Alvin Rabushka, the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a longtime advocate of the flax tax, wrote:
A Wall Street Journal editorial on November 26, 2007, complained of China’s refusal to allow the USS Kitty Hawk and its carrier battle group to dock in Hong Kong on Thanksgiving day. China relented a day later after the fleet was on its way to Japan. The Journal charged that China stole Thanksgiving family dinners from American sailors as 290 crew members of families had flown into Hong Kong to meet them.
On this action, the Journal proclaimed that China is not a reliable military partner. On what basis did the Journal believe that China was a reliable military partner? Is China to accede to every U.S. request or dictum, without the freedom to change its mind in response to U.S. actions such as selling military upgrades to Taiwan’s missile defense system?
...Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, other U.S. government officials, and Members of Congress routinely advise China on what it must do and how it must behave on a host of issues, from the exchange rate of its currency to human rights. These suggestions are invariably rejected as China pursues its own course. China is no longer a land of coolies and compradors serving Western interests. How would the American government and people respond if China routinely advised the United States on what it must do and how it must behave? Hectoring China is likely to be increasingly unproductive as it gains in strength and influence.
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