Kowtowing To Communist China

I'm sure you've seen the stories of John Cena's pathetic, abject apology to communist China.  If you enjoy the Fast & Furious movie series, I strongly urge you to skip the latest installment. 

For those not familiar with Cena, this "tough guy" groveled at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party, which is committing genocide, and is most likely responsible for killing 600,000 Americans.

Mr. Cena wasn't counting dead Americans or dead Uyghurs.  He was counting the possible loss of dollars from his bank account.  His sin or "mistake" as he put it in his online apology -- in Mandarin Chinese no less -- was calling Taiwan a country. 

Now if you live in mainland China and call Taiwan a country, you're in deep trouble.  There is no free speech in communist China.  But that's not breaking news. 

What is breaking news is that there is evidently no free speech in America if you're aspiring to do business in communist China. 

But wait – wasn't trade with communist China supposed to change communist China?  Sadly, as I have repeatedly warned, it has changed us instead! 

The toughest of tough guys will grovel at the feet of communist Chinese butchers if it makes them money.  As Sen. Marco Rubio put it, "A world where China's Communist Party controls what Americans can say isn't some nightmarish future threat. It's already here."

I served as a Trump-appointee on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom with a Uyghur Muslim named Nury Turkel.  He's not a guy with bulging muscles. 

But when he got a very clear message from Beijing that his family in China will suffer if he continues speaking out against the communist government, Nury did not hesitate for a second to continue speaking the truth.  If I'm in a fight in a dark alley and have the choice of Mr. Turkel or Mr. Cena to be at my side, I'll pick Nury every time.