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It’s about to get canceled!!

Some years ago I was listening to a radio station and they were interviewing a guy who wrote a book about how the Chinese will takes us over. One thing he said really stuck with me. He said we think in terms of a quarter of a year. Everything we do relies on quarterly numbers and that is how we judge success or failure.

The Chinese think in terms of a quarter of a CENTURY. Slow and methodical. Bits at a time.

“We Will Bury You.”

Then-VP Biden toasts China's XI. "Here’s why I’m toasting this Chink. My view for many years is that a rising China is a positive development, and that the Biden family can become billionaires as long as we Democrats force American taxpayers to invest in Beijing’s success. Some anti-globalists see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Other Chinks worry that our aim in the Asia-Pacific is to contain China’s rise,” Biden wrote. “I reject these views. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less,” he added.

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(h/t Greenfield)

Yet, underneath all the Biden sucking-up rhetoric about the ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial profiteering. In 2013, Joe and his son Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. China’s BHR Partners was founded that year and included Hunter Biden as a board member. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.

After Joe's wet kiss to XI, the big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund Management which, coincidentally enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund. That same year, you could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto.

And the money didn’t just go one way. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013.

Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County. (Delaware is Joe Biden’s home state which he repped as a US Senator.)

New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue bonds to fund the DBOT “stock exchange” by touting the “globally recognized leaders in the financial services industry” running it. DBOT’s founders included people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis Toner, who was described as a “top aide to Vice President Joe Biden.”

Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying that Tara Reade ever told him anything. Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family. And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.

After Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening statement in favor of Toner’s appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for Joe Biden. Tara Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner and Kaufman. The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a “distressed asset” in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman of Ideanomics is Wu.

The manager of DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady brother half a million dollars and had received $20 million in government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in the Ukraine. Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of sucking up to broker deals between Biden family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of Biden's crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and the local boys.

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But Biden's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry. Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.

“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.

In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.

In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.

Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone. And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.

By this writer is right on top of things.

Was this published in 1995?

Today? Really?

Thank God, Xi is as dumb as he looks. China is falling apart. His Belt and Road is a complete disaster.

You can’t do Mercantilism, otherwise known as Gunboat Diplomacy without the gunboats.

These African countries are laughing at his predatory loans.

The economy of China is now about one-third larger than that of the US.

The Chinese military is growing stronger and will not lack for funding.

China's Communist Party Has a Long-Range Plan to Overtake the United States

Khrushchev said the same thing 60 years ago! Took a long time, but it seems to be happening now!

Since the headline and the story do not match - here’s the story:

The Five-Year Plan, reportedly replete with a suite of policies and economic and social development goals, is still pending pro forma scrutiny and final promulgation by the Chinese parliament at its annual session next spring.

But a renowned scholar believed to be among President Xi Jinping’s top advisors has hinted about Beijing’s view of the nation’s economic outlook for the next five years.

Justin Lin, aka Lin Yifu, head of the Peking University’s (PKU) National School of Development, told a forum in Beijing on Wednesday that the economy could ride out the geopolitical headwinds and keep expanding at 6-8% annually for the next ten years.

Lin, a former deputy governor at the World Bank, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that China had turned the corner in its fight against Covid-19 and amid the current testing times may take an unassailable lead over major Western economies in terms of economic recovery and in nurturing emerging new high-tech industries.

He said China was well-poised to press its advantages as one of the world’s largest markets with well-rounded, full-stack supply chains.

In August, Lin was invited for a seminar presided over by Xi at Zhongnanhai, where the top leader sought policy recommendations from respected academics for the 14th Five-Year Plan’s drafting.

Peking University professor Justin Lin is believed to be among President Xi’s top economic advisors.

“Lin’s policy proposals featured predominantly in previous five-year plans as well as in annual work reports of the central government. He was indeed the first scholar to speak during the August meeting convened by Xi,” a professor at the PKU’s School of Governance told Asia Times on the condition of anonymity.

“Lin’s upbeat take on the health and prospects of the Chinese economy may mean a positive tenor of the upcoming plan for 2025, which may lay down an annual GDP growth target of around 6% between 2021 and 2025,” the PKU professor said.

Li Junru, a deputy director of the Central Party School which grooms senior party cadres, told China News Service that the goals contained in the new plan, as well as its implementation guidelines, could determine if China has a head start in its new “Long March” toward realizing Xi’s visions and ideals by 2035.

