Posted on 04/10/2011 5:40:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
APRIL 7, 2011.
A Businessman's Guide to China's Collapse
It might not happen soon, but when it does it will pay to be prepared..
By JOSEPH STERNBERG
Months of turmoil in the Middle East have focused attention on two points. First, authoritarian regimes are inherently unstable. Second, this poses some significant problems for businesses. Consider managers trying to evacuate staff, safeguard physical property or keep supply chains operating as smoothly as possible.
Think it couldn't happen in China? Four months ago, no one would have predicted imminent mass unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen or Libya, either. While signs of discontent with those governments were obvious, the authoritarians seemed by all accounts to have the situation firmly in hand.
That is precisely the case in China today, too. Disaffection over inflation and official corruption are rising rapidly, while the government has further reduced, to 7%, its official growth target for the year. Beijing clearly is worried, to judge from the lengths to which authorities have gone to suppress the whiff of any Jasmine protest.
Businesses don't have to believe that regime collapse is imminent—it probably isn't—to look at these events and conclude some planning might be prudent just in case. Herewith a brief guide to keeping your business afloat if China goes kablooey:
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China has between 10-15 million young men who have no hope of ever marrying and having a family (because of the imbalance in the male-to-female ratio).
The ChiComs will make good use of those numbers.
BTW, I never called Africans "brain dead". You did.
Please read my posts #28 and #29.
In 1975, there were only 276K whites in Rhodesia, according to wiki. Yet they managed to dominate a population of 12 million.
There are already 750K Chinese in Africa, of which 350K are in South Africa. This number will grow over time. The Chinese will behave themselves while trying to increase their numbers. Meanwhile, they will keep quiet about how many of the young Chinese men have military training. Meanwhile, they will also ensure that there are caches of weapons and ammo smuggled in and stashed in the bush.
When the crisis finally occurs, all the Chinese have to do is seize and hold a port for a few days, long enough for some Chinese cargo ships loaded with more troops and heavy weapons to arrive. At that point, it's over.
Also, keep in mind that, unlike Cecil Rhodes, the Chinese will have no interest in African workers. The Chinese have lots of peasants and not enough arable land. The Chinese will treat the Native Africans like the white settlers in North America treated the Native Americans -- they will drive off those they can drive off, and kill the ones that refuse to leave.
“Meanwhile, you have a middle class consisting of productive people who must give up a good chunk of their income to supporting unproductive Party leeches. The combination is not good...”
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I agree but that is the USA, I thought we were talking about China.
LOL, you’re quite correct. That explosion will also eventually happen.
The assumption you are making is that we have no understanding of what the Chinese are up to.
If the Chinese try anything silly, we will deal with them the same way we dealt with the French, British, Portugese, Belgians and Spanish.
Secondly, we are not Native Americans we are very hardy. We (and our descendants) thrive on every inhabited continent, we will not be driven off.
The British settlers in Kenya tried to seize our lands and force us to work as indentured servants, the Boers settled us into “Bantustans” after seizing our land, the Germans committed genocide against us in the early 20th Century and King Leopold murdered six million of us. But we still survived.
We survived the Rwandan massacre, the first and second Congo war, the Biafran war, the Darfur genocide and we will survive Robert Mugabe. We have seen hell over the past 400 years and we have suffered more than the Jews.
We are watching and praying that God in his mercy will grant us peace and prosperity - and God will answer our prayers.
WE WILL NOT BE ENSLAVED BY THE CHINESE, HEAR ME AND HEAR ME CLEARLY.
As I keep saying, the Chinese will have no interest in enslaving you. None at all. They will not need you as slaves -- they have their own peasants they can import to do the work.
They have a need for Africa's mineral resources. They have no need for Africans. They will not enslave you. They will exterminate you.
I think you;
1. Have never lived in Africa.
2. Have never lived in China
3. Have very little interaction with either Chinese or Africans.
4. Have a World view shaped by predictable Western journalism and cheap Hollywood stereotypes of Africa.
I have news for you, your little world is about to be turned on its head.
God bless you.
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