Communists storm Virginia

This is embarrassing.

 It’s embarrassing to read how Virginia politicians are just glowing (except for Randy Forbes) over the $7.1 billion bid for Smithfield Foods. (Virginian-Pilot, Va. Politicians see positives in Chinese Smithfield bid, May 31, 2013)

Here are the comments from some of our Congressional leaders.

China is for lovers

U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, said that the deal wasn't "inherently negative" and that Chinese investment in the United States is a fact of life.

Just for the record, the Chinese are buying resources to feed and fuel their economic engine – and too feed 2 billion people. Chinese officials know that if they can’t feed their people, there will be civil unrest.

China, Rigell also said, will "continue to be an economic engine. This is not inherently threatening to us.... This is not something we need to stop or should attempt to stop nor could we stop."

In an interview, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine predicted that "it's going to lead to more opportunity for Virginia agriculture."

Gov. Bob McDonnell predicted, "From what I've heard so far, I think it'll be good for Virginia."

Time to start wearing Mao caps

Virginia’s politicians should visit China first before they opine about the Chinese, or they should read a history of China, especially the last 50-years when modern China was birthed in fire and death.

China’s leaders, all molded in the Communist party image, are strategic, tactical and view the present as just a piece of the future.

Americans, however, think and act today; the future is too abstract for most Americans.

Dangle a dollar in front of us and we’re like children with candy. We want it now, not in the future.

Example: China invests $300 billion in a high-speed train network connecting all its major cities. America invests $6 billion in its high-speed train network, yet we’re still fighting about the investment.

China wants global status, stature and power.

China celebrated the 50^th anniversary of its present configuration in 2009. Yet the American press barely covered it. 

The Beijing Olympics was more about prestige for China and for Chinese athletes than about a global athletic event.

In 1949, Mao and his guerilla band proclaimed victory over the Nationalists, who fled to present-day Taiwan, and have run the country ever since then in some shape or fashion.

Don’t forget The Great Leap Forward when millions died or The Cultural Revolution, which turned China inside out, or China’s support of Ho Chi Minh in Viet Nam. Mao’s legacy and the legacy of his band of brothers still lingers on the lips of Chinese.

China is a country of 2 billion people with a one party system, the communist party. It is not democratic and its courts and laws are just extensions of the Communist Central party.

The ongoing conflict about China’s cyber attacks on U.S. government data and of major newspapers continues.

In subtle but firm statements, China denies the attacks and then counter attacks the accusers, the U.S. government, the Washington Post, the New York Times…

This is the usual ploy.

Deny, accuse and attack. Put your enemy on the defensive. Keep him off balance. Keep him pre-occupied with defending the accusations.

Mandiant, a Northern Virginia firm, detailed China’s cyber attacks and pinpointed the building where the attacks were taking place.

The report, entitled Exposing one of China’s espionage units, can be found here. 

Of Virginia’s politicians, only Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, who has warned repeatedly about China’s growing military prowess, was circumspect.

Forbes said in a statement that the purchase of Smithfield by a Chinese firm "warrants robust analysis," according to The Pilot article.

Forbes, chairman of the China Congressional Caucus, has published The Caucus Papers, billed as a clearinghouse of information to assist policymakers and interested individuals in understanding the issues facing the U.S. in its relationships with China.

 The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. 

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious. 

Sun Tzu, Chinese military general and strategist, Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period, @ 400 BCE 

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