How can anyone think let alone believe that Trump and Amerika compete with China, let alone China, Russia, Iran combined. Chairman Mao, all reactionaries are paper tigers couldn’t be more right in this time and place. I am keeping this brief but the article is a must read for the western world so they can see what our government has done in the name of capitalism/neoliberalism. Typing on my iPhone is not suitable and I can’t seem to be able to respond on my laptop, god only knows why. Thanks for the great article Karl, it was 1000% worth the workout
We are at an inflection point and your efforts, as always, to help us grasp the context and detail of events are greatly appreciated, Karl.
The mystery of the Korean War has still not been addressed in western history texts. And the future battle, if it comes, will not be fought with sheer human armies, but the collective unity of all modes of struggle possible coiled around the technological imagination of China.
John Helmer and Dimitry Lascaris discuss Wess Mitchell and Eldridge Colby and wretched company as they manipulate Trump to advance their insane vision of usa greatness by destroying China.
This is an in depth analysis of the planners behind the current usa "protection racket" as Helmer calls it. Mitchell and Colby have form and have been at it for a considerable time. They imagine that they have a clock so nothing could go wrong. They have a clock ? more like they hold an antikythera mechanism tuned to armageddon.
Clearly there are other currents running as the administration also is desperate to destroy Iran and enlarge Israel from the Euphrates to the sea at least. And that is more immediate than China for Trump and his deep state controllers. This has the hallmarks of a fragmentation grenade within the Trump Cabinet room.
The amorality of the West lies in its constant urge to threaten, blackmail, and destroy rising competitors. This amorality, however, is proof of its own weakness and systemic inability to compete peacefully in the markets.
The root of this weakness and incapacity (at least when viewed in historical terms) lies in its system, which is designed to operate solely in the interest of a small minority of society. All of the system's functional mechanisms are configured toward this goal. As a result, 90% of the population are merely data points, statistics, and exist in the status of livestock. The 1% at the very top of the power pyramid exist in a state of inbred greed and such decadence that they live in a parallel universe—completely detached from the real world outside.
Ultimately, this—and their insatiable greed—is a key reason why their own capacity for innovation, flexibility, and adaptation is rapidly declining. One symptom of this was (and is) the outsourcing of production and even parts of research and science. China has shrewdly taken advantage of this. There are always quick accusations that China engages in industrial espionage and merely copies others. But what goes unnoticed is that today, most patents worldwide are Chinese. What goes unnoticed is the sheer number of scientists, engineers, technicians, and doctors produced annually by its outstanding education system. In China, there is both the ambition and the opportunity to achieve career success and prosperity through high performance. What does the situation look like in the US in this regard?
Thank you. Indeed he does and I assume many other strategic 'jobs for the elite' aka comfort contracts are in place via these 'charitable policy research institutes'. They are placed in every country and are components of usa subversion and control.
I really appreciate your work AND commentary, Karl. And I do have to admit that I prefer Michael Hudson analysis to Richard Wolff. Hegel might be an interesting step but logic does not always explain geopolitics. Thank you!
Wolff’s point is if the Capitalist knew how to reason dialectically it could anticipate and thus avoid its own contradictions. And the contradictions blowing up in the capitalist’s face cause mistakes geopolitically.
Oh, I am going to read it. I keep thinking about Hannah Arendt’s claim — I am not a doer, but I am a thinker and I want to understand what has brought us here (well, an extremely free paraphrasing, obviously). Thank you, Karl.
Karl, a couple of days ago Gamers Nexus (on Youtube) released a video of how the tariffs are breaking the PC industry (in the US). One of the vendors showed a breakdown of one product's various input and cost, including the tariffs. The stress levels for these businesses have been sky high, and one of the conclusions is that this will kill people. Interesting one business was planning on moving production to the US but costed in various necessary imports which made it unviable.
"Therefore, if the United States wants to bully China and impose hegemonism on us, then we are ready to deal with a world without the United States, and we are confident that we can live for another 5,000 years, and this is China's confidence."
"Seeing that China is now defending free trade and the United States is undermining free trade, who wants to wear the same pants and ride in the same boat with the United States?"
"Without industry, we can't create so many products, we can't create so much wealth, and growth is likely to be bubble growth."
"Trump said we were going to get more tariffs to make America richer. But he forgot to tell the American people, who will pay the tariffs? "
That is the difference between China and the USA. In the USA, wealth only benefits a very small minority. China is investing with the aim of achieving prosperity for more and more citizens in the country.
