by Alicia F. Luke
by Charles Krauthammer{americanthinker.com} ~ The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell asserts that "Little Things Can Make a Big Difference."... This year, small, innocuous events are building toward possible big changes for the Chinese government, its citizens, and Southeast Asia, and globally as well if geopolitical and economic events continue down this path. With the United States forging a new path confronting China, financial markets and geopolitics could be in for turbulence that hasn't been seen since the Cold War. President Trump's early October speech to the United Nations and Security Council, where he accused the Chinese of "attempting to tamper with U.S. elections" and stated, "It's not just Russia; it's China and Russia," caused a stir at the U.N. While the U.S. media were fixated on the Judge Kavanaugh confirmations and the burgeoning U.S.-China trade tussle, the Trump administration is taking a harder stance against Chinese intelligence encroachments against U.S. businesses. A report in early October from Bloomberg Business Week exposed "a sprawling multi-year investigation into China's infiltration of US corporate and defense infrastructure." The report also "confirmed that, in addition to efforts designed to sway US elections, China's intelligence community orchestrated pervasive infiltration of servers used to power everything from MRI machines to drones used by the CIA and US army." The day before Trump's U.N. address, a 27-year-old Taiwanese national in Chicago was arrested for attempting to turn eight U.S. defense contractors who could reveal "sensitive defense-related technology." Then, in a first for U.S.-China relations, Yanjun Xu, deputy division director for the Ministry of State Security (China's main spy agency), was arrested in Belgium and extradited to the U.S., where he will stand trial in open court for attempted "stealing of trade secrets from companies including GE Aviation." The New York Times asserted that the arrest was "a major escalation of the Trump administration's effort to crack down on Chinese spying." This could mean that the U.S. is leveling the global manufacturing field to earn the goodwill of global lower-educated employees and blue-collar workers in emerging and mature markets. But this rankles Beijing, where the Chinese have enjoyed a comparative trade advantage for decades that has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of crippling poverty...
Trump’s supposed provocation led Flanagan to then compose this follow-up remark: “Imagine what it would be like to be the subject of one of Trump’s bullying campaigns, to have the most powerful man in the world ridicule you day after day, in his crude, below-the-belt way. What would you do about it?” Well, telling the truth would be a good start. Warren, who is perhaps 1/1,024 indigenous based upon a DNA test, wouldn’t be in this position had she not concocted a sham. As John Sexton reminds us:
Yes, [Trump] did mock her alleged heritage quite a few times in the past two years but he isn’t the one who told Harvard to list dinky-Warren as Native American in government-mandated EEOC reports. She did that. He isn’t the one who contributed recipes to a Native cookbook. dinky-Warren did that. He isn’t the one who bragged about having a Native American professor on staff. Harvard did that. dinky-Warren has said she never benefitted from her self-identification, but there’s no doubt Harvard tried to do so. And Trump isn’t the one who stuck to very specific heritage claims after genealogical investigations found no evidence of any Native American ancestor. dinky-Warren did that too.
That is the point in all of this, which Flanagan appears to dismiss or at least diminished its importance. However, she does make a roundabout point regarding the Left’s obsession with and exploitation of identity politics. She continues, “Putting one’s genetic information into the public conversation about one’s fitness for office is a bizarre idea. Moreover, her insistence that it would offer definitive proof of something her supporters believe in was tone-deaf.” In conclusion, Flanagan says: “The poison that has been trying to seep into our groundwater these past few years would tell us … that race is everything, the only thing. Genetic tests are filled with truths that are irrefutable and oftentimes terrible — how many people have learned from one of these reports that the man who raised them is not their father? That is their right place: the private sphere of the individual life.”
The Left has hijacked identity and turned it a double-edged sword. And on which side of the sword you fall will depend upon the racial history of your identity group. This is, of course, entirely antithetical to the teachings of someone who experienced real prejudice. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” His objective was equality before the law. Warren and Co.‘s objective is privileged opportunity. For this reason, identity politics is of the noxious variety.
~The Patriot Post
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