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Among other things, we facilitated China’s entry into the system of global commerce. Trade with China, the theory went, would lead to demands by the Chinese people for free markets and representative governance. That could still happen, of course, but if it does, it will only be in the distant future. In the meantime, China’s rulers are using predatory trade tactics to strengthen their one-party state so as to more effectively pursue obstructive policies.

In the last few years, for instance, a strengthened Beijing has supplied small arms to the insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, transferred materials and equipment to Iran for its nuclear-weapons program, helped North Korea deliver missiles to Pakistan and Iran, supplied arms for use in Darfur, lasered American satellites to blind them, supported the biggest nuclear black-market ring in history, conducted a global campaign of industrial espionage, and launched innumerable cyberattacks against the Pentagon and American civilian targets.

And what has been America’s response? To wait and hope that Beijing’s leaders will start to calculate their interests the same way we do.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...g-chang?page=2

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This is a mistake....

No one believes it, but we're REALLY fucking up here.

The west views China's ascendancy as something miraculous which we brought about on our shoulders... "See? SEE? We birthed you! Now, let's run the world!"

China, however.. They see the last 200 years as nothing but a blip. Their current position as merely a return to a natural order that was always destined.