The official communique of the just-concluded plenum revealed that Xi had also teased the 400 attendees with his expectations for the next 15 years, though the document did not specify the leader’s aspirations. It is widely rumored, however, that Beijing aims to leapfrog the US in gross domestic product (GDP) and economic power by 2035.

A Bloomberg analysis suggested that Beijing’s GDP goal of surpassing the US in annual economic output could be achieved in five years.

Li said the next five years would hold the key to how quickly the party could bring Xi’s 2035 vision and his “superpower China” ambitions into reality.

Xi earlier scrapped the Chinese constitution’s two-term, ten-year limit on the presidency and as the chief secretary of the Communist Party he is not subject to any cap on his years in power. Some suspect he will remain in office for ten to 15 years, well into the 2030s.

Others are more skeptical of the five-year plan’s broad ambitions.

Johnny Lau, a Hong Kong-based current affairs commentator who has covered Chinese politics for decades, noted in a recent column that the latest Five-Year Plan could be the most consequential one since Beijing started setting out five-year development goals in the 1950s.

“The geopolitical context of the new national plan is significantly worse, compared with the situation back in 2015, when Beijing still enjoyed amicable ties with the United States under Barack Obama,” Lau said.

“The new plan has to take into account and reflect the shifting and deteriorating world order and adjust - basically lower - original growth goals amid the current crunch time.

“Xi’s main rubric for discussion at the plenum, other than deciding on the plan, could be about how to grapple meaningfully with the US-led containment in the next five years and, while contending with the challenges, turn the adversity into an opportunity to whip up more nationalism among the masses and thus entrench the party’s rule.”

China charts five-year course through economic storms
https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/china-charts-five-year-course-through-economic-storms/

We still have a trade deal with china. Even after covid, fun camps, stealing tech, spying, etc. Not much has changed.

Its called Treason, and it causes death.

Of the perpetrator if caught in time and dealt with, of the Nation if not.

It is very late...

NDT files a youtube video report every day. It is in essence anti China news. I can’t distinguish between what is real and what is propaganda but regardless, China seems to be in flux. There is dissent raising against the CCP.

Here is a link
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBOqkAGTtzZVmKvY4SwdZ2g

Is it meaningful? I can’t tell. The CCP holds all the power and dissent can be eliminated easily.

But it is a reality that the CCP is in the midst of big problems.

The extensive flooding of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers has effected tens of millions of people. There is extensive, very extensive damage to cities, infrastructure, automobiles and crops. It is the end of October and the flood events are still in process continuous since early July. By comparison, Katrina and NOLA are trivial events.

Although it is difficult to access, the covid epidemic has caused problems that can’t be and aren’t measured. The problems are not uniform but where they exist, millions and maybe tens of millions are affected. There was at least one very large city that was completely locked down. People were confined to their residences and their doors were sealed with paper seals that would be torn if the doors were opened. In this location there was at least one university where students were confined to dorms. They opened windows and howled in protest.

Although there was published growth, there is growing unemployment. It’s going to get worse as such companies as Samsung and Black and Decker pack up and leave. Yesterday,there was news that the crown jewel, the Pearl River Delta region is in for bad trouble as factories close and jobs disappear.

And lastly there is the problem of food. It is very difficult to grasp the extent of the food problem facing te CCP. I’m not sure if any one actually knows the extent. In the past few months, since early july, there has been very extensive flooding continuously. The rivers and tributaries had been lined with what we think of as levees to create croplands in the extensive flood plains. To control flooding, these levees were selectively breached and the extensive croplands measured in square miles were flooded. Crops were destroyed. There was lots of video getting out confirming the crop damage. In addition to plant crops, the rising waters carried off hogs and cattle. The extent isn’t measured but it was apparently widespread.

On top of the floods, in other areas of China there was severe drought simultaneous with the flooding elsewhere. Crops withered and died

So from my desk, it looks like Xi and the CCP have their hands more than full and the ir program might be put on hold while they solve bad problems at home

I think the world has turned against the CCP.
After all they gave the world the Wuhan virus and kept it from their own country

“The allegedly free but increasingly leftist U.S. media isn’t reporting much on it, which is interesting all by itself.”

Says it all.