Big Panda has a problem, and his name is President Donald Trump.
CTH went (proactively) directly into the heart of the Chinese Potemkin Village, much like my trip to Russia, to specifically see what the reality is on the ground in the region of all Beijing influence. Where the East meets the West you will find a hot mess of propaganda, kept in place by widespread geopolitical pretending.
Never was that reality clearer, than in the example of the retaliatory tariffs announced in response to President Trump’s trade tariffs.
(Via AP) – China said it would implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products as well as a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S. The tariffs would take effect next Monday. {link}
First, tariffs on energy products are pure propaganda. Coal, LNG and crude oil are fungible. In the case of China the energy products arrive from a global market, there is no identifiable way to tariff American energy products. This is not like Canada where the Candian energy products are entirely dependent on pipelines into the USA, and therefore unavoidably easy to tariff by Trump.
Chairman Xi gets most of the Chinese imported energy resources from Russia, specifically Coal, LNG and Crude Oil. So, this subset of tariffs against American energy products is pure propaganda, essentially moot.
You know who buys USA-made “large-engine cars” (Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Ford Raptors) in China? People well connected to the Chinese Communist Party, that’s who. If you are not a member of the elite ruling class in China, you do not buy large-engine cars. So, what exactly is the intent on this one? The target is a domestic internal political apparatus, in combination with narrative creation that Beijing believes will create the biggest splash headlines in the West. That’s it. Again, pure political propaganda.
♦ What are the two exports from the USA that Beijing cares about? Food and Tech, that’s it. Period.
China cannot feed itself, and despite all the western nonsense, China has no intellectual capacity to create technological systems. That’s why Big Panda steals IP from the west.
The belt and road initiative is the insurance policy by Beijing to ensure food and technology products, both raw materials and support for their manufacturing base. That’s why they started the Belt and Road, and that’s why it is vital for them. China cannot feed itself and China does not innovate because they are a society of compliance, not innovation or entrepreneurship.
President Trump is well aware why China has invested so heavily in USA farmland. China doesn’t have enough. President Trump is also well aware why Beijing steals IP from all U.S. companies that do business there. China doesn’t innovate.
On this dynamic of trade, China needs access to the USA consumer base, and China needs our food. President Trump is trying to break the need for Chinese manufacturing and source product supply, and President Trump is going to break the dependency of U.S. Ag on exports to China. Chairman Xi knows this.
The approach you see now from Chairman Xi and the dragon hiding behind his panda mask, is to create the illusion through U.S. media that the U.S. economy would be impacted by retaliatory tariffs. In essence, Chairman Xi is counting on the Wall Street multinationals and U.S. media to stir up a narrative against President Trump’s trade confrontation with Beijing. That’s what this is. That is all this is.
If you want to see what industrial sectors President Trump is trying to bring back to the USA, just check the sectors of our import reliance.
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“It’s almost like [Beijing] telling American companies, what your government is doing is bad, you need to tell the government that if you add more tariffs or hurt U.S.-China relations at the end of the day it’ll backfire on American companies,” Chen said.
President Trump has all the leverage in the world, real world leverage on actionable stuff.
The only leverage China has is propaganda against Trump, nothing of material consequence at all. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
Destroy them Mr. President!
It’s SO refreshing to have a real President that knows how to go on the offensive.
China needs us far more than we need them.
We have adults in the room again! Thank you God Almighty!
We have intelligent AND uncorrupted adults in the room
We don’t need them at all.
Thankfully, PDJT promised no tariffs on Chinese soup…
That would have caused wonton destruction 🙂
Good one, Wordman.
You never quit, do you, my friend…
Even in your sleep I’ll bet 😉👍🏻
Here you go: https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-soup-recipe/
They have (at least) 6 other variations as well, and don’t skip the Shaoxing wine.😊
Well, if that don’t work, the YMCA in Balboa once upon a time, had the best wontons and gravy…Balboa, Canal Zone…
BWAHAHAHA!
