Dakota Beacon

America is struggling with an economy hijacked by the coronavirus which was imported unwittingly from China.  Most of us want to hold the government of China accountable for this.  Let’s look at what they’ve done:

1. They were researching deadly bat viruses in their Level 4 bioweapons virology lab in Wuhan (supported financially by the Obama administration and, in fact, Canada)..  

2. They either allowed a virus to escape through carelessness or deliberately.

3. Knowing that there was a fast-spreading virus burning through Wuhan, the government prohibited travel from Wuhan to other places in China, but allowed travel from Wuhan to all other places throughout the world - which indicates that they knew they were spreading a deadly virus to other nations.

4. They lied about its ability to be transmitted from human to human, encouraging the fiction that it was only transmitted from wild bats or pangolins, etc., to humans - a fluke.

5. They co-opted the WHO into their intrigue and the WHO went on to give disastrous advice to the nations of the world which had been supporting and trusting in it.

6. Taiwan learned early on that the virus was being transmitted human to human and warned the WHO and the world.

7. China severely punished some doctors who discovered the transmissibility of the virus and its characteristics which resembled SARS and suppressed their efforts to warn the rest of the world as well as their fellow citizens in China - we know they threatened doctors and intimidated them, even while they knew these doctors were right.

8. Once the virus was well-established in other nations, the trading partners and allies of China first and worst, the Chinese communist government blamed the United States military.

9. China had refused medical assistance offered by the United States and others, and continues to refuse to allow experts into China to research the virus.

10. China has expelled journalists from the country.

11. In response to the need created by the virus attack China has SOLD to victim nations medical supplies and equipment, much of which has turned out to be non-functional, defective, even tainted with coronavirus - demanding payment up front and not taking returns of worthless merchandise.

12. The whole time nations have been struggling with the effects, health and economic, of the China-created virus, China has been behaving aggressively in the South China Sea, has been stepping up consolidation of its hold on western nations’ infrastructures - even holding them hostage, as it did with France, for medical supplies and PPEs.

13. Through all of this, the government of China has severely abused its people, neglecting them, welding them into their homes and leaving them to live or die without care.

14. China has openly declared that it is waging “unrestricted warfare” against us.

The entire world has been the victim of the Chinese government’s mischief.  Two things might happen as a result.  One possibility is that the nations of the world, those harmed by the above actions and omissions of the government of China, will find a way to make this costly for the CCP.  This rogue government should be crippled by this episode.  It has been their pleasure to watch as others suffered.  They have taken satisfaction in the difficulties of western nations such as Australia, the United States and E.U. nations. We should unite in holding this government to account.  We have lost more than our economies - with all that entails, including very real suffering and despair - we have lost loved ones.  If we make this cost China, perhaps it will cause a change in the behavior of these Chinese leaders.  It is possible that they will be more cautious with their bioweapons labs, if, indeed, the virus was part of innocent research and not deliberate, and it was carelessness which allowed it to escape.  Perhaps it will be the beginning of a change in that government’s makeup itself.  The people of China might find that they can’t afford to have a government which suppresses information and punishes truth tellers.  It turns out that freedom of speech is a factor in the safety of the entire world.  A nation which denies free speech is a danger to the world.

The other route we might pursue is “business as usual”.  We could grudgingly resume our trade and foreign policy with regard to China.  We can allow them to continue to buy up real estate in the United States, acquire companies, mine our jobs.  We can let them continue to indoctrinate our college students through their Confucius Centers, we can allow them to retail their fiction about their “humanitarian” efforts, we can watch as other nations fall into the trap of indebtedness to China and thus become fiefdoms of China.  We can coast, looking the other way, whistling past the graveyard, pretending uneasily that everything is “normal” and “okay” again.  And we can see another deadly attack.  Maybe it will be another virus, maybe it will be an attack on our information systems.  And all the while they will be softening up our leader class-in-waiting through the unchallenged propaganda proliferating on our college campuses.  And once more we will be “surprised” by a sudden attack, like we were in 2020.  

It would seem that the case is very clear.  We must make China pay for the coronavirus attack and their handling of it, their lies, their intimidation, their failure to show the least modicum of responsible behavior.  Some entities - a couple of states now, and at least one nation, have filed lawsuits against the CCP.  But how will this work?  The states, if they win, would presumably be able to seize assets within their jurisdiction.  This should, in fact, include businesses run by Chinese nationals or companies inasmuch as there is no such thing as a company in China which is not controlled by the CCP.  In the case of the international suit, it is channeled through the World Court.  It is difficult to know where this would end up.  In view of the control China maintains throughout nearly all of the United Nations organs, it is not clear how fairly this would be heard.  We have seen how “neutral” the WHO was in the instant case.  

