Stop Feeding the Chinese Dragon: - Avoiding the Next World War
To my mind there are few crimes more unforgivable than not learning from history.
The West failed to take note that the Soviet?Union spent ten years and circa 30,000 lives trying to occupy Afghanistan and failed miserably.? So, a western US led coalition then goes in for twenty years and guess what! They also lose against an intractable foe, another failure to learn from history.
China and the People’s Liberation Army ( PLA) is the biggest threat to world peace that we and our children face. ?The parallel with the rise of the Nazi party in 1930’s Germany is unescapable. ?China has been bullying it’s smaller neighbours but their aggression will not end there, emboldened?by our lack of “ push back” they?will become ever more ambitious.? Their economic power fuelling their military build up will only make them more and more aggressive. ?Large economic powers such as Germany continue to APPEASE China because of its trade value. ?Some considerable irony here, if you stop to consider the Nazi persecution of the Jews and China’s persecution of the Ughuir Muslims.?
China is clearly signalling that they are going to invade democratic Taiwan, but I don’t see free democracies sending back the message that if you do, there will be very dire consequences.?
Such a firm and unequivocal message sent to Hitler and Nazi Germany,?at the right time, I believe could have averted WW2.
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We are, being feeble and weak willed, therefore sadly drifting into the next world war.
What can individuals like you and me do to intervene? ?Well, like most of us I order a lot of products over the internet, now, if it arrives and says “Made in China” I automatically send it back to the supplier.? My simple and singular action will make no difference, but, if enough of us were to adopt this policy, then slowly traders would begin to realise that trading with China is not so smart and definitely not profitable.? As an individual consumer, I would say, with some irony, that, “ A journey of a thousand miles, starts with but a single step”
Any CEOs of major companies still believing that buying from China is clever, should be dismissed for not understanding supply chain economics.
Yours,
Lewis Scott