Term Papers on American Naiveté

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American Naiveté

PREFACE
American Naiveté
The United States trade gap with China jumped 17 percent in 1996 to $39.5 billion, the worst showing for any country other than Japan.  It marked the 11th strait annual increase in the deficit with China and analysts believe this trend will result in the deficit with China surpassing the imbalance with Japan probably this year.  Fundamental macroeconomics informs us that China’s trade surplus, created by virtue of  its cheap labor, will directly support its plans to obtain the (Western) technology in aerospace and telecommunications and will aid the development of its infrastructure and industries required to become a major economic and military power.

My fear is that China’s growth and increasing power on the world scene bodes ill for the United States and the Western world in general, to say nothing of its Asian neighbors on whom it continues to make territorial claims.  The economic and military future of China ultimately lies in the hands of an anti-democratic, authoritarian government whose military establishment plays a key role in deciding the political and economic future of the world’s most populous nation.  Allow me to cite William Safire in his NY Times op-ed column of February 13, 1997:

"The corrupt capitalist offspring of China’s aging Communist rulers -- were gratified last February [1996] when one of their notorious members bought his way into a ‘coffee’ chat with the President of the United States.

"Wang Jun’s triumph, arranged by the DNC [Democratic National Committee], through a Clinton friend, Charles Yah Lin Trie, was made possible by a lapse of security among money hungry Clintonites, who soon received $690,000 from [Chinese] sponsors.

"The F.B.I suspects Wang, son of a Long March hero, of trying to run 2,000 AK-47 automatic weapons into the hands of street gangs in the U.S.; Wang is known to be a middleman in purchases by the Chinese Army of missiles from Russia….  [Wang and others] are coming into power in the army [Peoples Liberation Army or PLA], in the Forbidden City, in the state-subsidized industries, and in the favored banks taking over Hong Kong’s prizes.  They need an international enemy—an imagined threat of a superpower seeking  the dreaded "hegemony"--and we are it.

"At the same time, because they need our market, our capital and our trade secrets for their speeded-up development. [China’s new leaders] are working on two tracks.  Internally, America is depicted as the horrible hegemonist, the seducer of Taiwan, container of offshore expansion and subverter of order with our prattle about human rights.  Externally, America is to be wooed with mutual visitations of leaders, all culminating this summer in a summit meeting welcoming a newly reasonable China in the World Trade Organization.

"[China’s new leaders] are bent on keeping centralized power; that fear of an outside hegemon is necessary to their propaganda; and that by mindlessly fueling China’s economic expansion, America helps build up an anti-democratic superpower rival that will dominate Japan and all its Pacific neighbors….A decade from now, will America’s smug supporters of China’s dominance be reviled as naïve fellow travelers who neglected Americas strategic interests while betraying our principles?" (Safire)
Hong Kong
          If any reasonable person has ears to hear let him consider the following from the Wall Street Journal:  "China plans to roll back civil rights laws when it takes control in Hong Kong.  A panel of Beijing-selected officials preparing for the resumption of Chinese sovereignty over the British colony in July ‘97 said they intend to repeal or revise current protections for freedoms of speech, press and assembly. If enacted, the revisions would constitute a slap in the face to the U.S." (Wall Street Journal)

CHINA’S GROWING ECONOMY
          Since initiating market reforms in 1979, China’s annual growth of output has averaged nearly 10 percent (compared to 2 to 3 percent annually in the United States). At this remarkable...

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