Thanks for the laugh.
Wordman! You never disappoint!
Could you imagine the long and desolate wok we would have🤔
WE never did.
Oligarchs needed their slave labor to increase their profit margins into obscene territory.
Hence fourth it shall be known as:
Pandaganda
I love it!
Let the record reflect, you beat WORDMAN to it!
Pandaganda
“Got243kids” wins the internet for the week!
May I try for runner up?
‘Panda-money-em’?
Hey, Hey, Hey — we’re starting a glossary! The world of China according to MAGA!
So MUCH “WINNING”, I too Sundance am having trouble keeping up!
China has a long history of technological innovation. I suggest reading the seven volume work “Science and Civilization in China” by Joseph Needham. I think there is an abbreviated version.
The Chinese did invent gunpowder. They know how to build a wall. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a great book. Silk cloth? They know how to kill people and the human spirit as efficiently as anyone. Anything else?
The Romans engineered that wall built by Chinese slave labor. China is good at producing slaves bad at producing free people. That is what they fear the most from America – FREEDOM!
Addition – If copy had a cat, it would be Chinese.
Killing numbers of people is not peculiar to the Chinese. We, for example, finance the mass slaughter in the Ukraine to benefit a small group of people.
There are 40 million registered Christians s in China, and many more unregistered. I have hopes that there will be ever more.
I didn’t say that killing people is peculiar to the Chinese. I wrote that they are as efficient at it as anyone. Mass killing of people is peculiarly Satanic, and he does it like a roaring lion seeking to devour.
There is a difference between Satanic government and people – especially the lambs of God.
I pray for the Chinese people. Their only salvation is in Jesus Christ – as is with all people.
Gunpowder– a perfect example.
They made firecrackers, westerners made howitzers.
Noodles; they also invented noodles.
Everything else is copied. Any innovations that come out of China are simply refinements of items they had to copy.
Oh, there is one other thing China invented – paper money. Used it so that its rulers could hoard the gold and let their citizens buy and sell with paper money – so that is one innovation our current world leaders did take and refine. So that goes into China’s column.
Paper, I believe.
Egyptians/papyrus. Another example where, Cao Lun (Chinese), copied from others.
Not any more, they have , in effect, destroyed that ability with their policies.
China had the knowledge of how to make gunpowder for centuries, and yet did not invent a musket or cannon in that time?
It wasn’t until that knowledge spread outside of China when you started to see those innovations based on it. Namely cannon that the Ottoman empire used to great effect against the walls of Constantinople, and muskets that European powers quickly adopted.
I am skeptical that Chinese culture is all that conducive to innovation.
Actually China’s heilongjiang hand cannon dates to the late 1200s, about 100 years before the first European firearms/cannon.
I again refer interested and skeptical readers to Needham’s Science and Civilization in China.
Perhaps I’m not looking hard enough, but as far as I can tell no other country along with China has leverage over President Trump. He’s sitting in the catbird seat…
(Reminds me…putting Giant Economy sized bottle of Winnamins on my shopping list… 😎 🇺🇸 )
Ms. Jones, please don’t OD on winnamins! LOL
Too late!!!!! 😁
Agree, Betsy. According to our president, the U.S. has been failing, not because our enemies are hurting us, but because people in our own country are betraying us and giving away our wealth.
Need a pic of Xi standing in the middle of the road (like Comey) with the caption ‘FLUCK’
‘Fruck’?
Yeah, I agree. It’s all a bunch of bluster and economic saber rattling. What really matters is bringing manufacturing back to the US.
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The important stuff. We can survive quite well without cheap teeshirts, toys, Nikes, and appliances.
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Mobile smartphones?
iPhone manufacturing is already moving to India and Vietnam. Xi’s harsh covid lockdowns spooked a lot of manufacturers to shift production out of China.
