The Chinese government owns and controls all its manufacturing and capital investments. Sensitive instruments of espionage and monitoring technology used to spy on us are financed by our purchases of their products. We also finance their global aggression.

China owns the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal. China is monopolizing the global resources needed to build EV batteries. China is watching us with high-altitude spy technology and monitoring our military facilities from only 90 miles away in Cuba.

Politico recently published an article claiming the Pentagon is freaking out about losing a future war with China. Former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten commented on simulated war games that they “just ran rings around us.” He added, “They knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it. So brazen are the Chinese, their air force conducts dangerously close flybys of our military planes, and their naval warships veer precariously close to our warships that enter the Chinese Sea.

The message is clear. China doesn't respect or fear us. It appears Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping didn't hear Joe Biden say we are “too big to fail.”

George Pikoulas, Butler