DUMB STUFF—WESTERN TRADE WITH CHINA CREATED A MONSTER

GREED OF CAPITALIST WEST CREATED A  GLOBAL  MONSTER OF  CHINA

BUSINESS INTERESTS STIFLE TRUTH OF CHINESE THREATS AND MISDEEDS

The West is silent on the misdeeds of China. It is the sacred cow with 1.3 billion potential customers. US hawks -dependnet on the lobby dollar must  ignore China’s threat—so they turn their ire on  Russia (they need an enemy —any one will do).  We have no real business interests with Putin so pillorying him is just fine.  .  The entire Russia-gate scandal of the first two years of Trump’s term can be explained by that simple observation.  Trump began his tenure with an attack on China...The powers that be did not like that move. 

History will look back on the last two or three decades as an example of the dumbest political moves of all time.  Western Democracies—with the USA as their leader—undermined their own economies to shift wealth and jobs to China, permitting it to grow into an economic and military behemoth in only a few decades.

When, as a child, my family and I sat down at dinner in our humble working class home, my father often urged us to clean up our plates with the admonition  that “people were starving in China!”
It was the truth. The newsreels of those days pictured the small, skinny Chinese flooding the streets with millions of bicycles, and we learned they survived on a bowl of rice and a few steamed vegetables.

Today, four decades later, they are a rich technologically advanced country, boasting the second largest economy in the world, modern infrastructure, a huge military.  Today they burn up enough coal and oil with their industries and automobiles to pollute our atmosphere at the same levels as the rest of the world's industrial giants

Yes the geniuses in Washington DC and Europe set the stage for the greatest transfer of jobs, wealth and industrial technology in all of world history from west to east.   These greed-blinded dummies took  our best jobs and national wealth from our citizens and our nation’s heartland and handed them over to China.  Our greedy business leaders  and complicit incompetent, unprincipled, corrupt politicians lined their own pockets as they hollowed out our middle class you  giving away our industrial base.  Not all of the west was as dumb as America at this—the Germans (always concerned about how to make a buck) protected much of their manufacturing and continue to do that today.  Oh if we were as smart.

So here we are today faced with an economic and military monster we created ourselves. It fell to President Trump, the first of our leaders—-Democrat or Republican—(both are complicit in this stupidity) to underscore the danger and economic peril of our relationship with China.  It was not a popular move since all the big business interested and the pols who were bought and sold by these groups were making money in China.  President Trump made the trade revenue imbalance between the USA and china —a half a trillion dollars annually (and growing) a key part of his election campaign.   Trump was also the only leader to expressly and constantly expose the fact that the Chinese manipulate the yuan (to keep our exports expensive to them and their exports to us cheap). He underscored the fact they dump goods and products on our markets at prices below production costs so as to undermine and destroy competitors.  He continues to remind voters that China steals our technology, that they force our companies ( hog tied  by greed) to hand over proprietary information or establish manufacturing plants in China before they can sell product there.

In foreign affairs they have invested widely in Africa and Asia focusing on utilities, mining, port construction and telecommunications.  The goals are often to secure raw materials and fuels, and to use excess construction assets that china has to keep its workers employed.  However too often  the repayment schedules are such that these undeveloped countries often can not meet their debt  resulting in confiscation of assets by the Chinese lending entity and control of major components of a naitons economy by a Chinese corporation.   And now with their massive military buildup, they have begun  to flex their muscles overseas, claiming control over vast sea lanes in the South China Sea,  building fortress islands, threatening foreign shipping in those areas.

Most recently Beijing has shown signs of reneging on the 1997 agreement they made with the British when they left Hong Kong.  In the last ten weeks the recent mass protests over the “extradition law” proposed by Beijing , Carrie lam the titular “governor ‘ of  Hong Kong has shown herself to be only a puppet of Beijing—being unable to withdraw the law.  The protests continue. . In this latter example we can clearly see what the Chinese stand for...its not freedom of expression.

 The overlords in Beijing pull the strings in Hong Kong and will not give an inch to the protestors who are only asking to keep the modicum of freedoms they had—-!  The Chinese leadership has reveled itself as a force of regression into tyranny.

But the West is very silent over these developments as well as the history of Chinese misdeeds and aggression.

Why?

Greed!  Those 1.3 billion potential consumers keep much of the pro-business American media quiet, keep many of our allies mum, especially the Germans (pro immigrant and progressive Mrs. Merkel has said not one word about the plight of the protestors in Hong Kong).  The same motives of greed keep our tech giants all with big stakes in China like Google and Amazon and Apple silent on the plight of the Hong Kong freedom protests .

Many of our US companies are shaking in their boots about the reasonable and sensible push back President Trump has made agaisnt Chinas trade policies.  He is the first one who has put the benefits of our nation as a whole over the profit motive of the giant inter nations companies—-who too often use lucre to control the political agenda.

Over this same period of silence on China—due to the economic and monetary benefits to our huge companies—there has been a concomitant and vicious turn of opinion against Russia ...Well the USA needs enemies...just to give credence to its huge military expenditures—so if China is ignored.  Poor Russsi can be pilloried.  We have a piddling few billion dollars trade with Russia.  No threat to our business giants,

Got the picture?