic of China and Japan.  Radical military elites in the PRC have broadcast their abilities to destroy Los Angeles with nuclear weapons.  The United States doesn’t take such threats seriously as long as the current Communist leadership keeps the PRC military Establishment in check.

Fifty years from now, however, when the PRC invades Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, what will the United States do?

Fortunately, the people of China know right from wrong and today protested against the Chinese regime’s toleration of murder and rape.