And the knock offs…
He did it once, but the Democrats pissed that away! I’ve taken the oath to never, never vote Democrat again in my life! At one point many moons ago, I tried to balance the ticket in the voting booth. I also note I can’t select one lever to vote straight Republican either!
There is only one product that is critical to every country in the world. FOOD. Everything else is a luxury item.
Fresh water, as well. Lake Superior alone, with a surface area the size of South Carolina, contains 10% of the world’s fresh water supply. We can hold out against China.
I can’t fathom how to use L. Superior for our water. Pipes, pipes everywhere!
Food, water and natural resources.
I have never seen a president use economic leverage to such great effect.
This means that we never really had a president who used his powers to save and grow America for Americans.
Absolutely! I don’t think we have had a president since Reagan that cared about the people and what was best for them. Not sure what priority the others had. Maybe it was good to ride in the Beast and fly in AF-1?
Likely because most modern presidents have either been military men, or politicians – rarely have they been successful business men, unfortunately. Maybe We the People need to make that a prerequisite for all future presidents, as we move our country forward and out of the deep state morass. It wouldn’t be too difficult to amend the Constitution if we were willing and diligent enough.
“The only leverage China has is propaganda against Trump, nothing of material consequence at all. Zero. Nada. Zilch.”
because ….
“China doesn’t innovate.”
It’s all connected.
Several above took issue with Sundance’s statement that China does not innovate. In further discussion, if Sundance were given the chance to elaborate, I think they would agree with him.
Made in China = made in hell
Buy it and you support it.
I am guilty. I just got back from Harbor Freight. I will try to do better.
It’s too bad Snap-On Tools has become a euphemism.
Good rhetorical question – When is a cheap tool not really a cheap tool?
Sometimes, I buy my inexpensive tools at Garage Sale Freight… The selection is hit-and-miss.
Everyone is guilty whether they know it or not.
Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Target, etc, etc.
My aging Kenmore fridge is still hanging on….if only we could go back to quality products from Sears/whirlpool or whoever…made to Sears Specifications…
My fridge is so old, there is no thermostat available anymore…not is the timing part…but it is struggling…and in 26 years, does not need any freon. And the fridge still looks brand new…
For years, I always taken time to read the labels of products before they go in the shopping cart. Nearly always “Made in China” gets tossed back on the shelf as I proclaim “Made in China … likely made with slave labor” loud enough for other shoppers to hear. My wife cringes but she knows I’m right. IMO more American parents should teach their children about the CCP’s use of slave labor, forced organ harvesting, and poisoning 100,000 Americans a year. China is at war with us and we’re blissfully buying their stuff and supporting our own demise.
Minimum Wages in China: A Complete Guide
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May not seem like much….but cost of living
is much lower there.
I found it interesting in the article…..
”To be noted, the minimum wage is just the basic
wage that employers must pay their employees,
which excludes overtime pay, night shift
allowance, summer high temperature allowance,
and subsidies for meals, transportation and housing.”
Interesting…🤔🤔
A $275/mo. wage – checks calculator = ~$9 USD per day – and even with all the ‘adds’ listed in the article will not sustain a family of 4, if the family wants electric lights/refrigeration and running/flushing water. So, all the ‘adds’ appear to be a red herring in the larger CCP “wage” conversation. In other words, doesn’t fly.
Neville, same here about avoiding made in China items for decades, which has cost us more money even when we didn’t really have it. I have certainly not been able to avoid made in China purchases completely, but we have managed to purchase even bigger ticket items like living room furniture, flooring,a kitchen table as well as smaller, everyday items (those are almost harder to avoid!) We even were able to have a roof replaced from hail damage with an all-American crew!
Like you, though, I think of the people, usually fellow Christians, in slave labor in China producing the items, and I don’t want any participation in it. I mean, what must the slaves think when they are making religions items or Christmas decorations? The word hypocrisy comes to mind.
