The Huelefant in the Parlor [Huawei] [ed]

PJ Media ^ | May 8, 2019 | David P. Goldman aka Spengler

[C19fan]

The grand battle of the Trade Avengers in Washington really isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. What matters is the implosion of America's technological predominance, exemplified by the Trump administration's strategic humiliation over Fifth Generation (5G) mobile broadband.

In 1258 the Mongols appeared before the gates of Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty. Caliph Al-Musta'sim assumed that the capital's 12-foot-thick walls would protect the city against lightly-armed Mongol horsemen, but the Mongols brought with them a thousand Chinese siege engineers. The Chinese mercenaries breached the walls within three weeks and the Mongols killed most of the city's million residents.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, who last week claimed that China is "stealing its way up the economic ladder," is the 21st-century counterpart of Al-Musta'sim, the feckless caliph of Baghdad. Huawei Technologies, the spearhead of China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), isn't a Chinese company, but an imperial juggernaut that crushes its competition and employs their intellectual resources. By 2013 it employed 40,000 foreigners--mostly in R&D-- out of a workforce of 150,000. I think it foolish to think that the Chinese can't innovate, but it doesn't matter whether they can or not, any more than the siege skills of Mongol horsemen mattered in 1258.

[C19fan]

Lenin supposedly said the capitalists will sell us the rope that we will hang them from. He just did not realize the saying would apply to China not the defunct Soviet Union. China has taken Lenin's saying and made it their #1 policy. Western companies has gone along because they can;t think ahead one quarter and/or the CEOs want to get rich on stock options. Who cares what happens when he or she is no longer there.

[Boogieman]

Meh, Western civilization is suicidal any way. Someone has got to pick up the pieces afterwards, maybe it will be the Chinese.

[Truthoverpower]

What needs to be remembered as China has many many many internal problems that are festering and will come to a complete head very very soon

Number one is the one child policy that is created a tremendous imbalance between men and women and also created a very top-heavy older population versus younger people

The second fact is that of the one.2 billion people probably 800 million are very poor

Thus the completely controlling totalitarian government constantly has to be on the move building go cities flexing his muscles tried to take on foreign entanglements threatening so on and so forth

So Trump is doing a great job of isolating these bastards and taking them to task for their cheating lying and stealing

Someday we will have another Democratic schmuck in the White House that they will run over but at least we have a real man you understand these things at the helm right now