Kerby Anderson

The Chinese Communist Party has been cheating international trade, and many are happy Trump’s tariffs are giving China what it deserves. Katie Pavlich documents the “more than two decades of lying, stealing and wildly nefarious trade practices.”

Many (even in the former Clinton administration) admit they made a mistake letting China into the World Trade Organization. The communist leaders came in with ambitions of global dominance and used the special rules and treatment to operate inside the United States and all over the world with little scrutiny — even buying up American farmland next to sensitive military sites.

China steals intellectual property and then uses it to put American companies out of business. Tech Diplomacy reports, “After acquiring intellectual property, Chinese government subsidies and regulations help Chinese companies secure market shares in the global markets at the expense of the US…. According to a CNBC survey, 1 in 5 corporations say China has stolen intellectual property within the previous year, while 1 in 3 said it had happened sometime during the previous century.”

China has used its Belt-and-Road initiative to gain a foothold in African countries. Pavlich tells the sad story of how China helped build infrastructure in Zambia. Their government “started to take out loans from Chinese banks for airports, hospitals, housing projects, and the roads connecting them.” In the end, “Not only were the so-called loans an unforgivable trap, but the infrastructure was also built with Chinese labor, not locals, and it’s falling apart — just like the cheap Chinese goods sold at Walmart.”

Trump has had enough and is now slapping reciprocal tariffs on China. That is why Katie Pavlich (and many others) are celebrating that “China Finally Gets its Due.”