Trump is looking at — if not defeating the communist Chinese, severely damaging their economy and hence militarily, the way Reagan did the Soviet Union through economics. They cannot beat us economically, at least right now.
Mark Levin (Blaze media)
Warren Buffet just said tariffs caused “uncertainty” that hurt Berkshire Hathaway; lower operating profits, its dollars lost value, and its stock portfolio took a hit. It’s not Buffet’s job to defend America’s interests, so he did not say a US-China trade war today is better than a kinetic war in Asia tomorrow, or this is the free world’s Munich Moment (Hitler in 1938).
Defending America and its citizens’ interests is the job of the Trump administration, which believes continued appeasement of communist China ultimately ends with President Xi invading Taiwan, risking World War III. Don’t scoff, because the similarities to the rise of the Third Reich are eerily similar.
If It Quacks Like a Duck
From 1933 to 1939, Nazi Germany’s defense spending increased from $5.9 billion to $25.7 billion, resulting in a military with 4,220,000 combatants, 4,201 warplanes, and a nuclear development program. Its war psyche was the saga of a master race, humiliation of Versailles, and goal of lebensraum, which led to eluding armistice treaties, victimizing Jews, and annexing the Sudetenland.
From 1998 to 2023, Red China’s defense spending increased from $17 billion to $296.4 billion, resulting in 2,035,000 combatants, 3,304 warplanes, 730 warships, and 500 nukes. Its war psyche is the saga of the first civilization, humiliation of European oppression, and goal of Asian hegemony, which has led to eluding WTO rules, victimizing Uyghurs, and annexing Hong Kong.
Like Winston Churchill not trusting Nazi Germany, Kevin O’Leary doesn’t trust Red China: “They never abided by any of the WTO rules they agreed to in 2000. They steal American IP and we can’t litigate in their courts. They steal our product, manufacture it, and sell it back here.” Buyer beware: China used “free trade” to export $4.9 trillion last year, creating an $882 billion trade surplus that funds its global ambitions.
Just as Britain appeased Hitler, America has appeased Xi with continued imports and tepid reactions to cyberattacks (and spy balloons). The US has also allowed “free trade” to saddle it with a $1.1 trillion trade deficit and $36.2 national debt, which Xi’s diplomats present as “proof” of America’s decline to nations considering China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and BRICS reserve-currency. The winds of war cannot blow any stronger.
A Wake Up Call for the Free World
Despite the red flags, Canada and Mexico allowed tariffed Chinese goods to transship into the US. Despite China seizing control of the world’s rare earth minerals, the WTO did not end China’s “developing nation status.” David Sacks, White House AI czar, calls that a “catastrophic” mistake: “We worshiped at the altar of free trade to the point we became dependent on China for critical components in our supply chain” (source: Twitter-X).
The greatest threat to global trade is communist China’s “planned economy” that’s created a House Of Cards. President Xi constrained domestic consumption to maximize export revenue. Oops! Now he cannot check Trump’s tariffs by diverting export goods to Chinese consumers. Now factories are closed, leaving millions of workers with unpaid wages. Now workers protests are spreading across China (source: Radio Free Asia).
China’s central planning is so bad that funding for government pensions runs out in 2034, right after 300 million Chinese have retired. Central planners allowed housing developers to continue after the property market had crumbled, creating twice as many empty apartments as Chinese people and enough vacant homes for 3 billion people (source: BBC News). A “peoples republic” should not hurt its people…
…but 70% of Chinese household wealth is in residential housing, where values have plummeted 30% since 2019. It must suck to be a communist, because 29% of US household wealth is in residential housing, where values have risen 35% since 2019 (source: Reuters).
Xi can never-ever sit atop the global economy, because he has imprisoned his own people in an export-dependent country, sentenced 300 million to rotten retirements, and ruined their biggest asset. Ahem…just say NO to communism.
Run to Daylight
After VP Vance met with PM Modi in Delhi to discuss the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), Treasury Secretary Bessent told CNBC, “I would guess that India would be one of the first trade deals we would sign.” The BTA will formalize the terms of Mission 500, Modi’s and Trump’s February plan to grow US-India total trade to $500 billion by 2030. It’s what we wanted all along, right?
A win-win deal means India, the world’s largest democracy, replaces China as the source of tech and pharmaceutical exports, and buys lots of US agricultural and energy products. It means the US invests in India, which is growing faster economically than China, and protects business dealings with English law. Further, a US-India alliance forces China (and Pakistan) to re-think its aggression (see picture up top).
America’s move toward India is a strategic check upon China, and it is being well orchestrated. Modi visited Trump in the first week of state visits, treated Second Lady Usha Vance like Jackie Kennedy on her husband’s visit to Delhi, and recently spoke to Elon Musk about “collaboration in areas of technology and innovation” (source: The Economic Times).
After inheriting two proxy wars, which were exhausting America’s arsenal, Team Trump should be lauded for its will (the folks that created the problem are now obstructing the solution) and skill ($5 trillion to be newly invested in the US). Reagan was 100% right, because “peace through strength” ended the Cold War.
You know who else was right? Winston Churchill, who said “jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”