China and the NBA | DR P ANDREW SANDLIN OCPAC Weekly Insights Monday Edition October 14, 2019 This Wednesday's OCPAC Meeting October 16, 2019 Noon to 1 PM In Person and... Live on Blue Moose TV & Facebook Dr. P. Andrew Sandlin Founder & President of Center for Cultural Leadership Christianity Must be Public or Nothing The Church must stand for Biblical principles in a very public and visible way. It must understand it is God's agenda on earth for His people to guard and protect societies and families from evil and all its inherent ravages. Join us THIS WEDNESDAY! NOON to 1 PM Olivet Baptist Church 1201 NW 10th, OKC (10th and Western) Lunch Available: See Below! $2 donation to church if not eating Today's Content China, Moral Clarity, and and the Corporate Balance Sheet by Bob Linn Last Week at OCPAC Steve Byas History Department, Randall University Conservative Index Ed Shadid represented by Attorney Jay W. Barnett Steve Anderson Political Minute: China Pro 2nd Amendment Action Movie One Theater showing only! Kevin Sorbo | Brian Bosworth | Mollee Gray Thursday, Oct 24 Alan Keyes at CHA Abortion Forum Governor Kevin Stitt Taking Care of Oklahoma Business  OCPAC ~ CITY ELDERS BOOK SIGNING WEDNESDAY: Prudent Juricsprudence Bill Graves Book Recommendations China, Moral Clarity, and the Corporate Balance Sheet by Bob Linn With the NBA making such a stir internationally, I thought it would be appropriate to note that the league owes its existence to the Presbyterian church. James Naismith, who invented the game, was a Presbyterian minister (he graduated from The Presbyterian College in Montreal.) The basketball world feels no allegiance to the Christian message of its founder, however. When the State Legislature of North Carolina passed HB2 (2016) preventing men from entering women’s restrooms, the NBA immediately cancelled their plans to host their 2017 all-star game in Charlotte. You see, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver had a keen sense of moral clarity when it came to the evils of banning men from entering women’s restrooms. Now, three years later, the keen sense of moral clarity has dimmed. Not just for Adam Silver, but league-wide. Its owners, players, and coaches are all sort of confused by very complicated moral issues which are not nearly so clear as is the moral depravity inherent in preventing North Carolina's men from entering a women’s restroom. There is league-wide confusion regarding China’s policy of harvesting organs from its political enemies, forced abortions, and persecution of Christians (you know, people like James Naismith.) The entire NBA is unable to understand these complicated issues. "The world is a complex place and there's more gray than black and white," Golden State Warrior coach, Steve Kerr, said in response. Of course, the real issue is a market with more viewers than America has people. And, with it, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues. The actual moral foundations of the NBA are not so much found in the pages of the Word of God. NBA corporate morality is grounded more in the pages one finds in places like Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and other top accounting firms. So much for any potential value in the stylish phrase, Corporate Social Responsibility! Moral clarity seemed to return to the NBA last Tuesday in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is the home of the NBA’s ‘76ers, a team named in honor of the 1776 Christian-led fight for freedom from political tyranny. I imagine all our readers also know that the Liberty Bell hangs in that city. Two Philadelphia 76ers fans were kicked out of the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday for supporting the human rights protests in Hong Kong that have pitted the NBA and China against each other over the expression of free speech. The next day, in our nations Capitol, several people at a Washington Wizards game carried signs supporting Hong Kong freedom fighters. Those signs were confiscated. Twenty-nine-year-old Patrick Hedger stated, “I knew I had to say something and take a stand.” James Palmer is senior editor for Foreign Policy. He states, “The NBA isn’t just following Chinese law in China; it’s imposing the Chinese Communist Party’s rules internationally. The NBA backs its players speaking up about American police abuse—but goes into panic mode if its staff back protesting the Hong Kong police.” Dr. P. Andrew Sandlin will speak to OCPAC this Wednesday on the responsibility of Christians to live a very public faith. A Christianity that looks like the Christianity of our Puritan forefathers. A Christianity that extends to every nook and cranny of our cultural milieu. Making public the historic foundations laid by our Creator. Making public the fleeting nature of all others. REMEMBER: Judge Bill Graves will join us this Wednesday to sign his book, Prudent Justice. OCPAC will have a supply on hand. See notes below. Last Week Steve Byas Randall University History Professor Oklahoma Conservative Index Steve Byas talked about the method he and Ron McWhirter have employed for the past forty years to monitor the caliber of political thought coming from each legislator in Oklahoma. See the video here. Also Featured Last Week Jay W. Barnett Attorney for Ed Shadid Ed Shadid is recovering from a recent surgery and asked his attorney, Jay W. Barnett, to speak at OCPAC in his place. Jay did an outstanding job explaining the "logrolling" case against the OKC City Council and MAPS 4. He impressed us all as a clear-thinking attorney with conservative values. You may reach him at his office here. POLITICAL MINUTE Steve Anderson CHINA: Its About More Than Basketball How China bullies both its citizens and the International Community Anyone who has followed China’s economy and politics knows the realities that impact China's identity as a nation and influence their methods of doing business with the international community. China's lust for world power determines their trade practices. The Chinese have made progress toward their goal of world dominance by theft of intellectual property. In exchange for access to their markets, the Chinese have required technology companies to become a "technology partner". The practice is referred to as forced technology transfers (FTT). It is increasingly clear that the Chinese now realize this practice has been exposed. And, more importantly, it is being opposed by the majority of the world’s developed nations. Last year, nineteen percent of 585 participants in the European Union’s Chamber of Commerce in China said they felt compelled to transfer technology in order to maintain market access. I have been told that China now believes they have positioned themselves to compete without full blown, open piracy of other’s discoveries. No doubt, they will continue their piracy, somewhat covertly, as long as they can. However, in time, they will probably begin to comply to intellectual property (IP) rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Hopefully, they will end the joint ownership requirement for access to their markets. The latter is supposedly one of the ‘loose ends’ in Part 1 of the trade deal. A second, glaring issue regarding China is the ability of less than 100 million members of the Communist party to control 1.4 billion citizens. The Chinese Communist Party impacts China’s entire population and its industries. China’s agricultural sector has always had cycles of disaster. Some may remember the infant formula deaths caused by contaminated dry milk powder among other food safeties issues. Swine flu has had more than one cycle in decimating China’s pork numbers. The current one wiped out at least a third of their hogs. Given the Chinese propensity to be less than truthful, it may be worse than even they admit. Controlling it is almost impossible because of the vastness of China and the abject poverty of much of the rural country side. Rural residents often live among their chickens and hogs and lack the rigid control of the spread of disease that American producers have developed through aggressive vaccination programs and isolation of brood stock from exposure to those diseases. WILD CARD: HONG KONG The wild card in all the above is Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, there is an open view to the world. That filters back, to some degree, to the Mainland. China would love to end Hong Kong’s semi-independence before it begins to influence a generation of young Chinese Mainlanders. The largest block of any age group in China by far is the 20 to 24 age range. These are in general far more knowledgeable about the world than their elders were at that age. They know about the standard of living which exists in the rest of the developed world. Their consumption patterns have driven a debt crisis because of their low average wage scales. Recent failures of consumer banking institutions bear this out. Without upward mobility, the likelihood of dissension of some scale increases. The push for facial recognition and social scoring is an attempt to control that segment of the population in advance of any uprising. WILD CARD: DEMOCRATIC PARTY The wild card playing against the U.S. is the left wing of the Democrat party. The Democrats would gladly cede the world to China in exchange for power in the US.  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