by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2021
(Jan. 25, 2021) — For the past few decades the Communist regime of China has been driving toward world supremacy, both economically and militarily. The regime’s main target has been, and is, the United States of America. China’s plan to grab power has been clever and unprecedented, seeking victory without firing a shot, reducing its targets to mere frogs in a boiling pot.
Pundits and politicians alike, when excusing their strategic dealings with China, are quick to remind their audiences that today’s China is a “centuries old civilization” rich in tradition and ancient religious discipline. A Confucian civilization that is still upset over wrongdoings during the European colonization period.
Such a view is wrong. The China we are confronted with today is nothing like that pre-nineteenth century nation. Since the reign of Mao Tse-tung began in 1949, Communist China, much to the dismay, torture, and death of its own citizens, has been governed by tyrannical thugs, thirsty to expand their dictatorial regime and unrelenting in their hatred of Western Civilization and the United States.
Militarily, China has literally surrounded the US. Once there was a Monroe Doctrine to forbid any foreign power to exert influence in American’s backyard, meaning South, Central, and North America. All nations respected that doctrine as America vigorously imposed it. That is, until China played on the growing weakness of American foreign policy, as when Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal and scuttled all American bases in one of the most strategic locations of American defense. Since then, China has established relationships and bases in several South and Central American nations.
The Chinese are now building the world’s largest and most powerful navy, aggressively challenging US naval passage in international waters; it now claims the entire South China Sea as an internal Chinese lake; and it is building an aggressive space program that will give it the ability to counter US satellite supremacy, resulting in its ability to spy on every location on Earth and counter US military supremacy.
The difference between the Chinese threat today and what turned out to be a hollow challenge to the free world by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, is economics. The genius of the Chinese system is that they are using its growing industrial might to create wealth the Soviets could never have dreamed of possessing. China is using its vast wealth (trillions of dollars) compiled from the glut of Chinese goods sold in American stores, to buy its power. As a result, it’s buying American debt, gold reserves, and wielding heavy influence on the American economy.
Now, however, that Chinese economic power is taking a bizarre and exceptionally dangerous turn in local American communities, America, it appears, is on the brink of being colonized, because China is fast becoming the largest landowner in America.
This fact is mostly a result of a program through the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS), called Immigrant Investor Regional Centers. The program is known in Washington-Speak as EB-5 Centers, so called because they represent a fifth category of employment-based immigration. In reality, it’s a foreign investment program pretending to be a jobs program. To qualify for the plan, applicants must invest $1,000,000 in a US business or at least $500,000 if the business is in an area of high unemployment or rural area. That investment must create or preserve 10 full-time American jobs. In exchange, the immigrant will initially gain legal residency and U.S. Green Cards for their entire family. If the enterprise continues and jobs are created, then the applicant can apply for permanent residence.
According to government reports, since it started in 1990, the EB-5 visa program has brought approximately $6.7 billion to the US and has created 95,000 jobs. Entrepreneurs across the nation have set up regional centers for foreign investment to market local EB-5 projects to investors. There are now at least 480 EB-5 regional centers located in all 50 states. California alone has 116 of the centers. Many of these projects are focusing on building housing developments. Others are concerned with buying up dairy farms, cattle ranches, meat packing plants, and other sources of American food supplies. Still more are centered on getting a piece of American energy sources. Some of the centers are state run, others are private investment entities.
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China has a lot of problems to deal with before it takes over the world. The first problem is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its governance of the county. The second problem is the pandemic China unleashed on the world in 2020. It surely was preventable if the CCP had not lied, but lying is what they do. Since the CCP took over China in 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese have suffered from its unceasing brutality. The CCP has plundered the country, and now its terror is spreading around the globe, afflicting the rest of humanity. Fortunately, the rest of humanity now knows it. The CCP is not a political party in the classic sense, it is LA COSA NOSTRA on steroids. Imagine if the leaders of the United States were Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and you’ll have a small idea of how the CCP runs things. Like any criminal organization, they lie, steal, cheat and kill to achieve their ends. Personal greed is the only value the CCP leaders share. The CCP is corrupt, the government is corrupt, the Peoples Liberation Army is corrupt, the legal system is corrupt, and the nation is, well, corrupt.
And if that were not enough, China’s third problem might be the hardest to overcome because unless things change, in a few years China’s rapidly growing GNP will end. Its economy will slow, projects like the Belt and Road Initiative will stop, and its reputation as a global power will dissolve. This will be due to major demographic change in the country.
China faces an unusually low fertility rate. The fertility rate is the number of children an average woman will have during her lifetime. In China, the rate currently is 1.6. This number is below the 2.1 required to offset for deaths and maintain a population, meaning China will soon begin to depopulate.
In China, about 40% of the population are between 30 and 54 years of age. This group will live longer than prior generations due to improved healthcare and living conditions. When this is combined with fewer babies being born, the median age in China will rapidly increase.
The elderly will become more numerous and fewer young productive workers will be born to replace them. The ratio of the workers to non-workers will rise.
That means more elderly will rely on social security and pensions and fewer workers will be required to pay more in taxes and pension contributions. This puts a strain on a country, and generally the only solution is to raise taxes and other fees. This will occur as the Chinese labor force shrinks. Basic economics says reduced supply leads to increased costs. Increased costs will injure China’s manufacturing and export industries and make Africa and India more appealing places to do business.
The low fertility rate stems from the one-child policy implemented by the government in the 1970s and limited the number of children a family could have to just one child per couple. Penalties for violating the law ranged from a fine to sterilization.
However, the policy worked too well, and it is the cause of the demographic crisis now faced by China. It has become an obstacle that the country might not be able to overcome for decades.