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2020-04-14 China-Japan-Koreas

Powerful Americans Were Catastrophically Wrong about China

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-14 07:57|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 The experts aren't

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-14 09:06|| 2020-04-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The experts aren't what?

Oh, wait...I get it! The experts are not experts!

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-14 09:28|| 2020-04-14 09:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "We Come as Friends" movie trailer.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-14 10:22|| 2020-04-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 2nd Tier Powerful Americans Were Catastrophically Wrong about China

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-14 10:33|| 2020-04-14 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 So much we don't know. Like how was President Chiang Kai-shek allowed to spend his summers on his estate in China with his first wife and mother while Taiwan (ROC) and China (PRC) were in a state of war?

Posted by 3dc 2020-04-14 10:38|| 2020-04-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Sanctions have proved ineffective to remove dictators. Embracing seemed logical as the J curve theory seemed to indicate they'd turn to a democracy in time. The problem was the J-curve was wrong and our businesses went far beyond just embrace.

Too bad Papa Bush did't do more when Tianamen had China positioned as world Pariah.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-04-14 11:45|| 2020-04-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Papa Bush's brother ran a company with Deng that shook down any US company wanting to do business in China.

Posted by 3dc 2020-04-14 12:20|| 2020-04-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 China cannot seriously threaten us. We have brought this scourge upon ourselves. It is OUR doing.

No one forced us to make our pharmaceutical supply chain >80% dependent on China.

No one forced us to outsource most of our non-pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain to China.

No one forced us to make our flagship public universities' revenues hence solvency dependent on thousands of extremely well-connected and wealthy, free-spending spoiled ignorant CCP spawn.

No one forced us to admit thousands of Chinese spies into our research land and high-tech corporations.

We did all this to ourselves. Because we are ruled by f---ing morons.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-14 22:21|| 2020-04-14 22:21|| Front Page Top

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