With regard to the energy revolution and thorium reactors, I listened to an interview yesterday that I found astonishing.
There is another very important difference between the West and China, which you actually see constantly in everyday life through the media.
In the West, all you hear all the time is fear-mongering, dangers coming from abroad threatening us. "We" threaten, demand, blackmail and the MIC is fed.
All you hear from China is peace, diplomacy, mutual benefit, cooperation, and China is investing in value creation and building something. For example, thousands of bridges, tunnels, roads, power plants, etc. Military action only occurs out of the necessity of reaction.
So Chairman Mao finally came in handy but it's not 1950 is it, the Paper Tiger has real teeth even if it doesn't know how to bite. It really is a test of wills and Trump could either be some kind of bizarre blessing or some kind of awful curse. But it's obviously no accident that the CCP has reanimated Mao in a time of the same two, competing powers facing each other and I suspect the words of Mao are directed at China's domestic audience. As they say, may you live in interesting times.
The 1950s was the height of US power. From 1945 to the mid 1960s, US had nuclear weapons, and China did not. So such thinking was truly bold at the time. US generals threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea. It was settled with a compromise. Afterwards, in 1954, the dissatisfied hawk US Sec State Dulles, declared the policy of responding to small or medium sized setbacks vs communist expansion with massive retaliation. It was a policy of radical escalation. Mao and Ho called his bluff the very same year, when they chased out the French.
There is nothing comparable today. US carrier battle groups are reduced to "shoot and scoot" tactics when facing Yemen in the Red Sea. 2 days of air strikes, 2 weeks in the safety of their Saudi port almost 1000km away.
I enjoyed all of it. I think the best part, well for me is, "they all work for the same boss—the Gun that Trump is now the trigger for." (Changes not seen in 100 years).
Thanks for your comment. I’m currently reading an interview of one of the panel, Zhou Bo, by some Australian journalists that provides further insight into current Chinese thought/mentality. Another article I read at Guancha talked about the huge amount of electrical power required for AI and related computing platforms such as the coming quantum computing and communication systems. If you recall, China’s huge amount of power production was mentioned and is a huge deficit for the USA that will take several trillion dollars worth of investment to match, which is absolutely essential for any sort of MAGA to occur. And where TSMC has built its production facility in Arizona, either nuclear or natural gas thermal power is possible, with the latter requiring a pipeline to provide fuel. Yes, there’s lots of sun in the desert, but that can’t generate the amount of power required. And then there’s the issue of water since it’s also a required resource for chip fabrication.
Unfortunately, another big problem’s been fomented by Imperial terrorist proxies in Kashmir that has the potential to create another war. Great exertions will need to be applied by SCO and BRICS members to make the two sides back-off and see that they’re being manipulated.
I would like to talk about energy, well I work in this field. However and by no means do I neglect what you comment on but yes the problem between India and Pakistan is the most important today.
The details are not always clear, but this is a provocation by Pakistan, at least rebels from Pakistan, and certainly instigated by Washington or London. Possibly both. It is disappointing that India lacks maturity, political and diplomatic. By the way suspension of water and the cessation (violation) of the 1960 treaty is collective punishment. This is a violation of international law and the United Nations charter.
We cannot know but it is not unreasonable to believe this is to cause problems for Brics and Sco unions and countries. Personally I do not trust India, well the political ruling class actually. Indians generally are nice people and we have good relations with them for a long time. Modhi I will not speak about but he appears to enjoy 2 chairs to sit in at the same time. The foreign minister in particular I dislike. He is a globalist. His son works for a Washington think tank with Eldridge Colby, now appointed to Pentagon https://themarathoninitiative.org/who-we-are/
Both are involved with Heritage Foundation. Something is wrong with the Brics India, India America relationship. Maybe we will find out soon and not later now.
Note the timing of upcoming events/deadlines and the BRICS Summit in July. There was a good article in Guancha about the power required for AI and other new technologies like quantum computing and communications. IMO, Putin’s plans aren’t big enough for 2030.
Although I agree with you completely. As you correctly state AI, quantum computing, communications, many others and possibly new breakthroughs/new technologies will require a significant increase in production far beyond todays estimates. The increase projections are for approximately 20%, conservative and yet even today this legislation is obsolete.
To me that is very disturbing. Of course I have deep respect for China so my disturbance is not about her, but about the inadequacy here that you correctly stated in previous reply. In fact it is more than our total production. There is no consolation in it being 40% of America total production either and even that a G7 country England it is 5 times more than her total production.
