By Ray Cardello for April 4, 2023, Season 17 / Post 19

America needs to wake up to the all-out assault on its existence by China. Except for John Kerry, most Americans believe our most critical threat is China, but I do not think most understand just how extensive and dangerous China’s threat is. China is a formidable foe by itself, but its effort to form a global alliance elevates the threat to existential. Existential is an overused word, made so by Climate Change advocates, but when you look at the Chinese attack on America and its quest for world dominance, it is the only word to describe it accurately.

The assault began years ago when China offered American industry cheap labor and a ready-made infrastructure. It appeared to be an innocent way for American businesses to enhance their bottom line. Over time, the manufacturing industry was eroded at home as production and manufacturing went around the world to China. Made in the U.S.A. was replaced with Made in China. China has become a force in the Middle East since the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, and China has been buying land in the U.S., Central America, and South America.

The pandemic shed light on China being a sole source of essential needs. Medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and computer chips became challenging to source, or the Chinese purposely controlled the flow to hurt America. We know the COVID virus originated from China, as does the raw Fentanyl shipped to Mexico to be processed by the Cartels. This combined effort between China and Mexico results in 100,000 Fentanyl deaths annually in the United States.

Now an organization called BRICS is getting attention for the threat it poses to the rest of the world. BRICS is not new, as it was formed almost a decade ago. At the start, it was BRIC which stood for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Recently, the S was added to indicate the inclusion of South Africa and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia joining sounded the alarm. On Monday, Saudi Arabia and OPEC announced a cutback in production for the rest of 2023 of one million barrels per day. This announcement caused an immediate spike in crude prices, and there is no estimate of how high they will rise.

This manipulation of oil supply and price is part of the overall plan of BRICS. BRICS wants to eliminate the Dollar as the price standard of international crude to be replaced with a new BRICS currency. This decision may make the Dollar useless internationally. It is not a secret that China wants to be the sole superpower in the world and has set 2030 as a target to achieve that goal. BRICS is a significant step in China’s plan.

China is using the rest of the members in BRICS. When they finish using them as pawns in its global chess game, they will squash the other members. China will not share the power and dominance they seek.

Why is BRICS coming into play now? Because they sense the weakness of America under the leadership of Joe Biden. Whether Biden is compromised or not, he is no match on the Global Stage to Xi, Putin, and their new mates. America is the loser with Joe Biden.