Will China’s Belt and Road Policy Return the American System to the ? by Dennis Speed

“Britain seeks friendship only with those which can render her services, and when her friends are too weak to be of any use to her, they must be sacrificed in her interest. Britain’s tender regard for her friends is like the delicate care usually shown by farmers in the rearing of silk worms: after all the silk has been drawn from the cocoons, they are destroyed by fire or used as food for the fish. The present friends of Great Britain I know more than silk worms and they are receiving all the tender care of Britain simply because there is still some silk left in them.” —Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Americans that wish to assist in advancing the U.S. of interests,” between nations, and internal to nations, Presidency’s efforts at joint cooperation between China through the harmony between capital, agriculture, and and the United States, in space and on earth, and par- labor. This is the happy precedent for the United States ticularly in the cause of peace through mutually benefi- to accept the “win-win” outlook expressed by Presi- cial economic development, have to do only one thing: dent Xi Jinping today. President Donald Trump’s insis- reopen the legal case of American physical economist tence that relations with and China are “a good Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019). Why? Because Lyn- thing, not a bad thing,” is not a banality, not a mere don LaRouche engaged in a dialogue “statement of the obvious,” but an with China, from prison, represented implicit declaration of war against the by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, his wife Bank of England’s Governor Mark and founder of the Schiller Institute. Carney’s policy of “financial regime That dialogue helped catalyze the change” against the Presidency of most successful growth of any econo- the United States, which Carney an- my since the shutdown of the Bretton nounced this past August in Jackson Woods System on August 15, 1971. It Hole, Wyoming. The City of London was a dialogue of civilizations, car- banking faction that earlier impris- ried out by the civilized, while the oned LaRouche is that same faction uncivilized knuckle-dragger, George that has committed itself to removing H.W. Bush, created “New World Dis- Donald Trump from the United States order” in the White House. Presidency before the year 2020, by Nowhere is the uniqueness of Lyn- “any means necessary.” don LaRouche in advancing, and thus Library of Congress For patriotic Americans to oppose resurrecting, the Hamiltonian anti- Sun Yat Sen, leader of China’s the ongoing criminal process of poli- colonial economic policy of the Unit- Republican Revolution in 1911, cy treason against the United States, proponent of the American System of ed States seen more clearly than in Alexander Hamilton. it were useful to know the true his- the cultural-diplomatic offensive car- tory of this country’s long-standing ried out by him and Helga Zepp-LaRouche starting in relationship with China, as an ally in the final destruc- 1989-1994. LaRouche was unjustly imprisoned in the tion of the power of the British Empire and its com- United States during this entire time, in large part be- mitment to the population reduction of “the world’s in- cause he was proudly guilty of reviving the Abraham ferior peoples.” The Belt and Road Initiative is in fact Lincoln Administration’s approach to Eurasia. That the modern-day successor to the United States’ Trans- approach involved the idea of defeating the murder- continental Railroad, and the worldwide “railroad di- ous British Empire through establishing “the harmony plomacy” conducted by American patriots in China, End the McCarthyite Assault on China and President Trump 21 Russia, Peru, and other countries in the aftermath of intrigued all the world, including China. Learning the that Transcontinental Railroad’s completion in 1869. principles of Alexander Hamilton’s American Revolu- tion was the self-strengthening that China needed. Lincoln vs. the British Opium Wars The Chinese-American dialogue initiated by Lincoln The British had fought two “opium wars” against and his ambassador Burlingame established the Kiang- China, 1839-42 and 1856-60, forcing addiction upon nan Arsenal, or The General Bureau of Machine Manu- China’s population. (To this day, this accounts for the facture of Jiangnan, to build ships and weapons. The deep aversion to the idiotic idea of “recreational drug first technical advisers on the shipyard’s construction use” among the vast majority of China’s citizens.) were Americans, such as the chief engineer, T. F. Falls. When Lincoln took office in 1861, the Second Opium (The equipment was leased from the American firm War had just concluded, with the British having de- Thomas Hunt and Co.) This resulted in the founding of stroyed the bodies and souls of millions of Chinese in the Jiangnan Shipyard in 1865 in Shanghai, China, still pursuit of their imperial interests. When the Lincoln operating today with a staffing of about 10,500 people. Administration in June 1861 appointed Anson Burlin- By 1871, Yung Wing persuaded the Chinese govern- game as ambassador to Chi- ment to establish what came na’s Qing Empire, China was to be known as the Chinese still directly under occupation educational mission. This was by the British. a group of 120 Chinese young Almost immediately, Ame­ students who came to the Con- rican patriots sought to arm necticut area to study science China—with machinery. Chi- and engineering. It was, there- na’s Emperor dispatched Yung fore, the Lincoln faction that Wing (1828-1912), the first first assisted the British-col- Chinese scholar to have gradu- onized China in creating the ated from an American univer- machine-tool capability that sity (Yale), not only to purchase the nation required to produce American machinery in order the weapons to defend itself. to build an arsenal in China of Why is this U.S.-China history cannon and heavy weapons, but Cartoon of the British Opium Wars against China— never even discussed? also as part of what the Chinese Shoving drugs down the throats of the Chinese people. In 1887, ’s called the “Self-Strengthening Wharton Barker, a central Movement.” This movement was in part intended to as- “Hamiltonian” republican figure associated with Hen- similate the “machine tool principles” that would bring ry Carey, reported in the publication The American: China into an economic dialogue with the more ad- “Upon the initiative of a syndicate of Philadelphia vanced, but still-struggling United States. America was capitalists, of whom Mr. Wharton Barker is the rep- then itself in the throes of a “civil war,” from the very resentative, concessions of far-reaching importance to beginning of Lincoln’s administration. It was, in fact, a the future development of the Middle Kingdom, and rebellion of “slave states” against the Federal Constitu- to the commercial interests of the United States have tion, a conflict which Lincoln and his supporters, such been granted.... China is rich in mineral wealth. A few as his ambassador to Russia, Cassius Marcellus Clay, mines of coal and gold have been opened. With rail- recognized was, in reality, an international conflict. It ways these could be made much more profitable and had been instigated by British and European financial a number of others would be developed.... To create interests through their slavery, opium, and “free trade such a railway system in accordance with the govern- policies,” as well as their property-title ownership of ment policy that railroads and mines must belong to many of the plantations of the American South. The the Chinese themselves requires a more orderly system fact that the manufacturing capabilities of American of finances than obtains at present.” Today’s China ad- Northern industry allowed it to emerge from that devas- vancement would please him mightily. tating 1861-65 conflict with an economy that was more Barker’s proposal for Chinese rail (Figure 1 productive and stronger than when the conflict began, MAP)—itself an echo of the policy first proposed indicated a scientific breakthrough in economics that by Germany’s collaborator with the Lincoln republi- 22 End the McCarthyite Assault on China and President Trump FIGURE 1 tional Day speech of the Chinese “centu- FIGURE 1 ry of humiliation” at the hands of Great Chinese Railroads Railroads Projected Projectedby Wharton Barker by Wharton Barker Britain, as well as Japan, which was al-