We are far behind, we have land and all necessary resources to manufacture everything China uses in her renewable programs, but..
If I've read it then so has China (including the panel in Karl's splendid posting) and every other sovereign country. So much for virtue signalling or moral pontificating.
PROJECT 25
MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP: The Conservative Promise
30 Chapters but Chapter 26 is written by Peter Navarro in early '2023' dealing with tariffs and slating China.
A must read, a good yarn with China (surprise) as the main cause of most of America's ILLS.
A blow by blow of what we can expect in the coming months and years, for example next Tuesday Elon is lancing an aggravating recurring boil millimetres from Trump's anus and Trump's acute gastroenteritis has finally gotten rid of the snide smirk on Elon's face.
OK I scanned is and the first f'ing sentence drove back to drink: "The United States of America is the world’s dominant superpower and remains the world’s arsenal of democracy."
Then the repeated reference to China and its "aggression" in every act of its being... This the scribbles of a true maniacal neocon. Navarro is a suitable case for treatment, an exemplar of ignorance, an idiot with too big a budget employing a phalanx of undergrad researcher/writer slaves.
I have seen enough in one quick scan and the shocking thing is that Trump swallows this sewage water lumps and all. There are 887 pages of this trash. Really all it represents is an attempt to put lipstick on the pig of the elites last resort to devour the entire US fabric of nationhood and make off with the loot.
Do not read this.... it is bad for your health, sobriety and sense of wonder at the beauty of the universe.
The Chinese will have teams of consultants pouring over all these 'policy' documents, nullifying any possibility of catching even Rip Van Winkle off-guard. Trump would frequently chastise Sleepy Joe for losing the element of surprise by signalling advance intent. I believe this was released in April 2023. I wonder if these folks, Heritage and the NED are recipients of USAID.
Much like Russia had the foresight to modernise/develop their military hardware/systems in anticipation of this day, China likewise will have prepared for such Shenanigans accordingly.
When you import more than you export you are consuming more than you produce. no country has ever survived such circumstances without exploiting others in a non-trade fashion. UK has survived on raping its colonies, and controlling international trade routes and international finance. The US is the hand puppet of the City of London. 60-70% of US imports from China are products of US and EU corporations who off-shored (screwed over) American labor force. If the US can't get it back it should default the entire US debt load and let the chips fall where they lie. We shall see how quickly the rest of the world recovers from that "crisis". China has to export because 800-900m chinese can't afford to purchase anything made in China. China is also hurtling toward a demographic abyss (2050) when approximately half it 1.4b people will be at retirement age. The same problem that Japan is already undergoing. The biggest problem that BRICS has is that 75% of the 3+ billion people in those countries can't afford to purchase the modern manufactured products consumed in the western countries. Henry Ford built cars that his own work force could purchase and thus contributed to growing the US middle class. China does not have the luxury of time needed to accomplish the same on its population; it must grow its wealth at the expense of others; if the US goes, then the EU and then everyone else.
Militarily: The US population only pays attention when the body bags start coming home; that is why the US engages in proxy wars. Should the US directly engage Russia (probably not) or Iran (hopefully not) the body bags will wake up the US population to the evils of raping other countries' resources in the name of "'Humanitarian Intervention". Otherwise, Americans may need a "reset". Final point: 80% of NYSE is owned by 1% of the US population and most of the billionaires in the world are private equity based. They build nothing; they trade nothing; they begin nothing. They simply invest in and exploit those who do. We used to say "they that can do, do; they that can't tell how". That paradigm as changed to they that can't, own those who do. That may be the best reason to have the "global reset". One bomb in the world; drop it on the City of London.
Chairman Mao would be astonished to realize he is now being held up as a fighter for "Free Trade"! This is the same Chairman Mao whose Great Proletarian Revolution ended up with Chinese people literally eating each other. The same Chairman Mao who said that Political Power comes out of the barrel of a gun -- a gun that was mostly pointed at his fellow Chinese. The same Chairman Mao who cautioned that the United States may be a paper tiger, but that paper tiger has nuclear teeth.
