The Political Science Interpretivist

The Honorable Mike Gallagher, WI Chair   Dear Mr. Chairman: You and the Select Committee are misinformed about the Nature and Intentions of the Chinese Communist Party. They are not our Enemy. They are not an Evil Force. Indeed, according to The World Bank, in the last 30-40 years under the governance of the CCP “more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty.” ( https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#1 ) That is the greatest Humanitarian Achievement since the invention of vaccines. The number of people helped exceeds that of the Berlin Airlift and the Marshall Plan combined. (Re-Interpreting the Meaning of China for the USA https://interpretat.blogspot.com/2022/02/re-interpreting-meaning-of-china-for-usa.html ) Something that you, the Committee, and the American people don’t hear from the US media is that the Chinese people appreciate what the CCP has done for them. Several different pre-COVID social science studies show this appreciation. ...