Breaking Bread With China
Ken Hughes
November 19, 2006
President Bush has just attended meetings with the Pacific Rim leaders, that’s a good thing. When the leaders of nations are talking they usually aren’t shooting each other or threatening to shoot each other. Perhaps it’s time American relied more on the cell phone and less on the sword in its foreign policy and relationships. America can’t determine [nor should it] the environment every tribe in the world lives in.
The Taliban and Al Qaeda deserved our attention and I believe Saddam Hussein was a co-conspirator in the mayhem they were spreading around the world. We know he spread terror throughout the Middle East, we know he was financing the Palestinian war with Israel. In order to resolve these problems we need the assistance of the world community. If we don’t get it then leave it to them, When Europe has once again fallen victim to their pacifism as they did twice in the past century and are overrun by the Islamic warlords perhaps then they’ll pay attention to the dangers of ignoring the obvious Islam’s desire to rule the world.
Perhaps it’s time America bid farewell to our European cousins and looked west and south for new relationships. China is well on the road to becoming an industrial giant. They’ll be who competes for the title of “Super Power” next. China has 1.3 billion people they’re the third largest landmass in terms of territory. They can’t be ignored or bullied they must be dealt with as equals. In the past 40 years China has gradually build an industrial empire with influence around the world. When America thought China was sleeping they were planning for their future.
We Americans tend to judge things by what was, Orientals judge things more by what will be. My first trip to China [Macau] was in 1950 over the years I’m made a few more trips, I’ve seen China aggressively pursue their own path to capitalism. When the new Communist government took charge of the mainland of China they deliberately left two doors open to the west, Macau and Hong Kong. These two ports allowed China entry for necessary imports and exports to the west. Today China is one of the largest exporters in the world they not only deal with Anglo America they deal with Hispanic America, They deal in the Middle East and Europe the world in their market and their products are the necessities America gave up making. There was a time when “Made in America” could be seen around the world, it was a way of advertising the greatness of America. Now it’s “Heco en China and Fabrica du China’ we must see and China’s are stealing our thunder.
It’s been unfortunate the hatred for President Bush has clouded his attempts at dealing with world leaders. George Bush has made efforts at cooperation with all the European leaders and has been rebuffed. Now he’s in the Orient making friends with the leaders of the Pacific Rim nations, the nay_sayers back home think because he’s listening and not making demand of the other Leaders he’s meeting with he somehow is being weak. “A good listener is a strong leader.”
Case in question North Korea isn’t an American problem at this point it’s a problem for its neighbors, George Bush has consistently pointed his efforts in that direction. Being proactive isn’t always going to protect us, being smart and involving a few good friends will do more. Bush has consistently worked at making friends where it counts, Europeans no longer count.
Let’s hope the next president realizes our economic future is across the Pacific not the Atlantic. Let’s hope he / she can convince a reluctant congress our friends aren’t all Lilly White. America is a homogenous society, we come in all shapes and colors, it’s time to set the bigotry of color aside and look at the benefits of our good fortune being a nation of immigrants who came because we could be free of the dictates of others who would suppress our ambitions.
America and much of the rest of the world is totally dependent on China for the necessary trinkets that make our everyday lives enjoyable. For those who didn’t catch the pictures of the Beijing Auto Show and didn’t see some of the innovations in Auto design they presented missed the future of China as a very competitive player in the world of commerce. They don’t need to flood our domestic markets when they can take our export markets over.
Worrying about China as a military threat isn’t the problem, why fight when they can steal, [product designs] and take away our markets. America is faced with two threats, terrorism and loss of our economic superiority. Let’s pray the next president can convince a reluctant congress we’re in dyer need of a new foreign policy that includes both the west and the south. At this point there’s no benefit to being friends with most of Europe.
The Taliban and Al Qaeda deserved our attention and I believe Saddam Hussein was a co-conspirator in the mayhem they were spreading around the world. We know he spread terror throughout the Middle East, we know he was financing the Palestinian war with Israel. In order to resolve these problems we need the assistance of the world community. If we don’t get it then leave it to them, When Europe has once again fallen victim to their pacifism as they did twice in the past century and are overrun by the Islamic warlords perhaps then they’ll pay attention to the dangers of ignoring the obvious Islam’s desire to rule the world.
Perhaps it’s time America bid farewell to our European cousins and looked west and south for new relationships. China is well on the road to becoming an industrial giant. They’ll be who competes for the title of “Super Power” next. China has 1.3 billion people they’re the third largest landmass in terms of territory. They can’t be ignored or bullied they must be dealt with as equals. In the past 40 years China has gradually build an industrial empire with influence around the world. When America thought China was sleeping they were planning for their future.
We Americans tend to judge things by what was, Orientals judge things more by what will be. My first trip to China [Macau] was in 1950 over the years I’m made a few more trips, I’ve seen China aggressively pursue their own path to capitalism. When the new Communist government took charge of the mainland of China they deliberately left two doors open to the west, Macau and Hong Kong. These two ports allowed China entry for necessary imports and exports to the west. Today China is one of the largest exporters in the world they not only deal with Anglo America they deal with Hispanic America, They deal in the Middle East and Europe the world in their market and their products are the necessities America gave up making. There was a time when “Made in America” could be seen around the world, it was a way of advertising the greatness of America. Now it’s “Heco en China and Fabrica du China’ we must see and China’s are stealing our thunder.
It’s been unfortunate the hatred for President Bush has clouded his attempts at dealing with world leaders. George Bush has made efforts at cooperation with all the European leaders and has been rebuffed. Now he’s in the Orient making friends with the leaders of the Pacific Rim nations, the nay_sayers back home think because he’s listening and not making demand of the other Leaders he’s meeting with he somehow is being weak. “A good listener is a strong leader.”
Case in question North Korea isn’t an American problem at this point it’s a problem for its neighbors, George Bush has consistently pointed his efforts in that direction. Being proactive isn’t always going to protect us, being smart and involving a few good friends will do more. Bush has consistently worked at making friends where it counts, Europeans no longer count.
Let’s hope the next president realizes our economic future is across the Pacific not the Atlantic. Let’s hope he / she can convince a reluctant congress our friends aren’t all Lilly White. America is a homogenous society, we come in all shapes and colors, it’s time to set the bigotry of color aside and look at the benefits of our good fortune being a nation of immigrants who came because we could be free of the dictates of others who would suppress our ambitions.
America and much of the rest of the world is totally dependent on China for the necessary trinkets that make our everyday lives enjoyable. For those who didn’t catch the pictures of the Beijing Auto Show and didn’t see some of the innovations in Auto design they presented missed the future of China as a very competitive player in the world of commerce. They don’t need to flood our domestic markets when they can take our export markets over.
Worrying about China as a military threat isn’t the problem, why fight when they can steal, [product designs] and take away our markets. America is faced with two threats, terrorism and loss of our economic superiority. Let’s pray the next president can convince a reluctant congress we’re in dyer need of a new foreign policy that includes both the west and the south. At this point there’s no benefit to being friends with most of Europe.
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