I wonder how many people in China have positive memories of Chairman Mao? But setting that aside, the issue for everyone in the world is that global trade today is very unbalanced. As a supposed "Free Trader", Chairman Mao would have recognized that one of the key assumptions in the Ricardian "Free Trade" theory is international trade can never be unbalanced -- which demonstrates that the world today does not have "Free Trade". One way or another, international trade is going to become re-balanced -- either China imports more & manufactures less (very bad for Chinese jobs), or the US imports less and manufactures more (good for American jobs); or both happen in a coordinated fashion which maximizes the benefits for both countries. All the kerfuffle about tariffs is simply posturing (on both sides) before they get down to serious negotiations.
As students of their own long history, all educated Chinese people know that the fundamental cause of the English Opium Wars and the consequent Century of Humiliation for China was that China was running an extreme Balance of Trade surplus -- the English declared war on China to sell opium to the Chinese people to earn the money pay for their imports from China. Unbalanced trade certainly did not benefit the Chinese people then, and in the long run it won't benefit the Chinese people today.
Ignore the bluster from China and from the US. Both sides know that eventually their trade has to become more balanced. Let's hope this happens without anyone resorting to the "English Option".
Your first sentence shows your serious deficiency in reading comprehension: Mao is not being held up as a proponent of free trade, his words are cited as a reflection of the determination of the Chinese people to survive under adversity.
Quote: "But for all of humanity, trade should be free. ... China now has to not only defend its own economic interests, but more importantly, protect free trade ..."
"the English declared war on China to sell opium to the Chinese people to earn the money pay for their imports from China. "
Uber ignorance and fantasy. The Jewish Sassoon's were giving a % of their opium smuggling/peddling profits to the British govt. and Queen Victoria personally. When China finally asserted itself and said no the British parasitical class declared war to regain their drug fuelled profits.
One should always try to focus on the fundamentals. Yes, England's opium trade created profit opportunities for European opportunists; but the fundamentals related to trade imbalance. Trying reading "Empire of Silver" by Jin Xu, or "The Chinese Opium Wars" by Jack Beeching.
When European trade with China started to grow in the 1700s, China exported lots of goods which England wanted -- tea, silks, pottery, and more. But China had no interest in the manufactured goods that England offered in trade. Instead, China would accept only silver. That trade imbalance was the fundamental problem.
By the early 1800s, England was running out of silver. They hit on the idea of oppressing poor Indians to produce opium which they then sold to unfortunate Chinese to balance the trade. When the Chinese Emperor tried to stop this trade, the English militarily stomped on China.
China's huge trade surplus with England thus resulted in a moral catastrophe for the English, and a physical catastrophe for the Chinese people. That is an important lesson for today's Chinese people from their own long history. Re-balancing international trade today is the best option for securing peace & prosperity for everyone in the world.
Wholeheartedly agree that the Ruling Classes of England (and the rest of Europe) were -- and remain -- utter scum. But the question for China in the 1800s was how to deal with those utter scum?
China was running an unsustainable trade surplus with England, and refused even to try to balance the trade. China could have tried to find at least some English manufactured goods to trade in exchange -- maybe clocks, or saddles, or furniture. How different history might have been if the Chinese had tried! Instead, China did nothing and the English launched their disreputable war.
In the longer run, the English eliminated that Chinese trade surplus -- and not only by hooking ordinary Chinese on opium. The English smuggled tea plants out of China and made Indian peasants grow tea to replace the Chinese supply. The English also raised the quality of their own pottery, cutting their demand for Chinese pottery. Whether it is done at the barrel of a gun or by more peaceful methods, the lesson from Chinese history is that gross trade imbalances are unsustainable -- for the exporter as well as the importer.
That is something serious Chinese politicians should be thinking about. The Euro Ruling Class is desperately afraid that China is in the process of flooding the Euro market with automobiles that are higher quality and much cheaper than European vehicles. Today's Europe is unlikely to try to balance their trade with China by bombing Chinese auto assembly plants ... at least, I hope so. But China's manufacturing success will undoubtedly create consequences. It would be smart of China's rulers to explore ways to balance trade pre-emptively and constructively.
How can anyone think let alone believe that Trump and Amerika compete with China, let alone China, Russia, Iran combined. Chairman Mao, all reactionaries are paper tigers couldn’t be more right in this time and place. I am keeping this brief but the article is a must read for the western world so they can see what our government has done in the name of capitalism/neoliberalism. Typing on my iPhone is not suitable and I can’t seem to be able to respond on my laptop, god only knows why. Thanks for the great article Karl, it was 1000% worth the workout
We are at an inflection point and your efforts, as always, to help us grasp the context and detail of events are greatly appreciated, Karl.
