U.S. Intelligence Positions Hong Kong as Proxy Conflict with China –
Thankfully President Trump Sees Trap…by Sundance, 8/13/19.
The
situation in Hong Kong is a geopolitical dynamic that will likely become much
more volatile in the next few weeks, months and/or years. One constant in
an ever-changing universe is how the UniParty in DC will attempt to drag the
U.S. into the issues.
First, Hong Kong is China. Whether a generation of people look
back with regret to the time when Great Britain ceded the territory to Beijing
is irrelevant. China has, and will have, full control over Hong Kong; and
that’s the way it is. This will not be reversed.
Any effort for the people within Hong Kong to reverse the
situation and escape the clutches of oppressive communism while retaining their
liberty will only lead to massive bloodshed.
Unfortunately for Hong Kong, as President Trump decouples the
U.S. economy from the duplicitous communist Chinese enterprise, Beijing will
grasp more control over the heavily Western-influenced economic strata
in/around Hong Kong.
Stand back and look at the bigger picture. President Trump has
neutralized, essentially made irrelevant, Beijing’s use of their proxy
province, North Korea. President Trump has embraced Kim Jong-un, not as
much out of a position of warmth – but rather as a tactic to block China from
weaponizing the DPRK as leverage during the U.S-China trade confrontation.
Beijing still uses their influence to shoot rockets, test
missiles etc. and president Trump ignores it now. Why? Because
North Korea already has nuclear missiles; they’re the same nuclear missiles
China has… and it is silly now to think China will remove their nuclear
missiles to gain an economic benefit.
If U.S. policy isn’t trying to remove nuclear weapons from
China, then why would U.S. policy try to remove nuclear weapons from the DPRK?
They’re the same nukes.
Losing their DPRK leverage, and understanding Beijing has no
direct tools to defeat the U.S. in a direct economic confrontation, means China
will look elsewhere. That’s where Hong Kong comes into play.
[Always remember, despite the U.S. tariffs on China, there are
no tariffs on Hong Kong]
Do we feel sympathy watching a once free society slip into the
grips of an oppressive and totalitarian system now ruled by a communist
dictator for life in Chairman Xi Jinping? Sure we do. But they made
these choices decades ago… now they have the consequences.
If Hong Kong tries to resist Beijing, they will be
crushed. Hundreds more will be arrested and disappear. Thousands,
perhaps tens of thousands, will be killed. There is already an ongoing
flight of wealth out of Hong Kong as the smart and wealthy position their
assets overseas to survive the arrival of Beijing’s storm troopers.
The future for Hong Kong is dark. It is not going to end
in anything resembling what exists today. Hong Kong will be Beijing 2.0,
and will be entirely dominated by Chinese authoritarian rule. The
difference in 2019 is the speed at which it is happening.
Things are speeding up now in direct proportion to the severity
of the U.S. decoupling our economy from China. As the Chinese
economy weakens, Beijing will get more desperate.
Many voices around President Trump will cry out for
intervention. The UniParty will demand intervention and decry President
Trump’s instinct to stay away from the self-made crisis.
It is not our issue; and engaging in Hong Kong only opens up
another pathway for China to play the duplicitous leverage game. Beijing will
play the “we’ll spare, delay, or dilute the Hong Kong absorption, if you agree
to our trade terms” game.
President Trump needs to engage with China and Hong Kong as one
nation, under one rule, with one motive and intent. Trying to win a
Chinese trade conflict while parsing the economy of China from the economy of
Hong Kong, is like trying to parse the nukes in China from the nukes in North
Korea.
Hong Kong is lost. Hong Kong belongs to China. Thousands of Hong Kongers will be killed or disappear into camps
as Beijing absorbs the region. The U.S. cannot continue to engage
globally in an effort to protect nations from the consequences of their own
decisions.
If Great Britain wants to send an armada of battle ships to warn
Beijing against aggression with Hong Kong, then we should support. Wait…
wha? Oh, Great Britain no longer has a Navy because the high-minded EU
collective wanted to hold hands and sing ‘we-are-the-world’ instead of planning
to defend its interests for the past twenty years…. I digress.
Hong Kong is not our issue.
The CIA will try to make it our issue. The State
Department will try to make it our issue. The UniParty in DC will try to
make it our issue. John Bolton will try to make it our issue. Activists
in Hong Kong will try to make it our issue. All of the far-left
globalists will try to make it our issue…. Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney
will try to make it our issue; but it’s not our issue.
We pray for peace and send our prayers, but we cannot succeed in
the larger economic confrontation with cunning China if we attempt to ignore
the direct connective tissue between Beijing and Hong Kong.
Instead, start applying the Chinese tariffs on Hong Kong as soon
as Beijing tanks arrive. Tough love.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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