Low Road From China

(Low Road From China)

Radiation can be bad. It can give you cancer among other things. When one had to work around nuclear reactors, like Homer Simpson, certain protections need to be involved. Special suits and dosemeters. An non-protected exposure can result in horrible things for a human body. Look at the worse cases from Chernobyl.

Exposure to China has been excessive and there is a movement to "decouple" the world's two largest economies. It is true that the Anglo-Sino relationship has been intertwined over previous decades but in that time the Peoples' Republic has prospered by its rampant theft of intellectual property and everything else for which Beijing has been under trade sanction. Those tariffs was keeping the Chinese in some sort of limits. But that had been an element from the last Administration. President Biden is being less aggressive than President Trump had been.

Truth be told, no one has ever understood "Sons of Heaven," today known as the Chinese Communist Party. Including China in the so-called Grand Alliance for the Second World War had been mainly a project of FDR. When the Communists were about to take over in 1949, then President Truman sent former Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, George Marshal, was sent on a vain mission to shore up China's Nationalists but the whole thing was a failure. One of Marshal's few.

Exposure to China needs to be limited. A complete severing of the two economies might not be practical, at least in the short term. Going forward, however, the U.S. will need to wean itself and its own production from China's influence, like pharmaceuticals as an example. But those who are thinking that possible partnership with the Peoples' Republic should re-examine their positions. The term "competitor" needs to be replaced with what is the reality.

 Adversary.