Written by Walter Hecht   

Repression: the denial of the rights of the majority by an elite or small minority, usually involving the use of force. During the Cold War, the US supported repressive regimes around the world and justified that support as helping to contain the USSR. After the USSR dissolved, the US continued to support repressive regimes to promote stability in the world, and access to oil in the Middle east.

9-11 and Osama bin Laden were the spark that set off a chain of events that led to the current unrest in the Middle East. George W. bush did not cause the unrest, but it was his poor decision to invade Iraq that caused the unrest to happen NOW. Repression will eventually lead to a reaction. It always does. George W. Bush just released the reaction that was caused by decades or centuries of repression.

Currently, the majority of the US population are repressed by our government and large corporations acting on behalf of the 1%. Just as the US has supported repressive regimes abroad, so too does the government of China support repression in the US. They do that through financing the US deficit, and after Citizens United, they probably are funneling dark money into US elections, despite laws against foreign contributions in US elections.

Why does China support repression in the US? Because China itself represses its own people and China benefits from oppression in the US through the US jobs we export to China and the goods we buy there. A repressed population in the US is too busy with our own concerns to forcefully confront China about their repression. Repression always leads to reaction. I cannot predict when or in what form it will take place, but it will happen both in the US and in China.