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Letting Media School on China Leaves US Beyond Vulnerable

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Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt By with Tamara Colbert Friday, 17 February 2023 12:14 PM EST Current | Bio | Archive

"Wake Up America" is not just the name of the best morning news show on television (Newsmax TV), it's perhaps the quintessential, republic saving advice for our times.

Over the last 50 plus years, Americans have been schooled by the media in how benevolent China’s rise and "opening" are in the post Mao era.

The mainstream media in America has bought China’s propaganda hook-line-and-sinker.

Those messages are meant to communicate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not your grandmother’s communist party apparatchik.

The new, "kinder-gentler" Chinese Communist Party has evolved into a free-market embracing body that desires to see the benefit of joining a more capitalistic world view.

The end state desired, of course, is that the party looks like its moving toward democracy, while it does whatever the Machiavellian "flavor of the day" happens to be.

In reality, the global business community had its eyes on the prize — the Chinese market and a massive population that was opening its doors and wallets to the world.

Over the decades, governments, financiers, and corporations turned a blind eye to CCP bad behavior, as long as billions in profits rolled in.

Wall Street only pretends that greed is bad while it counts the zeroes coming from the east.

Consumers around the globe were only too happy to purchase whatever was produced in China at a fraction of previous costs, U.S. manufacturing be damned.

It must be difficult to stand up to the world’s biggest bully if billions are on the line. Or worse, how do you take up the moral high ground with a foe, if your personal dealings with them have been amoral?

Perhaps a future movie will be, “The Big Guy’s Laptop.”

It's time to awaken America, and smell more than just the coffee!

The balloons you weren’t supposed to see, (thank you Montana farmers!) have many possible applications. If we think what's in those balloons is anything good, we're in for than a mere rude awakening.

Nothing about this airborne fiasco bodes well for America, or her friends and allies.

In the lethal realm, China has developed these vehicles to carry weapons such as hypersonic missiles, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) platforms, or dispersal agents.

Taking the administration’s conclusion that it was just a harmless spy bird, collecting intel on our military installations is reason enough to splash some cold water on your face and ask, "What else are they up to?"

The quickest answer: a lot, and for a very long time.

Before moving on, we want to stress that any foreign aircraft hovering slowly about our national infrastructure and highly secure military installations should have been enough to raise the hackles of all the Pentagon big dogs.

Even one balloon gliding, if not hovering, over American soil is too many.

The CCP has arguably built the largest espionage capability in human history.

Chinese spies operate in every country, but the vast majority of their assets are focused on the United States.

Since the first balloon sighting, record numbers of illegal Chinese citizens crossing the border is up by 700%.

Until the Xi Jinping era, China had been very discreet about their build up and strategic intent, which was always clear to us.

China wants to be the world’s sole superpower and the U.S. is in the way.

Therefore, it is imperative that Americans wake up, look up, and understand the clear and present danger the CCP presents to the U.S. and the free world.

China is playing for keeps.

How many of you saw the alphabet networks cover the FBI raid in Manhattan, of a building used as a secret Chinese police station by illegal cops, a facility supposedly used for solving crimes(?!)

Another story that got quietly swept under the disinformation rug. Don’t worry that the building itself is linked to New York City Mayor Eric Adams' charity, run by one of his campaign donors.

Infiltration in its various forms could include a social media platform (Tik Tok), hacking, bribery, extortion, IP theft, real estate, and news manipulation among other ideas.

China is using our open society and freedoms against us.

With good reason, "Balloongate" has shaken We the People’s confidence in government. A government which is supposed to “protect and defend.”

It is imperative for America’s leaders to plan and act — now.

Until we get the CCP’s attention and compel their respect, We the People must insist that our leaders, both government and business, start to decouple this unbalanced and dangerous relationship.

The ability for the CCP to deploy its spies, infiltrate our society, harm our people, steal our inventions, take our lands, and compromise our officials must be rolled back immediately.

Maybe Walmart and Amazon can help restore American manufacturing — imagine how many jobs would be created.

Only a strong United States, standing firm by its principles and values as outlined in our Constitution will bring the sobering reality home to the CCP.

America’s Founders gave us the tools to battle enemies foreign and domestic. Dealing with China will enable the people to know who in Washington, D.C. is with us and who is against us.

Actions speak louder than words — without fail!

(Tamara Colbert, MA, is an Accredited Public Relations (APR) professional, with more than 20 years as a global communications practitioner, counselor, and innovative leader – and contributed to this article.)

Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (retired) is a co-founder of Restore Liberty, a former deputy representative to NATO, a lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Newsmax contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components. Read Gen. Holt's reports — More Here.

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