US to take harder line against China after elections
Washington (AsiaNews) – After these elections, the US will take a tough line on China. Voters have seen how the collusion between Chinese and American capitalists has destroyed the US economy; for this reason, they came down hard on their representatives. This is Wei Jingsheng’s view in a nutshell, which he explained in an interview on the US mid-term elections.
In the last few weeks, as the campaign heated up, candidates gave their all both physically and image-wise. With the economy and jobs as the main topics, China inevitably come up as key factor in the debate.
For instance, in his re-election bid, Harry Reid attacked his adversary Sharron Angle by showing pictures of Chinese workers and saying that she was in favour of corporate tax cuts.
Ohio Democratic candidate Zack Space accused his rival Bob Gibbs of supporting free-trade policies that shipped local jobs to China.
In California too, China was a key topic in every political debate in the two most important races: state governor and senate. Because both female Republican candidates were CEO's of big companies, the Democratic candidates repeatedly raised the issue of US companies moving their production lines to China, destroying Americans jobs.
Republicans have also used the "China issue" to criticise the Democratic Party. Recently, a Republican group called Citizens Against Government Waste launched a nationwide TV ad named "the Chinese Professor". It featured a lecture on the global economy in Beijing in 2030, wherein a Chinese professor discusses the demise of the great powers because they were behaving contrary to the principles that had made them successful before.
Sounds new? Not really because the issue goes far back into American history.
In the past, Chinese and some U.S. politicians have made a partnership of scheming together to use cheap labour in China and the high priced U.S. market to make big money. For more than a decade now, U.S. capitalists and China's so-called capitalists, the state-owned enterprises, interest groups, Communist Party (CCP) official princelings, those in collusion between business and officials in China, have all made fortunes. But, the Chinese workers' incomes did not increase, and the Chinese market is still very small.
And, many American workers have lost their jobs. So average people of both countries did not get benefit in return. Wei explained: "The scheme is the so-called "China model" that rose from the personal interests and the interests of small groups. Many U.S. politicians supported granting China permanent Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) status. Chinese goods can now freely enter the U.S. market. But this situation is not bilateral, not free trade. In fact, the U.S. unilaterally offered China the preferential treatment. The CCP did not give the United States an open market.
The result is that American workers lost their jobs, while China is in serious inflation. Now, the Chinese workers get less and less money. Both Chinese people and American people are put at a disadvantage. However, the CCP's autocratic government will not raise Chinese people's wages because of the economic development. It has kept the wages of Chinese workers very low, meanwhile not allowing trade union movements. Capitalists can buy very cheap in China and sell high in the U.S. market, from which they earn large excess profits. The excess profits exploit the Chinese labour, while harming the American workers as well.
In the past, the Communists always claimed that these excess profits were taken by the American capitalists. But in fact, the Communist regime, Chinese capitalists, mostly state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, all run by Chinese bureaucratic bourgeoisie, also made huge profits. So the profits are really shared by the capitalists of both countries. Then, the Communist regime uses these excess profits to buy Western politicians.
Now, the Chinese people cannot do much, they do not dare to speak. But the American people dare; they dare to say they that they do not believe in this gang of politicians anymore. So in this election, American politicians are trying to cleanse themselves. Now people realize that this trade imbalance is the root cause of the depressed U.S. economy and American workers' unemployment. In the past, the politicians had concealed this matter, but now people know.
In fact, the politicians of both political parties in the USA are responsible. The rise of the Tea Party in the United States is the result. Though not formal, it has been important. After people realized the politicians' role, they began to organize a new faction."
But the most important and most fundamental problem during this mid-term election is the economic problem. China has not opened up the market, yet meanwhile keeps the value of the Chinese currency RenMinBi very low. The United States has opened its markets to China, yet the American workers do not have jobs. The other problems are also important, but to ordinary people, the most important thing is the economy.
Through this election, there will be a change in policy about China. Now as this information propagates, starting from the White House politicians will become increasingly hard-line against the Chinese Communist Party.
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