The Second Cold War Has Begun

Getting our China policy right is the most significant US national security challenge of the 21st Century

By Jeff Lukens —— Bio and Archives--May 19, 2020

The People’s Republic of China hides its motives in a cloak of mystery.  However, their contempt and disregard of others in the Coronavirus pandemic has now torn away the shroud and made their ugly intentions clear.  China has signaled its defiance to the international order and its willingness to overturn it.  They are implementing a strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the PRC. 

Tyranny of the People’s Republic of China

Throughout the First Cold War, it was up to the United States to stand up for vulnerable nations and help those being set upon by the Soviet Union’s brutal force.  Now that the Second Cold War is upon us, it is time to do it again against the tyranny of the People’s Republic of China.

Following World War II, the United States was transformed into a world superpower.  World leadership had been thrust upon us in a way we could not avoid.  It came to the US not only because of his preeminent military and economic power but because of the generous way we had employed that power in the world of desperate need and threat of Communist expansion.  These principles remained true throughout the First Cold War.  Today, no major issue of global peace or stability can be resolved without involvement by the United States.

For more than 40 years, the US has played a benevolent role in helping the Chinese government build a booming economy and taking its place on the world stage.  We believed that China’s rise would bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade.  In the past year, however, it has become clear that China’s goal is to replace America as the dominant global power.  By mid-century, their GDP may surpass that of the US, and hence gaining a commanding position.

Unlike Americans, whose time horizon rarely extends beyond the next election, China plays the long game.  The Chinese are willing to wait out difficulties as long as trends are moving their way.  They seek victory through incremental moves designed to gradually improve their strength, by both legal and lawless means, until it grows into an overwhelming advantage.  They wish to avoid a hot war by winning it without firing a shot.

American consumption of Chinese products has grown to the point we are now financing their entire annual defense budget

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