This old saying could answer a great deal about the criticisms being leveled at President-elect Trump by his enemies.

Have you noticed, in all of the criticisms leveled because Trump has communicated with the head of one of the world’s more powerful states, that they have completely ignored discussing China?

Yet China has been hacking our governmental and military websites for years, and are considered by many experts to be far more dangerous and aggressive than Russia.

It’s China that has built artificial islands that threaten Japan. It is China that just launched a new super carrier. It is China that crashed financial websites in the United States. It is China that has imperial ambitions in the South China Sea and around the world.

And it is China that holds countless $-billions in U.S. treasury bonds, not to speak of the world’s greatest hoard of gold. And it is China that is trying to replace our currency with theirs as the world’s means of exchange.

China’s, too, is a communist state, and its ambition is to rule the world.

Finally, Russian and China are not chums. And Putin does not intend to become China’s chump.

Perhaps his seeming willingness to cooperate with us (the U.S.) at some level, is a very good thing.

So the next time you hear a member of America’s left-wing press accusing Trump of being close to Putin, keep this in mind: The left has a long history of cooperating with every socialist nation.

Both Clinton and Obama have gone to great lengths to “share” our military technology with China.

Just maybe America’s leaders have been kowtowing to the wrong people. Just maybe President-elect Trump will be able to play these two ambitious giants off against one another.

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend?” Maybe not quite a friend. But definitely better than my enemy.

In summary, a good friend of mine wrote that we may be facing the most exciting and dangerous months of our lives. That may be true, but our hope is not in man, but in the Son of God.

©Frank Becker, 1/14/2017