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2016-12-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese Media Panic over Trump as Xi Vows Cooperation in Chat with Kissinger

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 01:48|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Trump will likely pick Kissinger our Ambassador to China. Why have two ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 01:52|| 2016-12-07 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Iowa governor Branstad is Trump's pick as China ambassador

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-07 01:58|| 2016-12-07 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah yes, announced yesterday I believe. Slipped my mind. So Kissinger remains the shadow ambassador. Thanks !

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 02:04|| 2016-12-07 02:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Reuters story on Iowa Governor Branstad pick.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 02:10|| 2016-12-07 02:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump can crater the Chinese economy with tariffs, and there is not a whole lot China can do about it.

I thought at the time of the USA's recognition of China, it would secure the communist party's future for a few decades. Time to end the reprieve Kissinger at al gave the CP.

Unlike most of you I've known quite a few mainland Chinese, and they are thoroughly indoctrinated in a very distorted view of history and the world.

Get rid of the CP and I anticipate a much less dangerous China.

Posted by phil_b 2016-12-07 02:18|| 2016-12-07 02:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I was actively paying attention at the time of the ping-pong diplomacy and given the situation in the world I did not think it the wrong move.

As the years went on I have come to think of this as Kissinger's one and only legacy moment and he can't stop polishing it. He seems to believe that he is playing a game of Risk or maybe Go but that nothing but the game matters. How many Quatloos a play will make is the only thing that matters.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-07 07:50|| 2016-12-07 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I was actively paying attention at the time of the ping-pong diplomacy and given the situation in the world I did not think it the wrong move.

I agree, it was a wise move. The perversion came as Kissinger made a nearly 45 year career of personal business and economic exploitation at the expense of American industry. The Clinton Foundation took this financial exploitation template to entirely new global levels.

Since 1972 Henry Kissinger (a former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer) he has become a virtual case officer or 'go to guy' for American business and commerce in China. Notice how quickly Kissinger jumped into action following the Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen-Trump phone call ?

Never trusted the bastid, never will.

Just my opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 08:28|| 2016-12-07 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 1976, it just wasn't the pardon that killed Gerald Ford's election bid, the retention of Kissinger didn't help either. IIRC later after the foreign disasters of the Carter years, he basically said we'd lost to the Soviets and were just killing time. A one trick pony?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-07 08:57|| 2016-12-07 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 The motivation behind Tricky Dick's so-called 'Ping-Pong' diplomacy of 1972 was to introduce western economic and democratic concepts to the Communist regime. Another attempt at fok'n regime change.

Imagine that, attempting to introduce entrepreneurial concepts to the Chinese.

Worked out nicely hasn't it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-07 09:06|| 2016-12-07 09:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Beso, the one thing that always has to be factored in when discussing that time is the Cold War and the Soviet Union.

You just can't look at individual events in a vacuum. That environment was just too damn complex and twitchy trigger fingers on nukes just made everything a whole lot more dangerous.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-07 19:16|| 2016-12-07 19:16|| Front Page Top

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