Understanding the China Communists

Steven Moshur is interviewed at The Stream about his experiences in China.

...I was the first American social scientist allowed into China in 1979-80. What I found there were horrifying human rights violations being carried out in the name of curbing China’s “population problem.” During my time in China, the one-child policy began. Pregnant women were rounded up by the millions and forced to undergo abortions and subsequent sterilizations.

I was present in the operating room. People’s Liberation Army doctors operated on women who were 7, 8, and even 9 months pregnant. They first administered lethal injections to kill their unborn children. Then they performed Caesarean sections to remove the now dead or dying babies. The women were, of course, heartbroken. Some went on to end their own lives in protest.

China’s “Planned Birth” program continues today. Couples get told by the state how many children they can have. They were originally allowed to have one child. Now they are permitted to have two. Women who become pregnant before marriage, and women who become pregnant with a third child, however, are still routinely aborted.

...Allowing China into the World Trade Organization ranks as one of the greatest strategic blunders made by any great power in human history. We aided and abetted a hostile foreign power’s rise to geopolitical ascendance. That ascendance now threatens America itself.Bully of Asia - COVER v5__1517902683_70.123.104.176

The Chinese Communist Party does not operate in good faith in trade arrangements. Or in anything else, for that matter.

China had no intention of playing by the rules of the WTO. Nor by the rules of the existing world order, for that matter. In the view of Chinese strategists, all warfare — including economic warfare — is deception. Rules are for fools. The world is an anarchic system in which he who has the most force will ultimately win. Operating on these Machiavellian principles, China pretended to be a weak developing country in order to get favorable terms in the World Trade Organization. Then, as soon as they were admitted, promptly broke all the rules they had just agreed to. Beijing has been behaving in predatory fashion ever since.

China Cheats
By now, it is abundantly clear to nearly everyone — except perhaps former President Barack Obama — that China cheats on agreements and ignores international law. It has unilaterally terminated its deal with Great Britain on Hong Kong. It has rejected the International Tribunal at the Hague’s ruling condemning China’s illegal islands in the South China Sea. Despite repeatedly promising to stop stealing U.S. intellectual property, China makes off with about $600 billion in U.S. intellectual property every year, according to the FBI.

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