Again Raz0r is right about the fact that we are looking at a major Information Warfare operation waged against us by the CCP, which is effectively allied to the Deep State, using DIE and ESG investment racket in $4.5 trillion. They are doing similar things in Africa with their Belt & Road Initiative. In addition to making the governments literal debt slaves; they are also pushing Social Justice bullshit in Africa which enables the Chinese migrant colonies to have rights and protections that the domestic populations don't have, and using the same narrative: anti-chinese racism!
This is how they got entire industries to buy into revolutionary Leftism.
Although I don't think it was intentional, something similar happened to the housing market leading up to The Great Recession. Basically, one of the reasons that so many banks were making bad loans was because Chinese investors were buying any Mortgage Backed Security that could breathe. Part of that was because a lot of Chinese investors were trying to keep their investments out of China from having to constantly give up funds to the CCP. But in so doing, all that money flooded the housing market and promoted the mal-investment that lead to worse lending practices.
Eisenhower was right, Kissinger was wrong. Hell, LeMay might even have been right. Opening up to China didn't Liberalize China. It exposed us to Communism. Communism is a vampire economy. It can't survive without parasitizing our economy. Then they use the income we give them to ideologically capture our institutions. Even now, the IMF and World Bank think that they can use Monetary Warfare to control China. They can't. China needs to be blockaded. Taiwan needs nukes. Hong Kong needs to be liberated, and then also given nukes. No country on earth should trade with them.
I don't see how we ever break free of China without also reducing manufacturing regulations in the west. There's way too much red tape just to open a single factory here. Not to mention the minimum wage laws.
China rose to prominence making shitty consumer goods for pennies on the dollar. I don't see any reason that any number of third world shithole countries couldn't replace them by doing the same thing.
We could both reduce our dependence on China and strengthen our ties to their neighbors by encouraging/providing technical assistance/subsidizing the development of manufacturing industry in places like Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc.
Hell, it may be as simple as tariffing the shit out of goods from China and providing tax breaks for importing goods from those other countries. If you disincentivize companies from doing business with China and incentivize them to produce their goods elsewhere, they will do it.
The remaining shithole countries are still in China's sphere of influence. If the US ever goes full retard like it did with Russia, China will at minimum demand tribute for safe passage, or let totally-not-state-sanctioned pirates take from cargo ships headed for the West.
Thailand and the Philippines are historic US allies, and I read that even Vietnam is starting to get tired of China's shit. One of the surest ways to piss off your neighbors is to claim control over their territorial waters.
With economic ties come military alliances. One of China's boogeymen is being ringed with adversary countries allied with the US. Let's make that happen.
Right now they bully countries like the Philippines because they know they can get away with it. I think the closest analogy to 2024 China is 1930s Germany.
They're testing the waters to see what they can get away with and we need to smack that shit down hard. Yes they have a very large military, but it's completely untested. Their last real war was with Vietnam in 1979 and they didn't do so hot. After watching Russia fumble in Ukraine they're bound to be second-guessing their readiness to take on Western powers
That's a good idea, as long as we are all on board with starting an explicit trade war against China. It's worth noting that lots of companies have moved plants to Mexico and South Africa, but found that the workers are often too lazy or dumb for even basic manufacturing tasks like assembling TVs. In one case most of the workers insisted on smoking weed on the clock.
I'd rather hire Americans but hopefully the brown Asians are manageable and still cheap.
Again Raz0r is right about the fact that we are looking at a major Information Warfare operation waged against us by the CCP, which is effectively allied to the Deep State, using DIE and ESG investment racket in $4.5 trillion. They are doing similar things in Africa with their Belt & Road Initiative. In addition to making the governments literal debt slaves; they are also pushing Social Justice bullshit in Africa which enables the Chinese migrant colonies to have rights and protections that the domestic populations don't have, and using the same narrative: anti-chinese racism!
This is how they got entire industries to buy into revolutionary Leftism.
Although I don't think it was intentional, something similar happened to the housing market leading up to The Great Recession. Basically, one of the reasons that so many banks were making bad loans was because Chinese investors were buying any Mortgage Backed Security that could breathe. Part of that was because a lot of Chinese investors were trying to keep their investments out of China from having to constantly give up funds to the CCP. But in so doing, all that money flooded the housing market and promoted the mal-investment that lead to worse lending practices.
Eisenhower was right, Kissinger was wrong. Hell, LeMay might even have been right. Opening up to China didn't Liberalize China. It exposed us to Communism. Communism is a vampire economy. It can't survive without parasitizing our economy. Then they use the income we give them to ideologically capture our institutions. Even now, the IMF and World Bank think that they can use Monetary Warfare to control China. They can't. China needs to be blockaded. Taiwan needs nukes. Hong Kong needs to be liberated, and then also given nukes. No country on earth should trade with them.
I don't see how we ever break free of China without also reducing manufacturing regulations in the west. There's way too much red tape just to open a single factory here. Not to mention the minimum wage laws.
China rose to prominence making shitty consumer goods for pennies on the dollar. I don't see any reason that any number of third world shithole countries couldn't replace them by doing the same thing.
We could both reduce our dependence on China and strengthen our ties to their neighbors by encouraging/providing technical assistance/subsidizing the development of manufacturing industry in places like Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc.
Hell, it may be as simple as tariffing the shit out of goods from China and providing tax breaks for importing goods from those other countries. If you disincentivize companies from doing business with China and incentivize them to produce their goods elsewhere, they will do it.
The remaining shithole countries are still in China's sphere of influence. If the US ever goes full retard like it did with Russia, China will at minimum demand tribute for safe passage, or let totally-not-state-sanctioned pirates take from cargo ships headed for the West.
Thailand and the Philippines are historic US allies, and I read that even Vietnam is starting to get tired of China's shit. One of the surest ways to piss off your neighbors is to claim control over their territorial waters.
With economic ties come military alliances. One of China's boogeymen is being ringed with adversary countries allied with the US. Let's make that happen.
Right now they bully countries like the Philippines because they know they can get away with it. I think the closest analogy to 2024 China is 1930s Germany.
They're testing the waters to see what they can get away with and we need to smack that shit down hard. Yes they have a very large military, but it's completely untested. Their last real war was with Vietnam in 1979 and they didn't do so hot. After watching Russia fumble in Ukraine they're bound to be second-guessing their readiness to take on Western powers
That's a good idea, as long as we are all on board with starting an explicit trade war against China. It's worth noting that lots of companies have moved plants to Mexico and South Africa, but found that the workers are often too lazy or dumb for even basic manufacturing tasks like assembling TVs. In one case most of the workers insisted on smoking weed on the clock.
I'd rather hire Americans but hopefully the brown Asians are manageable and still cheap.