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2004-12-25 Africa: Subsaharan

China invests in Sudan oil; Beijing supplies arms used on villagers

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-25 5:52:38 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well whaddya know... I'm so astounded and surprised youcould knock me over with a feather... made of pig iron...

Perhaps it's time to declare China a "terrorist state", as it has deserved since Mao took over.

This is where the RB money guys jump in, methinks, to discuss the financial ramifications - trade deficits, bond and debt sales, interest rates, currency markets, etc...

Weening us from them as a "trade partner" will, I'm sure, cause much squealing and pain, but the upside?

Posted by .com 2004-12-25 8:13:14 PM|| 2004-12-25 8:13:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps it's time to declare China a "terrorist state", as it has deserved since Mao took over.

Preach it, .com. We could not agree more on this critical topic. Our war against Islamic jihadism will look like a speed-bump compared to navigating the containment of China's top-heavy kleptocracy. The communist mandarins are merely a massive-scale representation of what is happening in Iran. Be it ideological or religious authoritarianism, both are just as repugnant and of equal threat to our freedom.

America's politicians are swayed through financial campaign contibutions made by domestic business interests, like Wal-Mart, which conduct heavy trade with communist China. Wal-Mart's imports represents a solid 10% of America's trade deficit with communist China.

Wal-mart purchases $15 billion worth of goods in China each year. The world's biggest distributor, which has 42 stores in China, can sell 10 percent of its Chinese import in the US.

The same Wal-Mart whose underpaid employees may be dragging down community services due to total absence of company benefits despite huge tax incentives awarded by area governments to encourage their outlet openings.

The exact same communist China that is insolently threatening Taiwan's democracy and simultaneously strangling Hong Kong's in the cradle. The same China that is all the while promoting installation of well-armed genocidal terrorist autocracies in Sudan and especially North Korea, with its unsavory armaments proliferation to Iran.

China is not our friend.

If China sold all of our treasury notes at once, it would only depress their value at time of sale. They need us more than we need them. No other cartel of nations could possibly take up the slack of us cutting off Wal-Mart's Chinese orders alone. All of America boycotting China could melt it down in a few months time.

China will always be hungry to expand so long as its communist mandarins hold the reins of power. China is financing its expansionism through sponsorship of terrorist, genocidal and proliferating nations.

Any questions?

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-25 10:06:47 PM|| 2004-12-25 10:06:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Since the financial guys always tell us what a bath we'll take if we don't work the Chinese market ("a billion customers" yeah, who make about $2.50/yr average, yawn), etc., I keep hearing a simple answer - like the proverbial birdie on my shoulder, and the Chineseness of it makes me smile... to smile inscrutably in their faces right up to the moment the bombing commences...

And all that debt, all those Treasury Bonds. all that paper will be instantly worthless... And all those Chinese advisors floating around the globe... homeless. And all those massive inefficient state-sponsored projects falling idle... And the sudden glut of oil on the world market...

I don't pretend to know the depth or breadth of the bath a few would take, but it would be paper, as opposed to jobs, and anyone who's in bed with the enemy of my country just earned himself derision and scorn, not sympathy. I do know they're the next serious threat, they will never cease until they are forcibly divided into a couple of dozen Republics, and their day of reckoning and mythology-busting has been a long time coming.

I'd welcome removing all those junky products that have crowded better quality off the store shelves. So you saved $2.57 on that cordless phone - this one's made in the USA...

Posted by .com 2004-12-25 11:00:30 PM|| 2004-12-25 11:00:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I expect China will become the patron of all the repressive oil sheikdoms, mullahcracies, and dictatorships. What a trip. Godless communists allied with muslim supremists. An exact duplicate of leftist thinking in the west allied with islamists. Destroy the democratic free societies first and then fight each other for supremacy.

People who buy products made in China finance this behavior. The cheap chinese trinkets bought today will ensure a world of war for your children when they grow up. Better to cut off this trade, rebuild our manufacturing base, and build a self sufficient energy production structure within the US.

Posted by ed 2004-12-25 11:49:28 PM|| 2004-12-25 11:49:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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