Opinion/ Editorial

Western Expansion, is it really Good?

by Steven C., Cheif writer

 

 

Recently China has obtained land to the west surrounding the Silk Road in order to protect it. People are now thinking that it is a good thing and it is now safer to travel on. Yet people are not aware that this western expansion is going to make our lives worse. The western expansion is a huge amount of land conquered by China, and people do not ralize that our taxes will go up because the military will need to put there to protect it. People do not realize how unsafe this new land actually is. Right now our taxes are bad as it is, and now we will have to pay more in order to pay for the new soldiers that will protect this new land. "I am shocked that many people have not really thought about how this will affect our taxes!" (Sima Qian, famous historian). Mr. Qian is someone who is normaly not questioned, and not one to argue with, because he is almost always right and he says, based on historical records, that taxes will most certainly go up substantially. This is proof that our taxes will go up in months to come.

 

Another intriguing fact is people do not know how unsafe this new land actually is. It was conquered only a couple of months ago and most of the land still has to be taken by Chinese settlers. This allows our enemies and other foreign peoples to claim the land before us because it is so far away. If an enemy military takes the new land then China will be in big trouble. "We do have the military to protect this new land, however it will take months before we can march west and truly defend it," (General Tianjxiao Jo). General Tianjxiao Jo's statement even confirms that the west is unsafe. Even though this is supposed to help out China and increase trade, it will not help if those people trading can't be protected in western China. It is unbelievable how oblivious people are to the fact that the new land to the west will actually make our lives worse.