George Rebane
It occurred to me that given China’s expressed geo-strategic goals and its relationship with the US, were I in charge of China’s foreign policy, why wouldn’t I want to fund every progressive cause and liberal politician at work in America. Doing so would leverage all of China’s other domestic and international initiatives in its military, commercial, and social sectors. Getting monies to such leftwing organizations and thought leaders here would be a cinch through third party intermediaries. US institutions, both for- and non-profit with whom China deals globally, could be ‘given’ monies through legitimate joint venture deals that would then be funneled to leftwing efforts ranging from K-street, through econuts, to PACs funding left-minded legislation and politicians.
Such investment by China would be a force multiplier because it would strengthen and enable the natural tendencies of existing leftwing organizations and people to –
- Increase the regulatory burden at every turn on American corporations competing with China, and create more numerous and expensive hurdles that small and medium sized businesses must clear;
- Promote the legislative and litigious gridlock in the judicial system by supporting all manner of tort laws and tort lawyers in the name of the environment and consumer protection;
- Drastically reduce spending on America’s military, thereby guaranteeing its quick retreat from serving as the world’s ‘white hat’ hegemon while China continues its military build-up for west Asian expansion;
- Further accelerate the demise of America’s educational system and the dumbing of its information-free population through leftwing academics (e.g. Common Core) and teachers’ unions;
- Through established leftwing class warfare initiatives and issues (e.g. income inequality), promote an intensified polarization of the country’s population and the decrease of its workforce participation as socialist wealth transfer programs increase and multiply;
- Promote ever higher minimum wages, and revivify union memberships leading to fewer jobs and greater tendency to invest overseas and to offshore jobs;
- Weaken the US through ‘financial reforms’ sufficiently to knock the US dollar out of primacy as the world’s reserve currency, thereby smoothing the road for the renminbi to assume that role.
This list could be longer, but you get the idea. The thought also crosses my mind that they may already be doing that since they have a legitimate and established ‘Fifth Column’ in residence here. In any case, the basic premise seems to be an easy call for Beijing, and it would tie well with their geo-strategic goal to bring China back to all its former glory and more. And all without firing a shot.
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