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Let's remember who MoveOn.org is. Look at this archived screenshot of the Communist Party's website. Notice the blue text on the blue background in the left border at the bottom.
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Let's remember who MoveOn.org is. Look at this archived screenshot of the Communist Party's website. Notice the blue text on the blue background in the left border at the bottom.
Thanks for posting the article. bmflr.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
War is not far from us and will be the midwife of the Chinese century.
1980’s Communism Evil Empire
2000’s Communism Good for Business
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>>>Help was on the way. In July 1971, President Nixon’s National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Kissinger’s assistant Winston Lord (later to be U.S. Ambassador to China and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, or CFR) made their now-famous secret trip to China to visit Mao and Zhou. That set up the much more famous Nixon-Kissinger trip to China in 1972, and the equally important trip a few months later of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and the CFR. Returning from his Beijing visit with Mao and Zhou, Rockefeller declared, “The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.” Mass murderer Mao’s “social experiment” had by that time taken the lives of up to 64 million Chinese.<<<
China is still run by the Party, and there is nothing to stop it from unleashing some other cause or ideology on the country that will cause a similar amount of human suffering, destruction of wealth, and economic disruption.
That, IMO is the latent threat to China’s future prosperity.
A political party is by its very nature a political animal, not an economic one. Money is only a means to a political end, which for Communists is power. China today holds some $800 billion in US financial assets due to the trade balance. What is not often observed is that the Chinese Government is skimming a few percent off all international trade, for the difference in purchasing power parity between the internal currency and the external one is skimmed when the money is exchanged at the window by those engaged in buying Chinese exports.
It is almost interesting why this topic is not of interest to the popular media, nor why the government is sitting on such a large amount of US-denominated instruments. I take it as further proof of what I wrote above: if the Chinese government was interested in improving the lot of the average Chinese citizen it would find ways to spend that mountain of US money on things that would benefit its own citizens. Instead it just collects the interest and lets the debt pile up. To what end? I don’t know, and they aren’t saying.
Oh, my, check this out:
U.S. Navy to emphasize soft power
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/121720
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) — The U.S. Navy announced its first major strategic shift in more than 20 years, refocusing the fleet’s role on humanitarian aid and other forms of soft power.
The Navy, along with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Coast Guard, unveiled the new strategy to embrace a broader shift at the Pentagon to bridge the “generational conflict” in its efforts to thwart extremists, the Christian Science Monitor reported Thursday.
The move focuses on building international partnerships based on convergent interests. Congressional leaders objected, saying the new plan discounts emerging military threats posed by China and other nations.
Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said, “The Chinese government has the ability to quickly outstrip” the Navy fleet if measures don’t focus on military capacity.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in speech at Kansas State University in November the use of military operations other than war focuses on the fundamental issues regarding national security.
The hospital ship USNS Comfort toured South America recently on a humanitarian mission to 12 ports aiding nearly 100,000 people. Naval vessels also thwarted a pirate attack against North Korea ships off the coast of Somalia.
Good find!
1) The influx of wealth and information destabilizes any dictatorship. These wealthy billionaires, even if children of party members, know how good it is around the world. There will be rebellion from them and from the rising middle class Chinese. Think of the USSR after glasnost—openness of society destabilizes Communism.
2) The low Chinese birth rate (they are no longer reproducing at a replacement level) and the imbalance of men to women (40 million, if I remember correctly) leads to a driving force of millions of Chinese men seeking women outside the country. This will be another influx of new ideas to China.
3) Most seriously of all, the rising tide of Christianity in China. Perhaps a hundred million or more Chinese fervently follow Christianity in house Churches outside control of government. Since this is illegal, these are all sincere, devout, effective Christians—hence its incessant spread. Christianity outlasted the Roman empire and the Soviet empire. We’ll see the Chinese communist empire crash this century as well, perhaps within twenty years.
These trends are regardless of our trade policies with China and unstoppable, as far as I can see.
There is only one candidate who knows and says anything about the terrible threat posed by China....his name is Duncan Hunter.
There is only one candidate who knows and says anything about the terrible threat posed by China....his name is Duncan Hunter.
That is all....
FMCDH(BITS)
“Here’s how important I think China will be: My daughter, who was born in 2003, is learning Chinese. Her Chinese nanny speaks only Mandarin to her, and I suspect that she might learn Chinese before she learns English. In her lifetime, Chinese will be the most important language in the world, next to English. If you are young and ambitious, learn Chinese. If you have ambitions for your children, persuade them to learn Chinese.”
Given the social level, wealth, and access his daughter will have just by virtue of being his daughter, this is quite smart actually, from a purely pragmatic viewpoint.
LOL, I was using my Mandarin flashcards just before getting back to FR!
Which means that it will all be a wasted effort. Along with their amazingly poor construction and financial standards, adherence to failed economic policy will simply mean that China will hinder its progress even more than we let liberals to hinder ours. This seems to be pretty good news for those who do not an ascendant China.
these transfers, together with the U.S. regulatory and tax policies imposed on the American economy, are enabling China to drive us into the ground economically, and even ... to grab up our assets in a big way.
The same was said about the Japanese in the 80's, when they seemed to be buying all of California.
China is capitalist. It was before the “Miracle.” So was Stalinist Russia. Mercantilism is capitalism, too. Capitalism is the use of saved surplus of production over subsistence to improve or creat new production. That can be done via freemarkets or it can be done through directed command methods. The free market is the only efficient method of capitalism and other methods “succeed,” that is avoid famine insofar as they do manage to avoid famine, by trying to read and copy valuation from functioning free (or at least free-er) market systems. But it is all capitalism.
With the dangerous products pouring out of China I do not buy into this bull. Moms want safe food for their families and their pets — and SAFE toys without lead for their children. WE the little people DO NOT trust them!
Great thread bump.