A moment will come—perhaps sooner than later—when the American Left will need to make a choice between advertising the virtues of American government and our way of life or enabling China in their design to take a position as the preeminent global economic power.

President Trump has shown great leadership during this manufactured crisis. Let’s hope he continues to ponder his observation that we do not want to get ourselves into a situation in which the cure is worse than the disease.

At some point, Beijing needs to be held financially accountable for the worldwide havoc, misery, and death caused by the Chinese virus.

The Chinese Communist Party’s threats include potential disruption to global supply chains, financial markets, and deadly pandemics. But the “soft power” spread by Confucius Institutes on college and university campuses is another type of virus we must immediately quarantine from American culture.

It’s time for Beijing to come clean.

America’s small businesses, our machinists, die-casters, plastic injection molders, electronics parts suppliers, and others are eager to get to work providing the medical equipment the nation needs but the companies that hold the patents and process patents for this equipment need to open up and ask for bids.

It’s time for a conscious uncoupling from China before this miscreant mess of a rogue state destroys the economy and kills us all.

Clearly, the Trump Administration is committed to positioning itself to attack Iran. It looks to be a matter of “when” and not “if.” 

There must be a new way forward that frees the United States from dependency on a country that seeks to harm us. We should seize the moment before it’s too late.

Choosing to invest in China versus the United States is not a simple dollars and cents bottom-line calculation.