President Donald Trump must completely purge the State Department (DOS) to prevail in the inevitable confrontation between his America-first movement and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Trump’s appointees will respond to him, but the permanent bureaucracy will undermine him—delighting the CCP—to help globalist tyrants retake the presidency.
The CCP’s attacks on Hong Kong’s liberty show the slogan “One Country, Two Systems” is a lie. Tyrants cannot tolerate and will always seek to extinguish liberty. One of the two systems will prevail. The other will disappear.
US author and China expert Gordon Chang describes the zero-sum game in Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America: “The CCP views the United States as an existential threat not because of anything Americans have ever said or done but because of who they are and what they stand for … There can be only one survivor: either the People’s Republic of China or the United States of America.”
Chang lists some of China’s current weaknesses: “continuing debt defaults, accelerating capital flight, a failing currency, crumbling property prices, worsening food shortages, a deteriorating environment, and failing local governments.” CCP boss Xi Jinping’s increasing totalitarianism has contributed to the worsening situation. His solution of further tightening state control will only exacerbate China’s problems.
In addition to these problems, a falling population and societal pessimism shorten Xi’s window to make China the dominant world power. The CCP, however, is not yet ready to directly confront the United States. Instead, it is actively subverting the United States from within and using proxies to create chaos and distract and weaken the United States.
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.
