Earlier this month, Tablet Magazine published an article by Lee Smith titled The 30 Tyrants which compared the triumph of militaristic Sparta over more democratic Athens in ancient Greece to the current efforts of Red China to destroy the culture, economy and world pre-eminence of the United States.
A particularly disturbing point is how America’s elites have lost any loyalty to this country and many look to Beijing for leadership and their future profits. Among the worst of those is the highly corrupt Biden family who are now well placed to accrue more fortunes based on foreign connections built over years.
President Trump recognized the China threat early on and took steps against it. So the ChiCom leadership must be very happy with the 2020 election outcome.
A spare video file is here.
TUCKER CARLSON: Last night, Joe Biden promised to reverse the Trump administration’s foreign policy on the question of China. According to Biden, the U.S. will now follow something called the International Rules of the Road. What does that mean exactly? Well, you can guess what it means. More subservience to the emerging nation of China.
Most people don’t understand how big this is, or how far back it goes, or the implications for them. Lee Smith understands. He’s an author and a journalist. He’s written one of the best pieces of the year on this topic for Tablet Magazine.
The piece is called “The 30 Tyrants.” You’ll have to stop reading midway through because it’s upsetting. But as you read it, you’ll also know it’s true. So we recommend that you do. He joins us tonight to explain. Lee, thanks so much for coming on.
LEE SMITH: Thanks, Tucker.
CARLSON: And for the mental energy required to connect all these dots in the piece, and again, I really hope our readers read it for themselves. But in the meantime, will you summarize your position.
SMITH: Yes, I mean, basically, what I wanted to explain is I wanted to explain why so many things look crazy. Many things, for instance, that you cover on your show all the time, for instance, tonight, why people are coming across — why people are coming across the border in such profound numbers?
It all looks crazy until you realize there’s a reason it’s going on, and the reason is, is because the oligarchy that runs this country now is not primarily loyal to the United States. They do not care about the amount of damage they do to America. They don’t care about the amount of damage they do to Americans — that’s part of the system. Their primary loyalty is to their relationship to the Communist Chinese Party. That is their center of gravity. It’s the source of their wealth, privilege and prestige.
CARLSON: So keep connecting, if you will, and I hope sure that again, people will read this because print is really the only medium that can fully explain a thesis as complex as yours, but I think you’re right. So what else would connect to that point that you just made?
SMITH: Well, I mean, the big thing is starting — I mean, one of the key dates is of course, it starts with Henry Kissinger’s and Richard Nixon’s opening to China.
But really a big date is 1994 when Bill Clinton decided to delink human rights and trade regarding China, right? The ambition — you hear people say all the time, oh, we were hopeful that China would adopt more democratic policies. It was nonsense.
The premier of China at the time was Jiang Zemin — this was the man who was catapulted to power after sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. So the American elite knew exactly what they were getting into. What they looked at, they looked at an enormous cheap labor pool. And they said, we’re going to get rich and that’s precisely what happened, where we are more than a quarter of a century along and that’s precisely what’s happened. Now, one of the interesting things that happened during the Donald Trump presidency because Donald Trump started calling these people out, I think that Donald Trump didn’t even have that clear a sense of how tied in, how extensive this network was.
One of the examples I mentioned is, for instance, whoever would have put Apple CEO Tim Cook and LeBron James in the same family album, but there they are, sure enough, because they both rely — their wealth relies on the two same things: cheap Chinese labor and a growing Chinese consumer market. If you look across, this is not just — it’s not just entertainment. It’s not just tech. It goes into the corporate world. It goes into finance. Unfortunately, it affects our government throughout.
One of the most astonishing revelations was a memo that former D.N.I. John Ratcliffe wrote, regarding the C.I.A. regarding their intelligence analysis, C.I.A. management was apparently bullying analysts saying they didn’t like their analysis of China, because they were worried about the policies that might encourage, meaning Donald Trump’s policies who was hard on China.
Therefore, C.I.A. management was protecting China from solid analysis. It’s astonishing, but take it one step further. Remember who owns the Cloud on which all of the C.I.A.’s information is collected? And that’s Jeff Bezos, who is China’s number one distributor in the United States.
CARLSON: In 10 seconds, does it shock you that the new Defense Secretary has basically said the greatest threat we face is not China, but white supremacists in this country?
SMITH: No, not at all. If you look at the Biden administration, the way it’s staffed, and unfortunately, if you look at the first family, you see that there are deep and extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party. It doesn’t surprise me at all.
CARLSON: Amazing piece. Lee, I appreciate your coming on tonight.
SMITH: Thank you very much, Tucker.
