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It’s a Cold War, folks, and it’s about time.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-u-s-ordered-us-to-close-our-houston-consulate-11595407075?mod=mhp
Of note:
”The Foreign Ministry’s remarks came after firefighters and police officers responded to calls about fires witnessed late Tuesday at the Chinese consulate in Houston. Footage aired by local television stations purportedly showed people burning documents on the consulate’s premises.”
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Too bad this will get nowhere in the news cycle. We’ll deal with the temporary and ephemeral instead.
No meaningful policy discussion here…in spite of Rubio’s, the Orange One’s and Pompeo’s best efforts.
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long -
No matter what people think of Trump. He has exposed the CCP for what they are and no future president can ignore that we are in conflict with them. My money is on us, even with less aggressive conventional Administrations
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[quote quote=1502]No matter what people think of Trump. He has exposed the CCP for what they are and no future president can ignore that we are in conflict with them. My money is on us, even with less aggressive conventional Administrations[/quote]
I disagree. The Chinese threat will be papered over by 98 percent of politicians in the U.S. because it is being papered over by nearly 100 percent of the wealthy. Too many wealthy people (especially the billionaires) have a need for access to the Chinese market, and won’t poke the bear.
They steer the politicians.
Trump has been right on China. He was right on ISIS. He has been right on NATO. He has been “not wrong” on North Korea (remember, they were about to nuke us when he took office), and he has been “not wrong” on Afghanistan as best I can tell. The question is whether he has been right or wrong (or voting present) on Russia…but Russia isn’t dangerous with moderate energy prices.
His foreign policy has been overall better than anybody could have expected from a marketing-driven socialite blowhard.
As to China: Here’s the rub… In 1985, the U.S. imported approximately $400 million of goods from the USSR. Inflation-adjusted to today, that’s about $1 Billion. We exported 6 times as much to the USSR than we imported from them.
For comparison, the U.S. imported approximately $450 billion of goods from China in 2019. That amount is about 4 times what we exported to China.
In other words, the Communists have done a really good job of wresting the means of production from the Capitalists. So, all the capitalists have their balls in a vice and won’t criticize the communists… See the NBA for example, or Amazon’s quick walk back of its TikTok ban.
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