We Have Already Begun To Surrender To China

China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakens the world will tremble.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

A few days ago, it was announced that China has now surpassed Japan as this nation´s largest creditor. With Congress´ bloated spending packages, recent bailouts, and the continuing expenses in Iraq, our National Debt has ballooned to $10.6 trillion, with the Debt growing by $3.9 billion a day since September 2007.

Of course, China has financed a great deal of the debt racked-up by our government over the last eight years with no end in sight. China now holds an incredible $585 billion in U.S. Treasuries.

China now has the fastest growing economy in the world. Manufacturing is the major factor fueling that growth. The 2007 U.S. trade deficit with China, was a staggering $256 billion. Our trade imbalance with that nation has steadily increased since 1985, exploding in the last several years as American companies close U.S. factories and open new ones in China.

Corresponding with our increasing dependence on cheaply-made Chinese goods, is the increasing size of China's military. Their accelerating military build up is reminiscent of those of Germany and Japan prior to World War II.

The Chinese government claims that their defense budget has grown by 15 percent every year since 1990. However, the Rand Corp. issued a report in 2005 claiming that China actually spends 40 to 70 percent more in military expenses than they report. The report also stated that China spends about $69 billion annually. China is now only second to the U.S. in the percentage of GDP spent on the military.

In China's Liaoning Province, forced labor factories abound. The laborers are being held in Chinese prisons, many of them are actually political prisoners. Several Chinese factories are run by the military, which profits directly from Chinese-made goods sold in the U.S.

The recent and rapid expansion of China´s navy has outpaced that of all other nations. Since 2000, China has built more than 60 warships. Their current fleet of 860 vessels includes around 60 submarines.

In fact, China has produced at least 23 new submarines in the last four years alone. Even more troubling to the tiny nation of Taiwan is the fact that the Chinese Navy is now building dozens of amphibious ships.

In October 2006, a Chinese Song-class submarine stalked the USS Kitty Hawk battle group. The submarine was not detected until it surfaced, well within torpedo range.

Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center said of the incident: "Given the long range of new Chinese sub-launched anti-ship missiles and those purchased from Russia, this incident is very serious. It will likely happen again, only because Chinese submarine captains of 40 to 50 new modern submarines entering their navy will want to test their mettle against the 7th Fleet."

Last year, the Chinese military destroyed an old weather satellite with an extremely advanced surface to air missile. The satellite was smaller than the average-sized refrigerator and orbited 530 miles above the earth. The weather satellite traveled within the same orbit as do U.S. spy satellites.

Equally disturbing as China's apparent preparation for war is that nation's growing relationship with Iran. In 2006, China entered into a deal with Iran to develop their Yadavaran oil fields. China's SINOPEC will produce 180,000 barrels a day and purchase 10 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually for the next 25 years.

The following business dealings currently take place between China and Iran:

over 100 Chinese companies do business with Iran

Chinese contracting firms are now building airports in six Iranian cities

China already receives 14 percent of their oil imports from Iran

Given China's relationship with Iran and the growing amount of oil which China will import from that nation to fuel their economy, the greater the likelihood that any confrontation with Iran (by Israel or the U.S.), would also involve the intervention of China. A well-armed China will not sit idly by and watch as U.S. or Israeli bombs fall on Iranian oil fields and pipelines.

As droves of American companies decide to relocate their factories to China, we are slowly surrendering to our inevitable enemy. As our manufacturing base disappears, so does our ability to mass produce the weapons of war.

At the beginning of World War II, factories across the country began to re-tool and switched from producing consumer goods to military weapons. Because of the war effort, no American automobiles were made from 1942-1945. Those factories were instead turning out jeeps, half-tracks, and tanks.

Once Congress declared war, assembly line workers who had been building washing machines, were suddenly producing artillery shells. Factories which were turning-out headlights for automobiles, were now fabricating turret canopies for B-17 bombers.

During World War II, the Ford Motor Co. produced B-24 Liberator bombers at their Ypsilanti, MI plant. They also built jeeps, tanks, half-tracked personnel carriers, and armored cars in their Richmond, CA plant. In contrast to that patriotic contribution, Ford announced in 2006 that they were closing three U.S. plants and moving them to Mexico. To allow an exodus of American factories is not only devastating to our middle class, it represents a strategic nightmare.

When China's aggression becomes a frightening reality..How will we defend ourselves?