Like I mentioned, we have tried for decades to follow this purchasing philosophy, even as a young family. I still remember seeing the “Made in America” banners in WalMart and naively thought, “ Aren’t all your goods made here? I thought you advertised yourselves as a red, white and blue company!” 😞
Before that, there was made in Korea…and before that, made in Japan…
I knew about the made in Japan; I somehow missed the made in Korea.
I always say “China! probably made out of spent uranium!”
I remember back in the 60’s that transistor radios were almost all made in Japan!
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1876311543454781440/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/yW-jiUg-eMs3os1b.mp4?tag=12
Now that’s funny!
The so called Legacy media has lost most of their power.
They get tuned right out.
We have more winnamins now in two weeks then most of President Trumps first four years!
Trump is most likely the most economically schooled President ever, that’s what a career in NYC real estate and development brings to the Office of President.
Don’t forget the Wharton MBA (back when diversity wasn’t the most important admission criteria). Based on my M&A experience, Trump is what I call a “deal guy”. A big picture guy who begins to lose interest once the deal is done (as he’s looking for the next deal). “Deal guys” need “detail guys” with world-class project management skills to achieve the envisioned value. Doing the deal and making the deal work are two sides of the same coin.
Neville, that is a great insight. Watching President Trump from afar, I can totally see that being the case.
I have heard his business models are “transactional”.
I only question pharmaceuticals. Couldn’t they bring us to our knees by just refusing to export them? Many people need them to survive.
Make them here.
How long will that realistically take to accomplish, though?
This was an issue in Mr. Trump’s first admin…
Then tariffs will go up to 300% and PDJT, just like during Operation Warp Speed, will hustle and get those medications into the USA. He’s not stupid. He works 20 hours a day and 7 days a week.
He will make phone calls and “incentivize” other nations sending us medications.
Operation Warp Speed sickened and killed Millions of Americans who took the jab with American made poison.
Do you really want more of that?
Yes, that’s why we need to have them made here.
Same with minerals where our tech and defense industry unfortunately rely too much on China.
Exactly! And already happening…..some of
those minerals needed for defense and tech
China Imposes Its Most Stringent Critical Minerals Export Restrictions Yet Amidst Escalating U.S.-China Tech War 👆 👆 👆 👆 CSIS…Dec. 2024
Yes of course they need to be made here, but right now they are not. That is a big piece of leverage since just refusing to ship them at all kills a lot of our population.
It takes 2 to Tango! More than one way to skin a cat! Notice a lot of countries are FAFO now?
People have been psyoped into believing they” need them to survive”. That whole thing of promoting doctors as gods and pharmaceuticals as cures has been going on for a long, long time and has been engrained in the psyche of many, many Americans. So many ways to keep yourself healthy, cure yourself from dread diseases, etc., but the powers that be have made it nigh unto impossible in many cases to do that because of government rules and regulations and threatenings if someone dare say they can “cure” something without using the “standard of care”. Frankly it’s sickening…
I agree other ways of living and eating better solves the problem, especially prevention of ailments, but that is for the future. The people that need the drugs to stay alive at this point probably don’t have that kind of time. We shall see.
Banning just one day of import of Amazon merchandise would cost China a billion or so.
The one day import of American products to China would be what?
INTERESTING Percentages in these Articles –
2022- AMAZON makes ” $1.56 billion per day in net revenue as of 2022. ”
https://www.marketingscoop.com/small-business/how-much-does-amazon-make-a-day/
” 25% of the cost of products directly sold by Amazon come from China ”
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-trump-china-tariffs-hit-2025-2
$14.23
Awww them Chinese so funnieee. 💰👏
As you describe China’s incapabilities it is as if you are describing Satan. He cannot create anything. He only copies, mimics, and deceives. That is his trademark. No coincidence.
How many dems will set their hair on fire
And China claims to have filed some kind of complaint with WHO. I can’t wait for WHO to make some noise so President Trump can slap them upside their head too.
He’ll withdraw from the WTO if they get fresh.
I hope!