The mystery of the Korean War has still not been addressed in western history texts. And the future battle, if it comes, will not be fought with sheer human armies, but the collective unity of all modes of struggle possible coiled around the technological imagination of China.
John Helmer and Dimitry Lascaris discuss Wess Mitchell and Eldridge Colby and wretched company as they manipulate Trump to advance their insane vision of usa greatness by destroying China.
This is an in depth analysis of the planners behind the current usa "protection racket" as Helmer calls it. Mitchell and Colby have form and have been at it for a considerable time. They imagine that they have a clock so nothing could go wrong. They have a clock ? more like they hold an antikythera mechanism tuned to armageddon.
https://youtu.be/WTP7v4BB-Bo
Clearly there are other currents running as the administration also is desperate to destroy Iran and enlarge Israel from the Euphrates to the sea at least. And that is more immediate than China for Trump and his deep state controllers. This has the hallmarks of a fragmentation grenade within the Trump Cabinet room.
The amorality of the West lies in its constant urge to threaten, blackmail, and destroy rising competitors. This amorality, however, is proof of its own weakness and systemic inability to compete peacefully in the markets.
The root of this weakness and incapacity (at least when viewed in historical terms) lies in its system, which is designed to operate solely in the interest of a small minority of society. All of the system's functional mechanisms are configured toward this goal. As a result, 90% of the population are merely data points, statistics, and exist in the status of livestock. The 1% at the very top of the power pyramid exist in a state of inbred greed and such decadence that they live in a parallel universe—completely detached from the real world outside.
Ultimately, this—and their insatiable greed—is a key reason why their own capacity for innovation, flexibility, and adaptation is rapidly declining. One symptom of this was (and is) the outsourcing of production and even parts of research and science. China has shrewdly taken advantage of this. There are always quick accusations that China engages in industrial espionage and merely copies others. But what goes unnoticed is that today, most patents worldwide are Chinese. What goes unnoticed is the sheer number of scientists, engineers, technicians, and doctors produced annually by its outstanding education system. In China, there is both the ambition and the opportunity to achieve career success and prosperity through high performance. What does the situation look like in the US in this regard?
Son of Indian foreign minister Dhruva Jaishankar works at Marathon Initiative think tank started by Colby and Mitchell.
Thank you. Indeed he does and I assume many other strategic 'jobs for the elite' aka comfort contracts are in place via these 'charitable policy research institutes'. They are placed in every country and are components of usa subversion and control.
I really appreciate your work AND commentary, Karl. And I do have to admit that I prefer Michael Hudson analysis to Richard Wolff. Hegel might be an interesting step but logic does not always explain geopolitics. Thank you!
Wolff’s point is if the Capitalist knew how to reason dialectically it could anticipate and thus avoid its own contradictions. And the contradictions blowing up in the capitalist’s face cause mistakes geopolitically.
If you find time, this is a powerful read, https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/supply-chain-disintermediation-another
Oh, I am going to read it. I keep thinking about Hannah Arendt’s claim — I am not a doer, but I am a thinker and I want to understand what has brought us here (well, an extremely free paraphrasing, obviously). Thank you, Karl.
Karl, a couple of days ago Gamers Nexus (on Youtube) released a video of how the tariffs are breaking the PC industry (in the US). One of the vendors showed a breakdown of one product's various input and cost, including the tariffs. The stress levels for these businesses have been sky high, and one of the conclusions is that this will kill people. Interesting one business was planning on moving production to the US but costed in various necessary imports which made it unviable.
Yes, Trump is merely the trigger for the dumb gun of Outlaw US Empire policy.
The important quotes:
"Therefore, if the United States wants to bully China and impose hegemonism on us, then we are ready to deal with a world without the United States, and we are confident that we can live for another 5,000 years, and this is China's confidence."
"Seeing that China is now defending free trade and the United States is undermining free trade, who wants to wear the same pants and ride in the same boat with the United States?"
"Without industry, we can't create so many products, we can't create so much wealth, and growth is likely to be bubble growth."
"Trump said we were going to get more tariffs to make America richer. But he forgot to tell the American people, who will pay the tariffs? "
That is the difference between China and the USA. In the USA, wealth only benefits a very small minority. China is investing with the aim of achieving prosperity for more and more citizens in the country.
With regard to the energy revolution and thorium reactors, I listened to an interview yesterday that I found astonishing.
https://youtu.be/jN7TV4qpimA?si=-oATIg5wTSqYChPh
There is another very important difference between the West and China, which you actually see constantly in everyday life through the media.
