Posted on 02/14/2020 3:43:18 AM PST by cba123
Neither the European public nor European political and business leaders fully understand the threat presented by Xi Jinping’s China. Although Xi is a dictator who is using cutting-edge technology in an effort to impose total control on Chinese society, Europeans regard China primarily as an important business partner. They fail to appreciate that since Xi became president and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), he has established a regime whose guiding principles are diametrically opposed to the values on which the European Union was founded.
The rush to embrace Xi is greater in Britain, which is in the process of separating itself from the EU, than in the EU itself. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to distance the United Kingdom from the EU as much as possible and to build a free-market economy that is unconstrained by EU regulations. He is unlikely to succeed, because the EU is prepared to take countermeasures against the type of deregulation that Johnson’s government seems to have in mind. But in the meantime, Britain is eyeing China as a potential partner, in the hope of reestablishing the partnership that former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was building between 2010 and 2016.
The Trump administration, as distinct from US President Donald Trump personally, has done much better in managing its ties with China. It developed a bipartisan policy that declared China to be a strategic rival and put tech giant Huawei and several other Chinese companies on the so-called Entity List, which forbids US companies to trade with them without government permission.
(Please see full text at georgesoros.com)
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If Soros told me that the sun sets in the west I’d be looking east.
Oh I agree, that is why it is remarkable, how completely I agree with this article.
Profoundly.
Consider that Soros manipulates a lot of small countries by leveraging their weak economies. He also attempts to manipulate larger countries and conglomerations (like the EU) by financing political movements within those countries. Ask yourself how well either of those techniques might work against Communist China. Answer: not at all.
Soros is taking a (Brexit-ing) swipe at Boris Johnson, who has a problem of filling an economic hole in Britain’s economic boat. It’s understandable that Johnson would be cozying up to both the US & China as they lead trade blocks powerful enough to help offset the loss of the local trading block (EU).
Incidentally, Johnson has to be worried about the kind of currency-manipulation that Soros specializes in.
I imagine BoJo remembers what soros did to the pound in the early 90s and hope he’s looking for payback
Britain, in my view, is making a huge mistake throwing in with China.
Very bad move, Britain.
In my opinion.
BTW, I feel the same way about America, for the last 30 years.
FINALLY, we seem to be improving now.
Maybe.
Not defending Johnson here, but there are only a couple of options open to him. He appears to be taking both. The mathematics of Brexit is dictating all this. Solve one problem, create another. Foreign policy has always been thus.
Isn’t germany getting an oil pipeline from the Ruskies?
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