Soviet Communists had 70 years to accomplish world domination. Chinese Communists took power in 1949; so China had 72 years.
Take a look at the U.N.’s time line.
Russians had a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council from the day the U.N. opened for business in 1945.
China was seated in 1971.
Diplomatic problems immediately followed. Which China would be recognized in the new United Nations organization, set up only a few years before? China was not only a member of the U.N. General Assembly, it held an important post alongside the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France as a permanent member of the powerful U.N. Security Council, the only body within the U.N. with the authority to authorize (or veto) the use of armed force.
Communist China’s seat on the permanent security council gave America’s enemies two out of five seats.
In the first place, the pandemic has not really impacted Chinese defense spending. In 2021, Beijing plans to allocate 1.355 trillion yuan ($202 billion) to the PLA. This represents a 6.8 percent increase over 2020 military spending, which grew 6.6 percent over 2019.
To be sure, the growth in Chinese military expenditures has tapered off somewhat since the heyday of the 2000s and early 2010s, when annual increases in defense spending averaged around 10 to 15 percent.
Nevertheless, in an age of near-zero inflation, annual defense spending increases of 6 to 7 percent is striking, and there are no signs of abatement. Certainly no public figure in China is calling for cuts in military spending.
My point: If the world rolls over for China’s digital currency it will put Chinese Communists light years ahead of Russian Communists in every area.
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Flanders
Russian Communists never got the overt support China is getting from Biden’s administration, from the U.S. Congress, favorable media coverage, and from financial institutions. In fact, the deals Democrats are making with China would have landed them in jail during the Cold War.
In 2013 and 2014, China embarked on an aggressive air and island campaign to dominate the South China Sea, much to the dismay of Japan and other countries in the region. When Vice President Joe Biden visited the country in 2013, he emphasized trade between the U.S. and China and did not focus on the South China Sea. Secretary of State John Kerry did the same in 2014.
Meanwhile, Biden’s son Hunter and Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz carried out massive business deals with Chinese officials and the state-owned Bank of China. Worse, Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz even invested in a Chinese nuclear company under FBI investigation.
“During a critical eighteen-month period of diplomatic negotiations between Washington and Beijing, the Biden and Kerry families and friends pocketed major cash from companies connected to the Chinese government,” Peter Schweizer writes in his new book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.”
One final observation.
Democrats are going all-out to convince the public that Russia is still this country’s number one enemy. Their motive is obvious.
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