TAP America Urges Citizens to Unite and Boycott China: American Retailers Need to Stock Products Made In America

By Mark Bloome, Founder of TAP America

China, the rising super power of the world, poses the greatest threat to the economic independence and political freedom of the United States – far more than Islamic terrorism. As China continues to expand its economic, political, and military strengths, it exerts expanding influence over other nations. Just recently Europe went to China begging it to bailout Europe.

This executive summary will highlight the threats posed by the Chinese Communist government in hopes of invoking change at the citizen-level to re-ignite the torch of liberty for America and the world. While examining this threat, we must remember that it is not the Chinese people who pose a threat to America, but the Chinese Government ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

I. Economy

The Rise of China

The Chinese Communist Party possesses the military, economic, population and political power to undermine the foundation of our beloved country. China’s population exceeds that of the United States by 3 to 1. This represents labor, military and intellectual capital for China. China is already ahead of the United States in many technologies such as solar panels, advanced manufacturing techniques and a modern infrastructure. For example, China has 6000 miles of high-speed rail while the USA has none!

America’s Dependence on China

China has been able to turn America’s capitalistic system against us. Top-down state capitalism is proving to be a more efficient system than the push and pull of our democracy. From a strategic POV we are short-term planners with an eye to next quarter.  Because of the cheap prices made possible through devaluing their currency, lack of worker’s rights, and very few environmental regulations, our American corporations fire Americans and hire Chinese workers to drive higher profits. Companies with squeaky-clean images like Apple, REI and Target are taking jobs away from American workers by manufacturing their products overseas in China.

Because quarterly and yearly profits drive both stock prices and executive bonuses, executive decisions are made to abandon America and support China.

The movement by American companies to both manufacture and import from China is the main reason the USA economy has not recovered. Manufacturing is one of the foundations of our economy our foundations have been razed.

China needs to create more than 25 million jobs each year to keep pace with their increasing work force and internal political peace. It is the policy of the CCP to use multiple strategies, some legitimate, most not, to take jobs away from Americans and give them to Chinese workers. The best chance America has to stop the Chinese juggernaught is to buy American goods and services.

The reduction in American jobs has caused both our small business profits and workers wages to decline significantly, thus increasing our deficits and less tax revenues.  We need tax revenues to pay for schools, roads, senior health care, prisons, police, and a strong military.

II. Military

China’s Military Expansion

While publicly pretending to want peace, in fact China is building a strong military to confront the USA and protect its interests. 

According to October 24, 2011 issue of The New York Times, “In the past year, China has tested its first radar-evading fighter jet, the J-20, and is developing an anti-ship ballistic missile that is designed to hit American aircraft carriers. China is also in sea trials with its first aircraft carrier. And the People’s Liberation Army — with some 1.25 million ground troops, the largest in the world — is on track to achieve its goal of building a modern, regionally focused force by 2020.” This highlights that China is preparing to confront the United States in the near future.

Examples of China’s growing military competence:

• In 2007, a Chinese submarine, capable of torpedo or missile attack, popped up next to the Kittyhawk, a US Carrier with 4500 personnel on board. The sub went undetected and left the US Navy dumbfounded as to how it went undetected so long.  The US’s falsely-held beliefs of naval superiority were put into question.  As its technologies progress, the US can expect the Chinese military to continue to test the capabilities and weaknesses of the US navy.

• The U.S. government along with MacAfee has recently implied that China is involved in one of the largest hacking efforts in history, breaching into computers and databases within US government offices and departments. The U.S. government just released a report about China’s cyber attacks on our government, military and industrial organizations.  Further MacAfee released a statement saying, “It had alerted the 72 targets it identified and also informed law enforcement agencies, which it said were investigating. The 14-page report calls the attacks highly sophisticated and says they appear to have been operated by a government body, which it declined to name.”

• The sophistication of such attacks illustrates the Chinese’s competence to cyber attack the US’s our military, economic, electrical power and industrial capacities with the goal of shutting us down. .  Evidence points out extended Chinese cyber attacks on the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI.

• There is evidence that China has supported Islamic terrorism throught Iran. Iran is a major supporter of Islamic terrorism and according to the U.S. government, is building nuclear bombs. To afford to do these things Iran receives significant economic support from China by “trading” for Iranian oil. It is in China’s interest to use Iran to fund Islamic terrorists as this both keeps us devoting resources in the Middle East and stopping domestic terrorism. China’s potential support of a terrorist nation weakens us, increases our deficits, and keeps our military pre-occupied.

III. Human Rights

Human Capital and Human Rights

The Communist government restricts freedom of all sorts in the name of “national harmony”.  It has even created a roadblock to upward mobility for its citizens. This roadblock comes in the form of identity cards issued at birth to Chinese citizens based upon their social and geographical status. Chinese citizens born in rural farming areas are limited to rural jobs and opportunities. Legally, they cannot take up jobs or even residence within larger Chinese cities to earn a livable wage. Because of this illegal status the rural workers who need city jobs, work more like illegal immigrants at low paying jobs.

China’s conquest and subjugation of Tibet, its murder of over 3000 people at Tiananmen square and censorship to prevent knowledge of this event by its citizens are all examples of how the Chinese Communist Party exhibits its control over its people and how it would control other nations.

Conclusion

Throughout history, empires have risen and fallen. For over a thousand years the Chinese Empire had been the most sophisticated and dominant empire in the world.  Historically when China ruled Asia and dealt with the West, its policy was and is likely to become that all nations must kowtow (Kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of Chinese custom and respect) to China.

As China’s political power and influence grows and as other countries decline, it is possible that more and more countries will adopt, or be forced into, the Communist system of central control, suppression of freedom, and state ownership of most businesses.  This is because the winning system becomes the one which others are forced to adopt. For the last hundred years it has been American democracy and capitalism.  Before that it was English and European dominance and colonialism.

Right now the bankrupt European nations are coming, hat in hand, to beg China to help them out.  China wants access to advanced armaments from European manufactures to be used offensively and aimed at defeating the United States.

China’s centralized government has shown an ability to accelerate change so that we can expect an even more rapid pace for them to be prepared to take against America and other nations. Their astute economic tactics promoted and promulgated by the CCP has allowed China to rise at a rate of industrialization unheard of in modern history.  One of the reasons that have allowed China to grow so rapidly is its repression of human rights in the context of harmony.  There is no overt political opposition in China, which is in keeping with how China views its internal policies.  As Tibet has shown China will use military suppression on all countries that it either conquers or dominants.

China and the USA are at a crossroads about whose values win– the freedom of America or the iron fist of the Chinese Communist Party.  We can win simply by buying American goods and services.  Chinese exports to the West are dropping and European exports which count for 22% of China’s GNP, will drop as Europe goes into a tailspin.  We have a window of opportunity to create internal dissent in China if we add to China’s economic weakening by boycotting Chinese goods.

If China turns against itself, and Americans take individual responsibility through buying American, then we can remain the strongest nation and keep the light of liberty alive for all people.