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I shouldn’t have to rehearse all the ways the Chinese Communist Party is the deadliest global fascist menace to humanity. But some people don’t know, so I guess I have to.

(The ancient and honorable People of China, their Nation, their Country and their Culture, are not to be disparaged. “China”, when used here in a negative context, means specifically the Chinese Communist Party, the most disgraceful bunch of thugs ever hatched by human mothers. The point is not that the Chinese are bad people, the point is that China as currently governed is a global threat. It may already be too late for anyone to oppose them.)

People talk about fascism in America. By that, they mean Orwell’s definition, “something I disagree with”, not my definition based on the Roman fasces, “all institutions bound to the central power”. In America, Fascism isn’t formalized, but the alignment of major non-government institutions with a political party could reasonably be called Fascism Lite. In China, Fascism is formal and explicit. Every major institution in China, be it a corporation, a university, the military, etc. has CCP members on its board, in its executive staff and senior management. To call the arrangement Communist is a misnomer. The Party doesn’t own the means of production, but it controls the people who do.

Fascism also comes with a strong national identity and boatloads of propaganda to control public opinion. The Han Chinese are proud racist bigots; other races they disdain at best and despise at worst. They sneer at Westerners’ ideas of diversity and inclusion. They are currently carrying out a genocide of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang. In a review of the policy of repression, murder, torture, forced sterilizations, forced abortions, and even forced impregnation, the CCP determined that the policy was “totally correct”.

The Chinese are brutal with political dissidents. They continue the ancient practice of guilt by association, imprisoning and torturing relatives of those who speak out against the CCP. Even beyond that, the personal risk to dissidents is inescapable, even for those who successfully defect to a friendly foreign country. China pursues personal revenge with globe-spanning determination, hunting down and physically abducting dissidents and criminals on foreign soil, maybe even in the US. Sometimes the abducted return to life, sometimes they don’t.

China has a huge military with advanced weapons, some of them featuring technology that was stolen from the US. Their military posture is aggressive on multiple fronts. Recently they took over Hong Kong. Soon they will move against Taiwan. China’s neighbor to the Southwest is Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Just this month Myanmar’s military (which has a human-rights record comparable to China’s) overthrew its government in a hard coup. These are people the Chinese can work with, and for China’s purposes Myanmar is a royal prize: a land corridor to the Indian ocean, with 1400 miles of coastline facing India.

China pursues such strategic gains all over the world. They have massive investments in Africa, and if cashing in means slaughtering all the Africans, that’s what they’ll do. Such investments are part of China’s “Belt and Road” project, a long-term plan to build a global trading network through which China can control the world economy.

In China, ethics isn’t really a thing. The Chinese are not amoral, but they have little sense of ethics as understood in the West. In business, it’s pretty much taken for granted that anyone will cheat who can. In America it’s Trust, in China it’s Verify. One who fails to Verify gets what he deserves; a successful cheat is good business.

The population of China is roughly four times the US population. Average Chinese IQ is higher than the US average. As we do away with standardized testing and grades while grabbing our ankles for Critical Race Theory and Transgender Rights, the Chinese are trying to develop genetically-modified super soldiers and geniuses. They call it Biological Dominance and they have zero qualms about it.

China has some of the world’s best hackers and spymasters. There are small countries like Israel and, strangely, Cuba, that punch far above their weight in spycraft. But China has that advantage of numbers and it figures in everything. China practices international spycraft and covert influence on a scale nobody else can match.

From November of 2013 to April of 2015, The Chinese hacked the United States Office of Personnel Management. The OPM hack compromised millions of federal personnel records including SF-86 forms, the highly-sensitive, detailed and personal background checks for high-security clearances. Generals, Navy SEALs, FBI agents, senior diplomats, Justice officials or anyone else in the Federal Government may have been outed in this way, to the most indefatigable and ruthless spy network on Earth. The OPM hack is a catastrophe unlike any other in history.

China’s numbers, ruthlessness and reach make it a fearsome global adversary.

What’s more disconcerting is China’s relentlessness, its tirelessness, the insouciant way China pushes forward on every front and attacks everything simultaneously.

Any normal American who knows this stuff will feel some anxiety about it. But normal Americans aren’t in charge of America any more. So what do the people in charge of America think of China with its genocidal totalitarian fascist master race global empire ideas of fun?

They think it’s just dandy.

