Elaine Meinel Supkis
March 29, 2006
As America flounders in a sea of blood, trying to make deals with some Middle Eastern Muslim countries while killing other Muslims, China shows how pure merchantile business can reap great rewards without killing anyone. Countries can do business without shooting people, you know. And we are not winning the industrial wars which, in the end, are much more important than the bombing wars.
The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of relations with Saudi Arabia and is ready to make joint efforts with Saudi Arabia to further strengthen exchanges at all levels and promote political mutual trust, said Li.
He said China will continue to develop economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, expand cultural exchanges and consolidate friendship between the two peoples, in a bid to raise bilateral relationship to a higher level.
Bandar said Saudi Arabia regards China as a good friend and good partner and is willing to work with China to continuously enhance the friendly cooperation in various fields.
Bandar arrived here on Tuesday for a visit to China at the invitation of Li.
Notice that the Chinese don’t have to station troops all over kingdom come to achieve trade agreements and diplomatic alliances. The biggest mistake a country can make is to try to run everything using military bases and tremendous violence. This never works in the long run, even just a series of local disorders can quickly drain the treasury. Back 1700s when France and England were contesting each other on the Continent, they decided to extend the fighting to their colonies in the New World. A series of fights won England control of French Canada and which is, to this very day, still resented by the French speaking population. France retaliated by funding the American Revolution. Both England and France nearly went bankrupt thanks to this extended American adventure. So both got involved in a very massive war when Napoleon took over France and fought England, yet again! Whew!
Why did England become the world power?
The Industrial Revolution which really took off after the loss of the North American Anglo colonies.
We are in the middle of a new facet of this revolution. England has declined very steeply from the heights it owned when it was the industrial giant of the planet. Germany and then the USA took that crown and in the case of the USA, we won the British world empire sweepstakes when Germany and England exhausted each other, trying to rule the world via military might.
We thought we would be clever and do it via trade but thanks to the Soviet Union assisting the Chinese revolution, we went into full military mode and instead of developing a strong free trade nexus, we decided to be a violent military empire like so many before us. And like all of them, we are now going bankrupt.
Will the Chinese fall into this trap? Never in their history have they tried world conquest. They were conquered by the Mongols who drove them into world conquest but that lasted only a short while and the Chinese then happily settled down to being a self contained empire with definite borders and a contempt for lesser people.
Visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez said here Wednesday that the United States draws “significant benefits” from its commerce with China.
Addressing a full house of business people, officials and reporters at China World Hotel, Gutierrez said that U.S. consumers gain “additional choices” and many American companies are operating profitably in China.
Citing the latest survey on business climate conducted by AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce), Gutierrez said that two thirds of the responding companies have expanded the range of products and services they offer in China.
“America also benefited from trade with China,” he said, “U.S. exports to China grew by 20 percent last year, which built on 22 percent growth from the year before.”
Indeed. Our rulers are happy with a mass of illegal immigration that is uncontrollable and thus keeps the middle and lower working classes unable to negotiate for a bigger slice of the corporate pie. They also want this “trade” with other nations that have equally helpless workers. This way, there is no inflation except for oil which is why China is courting all those oil countries and being very sweet about it all, too.
Instead of defending our borders from being flooded by cheaply produced goods, the ruling class is encouraging the flow. I warned fellow Americans in the past, if we let this happen, we have a brief historic time period of cheap goods and good pay and then down the drain it all goes and we end up in a long, gruelling depression with cheap goods and no money to purchase much of it.
Of course, due to energy costs, we have inflation which is why Bernanke is raising interest rates. And we need the Chinese to buy our debts which is why we are raising interest rates and we need to raise ever more funds to pay for this flood of stuff pouring into America which is why we are raising interest rates. Get it?
The fact that many American companies are making profits in China is particularily funny. This is good for them but bad for us! Why should we be happy that people using our country as a base of operations are bribing Congress and messing up with elections via a flood of money from them which goes towards cutting their taxes, make money by shipping our jobs to China? See? They benefit and they insure they can continue to do this using America as their tool, while sticking it to the American worker! They can buy and sell in China and we get to stand here and watch 150 years of industrialization vaporize. China is happy and so are they!
Well, this isn’t good for us so it isn’t good for us. Every time these businessmen downsize here, the problems here grow, not shrink. Instead of America becoming stronger, we become weaker. Imagine if we shipped out our entire industrial base to Germany and Japan in the thirties? Huh? Um, we are doing exactly that now, isn’t that one of history’s ironies!
But worse, we are doing it with nations that can contest us successfully and the Bush administration thinks this is good for America because a bunch of traitors are making a buck destroying the American dream.
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