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At Davos; China Seeks The Limelight As Trump Takes Charge
Forbes ^ | January 14th, 2017 | Stephen Pope

Posted on 01/14/2017 10:38:56 AM PST by Mariner

Over this weekend, powerful political, business and creative agents will gather in Davos, Switzerland for the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting that runs from Tuesday, January 17 through Friday, January 20.

Political and business leaders are heading to Davos.

The United States will be well represented by corporate and intellectual giants, however, as we enter the last week of President Obama’s tenure in the White House, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will be on hand from the outgoing US administration.

Physics teaches nature abhors a vacuum and political science behaves in the same way. It is a typical political trait to exploit any and every opportunity for one’s national advantage and with Mr Trump not assuming the Presidency until Friday, expect China to lay down a marker signaling its long-term ambition to become the most powerful sovereign agent on the planet.

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I'm thinking Trump spoiled China's little party with his announcement that there may be a two China policy and that if Russia helps with terrorists, he would drop all sanctions against them.

"long-term ambition to become the most powerful sovereign agent on the planet" - Indeed.

There ladies and gentlemen should be all the evidence you need to understand how China will act toward us. They intend to seize from us a most valuable thing. They are our natural enemy, not Russia.

1 posted on 01/14/2017 10:38:56 AM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Davos = globalists pow wow.


2 posted on 01/14/2017 10:41:40 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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It's gonna be fun watching Commander-In-Chief Trump order the Navy and/or the Air Force to regularly fly over those phony islands that China claims but the World Court ruled that they didn't own.
3 posted on 01/14/2017 10:44:12 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Where the “elite” meet. Peons not welcome.


4 posted on 01/14/2017 10:46:30 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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“They are our natural enemy, not Russia.”

I was VERY young at the time, but wasn’t it Russia that undermined our relationship with China right after WWII?


5 posted on 01/14/2017 10:46:51 AM PST by ryderann
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Russia supported Mao and the communist revolution. Things have changed a bit since then.


6 posted on 01/14/2017 10:49:13 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Wasting tax payer dollars for Kerry and Biden to be there. Nothing but one last vacation.


7 posted on 01/14/2017 10:53:23 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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There are no permanent Allies only permanent interests.At this moment Russia seems a better partner then China but we must never take our eyes off them that’s for sure.


8 posted on 01/14/2017 11:00:52 AM PST by gibsonguy (W)
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To: Mariner
"long-term ambition to become the most powerful sovereign agent on the planet" - Indeed.

That's been their log term goal since Mao - they thought they would simply overrun the world with sheer numbers and subtle propaganda. Until Trump, the world was blissfully ignorant and going to let it happen.

9 posted on 01/14/2017 11:01:34 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Trump must be so damn sick of paying China to prepare to topple us.


10 posted on 01/14/2017 11:02:14 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Ironically, Davos was my favorite place to ski when I lived there. It always had snow and the Parsenn runs are easy and LONG. I miss it so bad. I never knew it was this political meeting hub. Don’t diss a great place just because these globalists chose it.


11 posted on 01/14/2017 11:03:59 AM PST by Yaelle
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Yeah shaking up who is on the A list is key. Do you think Trump will be very keen on developing some sort of Japan, UK, India, Russian (JUKIR) network of alliances to keep the Chinese pre-occupied on all sides - kinda a Marco Polo (not sure if I mean the person or the game) strategy?

A comaglelamation of shared interests and shared cultures between various members in different amounts and fashions forming the glue (Islam,China,English,Showers,Western Culture,Modern Military, Denial of Market Access,) would be some of these.

With Mexico about to be in a world of hurt, does China counter and attempt to take over Mexico monetarily as well as operationally by become the main injector of money into the corruption pipeline that is Mexico, they've got the cash and they need do something with it that would be a two birds one stone thing. Would DJT reassert the Monroe doctrine?

Stay tuned must see America coming to a nation near you (Mexico, Candada, Russia, Caribbean nations)

12 posted on 01/14/2017 11:12:20 AM PST by datricker (Making Benedict Arnold Great Again - a miligned hero - by songbird Senator poopy pants John McCain)
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To: Yaelle

I’m not diss’n the place. I’m diss’n the globalist snobs that meet there annually to decide what they are going to foist on the people world wide.


13 posted on 01/14/2017 11:13:14 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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I know, I just hate that such a great place to ski is ruined by these schmucks.


14 posted on 01/14/2017 11:52:08 AM PST by Yaelle
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communist spies in the US state department caused the USA to back the communist chinese over Chang Ki Check.


15 posted on 01/15/2017 8:13:17 PM PST by ckilmer (q e)
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