Commentary
With their well-orchestrated intimidation of Taiwan in response to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taipei on Aug. 2, the Chinese communists have once again removed their masks for all the world to see.
Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, who regularly pontificates about China “leading the world” in this, that, or the other—as well as the inevitability of Chinese domination in all spheres of human endeavors—the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) bellicosity, belligerence, and boisterousness seem to grow day by day.
Fifty years of appeasement and economic engagement with Red China have conditioned the United States and world media, and many “pro-CCP” politicians to understate and excuse the various crises instigated by the CCP. When will the rest of the world ever learn that Beijing’s promises are worthless—and that the promised benefits to the world of appeasing communist China are completely ephemeral and indeed dangerous?…