CHINA's NATIONALIST KLEPTOMANIA

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CHINA’s NATIONALIST KLEPTOMANIA
It’s
been difficult to be a proud American over the last several days. When
U.S. citizens weren’t hammered by the incessant media drumbeat
concerning the rise of “rival” China, the expansion of the Chinese
economy, the seemingly imminent global supremacy of China as a military
power, a sea power, a manufacturing power, a superpower, we were
watching the Chinese humiliate our leaders. President Obama gave his
State of the Union address recently, which served as a line break at the
end of this degrading paragraph in national history. He spent that
address lying to the American people, proclaiming all income and
endeavor the property of government. His message was clear: You will be
allowed to earn, to make, to keep and to do only what your government
grudgingly permits you – and America, in turn, will make do with the
crumbs from its new Chinese masters’ table.

The last straw, at
least in terms of propriety, was the playing of an anti-American war
anthem by a Chinese pianist during the state visit of Chinese
“President” Hu Jintao. (Hu is more accurately termed China’s “paramount
leader.” As general secretary of the Communist Party, he is the ChiCom’s
highest authority; calling him “president” is euphemistic.) Americans
have by now become accustomed to Obama’s sniveling obeisance to foreign
leaders. It was not a surprise when our community organizer in chief
bowed and scraped in greeting Hu, nor was it a shock when Obama claimed
the American people “welcome China’s rise.” There was no doubt in any
observer’s mind that Obama’s warm greeting to Hu was that of a cowed
debtor attempting to curry favor with his chief creditor. China owns
vast quantities of U.S. debt precisely because this gives it power over
us – and it is pushing for the Chinese yuan to replace the U.S. dollar
as the world’s currency standard.

Americans know all this. No,
what bothered decent people most was not that the Chinese leader had
deigned to make his presence known so that Obama could kiss Hu Jintao’s
ring. It was that the Chinese delegates’ histrionics were, essentially,
rudely rubbing our noses in China’s looming threat to American
exceptionalism. As their red star rises, our faded stars and stripes are
doomed to fall. China, so dynamic, so vibrant, so powerful, seems
poised to crush all resistance; Americans are, our media says or
implies, already relegated to the position of also-ran, destined to be
pitied or tolerated as global economic opportunity passes them by. That
is the mantra chanted by foreign press and domestic media alike.

The
truth is that China has, at every turn, achieved its position in the
world through theft, espionage and murder. Totalitarian states are
notoriously unresponsive to their subjects’ true needs, legitimate
dissent or individual rights. They do, however, get things done.

Most
of the time, the Chinese method of “getting things done” is stealing.
They sold more cars than the U.S. in January of last year. (Keep in mind
that General Motors sold more cars in China than in the U.S. last year,
too.) But how have the Chinese achieved such great strides in
automobile manufacturing and sales? They’ve copied Western autmobiles.
They’ve copied everything from luxury cars to the smallest of compact
cars. They even copied the Hummer, that quintessential symbol of
American vehicular and military excess – because they couldn’t conceive
of its equal themselves.

Recent Chinese military advancements
are no different. China previously copied the obsolete Sukhoi Su-27
“Flanker” fighter. This is part of what Pravda has asserted (echoing a
Wall Street Journal report) is a campaign to “disrupt military balance
globally” by selling “cheap rip-offs of Russian weaponry” to developing
states. China’s newest military aircraft, purported to be a stealth
fighter, is visibly a copy of the United States’ F-22 Raptor. The
Chinese have had ample opportunity both to recover the technology and to
use espionage to further their understanding of it.

There is
almost no market that Chinese thieving has not affected. From handbags
to microchips, from inkjet cartridges to counterfeit art treasures,
there isn’t a thing in the world not now made in China – legally or
illegally. While the thefts of military technology are the most
disturbing, every one of these expressions of China’s global economic
kleptomania is damaging to greater or lesser degree. We seldom ask,
though, just why the Chinese steal.

Not too long ago, Judith
Apter Klinghoffer wrote that Communist China “has hit the innovation
roadblock.” She explains that a society that prevents freedom of
expression and the exchange of ideas – a totalitarian state like China,
whose human rights abuses abound – cannot compete with free societies.
The latter encourage innovation, while the former suppress it. “If
Chinese military buildup is moving faster than some expected,” she
indicts, “it is because ‘European nations have been selling China
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of dual use military equipment
each year, but as long as the embargo is in force, explicitly military
gear can only be sold under the table and smuggled in.'” The “Chinese
totalitarian system,” she writes, “depends on continued democratic aid.”

In
other words, China steals what it wants but cannot produce. Obama and
his ilk help the Chinese cut our throats by selling China our debts and
absorbing without protest its nationalist antagonism. The proof is found
in the patent system, which until recently the Chinese largely ignored
as inconvenient. Despite a huge increase in patent applications from
China, the director of the Beijing Intellectual Property Institute says
that “valid patents in China accounted for less than half of the 6
million patents granted, and two-thirds of the valid patents consisted
of design and utility patents.” What this means is that many of the
patents are worthless.

The Chinese aren’t innovators; they’re
thieves. They aren’t world power; they’re a world bully. They aren’t an
expanding economy; they’re a slave-labor command market. They aren’t a
rival; they’re a military and socio-political opponent with a long
history of enmity to every ideal held by right-thinking Americans.

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February 3, 2011 at 9:10 AM