Over the past 15 years now, I have warned about America becoming too dependent on Communist China. I have warned that one day it would bite us in the ass. Well, I hate to say “I told you so”; but that’s exactly whats happened now.
Before I continue I think a history lesson is in order. In 1911 the Emperor of China was overthrown by a democratic regime. After thousands of years of tyrannical rule by emperors, the people of China finally had a democratic republic. It was known as the “Republic of China” (ROC).
After some years, a group of rag tag communists, led by rebel Mao ZeDong, began to set the stage to overthrow the democratic ROC. To make a long story short, the USA was not in the mood to engage in any more military conflicts after WWII. So it did not intervene to aide the ROC fight off the Communist rebels (we did in Korea, however).
About 1947 the Communist rebels had strengthened in numbers and the tide of the civil war was in their favor. Many of the military and the government of the ROC retreated to an island then named Formosa. From then until 1971, the world recognized Formosa as the seat of government for the ROC and China. Indeed, the ROC was one of the founding members of the United Nations. However, in 1979 the UN voted to recognize The People’s Republic of China (Communist mainland China) as the UN representative of China. Not The ROC. This included the US severing formal diplomatic relations with the ROC in Formosa.
In return for this dirty deed, the US passed a law in Congress known as the Taiwan Relations Act. The act, basically, says that the US will provide Taiwan with weapons and other measures to help defend itself from the mainland, Communist, People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Why do they need to defend themselves from the PRC? Because Communist China has pledged to take Taiwan, against it’s will and by force if necessary. Interestingly enough, the US official policy is that they believe in a “One China”. Presumably, that means a reconciliation of Taiwan and Communist China.
Why on earth would any civilized government want a free and democratic nation to become a part of Communist China? Yet the USA, my government, continues to nudge Taiwan towards that end. Even though our government’s policy is that all people should enjoy a free and democratic government. Their policy certainly smells of hypocrisy. Check out this link which shows more hypocrisy on the part of our government…
China asserts they they own Taiwan. This is as far from the truth as one can get. Taiwan was legally ceded to Japan by the last Emperor of China. When the Japanese surrendered at the end of WWII, the US government appointed the ROC in Taiwan to host the signing of some of the surrender documents and to handle the surrendering Japanese soldiers who occupied Taiwan. Since Taiwan was actually legally owned by the Japanese, there was no disposition of Taiwan then or now. Under international law, the island of Taiwan is actually under the control of the US government. A fact that the US clearly doesn’t advertise nor enforce.
Communist China has over 900 missiles aimed at Taiwan. It has also made it clear that it will take Taiwan by force if necessary. The Taiwan Relations Act does state the following: hat section of the law concludes by saying that the United States will “maintain the capacity … to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan.” Let’s hope when the day comes that the US will keep that promise in the law.
In my opinion, the real reason that the US dropped recognition of the ROC in favor of the PRC was to satisfy US-based, multinational corporations who want to make a killing in China economically. This all happened shortly before Deng Xiaoping, Communist China’s No. 1 man, declared that capitalism was not bad. He met with then president Jimmy Carter in 1979. From that point to today, US multinational companies have closed their manufacturing plants in America with the loss of thousands of American jobs. They also began selling to China in a greed fest of unimaginable proportions. In my opinion, most multinational companies have no allegiance to their homeland. Only to the almighty buck.
So I leave you with the thought that the US government wants the Taiwan quagmire to just go away so they can continue to borrow Billions of dollars from Communist China. The multinational companies also want the problem to go away. So they just want 32 million free and independent Taiwanese quietly join the dictatorial, Communist mainland of China. If it were a Taiwan citizen, would you want that? I think not!
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