This will make your blood boil. I recently read an insider report that China actually sent arms to one of the outlying islands of Hawaii. Even worse… they actually engaged in a training exercise with some locals there. I was both astounded and infuriated.
And then I realized that what I read was not about Hawaii… but about us providing military support to Taiwan.
Wait! You may cry out. Isn’t Taiwan one of our friends and allies? Well… yes and no. While we maintain trade relationships with the island through the American Institute of Taiwan, we do not have an embassy there… because it is not a country.
Taiwan is officially a province of mainland China, and our State Department says so.[1]
I am fully aware of the controversial history regarding the expulsion of Nationalist China from the UN in the early 1970s, and delivering them over to the Communist government in Beijing. However, that ship has sailed. The internationally recognized legal status for Taiwan today is that they are a province of mainland China.
So why, oh why, are we, the United States, sending arms to Taiwan’s local government? Why do we conduct training exercises with them? In essence, this would be like President Xi sending arms to Hawaii, and conducting training exercises with our 50th state. Our policies regarding Taiwan are both moronic and downright dangerous. We are interfering in China’s internal affairs, the same thing that we scream bloody murder over when we claim another nation is doing it to us.
I doubt many Americans, even those in our federal government, have any clue about the history of our engagement with China since the late 1800s. How we cried out for an “open door,” because unlike a host of European nations who had monopoly trading ports on the Chinese coast, the United States had none. We wanted our own, and muscled our way in.
Japan, a neighbor to China, had a desire to influence her backyard, and we, on the opposite side of the globe, decided that wasn’t fair. Our big business leaders wanted China’s wealth for themselves, and the Japanese naturally resisted. After all, how dare another nation have its own version of the Monroe Doctrine? In 1937, Japanese planes purposely bombed the American gunboat Panay, which was at that time protecting American industrial representatives in Nanking and escorting Standard Oil tankers on the Yangtze River.
And now, here we are today, supporting a so-called independence movement in Taiwan to use them against mainland China. Meanwhile we oppose independence movements in the Donbas area of Ukraine because that prevents us from using Ukraine against Russia.
While contradictory on the surface, one principle is consistent. The United States is actively seeking to rule the world… literally… with the sole purpose of stealing the resources of other nations for the greed of our wealthy elite. When the British empire did this, it was called “jingoism,” the term taken from the war song of The Great MacDermott in the late 1800s: “We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do, we’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too!”[2]
And what the United States has yet to understand is that most of the world is getting weary of our meddling in their internal affairs. Frighteningly, a reckoning could be close at hand.
Russ Rodgers has several books published on Amazon.
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[1] https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/taiwan/
[2] The term “by Jingo” was a play-off of the term “by Jove” or “by Jupiter,” which was an exclamation used in place of “by Jesus” or “by God,” which many religious people found blasphemously offensive.