How to Beat China at its Own Game
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing everything they can to displace the United States. But how do you beat the richest capitalist country in the world? If you’re the second richest country in the world, you buy them—covertly.
So how should the United States respond?
Let’s discuss.
The Problem
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray (R) called the stealthy assault by China “the defining threat of our generation.” Representative Maxine Waters (D) said, “Right now, the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party is trying to reshape the international order to supplant U.S. leadership.”
Their Methods
Since no one in their right mind embraces their way of running a country (we’ll get to that), they are using their wealth to manipulate and undermine the US by:
Buying academic institutions and professors
Stealing intellectual property
Exerting pernicious influence on regulations, courts, reputations, IP—and dumping on business.
Directly killing us, e.g., fentanyl
Spying on U.S. military operations
Infiltrating U.S. federal agencies
Their Goal
Xi Jinping’s goal is to destroy the United States and the liberal world order of markets and liberty and replace it with communism. He intends to:
Weaken us through drug crises and internal division.
Compromise our security by infiltrating our borders and stealing military secrets.
Replace our companies with Chinese-owned ones.
Undermine our trust in government by infiltrating agencies.
Decimate our society by promoting destructive policies that erode economic growth and social stability.
The Chinese Communist Model
Not many people in this country are attracted to the Chinese model (particularly the Chinese people) as it includes: arbitrary arrests, repression of minorities, abuse of religion, stifling speech, forced labor, a social credit system, and military suppression of protests (e.g., the Tiananmen Square massacre).
Since January 2023, 64,979 military aged Chinese men have crossed our southern border. Was it to find a better life, go to Disneyworld, or commit sabotage?
The CCP knows they can’t attract us with a better alternative so they just buy their way in.
Our Best Response: Take Their Money, Make it a Bad Deal
The best counterplay? Take their money—all of it—and then turn around and make it the worst bargain in history.
Academics
Professors should take CCP money, swear they’ll support Chinese Communism and then write defenses of freedom and markets. Instead of funding CCP propaganda, funnel it into research proving that every aspect of Marxism is a failure, citing scholars like Richard Ebeling. Schools like UC Berkeley, which accepted $87.5 million to establish a CCP-inspired “hub of global research and education,” should instead dedicate those funds to Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.
Technology
Leak deliberately useless “innovations” to China. Sell them the Bluetooth Toaster so you can change the toaster settings from your chair. How about the cat-guided bomb that would guide a bomb dropped from a plane to a ship because cats hate water?
Business and Trade
China tries to steal business secrets (IP), overregulate them, flood us with cheap imports, and use bad science to bankrupt businesses in tort trials. As for cheap imports, let them flood us with low-quality goods, just like Japan did in the transistor era. Eventually, they’ll realize they must compete with higher quality products, benefiting both sides. Japan also had an intellectual property secret that emphasized the kind we can foster on the Chinese – Diet Water. As for regulations, even California is trying to reduce regulations now. Bad science can go anywhere, let’s start shipping it to the east.
Fentanyl
Fentanyl should be easy. Let’s do some deal-making and buy their fentanyl at reduced prices – and then ship it back into China (and market it to the CCP functionaries).
Spying
China has been buying farmland near U.S. military installations. Take their money and then set up spy cameras on them. Put them on a new version of Candid Camera where we set them up to pay for military secrets on camera and then play the videos on YouTube.
Federal Agencies
Finally, we get to infiltrating federal agencies. First, let them in. Next, tell each agency they will be fully independent of the administration (OMB), Congress and the Courts. They will be allowed to pass any regulations that they deem necessary. Then, when the Federal Registers are printed, recycle them before anyone can see them and make them into comic books. Meanwhile, make sure the Chinese federal employees must report for work every single day, endure long daily meetings to discuss processes, be reorganized constantly, report activity on an hourly basis, hire unqualified people through OPM, get a signed quote for everything they buy, and make them part of a complex performance review that no one ever looks at. Like Sisyphus, they will push regulatory boulders up a hill for eternity.
The Bottom Line
America is free and prosperous, which makes us a target. But that doesn’t mean we can’t fight back—and have a little fun doing it.