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1. This is the moment when we must look at the Chinese state and ask is this what we intended when we liberalized relations? First, I am one of the few folks you will ever encounter in the US who like Xi Jinping had a copy of Mao's little Red Book at 15.
2. When others didn't even know China as more than a place on a map, I was studying its politics and language. My professor had to write his own text books for written Chinese because they didn't exist in US. My teaching associates were children of party officials because they
3. were the only people being let out of PRC. When the #HongKong lease expired and the deal was struck, most folks thought China would liberalize. But I knew better. China's CCP is never going to relinquish its Leninist authoritarian grip on power. Not without bloodshed.
4. The emperors created the Mandarins who along with a standardized language were to impose Beijing's rule on the hinterland. It never worked well but the lesson in Hong Kong is relevant. Hong Kong is not a Mandarin speaking area. It's Cantonese dialect is incomprehensible
5. in Beijing. The hinterland. What we must do is to make clear to the party members that they will be punished if their is an attempt to throw out the Hong Kong deal. Their children will be banned from travel, schools and western jobs. Make being a Communist the end of a
6. person's future. We have no interest in developing an enemy's economy. China's threats in the South China Sea and against Taiwan are unacceptable. Their creation of intermediate range ballistic nukes and the continued theft of US technology are acts of an enemy not
7. a trading partner.
I warned @POTUS Trump that China's history meant that no leader can bow to another trade war. That ship has sailed. But we need to stand for Democracy no just Dollars No authoritarian government should get more than minimum courtesy from us.
I warned @POTUS Trump that China's history meant that no leader can bow to another trade war. That ship has sailed. But we need to stand for Democracy no just Dollars No authoritarian government should get more than minimum courtesy from us.
8. They should never be a trading partner on equal footing with the free world. We need to tell China's CCP that when Democracy's light goes out in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the trading days are over and the CCP will be considered akin to an FTO. No banking. No travel. No future.
9. And to the #HongKongProtestors. We need to let them know we got this. It's the Communists stupid. 😎 #HongKong #HongKongProtests @WHNSC @INDOPACOM
