Xi Jinping Inadvertently Shows America the Way on Border Security
Comprehensive border security is a national imperative
Great Wall of China
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s quest for order via a “comprehensive national security concept,” is laid out in his grandiose Global Security Initiative. It features “new security laws, restructuring the country’s domestic security apparatus, purging and jailing many of the security forces’ top leaders, building a massive surveillance state, and intensifying repression” of enemies of the Chinese Communist Party, as reported by Foreign Affairs here.
Revamping the domestic security apparatus apparently includes strengthening China’s border security guards, too. Interestingly, Xi focused on the need to “build up the capacity for border defense and control, and strive to forge a ‘great wall of steel’ in safeguarding China's borders” during a visit to Inner Mongolia on 6 June, as reported by China Daily.
A “great wall of steel”? Communist China has joined the ranks of countries that believe that “walls work” in defending borders (not that masses of people are clamoring to enter the Communist Paradise that is Zhōngguó in 2023). Now, China’s border policies leave a lot to be desired overall, as the construction of a wall works both ways in keeping people out and keeping citizens in, but there is something to be said about properly administered border security that is the ultimate irony when considering current US border and immigration policies.
Are Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, and the rest of the Democrat open borders advocates paying attention? Let us examine the issue.
WHAT DID XI MEAN?
China has a land border that totals 13,742 miles, a quarter of which bounds East Turkmenistan (Xinjiang). Fourteen different countries share uneasy borders with China. Border control works both ways for the Chinese communists: to keep out undesirables (e.g., Islamicist radicals) and to keep in its own citizens (less those the Beijing authorizes to travel abroad).
According to the Voice of America News, China’s Land Borders Law implemented in October 2021 is officially “aimed at legitimizing military and armed police actions along 22,117 kilometers of largely remote, rugged borders while warning other states against testing China's resolve in any sovereignty spats.” Some have speculated that this is the land version of the lawfare actions taken by the PLA-Navy in extending China’s sovereignty rights in the South China Sea. Watch for that law to be used as justification for land-grabs along the disputed and militarized India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Xi’s call for a “great wall of steel” along China’s border was coupled with direction to infuse communist orthodoxy among border troops – to, in the typical Marxist word salad, “improve their education on the political discipline, discipline regarding the public and affairs related to foreigners, and policies on ethnic and religious affairs.” This is consistent with the general push to reinforce communist principles throughout the Chinese government, military, and society in general in order to fully implement Xi’s vision of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Xi’s wall of steel means that the communists are serious about controlling (and expanding) their borders, and they know that physical borders work. After all, the Great Wall of China was originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang to keep out barbarian nomads in the third century B.C., with construction continuing intermittently through the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. The Great Wall is a Chinese treasure and popular tourist destination; virtually every Chinese knows its purpose, hence, Xi’s reuse of the term “great wall” in his proclamation and its probable resonance with the average Chinese citizen (Xi is fond of using historical allusions that attempt to bridge the gap between traditional Chinese culture and history to the hash made of Chinese society by the CCP).
THE AMERICAN BORDER SIEVE
While the Chinese psyche is conditioned to great walls and an inherent xenophobia, the American psyche (to the extent there is one) is conditioned to open borders and amnesties because, except for the handful of indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the European settlers surged to what later became the United States in the 17th century, literally everyone else came from somewhere else. In short, most Americans have generally supported immigration because their own ancestors were immigrants, many of whom sought amnesty to escape their counties of origin.
Just as Xi capitalized on the “great wall” allusion, so has the Democrat Party used the amnesty allusion to implement what amounts to a no borders policy to the increasing chagrin of many Americans while masking the political purposes for the policy (political benefit to the Democrat Party and their GOP establishment partners in crime).
The result of the purposeful sieve at the US-Mexico border has been entirely predictable: at total of 5.5 million known arrivals/encounters at the border as of October 2022 according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) plus another 1.2 million illegal immigrants who avoided detection and incarceration when they crossed the border, as estimated by Customs and Border Patrol officials and reported by Fox News back in January.
The costs to Americans will come due over the next several decades: continuing deaths from fentanyl and other opioids (made in China!) now averaging 100,000 Americans per year, the wrecked lives due to human trafficking, and the social welfare costs of providing for millions of indigent illegal aliens.
And what is even worse is that the Biden regime is actually coordinating the dispersal of these “asylum seekers” into the interior of the US at taxpayer expense as a matter of US policy!
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Xi Jinping understands the utility of an impenetrable “great wall of steel” on the Chinese border as a national imperative (at least for the continued security and stability of Chinese communist rule). He apparently doesn’t respect the rights of other countries to build and maintain their own “great walls of steel” to control the follow of illegals, trafficked human beings, and illicit substances into their own countries. After all, the Chinese are profiting directly from the Democrats’ open border policies, and Xi and his minions are taking full advantage.
What is worse is that there has been a recent influx of Chinese nationals across the US-Mexico border. According to Breitbart, “Nearly 13,000 migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been apprehended along the U.S. Southwest border with Mexico this fiscal year, … with [a]pproximately 84 percent of the migrants [being] single adults.” These numbers represent a 1000% increase from the prior fiscal year. Is Xi taking advantage of the sieve at the border to use his “people weapon” to place military age men and potential spies in the US for future activation and agitation against US authorities? Stranger things have happened, as these people are not likely to be amnesty seekers.
Will Xi’s clarion call for a “great wall of steel” inadvertently be the catalyst for a bipartisan US response to close the US-Mexico border? What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander, too.
The end.