Mike Pompeo: Chinese Communism is “the Central Threat of Our Times”
By Julio Severo
U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo has
rightly said that Chinese Communism is “the central threat of our times.” He
had such conclusion after he saw that China is using capitalism to infiltrate
the federal, state and local governments in the United States.
His
comments contrast with President Donald Trump’s more conciliatory language on
China. On January, Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “very, very good
friend of mine” and said he planned to visit China in the not-too-distant
future. He also visited China in 2017, in the first year of his administration.
Trump also congratulated China’s
communist revolution that killed millions of innocent Chinese.
To see a threat before its dangers are
materialized is vision. To see a threat only after all its dangers are
materialized is a lack of vision. Even though Pompeo’s assessment is correct,
it fits the latter.
Not seeing the threat of Chinese communism,
for decades administration after administration in the U.S., Democrats and
Republicans, left-wingers and right-wingers, in a lesser or greater degree, gave
China special commercial privileges, which helped thousands of U.S. companies to
move to China, where labor is cheap.
The
truth is that the U.S. used and abused Chinese labor for its own profits. In return,
the Communist Party in China took advantage by profiting from these U.S.
companies and Chinese labor to build the biggest communist army in the world.
The U.S. government and its companies never cared about slave labor and
persecution against Christians in China.
If the U.S. can use — and it really used —
communist China for profit, why could not China use the U.S. capitalism for
ideological profits?
Capitalism is not a moral tool. It can be
a moral tool only if its handlers are moral people. There was a time in America,
which is the largest Protestant and capitalist nation in the world, when capitalism
and Protestant values walked hand in hand. Later, they divorced, and now the
U.S. capitalism is at the mercy and whims of its materialistic, non-Protestant handlers,
who do not care about the past marriage of capitalism and Protestantism in the
U.S. history.
So, the U.S. handlers, without the original
Protestant values, use and abuse capitalism any way they see fit. And China,
with its communist values, also uses and abuses capitalism any way it sees fit.
But the U.S. is not pleased with this.
Capitalism is sheer materialism. Conservative
Protestantism is spiritual vision. Both the U.S. and China want capitalism, but
no Protestantism leading capitalism.
For a lack of vision, in the 1970s the
U.S. had the idea to turn China in a capitalist power to defeat the Soviet Union.
The plan was successful: China actually became a capitalist power recognized by
all. Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro, when visiting China in the 70th commemoration of its
communist revolution, said, “I’m in a Capitalist Nation.”
China is a “Capitalist Nation Made in
America” — made in an America that divorced capitalism from Protestantism.
The geopolitical plan of the U.S. was
successful by turning China into a capitalist nation to defeat the Soviet
Union. The problem is that the Soviet Union died in 1989, Russia has returned
to its Christian Orthodox roots, and China has replaced the Soviet Union as “the
central threat of our times.” That is, the U.S. plan in the end backfired
miserably, because it had a materialist vision, but no Christian, no spiritual,
no conservative Protestant vision.
China is not the first example of the U.S.
funding communism. The birth of the Soviet Union was funded by American
bankers, as discussed by Antony C. Sutton in his 1974 classical book “Wall
Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American
Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists.”
Later, U.S. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt greatly helped the Soviet war machine by giving military equipment
and even food to the starving Soviet soldiers during the World War 2, according
to General William T. Still in his book “New World Order: The Ancient Plan of
Secret Societies.” Roosevelt’s plan generously gave Eastern Europe and Eastern Germany
to Stalin.
No one helped, equipped, funded and fed
the Soviet Union more than the U.S. government and U.S. capitalists did.
These are not the first U.S. plans to fail
for lacking spiritual vision and prioritizing materialistic goals. To defeat
the Soviet Union, the CIA trained its Saudi agent Osama bin Laden in the 1970s
and gave him billions of dollars to found and fund al-Qaida. In the end, the
Soviet Union died, and al-Qaida and bin Laden became the central threat to the
U.S. The U.S. plan backfired.
The U.S. invested heavily in al-Qaida and did
not perceive that such investment would be counterproductive. In fact, the U.S.
has massively, especially in military terms, invested in Saudi Arabia, and what
have Americans received? Saudi terrorists becoming the authors of the largest
terrorist attack on U.S. soil in 9/11.
In 2011, to
fulfill the U.S. plan to oust the Syrian president, the U.S. government and
Saudi Arabia funded and armed Syrian rebels and ISIS. Thousands and
thousands of Christians were martyred. In the end, the U.S. had to fight ISIS because,
again, the solution became worse than the alleged problem. The U.S. plan
backfired.
Even though the U.S. has many military
bases in the Middle East, the Christian communities being martyred by ISIS
received no help from the U.S. military forces, which were too busy protecting
Saudi Arabia and its interests.
In spite of the hard lessons the U.S. was supposed
to have learned — the spiritual, Christian, conservative Protestant vision is
more important than materialistic plans —, the U.S. insists on seeing Saudi
Arabia today in the same way it saw China in the past.
Does it take a big vision to see that the
U.S. is creating another threatening monster? The hard lesson not learned is
that the U.S. will only see the threat when it is too late.
By now, the U.S. government should be
asking itself: “Why have our political and military plans backfired for
decades?” The U.S. Founders, who read and valued the Bible, would have some
helpful answers. For example, they would say, “Why spend trillions of dollars
to maintain over 800 U.S. military bases around the world if our own borders
have decrepit protection?”
So instead of saying that the Chinese
Communism is “the central threat of our times,” Mike Pompeo should have said, “The
U.S. made the Chinese communism the central threat of our times.”
Instead of rewarding
Saudi Arabia for “fighting Islamic terror,” Pompeo should forcefully
address Saudi
impunity.
There is a saying that the wise man learns
from others’ wrongs. I have learned a lot from the current U.S. wrongs, even though
I have learned many more positive lessons from the Protestant U.S. history.
The spiritual, Christian, conservative
Protestant view that guided the U.S. Founders is hugely lacking in today’s U.S.
domestic and foreign policy. Pompeo, who is an evangelical just as I am, should
know it better than I do. He knows the Bible. In fact, on February 9, 2020 he tweeted
a Bible verse on his personal Twitter account:
“Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5
Yet, how good is this if the State
Department, under his command, continues celebrating June as LGBTI Pride Month?
“You shall not lie with a male as with a
woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 ESV)
How can an evangelical with such mixed loyalties
have a good vision to address political, geopolitical and military issues
without the U.S. historical failures with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi
Arabia, al-Qaida, ISIS and Osama bin Laden?
How can God bless a nation where even
evangelicals in high government offices bless an abomination?
It is not only China that is exploiting
U.S. freedoms to “gain advantage at the federal level, the state level and the
local level.” Saudi Arabia has been doing it for decades for the sake of
Islamic expansionism. The abortion industry has been doing it for decades profiting
billions from the blood of unborn babies. The homosexual movement has been
doing it for decades too in its aggressive predatory campaign against families
and their children.
As an evangelical, Pompeo was supposed to
have a larger vision for large problems.
The Chinese communism is the central
threat of our times.
Legal abortion is the central threat of
our times.
The homosexual agenda is the central
threat of our times.
Islam is the central threat of our times.
To expose one threat and celebrate other
two is not a Christian vision, for a normal Christian or a Christian in a high-profile
government post.
Portuguese
version of this article: Mike Pompeo: O comunismo chinês é “a ameaça central
dos nossos tempos”
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