We can all learn from the Korean Peninsula

The Washington Times | Rep. Mike Gallagher

To the north of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula lies a cautionary tale of what a “no-limits” partnership with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) looks like in practice. Total isolation. Rampant poverty. Horrific human rights abuses.

A no-limits partnership with the CCP means there are no limits to how much they can exploit you. As journalist Barbara Demick’s interview with a defector summed it up: “Dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.” To say that North Korea has been rendered a hermetic tributary state to the Middle Kingdom is an insult to other historical hermetic tributary states.

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