The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. 

Frank Gaffney

Our socialist President, not content with destroying our economy, has now decided to incapacitate our military's ability to guarantee our freedom to trade goods around the world and to be able to respond successfully to more than one international crisis at a time. I realize of course that he is only proposing cuts in the increase in future defense spending, but his ten-year plan will create power vacuums around the world that can only be filled by a China in ascent.

The Constitution requires the President to protect our nation. This protection must extend to the nation's ability to provide food, fuel, and other goods to our free markets. In the past, our military has made the sea lanes safe for trade and allowed strategic materials, not present in the United States, to be available for our defense technology.

China has acquired resources at a dizzying rate around the world and created a world-wide catastrophe when they cut off shipments of rare earth elements to the rest of the world. China currently produces 97 percent of the available world supply of these elements. They have used our differences with the Muslim world to secure oil concessions from both Iran and Sudan. The Chinese are also building a deepwater port in Gwadar in Pakistan - not far from the strategic Straits of Hormuz, and they have secured basing rights for their navy in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

There would be no reason to fear such moves if not for the geopolitical strategy China has developed over the last 6,000 years.

China or Chung Kuo (Middle Kingdom) considers itself to be the center of the world. It not only believes its civilization to be the greatest in the world, but has the facts to back up its claims. China has the largest population of any country in the world, and Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language. The lists of firsts from China include paper, printing, compasses, and gunpowder.

Chinese emperors considered themselves to be the rulers of the whole world. All nations were required to come to China to pay tribute to the emperor. Chung Kuo was considered the center of civilization, and the nations closest to the empire were considered to be more civilized than those which were far away, like Europe.

Although the last Chinese emperor ceased to reign 100 years ago, the leaders of modern China have been nearly as untouchable. Consider the fact that Nixon was required to go to Beijing to meet with Mao Tse Tung in order to normalize relations with China, and that the United States had to sacrifice the Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan to secure his cooperation.

China considers any nation having a significant population of overseas Chinese to be part of the empire. Taiwan is the focal point of this political geography. There are also large minorities of Chinese in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, and the island state of Singapore has a large majority that is Chinese. The Philippines and other nations of Southeast Asia also have Chinese roots. Likewise, the Korean and Japanese cultures are heavily saturated with ideas from the Middle Kingdom.

The Chinese military is rapidly attempting to become the equal of our American military. They are spending vast amounts of their trade surplus to extend their power into what they envision to be their area of influence, especially the South China Sea.

China now has a modern navy with large numbers of submarines and an aircraft carrier that was built from a hull purchased from the Ukraine. The Chinese have developed the DF 21-D missile system that can drop warheads on American carriers 1,700 miles away from their shores.

The Americans have facilitated the development of these systems by selling the Chinese the components necessary to improve their rudimentary guidance systems, and by scrapping the development of the YF-23 fighter, which had the range and altitude to evade the missiles. Neither the F-22, nor the F-35, has the range to be able to protect Taiwan if it is attacked by China.

So the bowing President Obama has chosen this time in history to unilaterally disarm. China is more than willing to fill the vacuum left by our withdrawal from the position of preeminent power, and from now on, Americans will have to thank the Chinese for insuring our lifestyle.