Dakota Beacon

There’s the carrot and then there’s the stick.  Either way we need to extricate ourselves from the repulsive web of Red China’s extortion and ransom economy.  

Our businesses were lured to China following Nixon’s mistaken mission to open up trade relations with the theretofore sanctioned usurper.  It was an easy slide into dependency on China - unbelievably low wages for China’s slave labor force, easy-peasy importing of goods made in China into our country and the rest of the world.  Of course, it decimated our own labor force which must live in a developed country. Our labor force is not accustomed to stealing a dog and boiling it for dinner. Our labor force pays for their own housing.  We basically have tried to have working sewage systems and running water. And if an employer attempts to pay them so little they can’t afford those things the workers move on to more lucrative uses of their time.  

This experience has been repeated throughout the westernized world, resulting in a near total dependence on the slaves in China.  It is ironic that the very people who are running around demanding reparations for descendents of enslaved people many generations back in the U.S., ancestors who were freed 150 years ago, see no problem with the communist government in China enslaving its people for economic gain.  

Our current dilemma starkly illustrates the insanity of such trade policies.  We have enriched these monsters, given them status they don’t deserve as though they were a civilized nation and an acceptable trading partner.  We recognized their illegitimate government. Now, having used their wealth (at the top, that is) to engineer a deadly and devastating virus with which to attack us, they turn around and hold us up for the things we now need because of their attack - face masks, ventilators, gloves, other essentials such as pharmaceutical products.  

There was a bit of a ruffling of feathers when our government asked 3M of Minnesota to reserve production of facemasks needed desperately by our front-line medical personnel, people who put their lives at risk to treat the sick and dying of this disease.  3M retorted that their masks needed to go to China. You see, they have production facilities over in China where the slaves work and the Chinese government would nationalize their company if they didn’t divert their products to China. China, on the other hand, has been getting donations of face masks for months now.  Italy sent them masks right away to combat the virus while it was still confined to China. Canada sent their entire stock of face masks over - some 16 tons of gear, in early February. Now China is holding these products over the head of countries whose figurative arms it wishes to twist. France went begging for masks, having been hit hard.  China says they can have them . . . only if France will allow Huawei to control its 5G network. This kind of “diplomacy” needs to come to a screeching halt. We can’t have the perpetrator of a virus attack which is destroying the world turning around and using said attack to control the policies of countries which have been impacted.

Japan understands this.  They are offering companies with facilities in China incentives to remove those facilities to other places, perhaps Japan, or perhaps other places . . . just out of China.  This is a very good idea for Japan. They know they then can’t be held hostage by a hostile nation such as China.

We can do much to discourage American business investment in China.  It might not be such a good place to do business in the end because after this there might be little demand for anything made there.  But for those who persist we can impose extremely high tariffs, or better, just say we will not allow import of anything from that country.  Some things might get through, but it will be like the 50 year ban on Cuban cigars - no one will admit to having these things and they would be seized if found.  I usually would never advocate this kind of ban but there is another reason why we need to cut China off.

When a company such as 3M, based in the United States but with one foot in China and a large investment there, China can basically use 3M or whomever as their very persuasive lobbyist in Washington.  If China wants something they need only tell 3M (or whomever) and they will be China’s agent in America. China can strongly influence our elected officials and our elections through these cats’ paws.  We can’t allow it. China is a hostile nation and also an aggressive and irresponsible nation. We can see how they are monetizing a deadly contagion which they created. A company such as 3M is like a “leash” on our government.  

It is for the best if China makes its last move with 3M and nationalizes it.  Once they do this it’s like killing the hostage. No more hostage, no more problem for us.  And as for any other businesses, we need to prohibit their interaction with an enemy nation.  We need to regard China as our Third Reich. We don’t do business with them and we don’t allow Americans to do business with them.  If they do we should write them off. Any politician accepting money from such a company - or anyone connected with such a company - should be disqualified from holding office.  Car companies which import parts, companies which sell Chinese electronics, these should be among the companies restricted.

Today I heard that genetic testing companies (such as the popular “where are my ancestors from” ones) send much of the samples for testing to China.  China is building the capability to formulate viruses which target specific demographics. No one should utilize these “services” unless they can verify that no samples will be processed by or sent into the custody of the Chinese government or its agents.  

Japan might have the right formula for Japan - the “carrot” method, but Americans in general do not favor public money going into private business.  They are right - we can’t be bribing companies in America. It is unaffordable. So for American companies, it must be the “stick”. The problem of lost jobs for American labor is bad enough, but it is not the only problem and it is perhaps not the worst problem with investment in an enemy nation.

On another topic, I hope that eventually someone out there will respond to my proposal for economic preservation after the shut-down.  I will keep readers posted on that.

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