Is China a Threat to the U.S.?

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On one hand, the Chinese are to be credited for undergoing a tremendous transformation. In less than one generation, the Chinese have changed their nation from a poor and backward communist dictatorship to a productive economic powerhouse. Where once the Chinese people endured little more than strangling poverty, today they are reaping the fruits of their hard work and enjoying a rapidly increasing standard of living. In a very real and beneficial sense, China has become the world's factory and its people have profited accordingly.

Yet on the other hand, China remains brutally authoritarian. China's refuses to acknowledge the existence of individual rights, that is, it refuses to acknowledge that every person has a sovereign right to their life, freedom of action and freedom of thought.   China's government functions absent the protections of the rule of law. For all of China's much-vaunted changes, the reality is that its actions today are not all that far removed from when the Society of Right and Harmonious Fists worked to block all foreign influence at the turn of the 19th century. Philosophic and religious freedom is a fundamental right of sovereign minds, yet China's ruling clique recognizes no sovereignty other than its own.

Thus as long as China willingly violates the basic rights of its own people, it can never be trusted to respect the rights of other nations. China remains a threat and the free people of the world must continue to guard against it.