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ing fi nancial services to Russia as America and partners cut Russian banks and institutions off . China’s regime is promoting its alternative to SWIFT, namely CIPS, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System. Moreover, Russians denied access to Visa and Mastercard are fl ocking to China’s UnionPay. China ignoring Washington is


hardly surprising. The Biden admin- istration has issued warning after warning to Beijing over Ukraine, and Beijing has ignored warning after warning. That’s in part because, over the


course of decades, American presi- dents, by rarely following through on threats, have taught the Chinese to ignore what they say. There are already causes for fric-


tion between Washington and Bei- jing. China’s regime, among other crimes and misdeeds, steals about a half trillion dollars of U.S. intellectual property each year, supports fentanyl gangs and facilitates the laundering of their profi ts, and attacks America with its mighty propaganda machine. China deliberately spread COVID-


19 beyond its borders, and during 2020 openly and surreptitiously advocated violence to overthrow the American government. During the Afghan and Iraq Wars,


Beijing supplied arms to insurgents killing Americans. In May 2019, People’s Daily, the most authorita- tive publication in China, declared a “people’s war” on America. Although Americans choose not


to see Chinese hostility, Beijing is continually conducting “unrestricted warfare” against America. Americans will never be safe — and will not live in a peaceful world — as long as the Communist Party of China rules. Welcome, everyone, to the increas-


ingly dangerous post post-Cold War world.


Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China. Follow him on Twitter @GordonGChang.


14 NEWSMAX | MAY 2022 The Aftermath: UKRAINE WAR


Wake-Up Call: Rebuild Our Defenses Now


A ferocious, great power clash looms and we cannot match the threat, warns former U.S. Veterans Secretary Robert Wilkie.


I BY ROBERT WILKIE


nside my 1980 high school yearbook was a picture of a mas- sive billboard opposite the home of the 82nd Airborne Division on


Fort Bragg Boulevard. Its message read, “Iran: Let Our


People Go.” It was a daily reminder of the


depths to which America had fallen in the 1970s. We were mendicants beg- ging for favors from Tehran’s theo- cratic fanatics. Then, the world assumed that the


United States was in inevitable decline — crime was rampant and gas lines stretched for miles. The Soviets marched into Afghan-


istan, and Moscow’s Cuban proxies wrecked southern Africa. The United States Army collapsed


in on itself, beset by gang violence, off - the-charts drug use, and political radi- cals. Offi cers had to arm themselves to go into the barracks. The red-bereted paratroopers at


Fort Bragg secretly siphoned off gas from Special Forces vehicles because they couldn’t aff ord fuel for training. Carriers were stuck in port. Hovering above all of this was


Jimmy Carter. He began his presi- dency by admonishing his country for its “inordinate fear of communism.” However, thanks to Carter’s con-


fessional belief in right and wrong, Soviet aggression opened his eyes and he launched the military buildup that


eventually humbled Moscow under President Ronald Reagan. Expect no such epiphany from the ideologically blinkered Biden White House and its progressive vanguard on Capitol Hill. It did not take the Biden adminis-


tration long to signal American weak- ness — the debacle in Afghanistan emboldened the totalitarian axis in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran. Bungling and mismanagement encouraged Putin to launch his mur- derous blitz against Ukrainian inno- cents.


From the beginning, Biden has


shown an amateurish grasp as to what is at stake in the new world. In his State of the Union address, he even managed to confuse Ukraine with Iran.


He suggested that no response


would be needed if Putin launched a “minor incursion” across the Ukrai- nian frontier. He shredded American energy independence. He wrecked the post-World War II Pax Americana, and now the dictators are marching. Biden has signaled a return to the


years under former President Barack Obama of underfunding the Penta- gon.


Under Obama, ships and crews


were worn out, pilots had little time to train, and the bureaucracy bottled up the pipeline of promising pilots and sailors. Future systems were put on hold.


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