Timothy Birdnow

If it's hurting china it's a good thing.

China, Top Buyer of Venezuelan Oil, Hit Hard by Trump Secondary Tariffs

We may well be reaching an historic inflection point where the Chinese economy, no longer being bolstered by favorable policies from the West, threatens the grip of the Communists. Ronald Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union by squeezing them economically and they collapsed. People now say "oh, it was inevitable" and "the Soviet Union wasn't China" but this is all 20/20 hindsight. The reality is both used similar systems and those systems in the end do nothing but produce poverty. We never took real action to build the Soviet economy, which is what we did with China, but in the end both economies were wholly dependent on Western finance and commerce. They are ultimately both parasitic and China can be crushed in like manner.

I never did understand the enthusiasm for the chicoms. I remember the '90's when a lot of Republicans, including people like Newt Gingrcih, were calling for greater engagement with the Chicoms under the theory we would bribe them into reforming into a Western-style system. I thought it foolish then and see it as foolish now, precisely because I believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of Original Sin. Everything sinks to the lowest denominator, people turn tyrannical and corrupt when given the chance. This didn't happen for a long time in the West because we had a pluralistic society and the churches were strong, strong enough to act as a restraining influence on governments. We also had a strong free market. But China has never had any of that; it was never going to turn into a kind of Sweden, with a big welfare state but free market.

I believe it is only an economic powerhouse now because we let China do the dirty work. WE built factories there to avoid our own anti-polllution laws, our own worker health and safety laws, our own wage laws. We outsourced our troubles. But of course that meant we outsourced our jobs and wealth too. China didn't so much create their own wealth as had it given to them.

I've long believed this was intentional, a plan by the New world Order types to make China the industrail heart of their new order. The U.S. would be the military and high tech, while places like Africa would provide minerals and other commodities. And this made China vulnerable ultimately, which is how these people roll; they want to be able to take any portion of their little empire down if it should become too uppity. Simply taking out China's foreign market means taking out China.

So they made China rich and powerful to act as a counter-balance to the U.S. (remember Madalein Albright bemoaning a unipolar world?) but didn't make it actually independent; it needed us to thrive. They knew it too.

If they made it they can break it.

This is what they did with the Soviet Union; constant funding coming from international banks kept the USSR afloat for decades. But Reagan came into office and he pushed and the whole rotten thing collapsed; it never had any real roots. I think the same is true of China.

The question is, can we push the Chicoms out the way we did the Bolsheviks? It was a very dangerous thing then and technology has only improved to empower the Chicoms. They will be MOST unpleasant in their death-throes.

Or they may be able to wait us out.

At any rate I doubt this was an unforseen event; Trump and his people planned it. Good.

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