Google and Amazon and Facebook and Apple are companies founded in America. They wield immense power here. If they wanted, they could draw a line against China. But they don’t see China as a threat to the civilization that made their great companies possible. They see markets. Labor can be bought in China very cheaply, because workers have no protections and no options. The labor force is more than twice the size of America’s total population. Common working conditions are terrible; hours are inflexible and gruelling; compensation is barely above slavery. In one factory where they made Apple products, there was a rash of suicides as workers jumped off the roof. Some of the workers may have been poisoned by n-hexane, which causes permanent nerve damage. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, went to investigate and recommended the factory install nets to catch anyone jumping from the roof. The same people who freak out about fascism and slavery in America flaunt Nikes and iPhones.

American industry relies on rare-earth metals. China has cornered the global market in this precious resource by the simple expedient of having no environmental regulations. Same with solar panels: they can never be made in America because Americans don’t know how to dispose of all the toxic waste. In China they just dump it in the lake.

Google and Facebook are partners with China not just in advertising and streaming etc., but also in domestic surveillance, social credit, and censorship. They won’t be giving up that market; they’ll be implementing those concepts in America.

When entertainment media look at China, they don’t see a foreign rival to propagandize against. They see 1.4 billion souls to consume American entertainment. Thus China captured Hollywood and Major League Sports. As a condition of access to that market, the CCP has required American entertainment media to effectively propagandize on China’s behalf. If you wonder why Colin Kaepernick trash-talks America so much, it’s because he works for Nike and Nike works in China. NBA also works in China. When some NBA bigwig tweeted support for the Hong Kong protesters’ right of free speech, LeBron James set him straight. Mr. James knows all about the perils of free speech; he has immensely lucrative business in China with NBA and Nike.

So much for professional sports. Hollywood is equally supine, equally complicit. One notorious story has it that the 2019 trailer for a Tom Cruise Top Gun movie showed the flags of Taiwan and Japan as patches on Cruise’s flight jacket. The film was produced in part by a Chinese conglomerate. The studio offered to blur or CGI those patches when the trailer hit the Chinese market. Not good enough, their Chinese partners declared. The patches must be obscured in all public releases in all countries. Our Hollywood Heroes complied.

What about the news media? Here’s a clue: the Washington Post, probably the most-influential national newspaper in terms of straight-up politics, is owned by Jeff Bezos. For Bezos, China is a consumer market whose potential dwarfs that of the America which made him the richest man. The Washington Post will never do or say anything to antagonize China. Other major outlets are similarly incurious. China is making the stories of the century, and our media can’t be bothered with factual or investigative reporting.

The US Military is gearing up to fight Climate Change and Misogyny, or something. That’s not going to help much in a naval battle over Taiwan. When our green-haired intersectional lesbian giraffe dyslexics go up against the stern discipline and rigorous training of the Chinese, we’ll lose a carrier or two. The American Military-Industrial Complex will chortle and rub their hands with glee; it means they get to replace a carrier or two.

And that brings us to the Biden Administration.

Some people will say that Hunter Biden’s laptop story was a Russian disinformation campaign. Maybe they’re right. But even without the laptop, there’s plenty to suggest that Hunter Biden is a scumbag and crook. This was a guy who would impregnate a stripper, deny paternity and publicly defame the mother, and finally have to settle once the paternity results were in. He was married at the time. He also is a known cokehead, even if you don’t believe in the photos from the laptop. Finally, this total wastrel with no particular qualifications received millions from government-controlled corporations in Ukraine and China. Hunter had nothing to sell; no skills, no expertise, nothing other than his father’s position as Vice President. Joe used his son as a bag-man for large-scale bribery and paid him a share. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming; there is no innocent explanation for the things we know, even if you leave the laptop out.

Now that Joe Biden’s in office, how have his executive decisions aligned with China’s interests?

Pretty well, unfortunately. When Donald Trump was President, he harbored a delusion that Chinese companies might not be trustworthy in building out the sensitive parts of our critical energy infrastructure, so he forbid it. That ban has now been lifted. Likewise there is noise about lifting Trump’s ban on Chinese Huawei 5G technology development in the US.

And then Joe Beijing said this:

“If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home,” Biden began. “So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.”

This is straight-up CCP propaganda coming from the mouth of the President of the United States. Opposing the Party’s ideas of fun is counterproductive. Live in Peace, but know we will Take what we Want.

Buy charcoal.