China's Road to Fascism

The Washington Times has a fascinating article regarding China’s frenzied pace of military buildup over the past 10 years.

“China’s economy has been growing at a rate of at least 10 percent for each of the past 10 years, providing the country’s military with needed funds for modernization. The combination of a vibrant centralized economy, growing military and increasingly fervent nationalism has transformed China into what many defense officials view as a fascist state. .. ‘We may be seeing in China the first true fascist society on the model of Nazi Germany, where you have this incredible resource base in a commercial economy with strong nationalism, which the military was able to reach into and ramp up incredible production,’ a senior defense official said.”


This two part article written by Bill Gertz nicely summarizes the monster err I mean dragon in the east. Part two (Theft of U.S. technology boost China’s weaponry) is particularly troubling. It appears that China uses its vast army of students studying abroad (150,000), delegations in the New York area (300,000) and maybe visitors (700,000 a year) as intelligence and business spies. China also acquires information from “unwitting American visitors to China – from both the US government and the private sector – who are “serially indiscreet” in disclosing information sought by Beijing”.

And here I thought the Chinese finally recognized the merits of capitalism and individualism and were slowly giving up the communist ideology of statism and collectivism. Well, not exactly by a long shot. It appears they are hijacking capitalism in the market place to have a fountain of wealth as they convert to a fascist state. Well, at least the Chinese state recognizes that collectivism is a straight road to poverty. But fascism is just the other side of the coin from communism. While communism is a dictatorship based on public ownership of the means of production, that is, the abolition of all private property and individualism, fascism is a dictatorship where the citizen has all the responsibilities of property ownership but no freedom to act because the government has power of its use and disposal. Either way the individual is a serf of the government: the first is without pretense – to each according to his need and from each according to his ability. The second is an outright sham.

It’s interesting to note that the Chinese have had decades of observing the United States and reading the record and yet they choose not liberty for all but a bit of economic liberty for a few (mainly in the cities) and power for the few. The question is why is China so bent on military buildup (by stealing our secrets)? Is it just to conquer Taiwan? I doubt it. They have grand designs of conquering much more than Taiwan and the US better be ready to deal with this issue before it’s too late. The scary thing is that we are squandering our efforts and money in Iraq where the chance of a democracy let alone a republic is dim at best.

Maybe it’s time to pull out of Iraq, a war we are fighting with the stated altruist goal of establishing a democracy. But we should be fighting Iraq selfishly - for the defense of America and Americans against Islamo-fascism. Self-defense is something we can do anytime and anyplace where our interests are at stake. Changing another peoples’ style of government without first total subjugation (as we did with Japan in WWII) is a fool’s pipe dream. Our resources of intelligence gathering, money and know how are better spent on the coming military threat from the East and the nuclear threat from Iran.