Americans need to look closer at Chinese owned Smithfield Foods which includes a number of brands (e.g., Eckrich, Nathan’s, and Armour with its highly revealing logo). Smithfield is also famous for price-fixing (over $150mm in fines and pollution problems). The percentage of US farmland it owns is astounding. Needless to say, much work remains here.
https://www.smithfieldfoods.com/our-products/our-brands
https://sentientmedia.org/smithfield-foods-owns-farmland/
The sale of American farmland to China should never have been allowed.
And should be stopped and reversed today. All farmland held in Chinese hands needs to be confiscated immediately and returned to U.S. ownership.
The MEATS Grown HERE are PROCESSED BY a HOLDING COMPANY – THAT DOES NOT Have Our Population’s Best Interests as Their Goal.
John Adam’s Statement to the Massachusetts Militia APPLIES To THE CITIZEN as MUCH as a Government Servant.
IT RELATES to the Christian Ethics of TAKING CARE Of Your FELLOW MAN ( Citizen ) by NOT SELLING OUT YOUR LEGACY for Financial Gain.
ie.
IF i Operate a DIARY FARM that Provides Milk to a Town – i HAVE a RESPONSIBILITY to PROVIDE a SAFE, OBTAINABLE Product to my Neighbors, OR Make MY BEST EFFORTS to Provide a CONTINUITY of SERVICE by an Entity of BEST STANDARD, imo
( ” SENSE of Community ” )
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102
That’s one of the reasons I raise my own Pork.
Stopped buying Smithfield products coincidentally right after China bought them out.
The last pork products I bought from them were rancid & tossed in the trash. They’re not leaving the best quality here, that’s for sure.
I would take that even further and say Americans need to scratch-make food from plain ingredients.
Nathan’s???
That really is downright communist! I will never think of the Nathan’s on Long Beach Rd in the same way….
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Much of China’s economy is bluff. E.g. take a closer look at the facades of some of the “grand” buildings China has been putting up in third-world countries. You are likely to find styrofoam instead of stucco or concrete.
We do need to throw them out of ownership in any U.S. land or infrastructure, however, and take back any crucial product and pharmaceutical manufacturing (the latter’s not safe anyway).
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Ha…like the Panda pic…
I like the point connecting China’s lack of innovation to its compliance cultural ethos. Whereas we have a bit of the brash in us, the “don’t tell me I can’t do that” mindset that drives us forward.
We should expect some disruption going forward, as Trump begins to set things right. But as he said just yesterday, the results will be well worth it.
I happily go look for statistics on what kind of food and agriculture products we export to China…
So many pro-China publications that significantly downplay their reliance on our food production from our very own companies! In fact, many publications parrot Chinese propaganda and point to oil and gas being the big US export to China.
You have to keep looking to find the data. China did not keep the previous agreement with Trump and only purchased a portion of what they promised to purchase in the phase I deal. Agricultural products were much larger than energy or other items.
From another source, as of 2022 – (Don’t quote me on any of this, making quick notes)
China is the world’s largest importer of: soybeans, representing half of U.S. export value;
China is the largest importer of feed grains to support their pork and chicken and dairy production: corn, sorghum, and Alfalfa hay;
China needs our beef and our cotton while they try to build their pork, chicken, and dairy production.
China needs our nuts (pistachios and almonds)
etc…
So, looks like Sundance is right! So hard to find the truth amidst all the propoganda.
Apologies for the quick notes, just wanted to see for myself what China imports from us to feed their population.
I hate to say this because I don’t want any people of the Earth to suffer, but it is good to see that we do have some leverage. I am sick to death of being forced to buy Chinese junk that breaks because we don’t make it in the USA any more. There are no quality standards. It’s just about mass producing crap.
Maybe a long time ago, Americans thought, “oh we should help the Chinese!” And I get that. But that’s not what we did. We sold out our manufacturing base so rich people could get richer. Over it.
I agree!
I always think of Gateway computers
from years ago. It was my first computer.