In the West, all you hear all the time is fear-mongering, dangers coming from abroad threatening us. "We" threaten, demand, blackmail and the MIC is fed.
All you hear from China is peace, diplomacy, mutual benefit, cooperation, and China is investing in value creation and building something. For example, thousands of bridges, tunnels, roads, power plants, etc. Military action only occurs out of the necessity of reaction.
So Chairman Mao finally came in handy but it's not 1950 is it, the Paper Tiger has real teeth even if it doesn't know how to bite. It really is a test of wills and Trump could either be some kind of bizarre blessing or some kind of awful curse. But it's obviously no accident that the CCP has reanimated Mao in a time of the same two, competing powers facing each other and I suspect the words of Mao are directed at China's domestic audience. As they say, may you live in interesting times.
I don’t think you read carefully or understood the interview — your generalization is like using a very coarse sieve to retrieve fine particles.
The 1950s was the height of US power. From 1945 to the mid 1960s, US had nuclear weapons, and China did not. So such thinking was truly bold at the time. US generals threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea. It was settled with a compromise. Afterwards, in 1954, the dissatisfied hawk US Sec State Dulles, declared the policy of responding to small or medium sized setbacks vs communist expansion with massive retaliation. It was a policy of radical escalation. Mao and Ho called his bluff the very same year, when they chased out the French.
There is nothing comparable today. US carrier battle groups are reduced to "shoot and scoot" tactics when facing Yemen in the Red Sea. 2 days of air strikes, 2 weeks in the safety of their Saudi port almost 1000km away.
I enjoyed all of it. I think the best part, well for me is, "they all work for the same boss—the Gun that Trump is now the trigger for." (Changes not seen in 100 years).
You know, I know and they know about elephants :)
Thanks for your comment. I’m currently reading an interview of one of the panel, Zhou Bo, by some Australian journalists that provides further insight into current Chinese thought/mentality. Another article I read at Guancha talked about the huge amount of electrical power required for AI and related computing platforms such as the coming quantum computing and communication systems. If you recall, China’s huge amount of power production was mentioned and is a huge deficit for the USA that will take several trillion dollars worth of investment to match, which is absolutely essential for any sort of MAGA to occur. And where TSMC has built its production facility in Arizona, either nuclear or natural gas thermal power is possible, with the latter requiring a pipeline to provide fuel. Yes, there’s lots of sun in the desert, but that can’t generate the amount of power required. And then there’s the issue of water since it’s also a required resource for chip fabrication.
Unfortunately, another big problem’s been fomented by Imperial terrorist proxies in Kashmir that has the potential to create another war. Great exertions will need to be applied by SCO and BRICS members to make the two sides back-off and see that they’re being manipulated.
I would like to talk about energy, well I work in this field. However and by no means do I neglect what you comment on but yes the problem between India and Pakistan is the most important today.
The details are not always clear, but this is a provocation by Pakistan, at least rebels from Pakistan, and certainly instigated by Washington or London. Possibly both. It is disappointing that India lacks maturity, political and diplomatic. By the way suspension of water and the cessation (violation) of the 1960 treaty is collective punishment. This is a violation of international law and the United Nations charter.
We cannot know but it is not unreasonable to believe this is to cause problems for Brics and Sco unions and countries. Personally I do not trust India, well the political ruling class actually. Indians generally are nice people and we have good relations with them for a long time. Modhi I will not speak about but he appears to enjoy 2 chairs to sit in at the same time. The foreign minister in particular I dislike. He is a globalist. His son works for a Washington think tank with Eldridge Colby, now appointed to Pentagon https://themarathoninitiative.org/who-we-are/
Elbridge Colby started Marathon with Wess Mitchell https://themarathoninitiative.org/
Both are involved with Heritage Foundation. Something is wrong with the Brics India, India America relationship. Maybe we will find out soon and not later now.
Note the timing of upcoming events/deadlines and the BRICS Summit in July. There was a good article in Guancha about the power required for AI and other new technologies like quantum computing and communications. IMO, Putin’s plans aren’t big enough for 2030.
The evil empire has impeccable timing, English influence perhaps? Even wickedness should be respected, she never disappoints.