There is more we can do, however, on our own.  We can begin by taking our own money out of China.  We can boycott Chinese goods.  In all instances where China holds a monopoly on a product we can - and should - determine whether it is strictly essential.  If not, we should get along without it.  If it is available from a manufacturer in another country such as Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, etc., we should buy that instead.  Only if we cannot get along without it and cannot get it anywhere else should we ever purchase anything made in China.  

We should get serious about not buying from companies in the U.S. that are owned by Chinese nationals or companies or the Chinese government.  We should question where our retirement funds are invested and demand that they not be invested in anything controlled by China.  We should place high tariffs on Chinese goods, seek to give favorable status to other countries’ imports.  We should detach our country from China in every possible way.  

There will be those who will cry, “This will hurt innocent Chinese people,” but in truth, the people do not benefit from the enriching of their oppressors.  There will be the foolish arguments that we need to align with China because . . . Russia.  I would submit that there is no good reason, including Russia for making a deal with the devil.  If a policy is built upon a foundation of oppression of a whole nation, upon propping up a shambling mess of a communist dictatorship and giving it the veneer of respectability, it is a weak and stupid policy, even if it were crafted by the likes of Henry Kissinger and the disgraced Richard Nixon.  It was stupid then and now we have proof of that stupidity.  That makes it even more stupid to continue.  

The Chinese government gave up the idea of sustainability for itself in terms of grain and has suffered serious losses in their pork and poultry market through diseased animals.  China depends upon the rest of the world to supply their needs.  In fact they demand their needs be met.  When they want something - like control of internet/information/communications technology and infrastructure in a nation, they don’t come to the table and make offers.  They make offers like a Don Corleone - the kind that can’t be refused.  In France they demanded this control in exchange for selling France needed personal protection equipment - masks.  

The communist system in China, like those of Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and all other places where it has been tried, cannot succeed.  It is an artificially sustained creature.  It survived to do what it has done in 2020 because it was supported by stronger countries like the U.S. and others.  It is like an invasion of locusts - it will eat through its own country and then eat through all others.  Look at America, the land of the free and home of the brave.  Our communities, counties and other law enforcement agencies are purchasing drones from China to spy on Americans on the pretext of maintaining “social distancing” due to the pandemic unleashed on us by that same CCP government.  Are we going to let this go on much longer?  

There are superficial reasons, of course, for pretending that we can resume “normal” relations with China.  There might be a market there for wheat, we might be getting cheap merchandise which, like a drug, will cripple us.  But we must not do that.  Our entire economy is shut down.  Three months ago President Trump was bragging about the burgeoning economy.  We were going to get “sick of winning”.  Look at us now.  Our folly in allowing ourselves to become dependent upon a slave labor force brought us to a complete stop.  When will we start up again?  In what condition will our country be in?  Just as the economy of the antebellum South was built like a house of cards, upon an immoral and flimsy foundation, ours today is built upon the slave labor of Chinese workers - none with any rights or freedoms, living at the will of the state, daring not to raise their voices or speak the truth.  Are we willing to overlook this for cheap merchandise?  Are we willing to overlook it in order to sell wheat?  If we are, then we learned nothing from the American Civil War.  We have no moral ground on which to go around demanding “reparations” for the phantom losses of people many generations removed from slavery if we are willing to countenance it in China.  

So here’s the assignment - if you choose freedom and honor.  Stop buying things that come from the People’s Republic of China.  Find out who owns the companies that appear to be “American” (such as Smithfield) which are owned or controlled by that government and boycott then as well.  Banish the presence of China from our colleges and universities.  Let your representatives in Washington, including the President, know you want nothing that comes from China.  Support the return of our pharmaceutical business to our own country.  In the meantime, buy from India, or from any other nation which is not waging war on us.  

The practices of China toward its own people has been unacceptable and unconscionable for some 20 years, in terms of their organ transplant program.  Why is it alright to condemn Dr. Mengele for his crimes, heinous though they were, when the government of China is doing this not as one madman’s experimentation project but as an institutionalized and highly lucrative business?  Why is it any acceptable to cut organs from living human beings and then throw the remains in a furnace?  Is this  better than a creepy and horrible doctor doing insane experiments on an infinitesimally smaller scale?  Neither should be acceptable to civilized people.  Both should be condemned and we should act forcefully against them.  Is there any universe where it would have made sense to trade with Hitler’s Germany while Mengele was doing his dirty work and Hitler was murdering whole sectors of the population?  Doesn’t this sound just like China to you?  

China has openly declared that it is waging “unrestricted warfare” against us - a war carried on by means of unconventional weapons - the media, environment, legal, financial, trade, communications - in other words, every facet of modern life.  They are at war with us at least as much as Germany ever was.  It is time we recognize that we are “supping wi’ the devil”.  Time to stop.