These founding ideals must first be accepted by a people and then forced upon their government. Only then can we expect the development of the freedom and opportunity which we assume. As Hayek emphasized, this is the rule of law without which there can be no permanent prosperity. In communist China today there is no rule of law because there is no honoring of contract. Without the honoring of contract there can be no enablement of property rights, including of one's own labor.
All agreements are indefinitely subject to readjustment by the politically more powerful party.
This situation can never be corrected, nor can we know any lasting peace with communist China until this condition is either corrected or until China is militarily so weak as to be negligible, but what we have seen is the enabling of China to dominate us militarily in Asia by the administration coupled with an unwillingness to use our military capability to move China toward our model of free constitutional republicanism rather than allowing China to dictate our policy and even politically penetrate our Executive and direct our defense and foreign policy. Our law does not protect one who does business with a thief but in China we are protecting the thief and hurting the one who seeks to deal honestly. Compliance with our basic concepts, which are proven to enable and promote freedom and prosperity, must become a condition for trade with China, which clearly intends to pursue failed and repressive policies involving slave labor and the compromise of our national security unless corrected by our uses of the power of our market in combination with military resistance and pressure. Role of moral and spiritual strength and leadership. Every man an information warrior in a free society.