2030 Government order 1715-r is now 2035, 1523-r. It was updated and amended in February.
https://www.glavbukh.ru/npd/edoc/99_565068231?ysclid=m9xbfl72177675641
Although I agree with you completely. As you correctly state AI, quantum computing, communications, many others and possibly new breakthroughs/new technologies will require a significant increase in production far beyond todays estimates. The increase projections are for approximately 20%, conservative and yet even today this legislation is obsolete.
This was just announced, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202504/1332875.shtml
To me that is very disturbing. Of course I have deep respect for China so my disturbance is not about her, but about the inadequacy here that you correctly stated in previous reply. In fact it is more than our total production. There is no consolation in it being 40% of America total production either and even that a G7 country England it is 5 times more than her total production.
We are far behind, we have land and all necessary resources to manufacture everything China uses in her renewable programs, but..
If I've read it then so has China (including the panel in Karl's splendid posting) and every other sovereign country. So much for virtue signalling or moral pontificating.
PROJECT 25
MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP: The Conservative Promise
30 Chapters but Chapter 26 is written by Peter Navarro in early '2023' dealing with tariffs and slating China.
A must read, a good yarn with China (surprise) as the main cause of most of America's ILLS.
A blow by blow of what we can expect in the coming months and years, for example next Tuesday Elon is lancing an aggravating recurring boil millimetres from Trump's anus and Trump's acute gastroenteritis has finally gotten rid of the snide smirk on Elon's face.
OK I scanned is and the first f'ing sentence drove back to drink: "The United States of America is the world’s dominant superpower and remains the world’s arsenal of democracy."
Then the repeated reference to China and its "aggression" in every act of its being... This the scribbles of a true maniacal neocon. Navarro is a suitable case for treatment, an exemplar of ignorance, an idiot with too big a budget employing a phalanx of undergrad researcher/writer slaves.
I have seen enough in one quick scan and the shocking thing is that Trump swallows this sewage water lumps and all. There are 887 pages of this trash. Really all it represents is an attempt to put lipstick on the pig of the elites last resort to devour the entire US fabric of nationhood and make off with the loot.
Do not read this.... it is bad for your health, sobriety and sense of wonder at the beauty of the universe.
The Chinese will have teams of consultants pouring over all these 'policy' documents, nullifying any possibility of catching even Rip Van Winkle off-guard. Trump would frequently chastise Sleepy Joe for losing the element of surprise by signalling advance intent. I believe this was released in April 2023. I wonder if these folks, Heritage and the NED are recipients of USAID.
Much like Russia had the foresight to modernise/develop their military hardware/systems in anticipation of this day, China likewise will have prepared for such Shenanigans accordingly.
Now that Musk reference is a tad elliptical. How about a link but no graphics please.
When you import more than you export you are consuming more than you produce. no country has ever survived such circumstances without exploiting others in a non-trade fashion. UK has survived on raping its colonies, and controlling international trade routes and international finance. The US is the hand puppet of the City of London. 60-70% of US imports from China are products of US and EU corporations who off-shored (screwed over) American labor force. If the US can't get it back it should default the entire US debt load and let the chips fall where they lie. We shall see how quickly the rest of the world recovers from that "crisis". China has to export because 800-900m chinese can't afford to purchase anything made in China. China is also hurtling toward a demographic abyss (2050) when approximately half it 1.4b people will be at retirement age. The same problem that Japan is already undergoing. The biggest problem that BRICS has is that 75% of the 3+ billion people in those countries can't afford to purchase the modern manufactured products consumed in the western countries. Henry Ford built cars that his own work force could purchase and thus contributed to growing the US middle class. China does not have the luxury of time needed to accomplish the same on its population; it must grow its wealth at the expense of others; if the US goes, then the EU and then everyone else.
Militarily: The US population only pays attention when the body bags start coming home; that is why the US engages in proxy wars. Should the US directly engage Russia (probably not) or Iran (hopefully not) the body bags will wake up the US population to the evils of raping other countries' resources in the name of "'Humanitarian Intervention". Otherwise, Americans may need a "reset". Final point: 80% of NYSE is owned by 1% of the US population and most of the billionaires in the world are private equity based. They build nothing; they trade nothing; they begin nothing. They simply invest in and exploit those who do. We used to say "they that can do, do; they that can't tell how". That paradigm as changed to they that can't, own those who do. That may be the best reason to have the "global reset". One bomb in the world; drop it on the City of London.
