David Ridenour is president of
the National Center for Public Policy Research. He rebuffed the Foreign
Minister of China for saying that “the United States is pushing the two countries
to the brink of a new cold war.” The truth, says Ridenour, is that the two
countries have been in a cold war situation for years, and not just at the
brink of one right now.
Ridenour made his views known
in an article he wrote under the title: “We didn't declare the new cold war,
but we must win it,” and had it published on August 21, 2020 in The Washington
Examiner where he points out that the Trump administration has been the first
to fight back against China's nefarious behavior.
Apparently unaware of the
effort that America has been exerting to propagate its own system of governance
abroad, David Ridenour made an angry list of the Chinese efforts to propagate
their culture in America. What he is missing is that as a Government, as a
Republican Party and as a Democratic Party, operating separately and at times
jointly, the Americans have masqueraded as neutral Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGO) or harmless civil societies that were only trying to teach
local people how to serve their countries better.
Ridenour called the Chinese
activities those of a cold war, which means that if we accept this view, we
must also accept the view that America has been in a cold war situation with
practically the whole world for decades. Seeing this reality and studying it,
must be what convinced the Chinese to emulate America, doing it––not to the
whole world––but only to America, if we are to believe Ridenour.
The way that the Trump
administration fought back, says Ridenour, is that it ordered the Chinese consulate
in Houston to close, and the diplomats in it to leave the country. The reason
is that of all the Chinese diplomatic missions in America, that one had been
the most active when it came to spying on America's military and civilian
industries. These were the institutions from which, agents of the consulate
have been stealing billions of dollars worth of scientific and technological
secrets for many years.
If true, this should not come
as a surprise to anyone that has been watching and studying this kind of widely
practiced shenanigans between nations, even among friends. In fact, it was only
a few years ago that Egypt's Security apparatus caught the American
Congressional team, masquerading as harmless NGO, in the act of bribing its
young and naive Egyptian workers, training them to spy on Egypt and engage in
activities considered subversive under Egyptian laws.
The Americans were expelled
out of the country, prompting America's legislators to respond by huffing and
puffing and threatening dire consequences if Egypt did not reverse its
decision. Egypt did not reverse itself, and this stance prompted other
countries, including the Russians to look into their own situation. The
Russians discovered that the Americans were engaged in subversive activities there
too, and they responded by booting the so-called American civil societies out
of the country.
Ridenour goes on to say that
the Chinese do more than steal science and technology from America. They rely
on their students who are studying in American colleges and universities to
“build a sophisticated propaganda apparatus dedicated to break America's public
will to stand up to Chinese aggression,” he goes on to say.
Well then, this should remind
the readers of the American officials, including the President of the United
States, who regularly tell rioters who rise up in places like Iran or China or
Egypt (in 2011), that America was standing in solidarity with them. Is it any
wonder that the Chinese as well as the Russians and the Iranians and the North
Koreans are now taking liberty to interfere in America's electoral process by
any means they can, including the internet? These people seem to know the adage
that says, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Ridenour is also unhappy about
what he calls, “a huge [Chinese] network of media outlets to spread
disinformation in the West, some overt and some covert.” Well, it is laughable
to read something like this come from a country that has Radio Free Europe,
Voice of America, Al Hurrah and the many private publications that put out a
foreign edition, be it in print or in electronic form.
As to the product that's put
out by the Chinese being called “disinformation,” forget about the Chinese and
forget about the world. Maybe David Ridenour will be good enough to tell the
American people how they can determine what is information and what is
disinformation when they watch the broadcasts of FOX News and MSNBC, and hear
contrary descriptions of the same event.
But instead of thinking in
these terms, Ridenour had the National Center for Public Policy Research devise
a plan in nine points, which he says will help America win the cold war that
China has unleashed on America.
He described three of the
points in the article, and they sound like something already peddled for
several months by those who wish to punish China for what they say is that
country's responsibility in the rise and spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic.