America no longer cared about foreign policy, “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” is the Bush era mantra that sums up the policy change. Americans expressing opinions were now dangerous to the security state. The Obama years codified this disaster in foreign and domestic policy. Foreign policy always comes home. Always.
In the last chapter of this book, I address that question. It’s entitled the Renewal of America. You can’t have a strong foreign policy without a strong domestic and you cannot have a strong domestic policy without a strong foreign policy. For example, we cannot be at peace when the world is covered with wars, small wars. We learned that in the Persian Gulf.
And most important, when people are concerned as they are and should be about the recession here, you cannot have a healthy American economy, in a sick, world economy. And so, it is in our interest, in the interest of our people at home here, to do everything that we can to see that the economy of the world moves up because we will move up with it. If it goes down, we’re going to go down with it.– former President Richard M. Nixon
We saw an easing of this during the Trump years, followed by President Joe Biden labeling half of Americans as potential domestic terrorists. Policy changes followed and persecution against the average American ensued. Joe Biden’s Democrats pushing persecution through political sanctions abroad, netted a new class of political criminal loosely called MAGA and conservative Republicans.
Russia. Russia. Russia.
Domestic policy always follows foreign policy and reflects it. On the other side of the coin, in 2020 we had riots that burned cities, large portions of city blocks that were considered peaceful protests by a media, DOJ, Congress, and a presidency that burned our borders for a larger share of Democrat votes in future elections. Think of foreign policy as the cause to the domestic policy effect in both cases.
China. China. China. Taiwan. China.
Let’s understand how Mao and Zhou Enlai looked at China in 1972. At the time, this new relationship with the United States took place Why is it that now was to say that he liked right wing governments? Because right wing governments were the very antithesis of what he stood for. The answer is that as far as the Chinese are concerned, their primary interest is China always China. That’s number one.
Their secondary interest is philosophy. It doesn’t mean that Mao Zedong was not a very dedicated Marxist communist, call him what you want. And the same is true of Zhou Enlai. But where there is conflict between the ideology and their security, their security comes first. And so as far as they were concerned, in Iran, they liked the shah of Iran, even though he was anticommunist.
And they did not support the Tudeh Party, which was the communist party in a party in Iran. And as far as we were concerned, we were their ideological enemy, but on the other hand, as far as the security of China was concerned, we were absolutely indispensable to that security. And so as far as the Soviet Union was concerned, the Soviet Union was Marxist, communist, call it what you will. So was China, but the Soviet Union threatened China’s security. And so, every time you look at the Chinese, you’ve got to think of them, those terms. – former President Richard M. Nixon
Let’s understand Taiwan and China the same way former President Nixon did. Nixon was a friend of Chiang Ki-Shek for over 40 years. During the Eisenhower administration, Chiang Ki-Shek’s American lobby group, the infamous China Lobby presented America with the first million-man march on Washington against a US president because Eisenhower wanted to recognize the PRC soon after gaining office.
Time Magazine’s Henry Luce partnered his advisor, Jewish conservative powerhouse Marv Liebman, with WWII Nazi and Holocaust leader Yaroslav Stetsko to create the march and the China Lobby to eventually pull support for a Taiwanese war, direct action in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and the creation of what became known as the Neo-cons.
Stetsko is famous for ordering the 1941 Lvov pogroms which murdered thousands of Jews. His Ukrainian nationalists manned the death camps. He never answered for this. Instead, he became instrumental in the build out of American Neo-con politics over decades.
The Wehrmacht officer is Chiang Wei-Kuo, adopted son of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
They had so much power, Nixon was afraid for his presidency to the end because he was set on undoing the damage they were doing to America. The choice America faced from the late 1940s through 1978 was whether to support a Nazi China (Taiwan) or a Communist China in Beijing. Seeing the damage done as this group grew in power through corrupting officials, Nixon chose the latter as less dangerous to America.
Until 1978, the only China America recognized was Taiwan. After, with a UN resolution, the only China was mainland China and Taiwan was part of that. On January 1, 1979, the United States recognized the PRC and established diplomatic relations with it as the sole legitimate government of China.
Nixon wasn’t afraid of Communist China and neither should you be. What we should be afraid of is state and federal officials taking any form of graft, gifts, or investments in China or any other country.
There are literally four socialist countries left worldwide. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden, as much as I like Trump I have to admit this, didn’t accomplish this.
Nixon’s advice to this generation’s hokey wokey conservatives is belly up to the grownup table and understand diplomacy and state craft for what it is. At least China is looking after Chinese interests.
We can no longer say that about Washington DC. American interests start with America and building the confidence of its people in government again. China and Russia’s interests are inline with that. Yes, Dorothy, you read it right. The image America displays across the world today is like a bitey, angry, afraid, chihuahua with oversized teeth.
A strong America keeps its word, isn’t afraid of diplomacy. This America recognizes other countries have different forms of government whether or not we like it. Really, that point is mute. We are big enough, smart enough, and industrious enough to be competitive in a competitive world.
America’s freedom forgot the responsibility that makes it real. We need to inspire, not command or demand.
China is set for decline. It’s population is aging and manufacturing strength is declining. America can set itself up for a renaissance period of growth or let Mexico have it. Mexico is primed for it. Are we?
