Posted on 12/14/2006 3:57:31 PM PST by maui_hawaii
Beijing (FORTUNE) -- Senior U.S. officials, led by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, arrived inside the Stalinist-style Great Hall of the People Thursday morning, briefed and breakfasted and eager to offer guidance to Chinese leaders on how to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the global economy.
But Vice Premier Wu Yi had other ideas. Like an impatient schoolmistress, she opened this historic gathering with a lecture. Her talk was one part history lesson (China has 5,000 years experience as a global citizen) and one part 21st century civics lesson (the goal is a "socialist harmonious society"), with no sign that her regime sees any need for major economic reform.
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Time for heavy tarrifs.
--maybe now that the Demotraitors have control of Congress they can encourage the Chinese to allow a US 1930's-style labor movement--
Big deal a communist fat old chinese chick. If they dont comply with open market rules we will have no choice but to heavily tarriff all their exports to the US. Let them trade their dollar reserves they will be the ones that loose their arse in the long run.Europe is getting sick of their garbage to.
No need to preach to this choir.
The Chinese aren't going to do that either.
No doubt. The pocket book is how you hurt the ChiComs...at least right now.
LBT
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Send Rosie O'Donnell over there. She speaks chinese. :-)
"(China has 5,000 years experience as a global citizen)"
Actually, like the good Marxist he was, Mao burned, butchered and rewrote everything that comprised the traditional Chinese experience.
LOL! :-)
LBT
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Wu Yi would give her a slap, which would probably be good for international relations.
Just who do you think has the gonads to even suggest tarrifs. Even more remote would be to find the politicians who would vote to initiate such an idea.
Chinese must be testing the waters, to size up American in a new political environment after the shake-up in the last mid-term election.
Memories of Clinton era die hard among Chinese, I suspect.
Pretty strong stuff for an Asian country, to come right out and do a lot of harrumphing. Typically, "no" is not said. Instead, "maybe" means "no", and "yes" means "maybe".
This sounds like their diplomatic way of saying "HELL no!", which is very rare indeed.
Plus its irrelevant.
Like the guys above, I say we stand up.
NOPE.
This means that we are getting the truth out of China...FINALLY.
Under Clinton it was like 'oh you have such a glorious country! give us XYZ and we will be soo good to you..'
This is the real China speaking...and has been since I have been around.
America is finally getting a dose of one thing: REALITY.
If America wants to play, drop the diplomacy and grab China by the gonads and squeeze until we get an agreement or blood, one or the other.
That is Chinese negotiations at its finest.
Sounds like this delegation went over unprepared. Bluffing as always, and still ignorant.
They seem like a bunch of amateurs from the sounds of it.
Scrap the diplomacy and the odd 'we want to look good to our hosts-we are not really ugly Americans' kind of mentality and and put the b*tch on her knees.
We can, and we should.
"Hell hath no fury like Wu Yi."
He (Wu Yi) of the "cheerful crow", "happy army squad" or "socerer" Wu Yi clans and not from my handle's namesake.
I have dealt with people just like her before.
I can make them quiver with a smile on my face.
She must be a feminist. I think Wu is normally a male name.
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