Letter To Editor: What will we do when the CCP takes Taiwan?

What will we do when the CCP takes Taiwan?

Freedom, Indiana – June 29 2023, Andrew Horning, seeking the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024, made the following statement regarding our dangerous, pivotal time:

After my decades of appeals through columns, Op-eds, protests and political campaigns, about the bipartisan (meaning only two unconstitutional parties), pandemic, and destructive corruption of our government, I’m glad that at least a little of this existential problem is starting to emerge from behind the major media veil.  …At least with puppets like Biden and bit-players like the FBI.

But the depth and length of our system-wide corruption have left us in a fragile, overextended, indebted, self-deceived and precarious state, at a very bad time.  Our collective inattention and torpor has caused a number of serious problems that need attention.  For example, the CCP is moving stepwise and relentlessly against Taiwan  What are we going to do about it?

Ever since the Carter administration canceled the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (SAMDT) with Taiwan (formally the Republic of China – ROC), there has been no formal agreement to defend Taiwan from takeover by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that rules the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  Officially, since recognizing the PRC and de-recognizing the ROC in 1979, the USA supports a “One China” policy, with no regard toward the ROC’s existence as a sovereign nation.  NATO only unofficially treats the ROC as a “major non-NATO ally” as defined in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.  Ukraine was never given even this status by NATO, yet much of the world is assisting the legendarily corrupt Ukraine both financially and militarily in our insane proxy war against Russia.  And much of the world depends upon the ROC’s semiconductor industry for both civilian and military purposes.  Russia has been losing population, resources, and strength for some time, while China has been very cleverly winning a war of subversion and dissipation against the USA since at least 2012.  Yes, China has lots of internal problems.  So does Russia.  And so do we.

However, the PRC wants Taiwan, and they mean to take it as their own.  What’s our calculus now?

Generations ago the USA abandoned Jefferson’s “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”  It’s no secret that the USA is backing away from Social Security and Medicare obligations.  We are internally fragmented by a crony network veiled by the two-sock puppet show called the Two-Party System.  We are nearly paralyzed in a cultural, psychological, and moral hot mess that’s tearing even our families and societal support organizations apart.

It’s not true that the USA spent the USSR to collapse under President Reagan.  It is quite true, however, that we’re spending and spreading ourselves toward calamitous dissolution.  This will end badly if we don’t control ourselves.

So, what can we do when the PRC takes the ROC?  We could collapse.  Empires always crumble.  Our endless asymmetrical wars and cultural disintegration have made us weak in ways we clearly do not see.

Maybe, we can do nothing.

We need national defense.  Not the global meddling with the CIA and regular military fighting each other worldwide that has become our literal stock in crony trade.  Real, serious, constitutional defense of what’s both important and possible, even now.

Ask me how.

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

Freedom, Indiana

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