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Why Hillary Clinton is a bigger concern for China than Donald Trump
South China Morning Post ^ | 15 October 2016 | Pepe Escobar

Posted on 10/21/2016 12:43:27 PM PDT by Lorianne

So you think Donald Trump is the biggest threat to world peace? And Barack Obama engineered America’s “pivot to Asia”?

It was actually Hillary Clinton, emphasising the necessity of a “strategic turn” for the United States, who launched the pivot to Asia in an October 2011 article titled “America’s Pacific Century”. The tone was martial: “Our military is by far the strongest and our economy is by far the largest.” The South China Sea duly featured: “Half the world’s merchant tonnage flows through this water”. Informed observers didn’t need a manual to spot Clinton’s subtle cue alerting them to the danger of China’s “nine-dashed line”.

SNIP


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1 posted on 10/21/2016 12:43:27 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

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2 posted on 10/21/2016 12:51:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Lorianne

Don’t kid yourself. If Hillary is elected she will let all the trade deals continue, TPP, NAFTA, etc. which in their application open our borders to the worlds mass of cheap labor and our loss of sovereignty. Just what the Big Business and Wall Streeters want to further maximize their profits and the Democrats need to maximize their voter base.


3 posted on 10/21/2016 1:11:29 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

China knows where Trump is coming from.


4 posted on 10/21/2016 1:12:39 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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