In the 1930s, economic desperation helped fuel autocratic regimes and protectionism in a downward economic-security death spiral that engulfed the world in conflict. Deep global recessions promote development of militaristic regimes large and small, as people cede more power to their governments to reverse their bad fortune. This is now happening in China just as it did in Japan.
Recently the Chinese harassed one of our unarmed ships in the South China Sea, severely enough that now all survey ships are accompanied by two Destroyers.
Also recently, the Chinese have become louder about their unwarranted claims over the area of the ocean known as the China Sea. They want the whole thing in spite of other nations having legitimate territorial claims. This was their excuse for harassing our ship, demanding a US Navy vessel leave “their” waters. The answer is no, by the way.
China has been building up missile launchers on the coast opposite Taiwan island in contradiction to their increasing “friendliness” of late.
China is calling for the dollar to be replaced with a “global” currency in international trade.
China expressed extreme outrage over the Pentagons latest review of their expanding military threat.
China is expected to demand a much greater share of voting rights at the next International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the next G-20 summit on April 2nd.
During the latest repression of Tibetans and round of outrageous lies in regard to it, China has blocked YouTube from Chinese Internet access.
China has also blocked Obama’s State of the Union speech! You won’t find this in any Google search. I spotted the link but when I tried to access it, the page was already deleted. In fact, you can’t even Google up any reference to his speech and China. None. The current band of thugs running that immense nation don’t want their people to hear one single word of what Obama has to say, primarily because he’s in contradiction to all the propaganda the people are being pumped up with.
The Chinese people are losing faith with their government, as tens of thousands of factories have closed, unemployment is still soaring and millions of unemployed workers have gone back to their villages and millions more are on the way. At least 20 million workers have gone unemployed from China’s eastern coast alone, which is also the area that produces much of China’s exports.
The reaction of China’s leaders to this erosion of support has been to increase controls in every possible avenue, including militarily.
China’s leaders blame the United States for the recession. Their thinking is that they are doing everything right and it’s our fault that we’ve entered a recession. The fact that greed on both sides is what brought this about doesn’t enter their minds, apparently. What does is that we’re spoiling their expansionist timetable.
This is very clear, since they’ve decided to go ahead with that timetable anyway, on the premise that economic parity still exists between us plus the added incentive of gaining greater control.
Here’s what China may do:
Use every possible tactic to undermine the dollar by getting it replaced with a global currency. The idea is to weaken the United States economically. China expects to recover faster from this depression than we will and will then have the advantage.
Start forcing the ships ouf other nations, including ours, out of the China Sea. That could get ugly.
Do a forced conquest of Taiwan.
Hold vital exports for ransom, demanding concessions from us before shipping things we need that we no longer manufacture.
Increase export tariffs on vital exports.
Place import tariffs on our products that we need to sell more than they need to buy. Don’t forget that China will happily let its people starve to achieve political goals.
China has clearly decided that the US is an unreliable economic partner and will try to gain every possible advantage now including weakening the US in any way possible. China is a Communist dictatorship that wants what every 16 year old boy wants: to rule the world.
Dictatorships just never grow up.
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China The Bully Is Pushing Outward
In the 1930s, economic desperation helped fuel autocratic regimes and protectionism in a downward economic-security death spiral that engulfed the world in conflict. Deep global recessions promote development of militaristic regimes large and small, as people cede more power to their governments to reverse their bad fortune. This is now happening in China just as it did in Japan.
Recently the Chinese harassed one of our unarmed ships in the South China Sea, severely enough that now all survey ships are accompanied by two Destroyers.
Also recently, the Chinese have become louder about their unwarranted claims over the area of the ocean known as the China Sea. They want the whole thing in spite of other nations having legitimate territorial claims. This was their excuse for harassing our ship, demanding a US Navy vessel leave “their” waters. The answer is no, by the way.
China has been building up missile launchers on the coast opposite Taiwan island in contradiction to their increasing “friendliness” of late.
China is calling for the dollar to be replaced with a “global” currency in international trade.
China expressed extreme outrage over the Pentagons latest review of their expanding military threat.
China is expected to demand a much greater share of voting rights at the next International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the next G-20 summit on April 2nd.
During the latest repression of Tibetans and round of outrageous lies in regard to it, China has blocked YouTube from Chinese Internet access.
China has also blocked Obama’s State of the Union speech! You won’t find this in any Google search. I spotted the link but when I tried to access it, the page was already deleted. In fact, you can’t even Google up any reference to his speech and China. None. The current band of thugs running that immense nation don’t want their people to hear one single word of what Obama has to say, primarily because he’s in contradiction to all the propaganda the people are being pumped up with.
The Chinese people are losing faith with their government, as tens of thousands of factories have closed, unemployment is still soaring and millions of unemployed workers have gone back to their villages and millions more are on the way. At least 20 million workers have gone unemployed from China’s eastern coast alone, which is also the area that produces much of China’s exports.
The reaction of China’s leaders to this erosion of support has been to increase controls in every possible avenue, including militarily.
China’s leaders blame the United States for the recession. Their thinking is that they are doing everything right and it’s our fault that we’ve entered a recession. The fact that greed on both sides is what brought this about doesn’t enter their minds, apparently. What does is that we’re spoiling their expansionist timetable.
This is very clear, since they’ve decided to go ahead with that timetable anyway, on the premise that economic parity still exists between us plus the added incentive of gaining greater control.
Here’s what China may do:
Use every possible tactic to undermine the dollar by getting it replaced with a global currency. The idea is to weaken the United States economically. China expects to recover faster from this depression than we will and will then have the advantage.
Start forcing the ships ouf other nations, including ours, out of the China Sea. That could get ugly.
Do a forced conquest of Taiwan.
Hold vital exports for ransom, demanding concessions from us before shipping things we need that we no longer manufacture.
Increase export tariffs on vital exports.
Place import tariffs on our products that we need to sell more than they need to buy. Don’t forget that China will happily let its people starve to achieve political goals.
China has clearly decided that the US is an unreliable economic partner and will try to gain every possible advantage now including weakening the US in any way possible. China is a Communist dictatorship that wants what every 16 year old boy wants: to rule the world.
Dictatorships just never grow up.
This entry was posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.