Gunga Din

“By the livin' Gawd that made you,  
    You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”

That is the last line of a poem was written by Rudyard Kipling about Gunga Din, a Hindu, who carried water for the British Army on the battlefield in India. Fast forward to this day and age where we are witnessing a lot of leaders and pundits carrying water for the Chinese Communist government. These folks are not modern Gunga Dins.

Start with the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, whose obfuscation of the facts and his failure to press the Chinese about the Coronavirus outbreak is truly criminal. Widely reported as a tool of the PRC (People’s Republic of China), his malfeasance has created economic chaos on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. His lack of honesty and candor is justification for withdrawal of 500 million dollars in annual funding by the United States. China contributes around 40 million. The WHO has done us no favors and won’t as long as Tedros is “kowtowing” to the ChiComs. Where’s the investigation into the lies and cover-up of the virus outbreak, that the WHO fed the planet?

Then there are those in government and media who are reluctant to call out the ChiComs for unfathomable reasons. They’d rather blame the President as the reason for the current state of affairs rather than irritate the most oppressive regime in modern history.  Some actually believe that only 3,395 lives were lost in Wuhan, China to the pandemic while the New York death toll is over 12,000. These are the same folks to whom you could sell the Brooklyn Bridge.

There is no way on earth that in a country with 1.5 billion citizens the reported losses are believable. Yet day after day, the absence of honest assessment, is the norm. The Chinese have reported the deaths in Wuhan, with no major outbreaks in any other major metropolitan center. Why are the elites afraid to confront this “fact”?  

It’s high time that folks realize that because China makes iPhones, they are not our pals. That’s not the only product we get from them.  The realization that over 80+% of this country’s vital prescription medicines are made in China should give everyone pause.  The last aspirin factory in this USA closed in 2004. The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that critical protective gear and circuit boards for ventilator production are held up in China due to new “export regulations”. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Literally. This country can’t be held medically hostage by a government that runs concentration camps for Muslims and other oppressed ethic groups.

Globalists are desperately trying to hold their ground against a rising tide of American and European tide of self-reliance. It’s no economic secret that when a country pays slave labor like wages to manufacture everything from spatulas to tractors, that similar industries in other countries will suffer.  The economic blackmail currently practiced can only be stemmed so much, by tariffs. The nobility of one world economically intertwined, engaged in fair and honest trade, given that some nations are run by despots, is the pinnacle of naïveté.

When you see or read pundits and politicians, figuratively sing “kumbaya” about the need for understanding and cooperation with China, look for the bucket of water they’re haulin’.

Time for the United States to carry its own water and be the “better man” before the economic well runs dry.