Second thoughts on the Chinese Investment Threat

I noticed some news stories and analyses this morning which, taken separately, don't mean much. Taken together, however, they put more meat on the bones of the idea that Chinese investment in the United States represents a sort of threat. Yesterday comparing current Chinese investments with former Japanese financial ventures in the United States, I took the view that alarm over Chinese interest in the American oil industry was a little bit silly. Now I am having second thoughts.

First, I should note that although Japanese society tends to be far more focused and unified than the United States, the Japanese do not tend to closely coordinate government propaganda organs with various military, economic and cultural entities. That is, they are not a totalitarian state.

The People's Republic of China is a totalitarian state; and that makes a big difference.

Combine their stated desire to re-absorb Taiwan, their continued pressure for foreign governments to end recognition of Taiwanese sovereignty, their combination of persecuting Christians and pressuring world religious bodies to cede religious authority to the Chinese government, and their strategic desire to control naval "choke points" along with non-Chinese oil companies: and it adds up to a coordinated plan to (1) achieve greater control over the collective conscience of the Chinese people along with (2) a military seizure of Taiwan and (3) gain the energy independence that would allow them to commit the first two acts with impunity.

Taken from a religious view, I discuss the topic of Chinese hegemony on my other site here.