Made in USA. Came in a box colored like a
milk cow.
When the flat screen monitor first
came out..around 2005, I bought one
from Gateway.
It is still working!
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Made in America!!
President Trump had us on the right path
during his first term….can’t wait to see
what he has in store for US now! 👏👏👍
We should have NEVER helped the Chinese. You don’t help your enemies to prosper, you don’t help a Godless, abhorrent government who kills and subjugates it’s own people, brainwashing them and making them into slaves. When you do that, you have become a partner in their crimes. What alliance does light have with darkness, what alliance does good have with evil.
I think Richard Nixon opened the door to China. I wish he hadn’t.
It will take a while for our children to regain the work ethic of the Greatest Generation
you speak much truth “Woman”!
pooh people lied.
which led citric man people to also Lie.
Jesus is the Only answer
In my Vietnam days, there were lots and lots of rice paddies! So the Oriental can grow rice! Their water ways leave a lot to be desired! When I ate locally, there were always tons of flies buzzing around! Everything was open air and those bugs were everywhere! Ice was only found in the cities. Refrigerators were far and few between. A plate piled high with rice and veggies and pork, cost $.25, so you could eat a lot cheaply. This was back in the later 60’s, early 70’s era. The on base food wasn’t too bad, but you had to be careful in the villages.
China’s response to President Trump’s 10% tariff it pretty much a nothing burger. If you think about it. China’s response is almost an insult.
China will be content to sit back smile, and let the American Consumer pay the bill. While China goes thru the WTO and makes a global issue out of it. It is is about Global Politics and the World’s perception of the dollar as a weapon. Not propaganda.
what?!?
the slain dragon dragon dareth mock the eagle?!?
the doge shall be following you auminer!
prepare to be censored and re-educated.
remember this warning in 5 years…
? The DOGE has nothing to do with this.
You really need to take a deep dive into world politics and trade wars. The dollar has declined as the worlds Reserve currency from 75% to around 58% today. Countries are running away from our weaponized dollar and using different means of payment. The weaponized US dollar really does not need any more bad publicity with law suits in the WTO.
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-u-s-dollar-in-world-reserves-fall-below-60
Then perhaps you could learn from American history. Trade wars never turn out as planned.
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/trump-tariffs-echo-failed-american-trade-policy
Xi had to save face. Face is all important. Xi could not be seen as failing to respond in some way. Even a symbolic and futile way is preferable in Chinese culture to perceived surrender without a response.
All we have to do is look at President Trump’s first term to see the result of a tariff war with China. We win
Tiny hands
Big Bombs.
I totally agree with what Sundance says about China’s technology. They are so far behind that the only thing keeping them at the big boys’ table is their nuclear arms capability however primitive that may be
Stem students graduates….2020
China…3.57 million
India…2.55 million
US….820 thousand
The Global Distribution of STEM Graduates: Which Countries Lead the Way? | Center for Security and Emerging Technology 👆 👆 👆 👆 Georgetown edu
We need to catch up 😳 The stats are out there-many sources
state basically the same!!
To me, these stats are concerning . 😖
Those stats could be concerning but they are not. You don’t need a college degree for ingenuity which the Chinese lack. The Indians are hampered by their caste system culture. If they are westernized then maybe. It is the Judeo-Christian culture that moves technology forward. Sorry but look at history.
https://china.usc.edu/sites/default/files/forums/Chinese%20Inventions.pdf
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Top 20 Ancient Chinese Inventions……..
With the rise of technological and engineering innovations…
a certain degree of education is essential in our modern world.
I do not believe that our students who excel in underwater
basketweaving, social and political science type degrees
are going to be very innovative…or even productive.
We need to step up our game!!
But wait….There’s More!
👏 👏 😂 😂 🤣 🤣
List of Chinese inventions – Wikipedia
👆 👆 👆
💥 💥 When you have an adversary…whether it
is in economics or war….it is always recommended
to find out what you can about them💥💥
Gypsy, you nailed it again!