Chairman Mao would be astonished to realize he is now being held up as a fighter for "Free Trade"! This is the same Chairman Mao whose Great Proletarian Revolution ended up with Chinese people literally eating each other. The same Chairman Mao who said that Political Power comes out of the barrel of a gun -- a gun that was mostly pointed at his fellow Chinese. The same Chairman Mao who cautioned that the United States may be a paper tiger, but that paper tiger has nuclear teeth.
I wonder how many people in China have positive memories of Chairman Mao? But setting that aside, the issue for everyone in the world is that global trade today is very unbalanced. As a supposed "Free Trader", Chairman Mao would have recognized that one of the key assumptions in the Ricardian "Free Trade" theory is international trade can never be unbalanced -- which demonstrates that the world today does not have "Free Trade". One way or another, international trade is going to become re-balanced -- either China imports more & manufactures less (very bad for Chinese jobs), or the US imports less and manufactures more (good for American jobs); or both happen in a coordinated fashion which maximizes the benefits for both countries. All the kerfuffle about tariffs is simply posturing (on both sides) before they get down to serious negotiations.
As students of their own long history, all educated Chinese people know that the fundamental cause of the English Opium Wars and the consequent Century of Humiliation for China was that China was running an extreme Balance of Trade surplus -- the English declared war on China to sell opium to the Chinese people to earn the money pay for their imports from China. Unbalanced trade certainly did not benefit the Chinese people then, and in the long run it won't benefit the Chinese people today.
Ignore the bluster from China and from the US. Both sides know that eventually their trade has to become more balanced. Let's hope this happens without anyone resorting to the "English Option".
Your first sentence shows your serious deficiency in reading comprehension: Mao is not being held up as a proponent of free trade, his words are cited as a reflection of the determination of the Chinese people to survive under adversity.
Reading deficiency :)
Quote: "But for all of humanity, trade should be free. ... China now has to not only defend its own economic interests, but more importantly, protect free trade ..."
"the English declared war on China to sell opium to the Chinese people to earn the money pay for their imports from China. "
Uber ignorance and fantasy. The Jewish Sassoon's were giving a % of their opium smuggling/peddling profits to the British govt. and Queen Victoria personally. When China finally asserted itself and said no the British parasitical class declared war to regain their drug fuelled profits.
One should always try to focus on the fundamentals. Yes, England's opium trade created profit opportunities for European opportunists; but the fundamentals related to trade imbalance. Trying reading "Empire of Silver" by Jin Xu, or "The Chinese Opium Wars" by Jack Beeching.
When European trade with China started to grow in the 1700s, China exported lots of goods which England wanted -- tea, silks, pottery, and more. But China had no interest in the manufactured goods that England offered in trade. Instead, China would accept only silver. That trade imbalance was the fundamental problem.
By the early 1800s, England was running out of silver. They hit on the idea of oppressing poor Indians to produce opium which they then sold to unfortunate Chinese to balance the trade. When the Chinese Emperor tried to stop this trade, the English militarily stomped on China.
China's huge trade surplus with England thus resulted in a moral catastrophe for the English, and a physical catastrophe for the Chinese people. That is an important lesson for today's Chinese people from their own long history. Re-balancing international trade today is the best option for securing peace & prosperity for everyone in the world.
The utter greed and immorality of the English was the fundamental problem….
Wholeheartedly agree that the Ruling Classes of England (and the rest of Europe) were -- and remain -- utter scum. But the question for China in the 1800s was how to deal with those utter scum?
China was running an unsustainable trade surplus with England, and refused even to try to balance the trade. China could have tried to find at least some English manufactured goods to trade in exchange -- maybe clocks, or saddles, or furniture. How different history might have been if the Chinese had tried! Instead, China did nothing and the English launched their disreputable war.
In the longer run, the English eliminated that Chinese trade surplus -- and not only by hooking ordinary Chinese on opium. The English smuggled tea plants out of China and made Indian peasants grow tea to replace the Chinese supply. The English also raised the quality of their own pottery, cutting their demand for Chinese pottery. Whether it is done at the barrel of a gun or by more peaceful methods, the lesson from Chinese history is that gross trade imbalances are unsustainable -- for the exporter as well as the importer.
That is something serious Chinese politicians should be thinking about. The Euro Ruling Class is desperately afraid that China is in the process of flooding the Euro market with automobiles that are higher quality and much cheaper than European vehicles. Today's Europe is unlikely to try to balance their trade with China by bombing Chinese auto assembly plants ... at least, I hope so. But China's manufacturing success will undoubtedly create consequences. It would be smart of China's rulers to explore ways to balance trade pre-emptively and constructively.