R U S S I A lied with Great Britain against China in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902- MONGOLIA 1923. (The United States had plans to Vladivostok fight a two-front war against Japan [War

Peking (Beijing) Plan Orange] and Great Britain [War Sea of Plan Red] through the 1930s, exactly to Chinese Turkestan Japan C Chefoo counter British imperial policy, and its H (Yantai) TIBET I co-thinkers in Japan.) N A Nanking (Nanjing) JAPAN H i Shanghai m a LaRouche and the l a y a s Chungking (Chongqing) New Silk Road BURMA INDIA Pacific When Helga Zepp-LaRouche founded FORMOSA Ocean Mandalay Canton (TAIWAN) the Schiller Institute in 1983, Lyndon La- (Guangzhou) Hongkong 0 500 1,000 Bay of South China Rouche had already spearheaded a group kilometers Bengal Sea of researchers in America, Europe, and South America who had successfully cans, Friedrich List, in his Outlines of American Po- rediscovered the American System economists of the litical Economy and The National System of Political 19th Century. This was a real-life application of Schil- Economy—would be expanded and transcended by Dr. ler’s idea of “universal history,” discussed by him in his Sun Yat Sen’s famous railway design described in his famous 1789 lecture in Jena, Germany. The economic- 1921 work, The International Development of China. strategic crisis conditions that led to the November 1989 Sun Yat Sen, who led the republican revolution which fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent 1991 dissolu- overthrew the Imperial system in China in 1911, was tion of the Soviet Union, were knowable. So were their himself a student of the American System, basing his solutions. These were “universal-historical” solutions, famous “Three Principles of the People” on Lincoln’s expressed in LaRouche documents such as “A Fifty- “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Year Development Policy for the Indian-Pacific Oceans So why, today, do many Americans believe, if they Basin,” written in 1983. His proposals in that document know anything about it at all, that the Chinese Belt and are still the conceptual basis for a “win-win” negotia- Road Initiative is a threat to them? tion between Presidents Trump and Xi today. 1983 was Perhaps this history is unknown today to Ameri- the same year that President Ronald Reagan adopted cans because that is the way the British faction now the LaRouche-proposed policy of ending the danger of deploying treasonous American elements to impeach thermonuclear war through the Strategic Defense Ini- the President, rather than risk a 2020 election, want it. tiative (SDI), much to the amazement of, not only the The 2018 House of Lords report, “U.K. Foreign Policy Soviet Union, but also the “Bush-Kissinger faction” in- in a Shifting World Order,” warned that the Trump side of the Reagan Administration itself. Administration has taken “a number of high-profile In 1991, from jail, LaRouche, in close collaboration unilateral foreign policy decisions that are contrary to with his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, renewed his pol- the interests of the United Kingdom,” adding, “Should icy discussions with the nations of Eurasia. After the President Trump win a second term … the damage to fall of the Berlin Wall, they first presented the “Pro- U.K./U.S. relations will be longer lasting.” The same ductive Triangle—Paris-Berlin-Vienna,” and then, fol- report warns that Xi Jinping has declared that China lowing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, they intends to “take centre-stage in world affairs, in two proposed the “Eurasian Land-Bridge,” to integrate the stages, to 2035 and then to 2050,” as if this were a sin- European and Asian populations and industry centers ister plot against the West. through infrastructure development corridors. This The Chinese, unlike many in the United States, have was their vision for a peace order for the 21st Century. not forgotten the evil of the British Empire. President The Belt and Road Initiative of China today is in basic Xi has spoken as recently as in his October 2019 Na- affinity with that vision. End the McCarthyite Assault on China and President Trump 23