Communist China’s official news agency reported Donald Trump’s departure from the White House with the words:  Good Riddance!  The Communists followed those words with economic and travel sanctions against 25 ex-Trump officials, including Italian American Mike Pompeo, our former Secretary of State:

“[They] have planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves which have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s interests, offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-US relations.”

Replace the word “China” with “America,” and this statement echoes the Left’s view of Trump and his supporters.  Presidents Biden and Xi now have something to build upon.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, while working with President Trump, once called out Red China’s disinformation on Covid-19 and slammed the World Health Organization last June.  He has now changed his tune in concert with his new boss, President Biden.  Fauci gleefully announced the U.S. return to W.H.O. with no conditions – the same $893 million annual dues vs $86 million paid by China, and no demand for a change in leadership.  Not surprisingly, Red China welcomes our return.  It also praised, as “unity,” our unconditional return to the Paris Climate Accords, which require the U.S. to end the use of fossil fuels five years earlier than top polluter China. 

Like Dr. Fauci, Red China feels “liberated” from the Trump regime.  Despite the Trump rants and tariffs, China never fulfilled its bargain to buy U.S. products.  The NYTimes reports that the Chinese have only purchased 60% of what they agreed to.  And, if they don’t like how you treat their citizens in the U.S. or their image in the media, they will buy even less.  Just ask the Australians, who made China’s enemies list and found their exports blocked when they started investigating the origins of the China Virus.

Red China has a chip on its shoulder and over the centuries Italians helped put it there.  It started with Caesar Augustus, whose Pax Romana paved the way for European trade with Asia.  Once the West got hooked on Chinese silk, and Marco Polo (ca. 1200s) gave Europeans the lowdown on Asian wonders – like spices, paper, porcelain, and gunpowder, Europeans sought ways to bypass the Muslim Middle East by sea.  Before they succeeded, the Chinese took the initiative.

Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming Dynasty sent an armada of 62 ships to establish markets along the coasts of Africa, south Asia, India, and the Middle East – reaching Mecca, near the Mediterranean Sea.  But in an act that today’s Communists consider a huge blunder, the Ming emperor recalled his fleet and decided the outside world had nothing to offer China except elephant tusks and rhino horns (an aphrodisiac).  Moreover, he didn’t want to contaminate his Han race and culture with foreign immigrants.  The fleet never went around Africa, nor into the Pacific Ocean to discover America.

It would be the Portuguese who rounded Africa in 1488, and eventually kicked off Euro-Asian trade by sea.  By 1557, they had a colony in China (Macau).  In 1582, the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci learned Chinese dialects in Macau, eventually converting some 200,000 Chinese.  China was never the same after that.  [Today, there may be 10 million Chinese Catholics and 100 million Protestants – the bane of the Communist Party.]  

But the biggest blow to China’s future came in 1492 from a Genovese fellow leading three tiny ships, who accidently found two huge continents on his way to outflank the Portuguese to China.  Centuries of humiliation by Europeans, Manchurians, and Japanese were to follow. Chinese leaders could only imagine what might have been if China had explored the world instead of the West.  But, they need imagine no more.

Red China is the master of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia – however, some folks believe we have that honor.  China has mastered global economics and mind control through media intimidation and “re-education.”  Our best and brightest are learning from them.

Washington Post columnist and a regular on Meet the Press and MSNBC, Eugene Robinson (an African American) had this say last Tuesday: “There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed. It’s as if they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult, and they have to be deprogrammed. Do you have any idea how we start that process, much less complete it?”

Perhaps the Chinese sell a kit for this. -JLM