[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if they have a better sense of something like that than wealthy liberal Californians do?

[ClearCase_guy]

China is a house of cards. Very fragile.

My guess is that Trump and Kim and working together to get CIA out of NK (done) and China out of NK (in progress). I think the recent “walk away” from NK may have been strategic. Trump wants North Korea to be built up and successful. The other players want NK to be a puppet. Kim doesn’t want to be a puppet. He wants a legacy of being the man who made NK truly glorious.

Deal with China now. Then circle back and seal with deal with Kim.

[Deaf Smith]

How would it be possible for known billionaires to remove wealth from a communist country?

[fishtank]

I smell opportunity.

[Mr. Jeeves]

...they see Beijing more focused on solidifying control over the country than shoring up the economy, which would include a deal to end U.S. tariffs.

They were right on the verge of becoming the dominant nation on Earth, and now the old guard Communists are completely blowing it. Thank God they are dumber than we are. :)

[Zhang Fei]

[“China is facing a lot of internal and external challenges now,” said Fred Hu, founder of the investment firm Primavera Capital Group and former head of Goldman Sachs’s Greater China business. “We need to realize that all of our achievements in the past 40 years were the results of opening up and economic reform, not because of any unique China development model.”]

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China is chockful of talent. Everywhere emigre Chinese settle, they usually do pretty well. Based on recorded history, China has had a several thousand year head start that varies depending on who’s doing the counting. We can thank China’s long line of arrogant retards for its relative backwardness. China’s current head retard is outdoing the morons before him in retardedness. All I can say is that I hope retards like him continuing ruling the country. Because we are relying on leadership incompetence on their part to hold the country back from attaining their traditionally expansive territorial ambitions, with invasions mounted for the usual reasons - personal glory and historical immortality.