Our Decision 

     Our first job, long ago, as sports editor for our hometown newspaper, we chose to write a column only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 

     It was a six-day paper, and six columns a week seemed unnecessary. Good decision. 

     While we continue to be occupied with family matters this week, we came up with a "brilliant" idea. Write Views by the Sea three days a week. 

     You guessed it. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, starting Monday January 6. Think we're just getting lazy? Never! January 6 is the day windows and doors people start tearing our windows and doors apart. 

     Three blogs a week should be enough to share the best information we can find. And we'll work hard at making each blog worth your time.

     If something rises up in the meantime, we'll share it. Otherwise, please join us on Monday the 6th. 

          Jimmy 

     

 Friends, we are occupied with Christmas visitors, birthday visitors, the passing of my sister in law - who was a close neighbor and friend - and all that goes with life. Will try to get back to Views by the Sea maybe by Monday.

     Jimmy

     Christmas is over. The gifts. The dinners. The family. Is that it?

     Many people on Wednesday celebrated the turning point of all history. A child was born. Not just any child. The very Son of God, Jesus Christ. 

     We know him as the Prince of Peace and other names. He made a way for us to be free of our sin and experience his presence. 

     Life's struggles can and do take our focus off our Lord and Savior who brought peace to a dark, chaotic world. Yes, peace on earth. It's available to those who trust. 

     Jesus grew up, made himself known to those who believed, and allowed himself nailed to a cruel cross to suffer the penalty for you and I. Then he arose to life, the Savior available for all. 

     Are we anxious? Concerned about life? He invites us to lay our concerns at his feet. How he will answer...only he knows. Our privilege is to talk to him, our Creator. 

     Family, friends, teachers, advisors, politicians. Okay.

     But there is no better friend than Jesus. That's it! 

     And Who...

BUT THE

   ANGEL 

     SAID TO THEM,

     "Do not be afraid... 

  I bring you

 GOOD NEWS

OF GREAT JOY THAT WILL BE FOR

all the people.

Today in the town of David

A SAVIOR 

 HAS BEEN BORN TO YOU; HE IS

*      *      *      *

Christ the Lord.

Point of No Return?     

   Part 3  With Gordon Chang

     "China was about to join the World Trade Organization, and I thought that foreign companies and countries would enforce their trade rights. That didn't happen. What did happen was the 2008 downturn, which gave China's regime a new lease on life. They stimulated their economy, created growth, and also created enormous amounts of debt. I think its debt problem is so big the Chinese can't resolve it without a crash."  

     Sound familiar? 

     China is financially insecure, yet plans some kind of attack on the U.S. "That balloon last winter passed over nuclear weapons sites. It flew near two Air Force bases where we have our land based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Minuteman III missiles." 

     "So, clearly they were surveilling the U.S. for nuclear weapons strikes. Also, the composition of Chinese migrants at our southern border has changed, going from family groups to primarily single males of military age traveling in packs of five to 15. This coincides with Chinese males trying to intrude into our military bases." 

Another Pearl Harbor? or 9-11? 

     "I think we're transitioning from a period of general calm to one of constant turbulence and we're going to have to protect our families and our communities. This world is going to be dark unless we Christians and we people of faith and we people of morality stand up and defend what is right and what is good." 

Views: Join us in prayer for our country and for its incoming leaders, regardless of politics. What China achieved during the Biden Administration must not continue. Donald Trump and the leaders he has chosen may or may not Make America Great Again, but they will make us safer and better off. God will do what He chooses to do.

          Jimmy

 

Why is China Threatened?      

    Part 2 

     Different hemispheres. Gordan Chang: "An insecure regime in Beijing is worried about the inspirational impact of our values and form of governance on the Chinese people. The Party believes it will never be secure as long as the U.S. exists."

     "I think Xi Jinping knows that he will not invade the main island of Taiwan. He doesn't trust his generals and admirals. He knows that the people do not want war, and they especially do not want war with Taiwan." (Taiwan is the home of Chinese people who fled the communists who overtook China after World War II.  

     "The only thing (Xi) can try is maybe a trade quarantine or a full blockade, and hope that the rest of the world doesn't challenge him." 

     China is much like the Soviet Union in a new cold war. What lessons can the U.S. apply? "Well, we brought down the Soviet Union through economic means, and we should do the same thing with China. It cannot afford to attack us without our own money and technology. We need to cut that off. Allowing trade and investment to continue is not just a strategic failure, it's a moral failure." 

     "Our country would be disadvantaged, but we cannot think that after five decades of misguided China policy we will get out of this without cost. (Those who value only their bank accounts) are not taking into account the lives of other Americans. China through predatory and criminal practices is taking our technology."

     "China's intellectual property theft is half a trillion dollars a year. We should not be financing a militant regime which is determined to destroy our country."

  Part 3 - Dark world, unless...

Eyes on China 

Part 1 - Gordon Chang, interviewed by Harrison Watters.

     "When my wife and I arrived (in China, 1996) my wife and I were optimistic like everybody, because it was a very good time in China's history. My wife on the phone said, 'Mom, China is not communist anymore.' And I agreed with her.

     "But as we lived there, worked there, traveled around the country, talked to people, we could see that the old system was still in place. After we left, Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Communist Party. He started moving China back to a state-dominated system. This is a China that is dangerous.  

     "Xi Jinping has been trying to impose China's Imperial system, where Chinese emperors believed they had the mandate of heaven to rule what they call 'all under heaven.' And since 2017 Chinese officials have been talking about the moon and Mars as sovereign Chinese territory. You either have competing sovereign states or you have worldwide Chinese rule. You can't have both. 

Undermining the U.S.

     "Each year, 70,000 to 75,000 Americans die from illicit Chinese fentanyl. This is run at the top of the Communist Party. Some fentanyl producers are state owned. Every container that leaves China is inspected by Chinese officials. The gangs run their proceeds through the Chinese state banking system. Xi Jinping promised Obama, Trump and Biden to reduce the flow of fentanyl. He violated all those promises, because this is an integral part of his plan to weaken the U.S."  

Tomorrow: Like the Soviet Union in a new cold war

The Beijing Threat 

     Some background on China which we will blog Thursday and Friday. 

     Thanks to Gordon Chang, an American journalist and political commentator, who practiced business law with American firms in China for two decades, we have information we haven't seen on TV. 

     Chang has written books warning of China's economic troubles and its aggression. Think of China's threat to little Taiwan? No. China threatens us, within our homeland. Xi Jinping wants China to be the most dominant nation. He already has that...except for America. 

      Chinese emperors believe they have a "mandate of heaven" 

to rule "all under heaven," including the moon and Mars

 as sovereign Chinese territory. 

     Views says any mandate like that must come from another realm - yes. If not our God, who? His name is Satan. 

     Chang wrote another book, Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America. We haven't read the book, but Harrison Watters interviewed him. We'll share what you might want to know. 

PS. We remember groups of young Chinese men, all dressed alike, filing into our country along with other illegal immigrants. Where are they and what are they doing? Thank you, Joe Biden, and all his think alikes. And who is flying some of these drones?