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Chinese Leaders Threaten To Sell US Debt As Punishment For Taiwanese Arms Sale
The Business Insider ^ | 2-9-2010 | Vince Veneziani

Posted on 02/09/2010 2:36:45 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 02/09/2010 2:36:45 PM PST by blam
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Its starting


2 posted on 02/09/2010 2:37:34 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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If China sends those women over here they might not encounter much resistance from us at all.


3 posted on 02/09/2010 2:40:10 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Not a credible threat.


4 posted on 02/09/2010 2:40:11 PM PST by C19fan
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How would that hurt the US? One sucker is as good as the other.


6 posted on 02/09/2010 2:40:45 PM PST by GingisK
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how do you say "Not guilty" in Chinese?
7 posted on 02/09/2010 2:43:38 PM PST by mikethevike
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how do you say "Not guilty" in Chinese?

Don't know, but you can bet it takes far more than 3 syllables.

8 posted on 02/09/2010 2:45:49 PM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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LMAO


9 posted on 02/09/2010 2:47:28 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Obama will sink as fast as he rose. Idolatry will not succeed. Be patient, folks...)
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10 posted on 02/09/2010 2:47:52 PM PST by Paperdoll
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And just where will the Chinese put their money so it’s safe and earning interest?

Greece, perhaps.


11 posted on 02/09/2010 2:51:16 PM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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China and India are on the march regardless of their political slant. They both believe in consumer driven economies. POTUS Obama believes in collectivism and statism, better known as socialism/communism/facism combined. He is trying his utmost to destroy the once powerful USA economy. Come Thursday, God forbid, and Iran annouces that it now has a nuclear weapon that is operational, all hell will break loose. Face it , folks we are without any leadership of the ship of state. Morons and buffoons out the insane farm are running the country with America hater Barack Hussein obama as the leader of the pact. Americans, you did a fantastic job voting in the incompetent, empty suit. You should be very, very afraid, for yourselves and your weakness in choice, for your children and grandchildren and....for the millions of us who had good common sense to vote against this total loser and destroyer of America. The man does not have a clue and....has put us all in mortal danger. you should be calling on his Democrat Party to force him to resign or impeach him as soon as possible!!!


12 posted on 02/09/2010 2:51:42 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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Um, they are kinda cute... : ). If i’m gonna get my ass kicked by a Chi Com battalion, I want it to be that one.


13 posted on 02/09/2010 2:55:40 PM PST by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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This may sound ridiculous, but if we really care about keeping Taiwan free, why don't we sell them nuclear weapons -- & let the Chinese know that they are now a member of the Nuclear Club after those weapons have arrived & been set up in their defense?

Wouldn't doing so cause the Chinese to re-think their desire to take over Taiwan?

14 posted on 02/09/2010 2:57:56 PM PST by ChrisInAR (You gotta let it out, Captain!)
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#1, if China dumps the debt they lose their investments.

#2, why would they care if Taiwan has defensive weapons if China is not going to attack?


15 posted on 02/09/2010 3:01:20 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
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It would probably be a net good thing for them to do that - and they know that and that’s why they won’t do it.

The sooner we have a reality check on our spending the better at this point . . . it may be painful but the pain will only be worse later on as we pile on more debt.


17 posted on 02/09/2010 3:06:41 PM PST by RushingWater
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Hmmmm, let’s see…Who will they sell the Treasuries to? They certainly won’t sell to anyone holding dollars, because Treasuries are paid in dollars, dollar-holders already have plenty of dollars…..How about England? Not a chance. Canada? Nope. Australia? Noooo. OK, France! Yes, France loves us SO much they would gladly buy our..Wait! Nope! France has surrendered and decided that holding more dollars in their central bank on top of the Greece disaster could be a bit risky…How about the Swiss??? You’re kidding of course. Germany? Germany doesn’t even want to help Greece, a fellow EU member – think they want our Treasuries? Treasuries have been selling at sucko interest rates, so the Chinese will have to take a hit in their dollar holdings to dump the bonds. At the scale they are talking, they might find very few credible buyers. The mistake they made, as did the Arabs in the post-WWII world, was to agree to be paid in little pieces of green paper. Come to think of it, so have we.


18 posted on 02/09/2010 3:28:38 PM PST by majormaturity
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A brilliant assessment my friend....that unfortunately many FR will fail to understand!


19 posted on 02/09/2010 3:30:05 PM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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Excellent post...


20 posted on 02/09/2010 3:31:03 PM PST by hot4plasma
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