IMO the US government should not fund student loans. Blue collar skills training seems like a much better and less expensive alternative.
One word about Chinese ingenuity.
Deepseek.
1) What do we REALLY know about that program? Did the Chinese actually design/engineer it, OR did they steal it, or parts of it?
BINGO!!! The Christian culture wanted to see how God’s universe was created. Wanted to create items with which to honor God (think great cathedrals, among other things). THAT is the culture that has gotten this world where it is!
Your statement and Sundance statement are surprising to me. Is there evidence or stats to show that Chinese and Indians do not innovate like Americans? If so, why is that?
I understand your concern gypsy.
We do need to beef up our STEM educational output.
But takeing a closer look at China and Indiain regards to their stemgrad.
China still seems to have a big problem with innovation of technology, with all their millions of science and math grad they still steal from the US with our small number of science grads.
India seem to want to send their grads here to the US to work for some reason.
I do agree that we need to ramp up our education system, this can not go on.
I agree we need to ramp up our
educational system.
That is what I continually stress. 👩🏫👩🏫
I think of the Chinese people as being a
society that was suppressed for so long,
and now they have been given the education
and are encouraged to create and innovate.
Inside China’s New $17 Billion Mega Airport – Beijing Daxing – YouTube
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The BIGGEST Shopping Mall in the World here in China – YouTube
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This is awesome….on the roof is an…Equestrian Center!!
The real answer is for us to return to homeschooling!!!
Many of those US Stem graduates are here on Visas and do not stay They get an education and go back to their home.
Gypsy, 100% agree.
I’ve been to China numerous times on business. We underestimate them at our peril. The Chinese work ethic is impressive … they don’t think twice about twelve hour days. They also are ruthless and racist. Remember watching a Chinese tv commercial where a Chinese housewife puts a black guy in a washing machine, adds detergent closes the lid, starts the washer and then opens the lid and a smiling Chinese guy emerges.
The notion that India and China are surpassing the USA in engineering graduates has long been overblown.
The overwhelming number of their graduates (not educated in the USA) are of much lesser skill, barely approaching the level of an Associates degree.
It’s Harbor Freight wrenches vs Snap-on wrenches.
This is 2025. Not 1973 when our nuclear missile deterrent was built.
Please catch up with the modern age. China’s Nuclear capability is far from “Primitive”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/12/china-now-leads-world-nuclear-and-conventional-hyp/
While President Trump takes care of MAGA business. Big panda sits facing the wall and pouts.
May the substitution of “Panda” for “Spinky” be conferred:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845823.Spinky_Sulks
Prophetic.
Thank you, Sundance.
There are three more really Big Moves president Trump could make that hits Big Panda right where it hurts:
Review and rewrite ALL export licenses and their US technology source dries up, period. Most of their technology gains are via LEGAL means … Licenses. If we must penalize lax security at US Big Tech via the SEC.
Close the path for US Banks to do business with China Inc. via Hong Kong.
Rescind JoeBama Biden’s orders allowing China Inc. to trade on US Markets.
Actually there is a 4th. China Inc. mentioned suing the US via the WTO … gee what is the US put pressure on the WTO to remove China Inc. or even better make China Inc. a full blooded member and not be allowed to rated a “developing nation” with the WTO and IMF…opening China inc. to being sued as well as charged far more interest for all the loans they receive.
The Council On Foreign Relations directed Billy Boy Clinton made China the threat it now is. Uniparty, 1000 points of light and a New World Order. They didn’t plan for PDJT & his MAGA.
June 8, 2023 – Key player in Biden documents removal was also involved in Bill Clinton-era Chinagate scandal
https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/june-8-2023-key-player-in-biden-documents-removal-was-also-involved-in-bill-clinton-era-chinagate-scandal/
What about the antibiotics that I thought were over 90% made in China?
