U.S. - China Relations

"U.S. relations with China is a necessary evil."

The United States relationship with China is an unfortunate and necessary evil because without the cheap imports from China, then the United States way of life, would not be the same.

In 1839 British Merchants were trading a highly addictive drug called, Opium. The British wanted to keep trade with China. This started the Opium War. It ended very quickly with British forces on top.

After winning the Opium War, the British forced China to agree to the terms from the Treaty of Nanjing. The Treaty of Nanjing was created for China to pay for British War costs, open ports for British trade, and give them Hong Kong.

In the 1900s Sun Yat-Sen became a great influence on China. It was the start of nationalism and he had three goals to bring China back. One to end foreign domination. Two, to form a representative government. Three, to create economic security. In 1911 he was named the President of the Chinese Republic. After WWI Sun Yat-Sen resigned because the country was spreading apart. He left from the heat from the revolts.

After he left, the Nationalist and the Communist worked together to reform China. Then temperatures started to rise and a Civil War started that lasted 22 years. Mao Zedong was the leader of the communist part in the 1930s. He led a march called the Long March which led 1,000,000 people away from the Nationalist. 20,000 people survived and relocated to Northern China to regroup.

In 1949 the Communist won. The Nationalist went to Taiwan. During this time The United States was in a Cold War with The Soviet Union. During this time, China and the U.S. disagreed during the Korean War, and opposed sides. In 1970 China became part of the United Nations. Richard Nixon went to visit Mao in 1972. China was recognized as part of the Peoples Republic in 1979.

In 1976 Deng Xiaoping took power. He promised a change and modernized farming, industry, science and technology, and defense. He was willing to reform but not government. In 1989, over 1,000,000 students rallied to Tiananmen Square. They wanted democracy. Xiaoping didn’t like the fact that Western Culture was coming over the people. He didn’t want democracy. The protesters wanted better food, better education, and better dorms, in colleges. 

Xiaoping was unwilling to cooperate and he declared Marshal Law. 

The troops stormed the Square with automatic weapons spraying into the square. People fled away, but soldiers came from all directions. They tried to use city buses to block off the square, but it didn’t stop the tanks, nothing did.

Eventually the protesters agreed to leave. The massacre was misleading by the Chinese government. They said that only 23 people were killed, but was later investigated by the U.S. and found that more than 300 people were killed.

The United States didn’t get involved with the crisis for the very fear that it would anger China. The United States needs the resources that it brings in order for the standard of living to stay the same.

We have been trading with China for years now. China is a corrupt and evil place. People don’t have the same rights as the U.S. does. China wants to become the worlds superpower again. They will do anything, to keep communism the national power, and maybe, eventually the world.

From the following points, it’s clear to see that they will stop at nothing to keep communism alive, just based on the fact that they would kill their own people to do so. China is a powerful and ruthless country, that needs to be stopped, but not by the U.S. now, because without them, the United States wouldn’t survive, as it does now.