It Was Always China
We have no excuse for not finally waking up to the threat that China poses.
By Sebastian Gorka
December 17, 2020
We are products of our environment and our genes. The tension between nature and nurture is a false one. Our childhoods, our upbringings, and the times we live in all have an indelible effect on who we are and how we see the world, as does our lineage. Drop a caveman on the New York Metro and find out. Likewise, take a latte-sipping millennial and drop her in the Amazonian rainforest and see how she fares.
For me, my formative environment was the Cold War. Born in 1970, I became aware of the world around just me as the West entered the frightening phase of Mutually Assured Destruction, as Ronald Reagan warned us of the existential threat that was the “Evil Empire,†and as the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with its tanks, helicopter gunships and anti-personnel mines that looked like children’s toys.
As the child of parents who had escaped Communist Hungary during the Revolution of 1956—my father had been liberated by the freedom fighters from a political prison—my perspective on the world will forever be informed by the threat of Karl Marx’s deadly ideology. But the threat of socialism, or its ultimate expression, communism, no longer emanates from Eastern Europe. Nor is it solely an external threat best measured in the “correlation of forces†represented by the respective military might of NATO and the Warsaw Pact arrayed on either side of an Iron Curtain. No, my time working in the Trump White House, and now as a presidential appointee to the Defense Department, has proven to me that that threat is now both internal and external and generated from the world’s largest remaining Communist nation: China.
And now, perhaps, America will come to realize it, too.
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