Xi Jinping ascends rank Chairman Mao despite existential threat to economy

For all of Premier Xi Jinping’s recent self congratulatory ascension to the ranks of Chairman Mao he has let grow an existential threat to his region’s fast growing economy, one which can not falter and thereby deprive him the legitimacy to his authoritarian rule.  For a variety of legacy reasons China has let  North Korea’s nuclear capability grow to a fearful point of resolution, one which grows ever more fearful as the radius of possible destruction grows wider.  As the nation with the most to lose it is up to China to take out the Kid Playing with Nuclear Matchsticks.   

President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger opened China with a pure Realpolitik play replacing Taiwan with Communist China in the United Nations thereby summarily dropping a long standing friend and ally for a practical realignment to reality. Today the United States should deny this original One China understanding because Beijing is not worthy.  For all of its military muscle flexing in the South China Seas, Sea of Japan and ocean oil fields of Vietnam, they apparently have no understanding that military power is not for causing trouble in the neighborhood but to secure the region’s high tech logistics chain fueling its economy.  The recent temper tantrum over U.S. deployed THAAD missiles in South Korea shows an incomprehensible blindness by leadership as to what is important to China’s economy, which among other things is South Korea’s tech industry.  A cursory look at an Apple IPhone’s content shows 25% of its value is from South Korea, 35% from Japan and many other percent from countries in the region, excepting North Korea. The Logistics chain feeding the factory in China assembling these components crisscrosses a five hundred mile radius around Pyongyang. If The Kid should inadvertently cause an exchange of atomic arms in the region then, putting the holocaust aside,  Apple would be forced to relocate production elsewhere and diminish China’s tech industry, a diminishing of the very engine that can not falter for Jinping.

Bringing Taiwan back into the fold of valued ally is not for spite, rather a defense for the Tech Industry.  Foxconn is the Taiwanese company used by the likes of Apple and others to contract assemble the different components of the great South East Asia Logistics machine. For the industry’s security some production and assembly has to be taken out of the region and an independent Taiwan is best suited to arrange it.  

China’s temper tantrum over THAAD notwithstanding, if the kid keeps on threatening it is clear that Japan, Taiwan, India and for good measure even Vietnam might consider U.S. deployed defense missiles be placed in their countries.  Not until Xi takes out the kid and shows an understanding of the purpose of power can the world trust China’s hegemony.  If he musters the necessary courage than he transforms it into a useful rather than trouble making one, a  courage to make One China a worthy ally for peace and security which the U.S. could support by taking back the no longer needed defensive missiles deployed in the region.