Why I Share the Truth About China
Near-daily death threats arrive in my inbox, graphic, angry, and most often spelled terribly, for simply reporting measurable facts. I ignore them, because I know my mission. Yielding to intimidation would betray the intellectual honesty the USA, and the West desperately needs.
Honest recognition of a major peer’s strengths forces us to sharpen our own. It compels investment in education, infrastructure, manufacturing, and innovation rather than excuses. Lies, by contrast, hurt America. They breed complacency, distort policy, waste resources, and dull the national urgency we need to reclaim and secure our future.
When sinophobes and “experts” who know little about China in 2026, dismiss or distort China’s vast economic successes, they do not damage Beijing, they damage American workers, families, communities, and the next generation. If we allow these falsehoods to dominate discourse and decision-making, America will fall further and further behind until one day we look around and realize we are no longer part of the definition of modernity.
In 2025, China’s economy grew 5% meeting its official target and reaching roughly RMB 140 trillion. It operates the world’s largest high-speed rail network, now exceeding 50,000 kilometers, with trains running at 350 km/h between major cities and beyond. This is not abstract; it is visible proof of execution at scale. China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. Yes, work remains to be done. And! It is being done. In electric vehicles, solar manufacturing, patent filings, and scientific output in critical fields, China leads the world.
While America debates our country’s decline, China has shifted from imitation to innovation in technologies that will define the 21st century. Ignoring this does not weaken China. It weakens our capacity to respond.
I have stood in Chinese cities where former migrant workers now watch their children attend modern schools and grandparents enjoy retirement in clean public parks. I have met young professionals working late on AI and clean-energy breakthroughs. Their aspiration feels tangible.
Lies do not shield American dignity; they erode it. Children in the USA deserve better than managed decline, sold as moral superiority. I share what China is really like because truth restores American agency. We can work with China. They want to open high tech factories in our country, which would bring American jobs, but people like Tom Cotton, Laura Loomer, Gordon G Chang, and Rick Scott are preventing the US from succeeding.
They are reducing the probability that the USA succeeds in building a better shared future for our people, and for the people of the world. We, more than ever, need to be on the watch for those hurting the US and the West through lying about China. Those deceiving us about China, and slandering China, are not hurting China. They are hurting us.
Lies hurt America by inflating false confidence and postponing necessary work. Every lie about China hurts the USA. Every hateful anti-“CCP” post slows the USA from developing. Every claim that China is impoverished leads to the decline of the West. There is no need to hate China. But there is a need to understand that China’s model is worth learning from.
Truth equips us to rebuild, compete, and cooperate again. For the sake of American workers, and families, I will keep speaking. Our future depends on it. The world’s future depends on it.
(My recent trip back to the USA)👇