Timothy Birdnow

I never doubted for a minute that much of Trump's tariff-happy policies were aimed at crushing China and perhaps driving regime change there.

Trump Admin Preparing to Unleash a New Economic Weapon That Could Devastate China: Report

china has been and remains in a precarious economic position because they have to create so many new jobs to feed their younger generation and without strong economic growth the regime there is in peril. They have had strong economic growth but at the expense of the U.S. and European trading partners over the years. It was a conscious American policy championed by both sides of the aisle and not just so Congressmen could make money; people like Newt Gingrich advocated a strong and prosperous china. Their reasoning? They believed that, unlike the Soviet Union, China was more imperial than communist and that with an influx of money and goods China would morph into Germany (which had been more imperial than capitalist too). Gingrich has since done a mea culpa, admitting he was profoundly wrong.

I knew it was a serious mistake when we were doing it but everyone lusted after the billion+ Chinese market and believed a comforting lie.

So we created this leviathan and let it suck our own economy dry and now Trump has to do something about it before we are all speaking Mandarin and smoking opium in our silk pajamas.

I have always argued China is a paper tiger, only wildly successful because we have wildly failed our own citizenry. While China does make things and produce stuff, it is still basically parasitic; it doesn't really create anything new, just steals our science and technology and undercuts us. It's prosperity stems from our unwillingness to compete.

Did you know that before Trump came back into office China was receiving foreign aid from the United States? This while being our country's biggest competitor and having the second highest GDP in the world, just barely behind us. And we also give them Most Favored Nation status, even while they impose draconian tariffs on our goods. China also uses currency manipulation to squeeze us.

And China was buying up most of our debt so we wouldn't dare impoverish them and force their hand. Of course the Democrats and the RINO Republicans were happy owing China the whole country provided it kept them in office and allowed them to keep spending (which it did).

At any rate China's economy was never market driven, and her companies are merely extensions of the government (that is the definition of economic fascism). It may look like a capitalist country but it ishn't.

The Soviets were similar, although they didn't even pay lip service to free markets and so were much poorer than the Chicoms. But it went down the same; the Soviets seemed to do well enough, especially where atomic weapons and military hardware were concerned, but in the end their economy was a Potemkin Village, all facade and nothing for the people who actually had to live with it. I think China is much the same and they have been in the doldrums for a while now as their way of doing things has slowly hollowed out their economy.

And so what is Trump doing? What Ronald Reagan did. Reagan did it with a military buildup while Trump is doing it with tariffs and with strengthening the U.S. economy itself by chucking the ridiculous internationalist policies of his predecessers. China knows they can't compete, which is why they are turning so belligerant now. They realize that Trump isn't just trying to get a better trade deal - he's trying to destroy them.

At least that's what I think he's doing.

And, if he can stay the course long enough and Congress doesn't turn over he'll win. This has the Communists terrified, both in China and here. They need a successful communist country to act as a kernal for the growth of the movement worldwide. It was always their plan to "counterbalance" America with a communist country. Heck; Madeleine Albright admitted this in a speech once. She said it is not good that the U.S. was the world's lone superpower. She pined for the "bipolar world" of the Cold War. Her thinkiing was hardly unique among the intelligentsia either. Social evolution towards world government and socialism had to have a foe resisting the free markets system and the liberal societies of the West. It used to be the U.S.S.R. Now it's China.

If China goes BRICKS falls apart. Russia becomes isolated and will dissolve back into a large but poor despotate at best. If that happens the flow of money to the Islamic revolutionaries and terrorists dries up and the Middle Eastern conflict becomes a police matter. India and South Korea and other emerging nations become much stronger and we have more choices economically. We will see a worldwide realignment and probably a restoration of many of the things that made our country great, but we first must fix ourselves and to do that we have to defang the chinese dragon.

I think Trump is trying to do that, and I think he may well succeed.

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