Trump Congratulates China’s Communist Revolution as Chinese Nuclear Missiles Threaten the U.S.
By
Julio
Severo
No
one can imagine U.S. President Donald Trump congratulating Cuba for the
anniversary of its communist revolution. After all, this revolution killed
about 100,000 people. And even today, the Cuban tyranny persecutes Christians.
So
it is impossible for Trump to congratulate Cuba for the anniversary of its communist
revolution without being massively attacked, criticized, lambasted, morally
lynched, etc.
“Congratulations
to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s
Republic of China!”
No
conservative leader would survive if he dared to make the congratulation that Trump
did.
The
70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China is the anniversary of the
communist revolution that destroyed all freedoms of the Chinese people. It
slaughtered millions and millions of Chinese. Even today, it persecutes, imprisons
and kills Christians.
Besides, communist China has communist
missiles that are a threat to the U.S.
The
Chinese communist revolution is vastly worse than the Cuban communist
revolution.
If
the Cuban communism deserves criticism and condemnation, the Chinese communism
deserves much, much more.
Very
appropriately, Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in a report
titled “Nothing
to Celebrate: China's 70 Years of Repression and Murder” said,
China's
70th anniversary celebration displayed all the pomp and grandeur befitting a
world empire. But for the countless millions who have suffered under
Chinese communism, it was not a happy day.
“The
70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is not something
that I think we should feel the least bit congratulatory about,” says Frank
Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy. “As I say, I think (the founding of
communist China) was a very, very bad day for the world and what’s flowed from
it ever since has borne that out.”
As
many as 45 million Chinese people died under Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward.”
Today China is not only repressive, it is an economic powerhouse, challenging
the United States.
And
in a brutal crackdown on Christians, China has been bulldozing churches and
ripping down crosses.
Reggie
Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
recounted, “There was one pastor’s wife in Hanan province in 2016 who stood in
front of a bulldozer as it was bulldozing a church. She wouldn’t move and she
actually got bulldozed. She was killed, buried alive by the Chinese Communist
Party.”
Perhaps
Trump is thinking in economic terms. It is very easy to criticize Cuban
communism because Cuba is poor and has absolutely nothing to offer. But communist
China has much to offer.
Even
though as a conservative evangelical Christian I would never congratulate China’s
communist revolution, who can blame Trump? Previous U.S. presidents, representing
the right and the left, gave special economic status to China. For decades the
U.S. has enjoyed cheap products produced by U.S. companies in China.
The
products are cheap to American consumers, but very costly to Chinese workers
who are under virtually slave labor. So when the U.S. politicians complain
today that China has taken advantage of the U.S. technology they forget that
U.S. companies took advantage of Chinese slave labor for decades.
I
do not congratulate the anniversary of China’s communist revolution and I do not
congratulate the special economic treatment previous U.S. presidents granted to
China. In this spirit, I cannot also congratulate Trump for congratulating the
anniversary of China’s communist revolution.
What
all of this shows us? Trump needs prayers. Not to become conservative, but to
be saved by Jesus Christ. Being saved is far more important than being right-wing
or conservative.
China
also needs our prayers. Not to become conservative, but to be saved by Jesus
Christ.
Conservatism
without salvation in Jesus Christ is just a political convenience or
inconvenience. Salvation in Jesus Christ is, by far, the most desirable goal.
One of its automatic results is conservatism: commitment to God’s Word and a
solid stance against abortion and sodomy in all their forms.
Portuguese
version of this article: Trump parabeniza revolução comunista da China enquanto
mísseis nucleares chineses ameaçam os EUA
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