In his Farewell Address to the United States Congress in 1951, former Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific General Douglas MacArthur gave a riveting speech. In that speech, he stated a truism that is as relevant today as it was nearly seventy-five years ago:
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and sufficiently greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
The world has entered a new age of multipolarity, in which civilizational states are recrudescing to challenge the Americanist-led world order. A crisis of room has emerged in which distance has collapsed under new technological developments, and population levels are rising at alarming rates in the global south.
Indeed, it is projected that the largest population centers over the next several decades will not be in China or India but rather in Africa, with Lagos, Nigeria, projected to be the largest conurbation zone in the world. It is estimated that three billion people will seek to migrate north towards the more developed nations in Europe and America.
Borders in Europe and America are fragmenting under globalist-led policies, with both Britain and the United States overwhelmed with millions of refugees, many of whom hold views antithetical to Western Civilization and/or do not speak English. Currently, London’s population is only thirty-six percent native English, and many job applicants in the United States will find themselves passed over if they do not speak Spanish as a second language.
While it is also important to protect other cultures, it is also important to protect Western culture, for without Western culture, there can be no Western Civilization.
While the rest of the world’s middle class rose during the past twenty-five years, the West’s middle class has declined. Americans, for example, are paying more to live, but earning less in real terms. To be sure, globalist policies may have been beneficial to the global south, yet these same policies have hollowed out the Heartland of America, and in Europe, it is much the same.
Every day Americans should pay close attention, for our own elites in the university and corporate sphere have committed this great betrayal.
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Indeed, it was within the Ivory Tower itself that America’s academic intelligentsia crafted the narrative of Western oppression and guilt in relation to the global south, and the global south has taken full advantage of this narrative.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—ever eager to take the initiative—immediately seized on this trend under Deng Xiaoping’s rule and seized the opportunity to weaken the United States by implementing the “Great Humiliation” narrative into its educational, media, and governmental directives.
Chinese students are then sent to America, where they are indoctrinated by American professors on our nation’s supposed evils, as are our own domestic students. Chinese students then return home justified in their assumptions of the United States as an imperialist and capitalist oppressor, and American students leave college despising their own nation, thereby supporting policies favorable to China and the global south.
It may serve to state the historical truth here. America never had colonies, and it saved China from Colonial European powers with Hay’s Open Door Policy. America also aided China in WWII against Japanese aggression, opened China up under the Nixon administration, and then granted it rights to the World Trade Organization under Clinton. If anything, America saved China.
The “Great Humiliation” is a fiction perpetrated to create an “other,” that has nothing to do with historical truth. It was designed to create, in the words of the CCP, “an unstoppable force of 1.4 billion people to fight and win wars.”
The attentive reader should also recall that the West was the first to create democracy, end slavery, advance women’s rights, and craft environmental policy—if anything, the West has been a shining light and a leader in the world, not a villain as the modern elite portrays it in university classrooms and corporate-controlled mainstream media.
Here is the grand irony in all of this. While academics may decry nationalism and the Americanist system as the root of all ills, wishing to be citizens of the world in an open society, American nationalism strengthens the American International System on which the global south depends. Indeed, the United Nations is founded upon the principles of nationalism, which ended the era of the Empire.
Indeed, without a strong America—without secure borders, domestic supply chains, and a strong manufacturing and technological base, the economic and trade systems upon which the nations of the global south are dependent would be nonexistent. Security blankets, freedom of navigation, medical supplies, green technology, and a host of other critical benefits that the United States provides to developing nations would evaporate.
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In short, a strong America improves the quality of life and opportunity for developing nations and their citizens across the globe with stability and order. The alternative option is the Chinese system and a fragmented world which increases the threat of global war and economic catastrophe.
American elites would do well to remember that as a peer rival approaches economic and military parity, the risk of war increases, because the deterrent effect of superiority fades. In other words, weakness is provocative.
Dr. Graham Allison, a Harvard Belfer Center professor, makes this point in his book Thucydides Trap. In it, he studied the incidence of war when one great power rose to parity with another. Allison found that out of sixteen historical instances of rising powers challenging established ones, twelve of these challenges resulted in war. This should be disconcerting to the everyday American.
Therefore, American college and university leaders and professors should focus less on the perceived wrongs of nationalism, which has created the current world order, and more on appeasement.
Currently, as Minding the Campus has reported, there is open Chinese espionage occurring at Stanford and former California governors working with the CCP on critical technology development at UC Berkeley. At UCLA—a leading institution in the STEM fields—China is not even being considered in the official risk analysis as an artificial intelligence (AI) threat, when the United States is in an existential competition with China in a new AI arms race.
The fact that Chinese students and their families are being threatened while studying in the United States and even being imprisoned in China upon return for not towing the CCP party line should give one pause for thought as to the current university policy in relation to China. Add to these unfortunate truths that China has stolen nearly six hundred billion dollars worth of intellectual property per year for the past twenty-five years.
It is high time that America’s elite, including our university leaders, begin to assess the perfidious policy of appeasement that has arisen in the United States. These realities may seem daunting to the everyday American, yet the most important thing an American citizen can do is defend their history, think for themselves, and simply tell the truth.
Duty – Honor – Country.
Image: “American-PR Chinese Flag” by StuckInLagToad on Wikimedia Commons
