Time to play hardball with China

I am growing tired of hearing about how the next century
will not be an American century, about how the Chinese are on the rise, about
how they are so smart and we are so stupid, blah, blah, blah.

China is not a communist state. It is a criminal state. It
steals intellectual property because it can’t produce any new ideas on its own.

That is what happens when the state limits freedom and
curtails liberty. That is what happens when the state crushes political
dissent. That is what happens when the state decides who gets what and who
doesn’t get squat.

There is a bit of nostalgia from the liberal left for the
kind of mass mobilization that comes with a communist/criminal enterprise-type
state. They admire the fact that the Chinese can move people from one location
to another without messy lawsuits. They admire the fact that the state can get
the people to move in a lockstep to achieve objectives that the left deems
acceptable.

But freedom is an essential element to progress. Because
with freedom comes creativity. And from creativity comes the next Google.

The American business community has been under the illusion
that China is somehow the promised land for business development, and perhaps
someday it will be.

But right now, China as a land of opportunity is just an
illusion. China, under the leadership of the goons who run the Communist Party,
is attempting to suck the American business community dry of its ideas. They
can’t create any new ideas of their own, so they have decided to steal them.

Google did the right thing. Other American businesses need
to follow suit. And so does the Obama administration.

Enough of this nice-guy stuff. The Chinese are playing
hardball. We invented hardball. Game on!

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