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Chinese threat needs to be taken seriously, activist warns

An anti-communist activist says the U.S. must deal with the reality that Communist China continues to build up its military -- and must be sure it can deter any threat from Beijing in the future.



The incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has pledged that despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military will honor its commitments with its Asian allies. Admiral Mike Mullen says the U.S. is shifting Navy resources to the Pacific as a sign of the region's increased importance.

The top Naval officer also has indicated he plans to nurture ties with China once he assumes the post as President Bush's main military advisor. But Curry Kenworthy of the China e-Lobby says the U.S. needs to understand that China is really not a friend. In fact, he notes that Chinese military leaders have said that war with the U.S. is inevitable.

"We need to take the China military capability seriously. We need to take what they say seriously when they make comments that are shocking; we don't need to just pass over those," he cautions. "We need to [have the mindset that] they really have the ability to do this if they choose to."

For example, Kenworthy points out that the Chinese have made great technological strides in areas like space warfare. "China has the ability to knock out satellites, as it has proven now -- and the U.S. can't fight without satellites, at least not very well," he observes. "So that's another thing the U.S. military really needs to watch out about because when China [talks about] these capabilities, it needs to be taken seriously."

Kenworthy says he shares the view of critics who have a problem with the U.S. providing China access to its military hardware, while Beijing continues to hide its true capabilities.

Congressman says boycott of Beijing Olympics would preserve U.S. 'legacy of liberty'

A Michigan congressman says by participating in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the U.S. will be "turning a blind eye for the sake of profit" to widespread human rights abuses in the communist country -- in effect, turning its back on America's "legacy of liberty."



Citing China's atrocious human rights record, eight House Republicans have introduced a resolution calling for a U.S. boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The resolution compares the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Games in Nazi-era Germany. One of the resolution's cosponsors, Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan), says human rights should be a precondition for the United States to have a trading relationship, or any other relationship, with a dictatorial regime.

"Our concern -- given their pitiful track record on human rights, including their support for [the regime] in Darfur, the Iranian tyrannical regime, and others -- is that if we go in there as if they're a normal country, as if they're abiding [by] honor, traditions, democracy, and human rights, it's going to be a reprise of the 1936 Games in Berlin," cautions the third-term congressman.

McCotter says he and his seven GOP colleagues are much like Winston Churchill in the lead-up to World War II. He points out that at that time, major economic interests in England, the United States, and elsewhere in the democratic world felt Nazi Germany would be a bulwark against Soviet Bolshevism as well as a source for lucrative trade.

"And there were people who went to church [and] who were out in the wilderness who were decried by their colleagues for being warmongers and everything else [and for saying] 'there is a danger here and you will rue the day that you tried to ride the back of the alligator and hope he ate you last,'" the Michigan lawmaker shares. "We do not want to repeat the same mistake with Communist China," McCotter warns.

When asked why few of his colleagues in the House and Senate are backing the boycott of China, McCotter responded, "There are people who believe America is an economy. We believe America is a country."

Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) is sponsoring a separate Olympic boycott resolution that focuses on China's ties to the genocidal regime of Sudan.