In Trump-45’s term he initiated a return of the manufacture of pharmaceuticals back to Puerto Rico so am sure Trump-47 will be able to that initial beginning is followed through as part of the MAGA/MAHA process.
Which leads me to a question on the efficacy of said China made drugs, in particular, antibiotics…did the varioius packages of antibiotics have weakened or altered concentrations that might have led to the problem called “drug resistant” germs?
Trade wars lead to hot wars
It will not surprise me when President Xi will not be in office much longer; the turmoil within the Chinese economy is something that one usually sees right before an ‘unexpected’ retirement or worse for whomever happens to be sitting in the chair as the face of their empire; saving face is important to keep the billion or so citizens in line (fear).
Educate enough of those citizens in nations that have freedoms of speech, etc., and just a matter of time before that hunger for freedom takes root in those communist societies. Human nature is to embrace life and life with freedom and it will have its way; communism is a dead idea and must make room for life.
A little off topic, but it would be very interesting to know of any Sec. of State(s) (or any other entity) that sent any election data on individuals/names/addresses/identifiers to Ch|na or any other foreign entity. It’s illegal.
That trove of USAID info is going to be like an energizer bunny:
https://www.govregs.com/uscode/expand/title15_chapter123_section9901
I consider getting that information is right up there with getting the list of Epstein’s island visitors. By the way, don’t forget the FBI visited the island and cleaned out all his cd’s and other things. I wonder if Kash will be looking for those one of these days.
I trust everyone understands the meaning of innovation. It does not relate specifically to ideas. It’s about the implementation of ideas into production/market capabilities; what the gov’t would point to as transition from 6.3 to 6.4 funding in the R&D world.
Gov’t controlled economies, especially those with centralized planning, have not proved adept at innovation.
Thanks for traveling and sharing your honest observations. You’ve said it, and I’ve preached it…strong economic policy equals strong foreign policy.
“China doesn’t innovate”
• gunpowder
• rockets
• firearms
• cheap mass automated manufacturing
• a billion citizens raised out of poverty
Over the last eighty years, if Americans had been treated as well by their government, as the Chinese have been treated by theirs, we’d all be driving George Jetson’s flying cars.
Where do you think China’s “cheap mass automated manufacturing” came from? Who do you think raised a billion Chinese citizens out of poverty (if that’s even a fact)? How long ago did they invent gunpowder? They haven’t done anything worthwhile since they became a communist country. All they have has either been stolen or given to them mostly by the good ol’ USofA. You must be a chinese communist, I’m thinking.
So when are you leaving for China???
“….if Americans had been treated as well by their government, as the Chinese have been treated by theirs, we’d all be driving George Jetson’s flying cars.”
You mean like being forcefully locked (welded) inside their homes when covid was supposedly loose in the population?
You mean like being used to grow body organs then killed to have them harvested and sold for profit? (Uyghurs)
You mean like being genocided along with 100M+ other Chinese because y’all knew about real Chinese history and disagreed with Mao’s communism?
THAT kind of “treated well”???????????????
I’ll take a pass on that kind of wonderful treatment, thanks.
You’re writing from Beijing/Peking, I assume?
So good to be at the top of our game. Thanks to a very savvy President who embraces the people’s needs and takes the mandate he received seriously
Thank you, Sundance, for the wisdom.
how to stop all the CCP tech exfiltration happening out of Cali?
SPIT!!! The worst thing about any and all communists is that they are godless!!!
Go get ’em sir!
Sundance, I am interested in where you travelled in China? Did you visit different regions? Were they rural, urban, interior or coastal? How did the people differ economically, in their attitudes, in their politics, etc. How did the Chinese people respond to you?
Hopefully the food and entertainment was outstanding!
As Sundance said, China’s tariffs are soft. I take this as a sign from Chairman XI wants to negotiate.
XI works for the 8 Families n the Families do not want turmoil, they want the 740M workers to be Happy n Productive. Happy n Productive = profits for The Families.