Dear Editor,
Time magazine’s special edition “Amexica” from a few weeks ago, is another example of the American-psyche, bathed in ignorance with respect to foreign alliances.
It is doubtful whether the former Soviet Union would have fallen if it enjoyed as much trade interaction with the United States as China has. Lenin’s blunder of discouraging U.S. investment through his New Economic Plan isn’t a mistake China will make.
Although South Americans would be more truthful partners, we prefer to help a Chinese communist government stay afloat, than to establish exchange with South American countries like Mexico.
As Motorola and Boeing, for instance, continue exporting thousands of American jobs to China, it is irresponsible messages like that of Time’s cover that help obscure other countries. We help a likely enemy while its nation becomes more powerful.
Instead of helping a southern neighbor hold more of its migrating workers at home, we walk on eggshells for China. Perhaps President Fox should initiate a nuclear weapons program before itself and others stop being minded so meagerly.
We engage in Canadian trade and have previously bent over backwards through the Marshall plan for Europeans. Yet we dread any potential diminishing opportunity at subsidizing Beijing.
And we do this regardless of the lessons dealt to us by the Soviet communists, as American greed moves blindly with over-estimated influence.
And typically, our southward window dress – NAFTA – takes all the blame domestically. But if Americans are to lose some jobs because corporate stock holders’ profits remain enslaved in cheap labor, we all should cease detesting Hispanics long enough to keep those low wage workers at home, through increased partnerships with their non-communist systems.
Joe Zavala
Provo, Utah
