How will the next president deal with China’s secret strategy to fragment America?

(ThyBlackMan.com) How will the next president deal with the slow war of attrition that Communist China is waging against the rest of the world?

The question is serious, but too complicated to ask the TV presenters, assuming the presenters understand that the threat is much bigger than a newspaper headline.

During the September 10 debate, the threat from China was treated as an economic challenge: tariff war, microchips, etc.

A very narrow window. Dangerously narrow.

I have written four columns over the past 10 months on China’s “war of disintegration” targeting the US. China wants to disintegrate all of its adversaries, from immediate neighbors to potential economic competitors. The US, however, is target #1.

Here is the working definition of disintegrative warfare. In disintegrative warfare, a “unitary warring party becomes increasingly fragmented by divisions.”

Less complicated definition: The US becomes divided. Instead of being the greatest nation on earth, the US becomes a bewildered state unable to effectively exercise diplomatic, informational, military, and economic power.

In a July 2024 column, I discussed how China, in collaboration with Mexican crime cartels, has exploited the Biden administration’s open U.S. borders to seed the fentanyl drug crisis. But drugs are just one gamble. Add the economic and moral burden that millions of illegal aliens place on the social safety net, add political attacks on law enforcement (who is funding these political attacks?), then add the presence of unchecked criminal illegal aliens, and presto, you’ve created conditions for rising violent crime. Violent crime undermines economic productivity—and destroys neighborhoods. Destroy a neighborhood here, a neighborhood there, and pretty soon a city falls apart.

The TV types understand terror. Terrorists are already a domestic threat (think 9/11). But in the past four months, the FBI has warned that the threat of foreign terrorist attacks has increased — including terror linked to the Islamic State and assassination linked to Iran.

This is not fantasy. It is a fact of security planning: America now faces the prospect of fighting small proxy armies on its own soil.

Bits and pieces, falling apart. Economic and moral disintegration degrades the political will to act in a crisis. Without the will to use them as the superior weapons they are, the US Navy’s nuclear aircraft carriers are just big boats rusting in a harbor.

A powerful navy, backed by determined Americans, could deter China…maybe.

The following is not theoretical. It is happening now.

Since April 2024, the Philippines and communist China have been waging a coast guard war over an uncharted sea area called Sabina Shoal.

Colloquially, a coast guard organization functions as a maritime police force and emergency rescue service.

However, for more than two decades, China has been using its coast guard, fishing fleets and offshore construction vessels as weapons to wage a slow, steady and unfortunately successful war of territorial aggression in the South China Sea.

The Chinese fishing fleet shows up, the Chinese coast guard shows up to “protect” the fishermen, then the ships show up and start pouring concrete. Pour enough concrete on a coral reef and China claims that the concrete is as Chinese as Shanghai — even though it’s in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

Pour concrete — then China claims the land and takes a bite. Takes a small piece.

The year is 2024. In July 2016, the Hague International Arbitration Court, relying on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, upheld the Philippines’ claims that China had violated Philippine territory in the South China Sea by seizing islets and “seascapes.”

Beijing signed the treaty, ignored the verdict in a treaty-mandated court, and then disregarded the court’s authority. Beijing broke a major treaty it had ratified and demonstrated that it could not be trusted to abide by a carefully negotiated treaty.

Breaking treaties, rejecting verdicts, and seizing territory without serious consequences tells Chinese leaders that their opponents are weak. Undermining, co-opting, dominating, and ultimately disintegrating global diplomatic and economic institutions is another goal of the Chinese Community Party.

The Philippines cannot stop China’s ‘step by step’ attack without US support.

Pray that China’s disintegrating war will be discussed in the next presidential debate. But don’t hold your breath.

Written by Austin Bay

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