
It is a real pity that Chimpy and his “patriotic” worshipers sold us to China so that the filthy rich wouldn’t have to pay taxes. It is also a pity that Chimpy paid American firms to offshore our jobs and R&D to China (he did that with taxpayer money, of course. Thanks for that, moronic monkey.)
We get all of our baubles AND our Federal budget money from the Chinese. Not a good situation for us, since the Chinese never renounced the Stalinist philosophy that they were born with back in 1949.
The Chinese, of course, are not to blame for this; unlike our own Government, the Government of the Peoples Republic of China seems to be interested in uplifting its own people, rather than burying them. The Chinese saw opportunities when we installed the idiots of the Reign of Error, and they played them masterfully. But even while they were gutting our commons, the Chinese always knew that one day, the differences they still have with us would have to be addressed. This is unlike our own idiots in the “teabagger” right wing, who seem oblivious to the fact that the Chinese now own us.
Somebody might want to let the teabagging idiots know that the tax and economic policies they love so much appear to be bearing the fruit that everyone with a IQ of over 70 knew they would. We’re going to have to wean ourselves from China, and it’s going to be a nasty set of withdrawals. The Chinese have just about had it with us, and I don’t blame them a bit.
There is opportunity here, however. We could realize that gutting your own commons in the name of “free” trade is national suicide, and we could take steps to bring at least part of our commons back. We could forge better ties with Russia, a sleeping economic powerhouse, instead of constantly trying to provoke them by offering to bring failed states like Ukraine and Fascist dictatorships like Georgia into NATO. We could craft economic and environmental policies that would result in a better deal for everybody.
With our right wing, we won’t do any of that. We’ll just fall apart. Russia can tell you about how all that goes. You see, once upon a time they spent every dime they could get on their military because of this expensive war they were fighting, and they were in big hock to foreigners…
MORE than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”.
The finding came after battles over Taiwan, Tibet, trade, climate change, internet freedom and human rights which have poisoned relations in the three months since President Barack Obama made a fruitless visit to Beijing.
According to diplomatic sources, a rancorous postmortem examination is under way inside the US government, led by officials who think the president was badly advised and was made to appear weak.
In China’s eyes, the American response — which includes a pledge by Obama to get tougher on trade — is a reaction against its rising power.
Now almost 55% of those questioned for Global Times, a state-run newspaper, agree that “a cold war will break out between the US and China”.
An independent survey of Chinese-language media for The Sunday Times has found army and navy officers predicting a military showdown and political leaders calling for China to sell more arms to America’s foes. The trigger for their fury was Obama’s decision to sell $6.4 billion (£4 billion) worth of weapons to Taiwan, the thriving democratic island that has ruled itself since 1949.
“We should retaliate with an eye for an eye and sell arms to Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela,” declared Liu Menxiong, a member of the Chinese people’s political consultative conference.
He added: “We have nothing to be afraid of. The North Koreans have stood up to America and has anything happened to them? No. Iran stands up to America and does disaster befall it? No.”
Officially, China has reacted by threatening sanctions against American companies selling arms to Taiwan and cancelling military visits.
But Chinese analysts think the leadership, riding a wave of patriotism as the year of the tiger dawns, may go further.
“This time China must punish the US,” said Major-General Yang Yi, a naval officer. “We must make them hurt.” A major-general in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Luo Yuan, told a television audience that more missiles would be deployed against Taiwan. And a PLA strategist, Colonel Meng Xianging, said China would “qualitatively upgrade” its military over the next 10 years to force a showdown “when we’re strong enough for a hand-to-hand fight with the US”.
Chinese indignation was compounded when the White House said Obama would meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, in the next few weeks.
“When someone spits on you, you have to get back,” said Huang Xiangyang, a commentator in the China Daily newspaper, usually seen as a showcase for moderate opinion.
An internal publication at the elite Qinghua University last week predicted the strains would get worse because “core interests” were at risk. It said battles over exports, technology transfer, copyright piracy and the value of China’s currency, the yuan, would be fierce.
As a crescendo of strident nationalistic rhetoric swirls through the Chinese media and blogosphere, American officials seem baffled by what has gone wrong and how fast it has happened.
During Obama’s visit, the US ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, claimed relations were “really at an all-time high in terms of the bilateral atmosphere … a cruising altitude that is higher than any other time in recent memory”, according to an official transcript.
The ambassador must have been the only person at his embassy to think so, said a diplomat close to the talks.
“The truth was that the atmosphere was cold and intransigent when the president went to Beijing yet his China team went on pretending that everything was fine,” the diplomat said.
In reality, Chinese officials argued over every item of protocol, rigged a town hall meeting with a pre-selected audience, censored the only interview Obama gave to a Chinese newspaper and forbade the Americans to use their own helicopters to fly him to the Great Wall.
Hey all you Rushpubliscum “patriots,” don’t you just LOVE that we’re now so weak that our officials can be treated like this?
We have you to thank for that. You and your monkey, whose policies you are STILL trying to hang on to.
Heckuva job, asshats.