On 5/26/2019 at 4:08 PM, Briggsy said:

The Chinese Communist Party, a body so paranoid that it completely controls information in a country with 25% of the world's population, and secretly imprisons those who try to tell any other story than the party line.

 

How can this entity accuse anybody of misleading the public? They are the world's most serious serial offender bar none.

Maybe that was true in the 1970's but this is a different world. You'd be amazed how wary the CPC is of it's population.

 

100m of the much derided Chinese tourists venture overseas every year, smartphone in hand. How do you keep them uninformed?

China’s state planner suggests using rare earths as leverage in U.S. trade war

 

China’s powerful planning body has threatened to use rare earths exports as leverage in the trade war with the U.S., in a sign of increasing tensions between the two powers.

Rare earths, a group of 17 metals with a variety of high-tech applications, are used in magnets, instrument displays and other components that go into everything from iPhones to missiles to electric vehicles and LED lighting. They are the one raw material of which China dominates global supply.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-trade-war-rare-earth-20190528-story.html

 

On the other hand, such a move would pose big risks for that sector of the Chinese economy.

 

Edited May 28, 20197 yr by bristolboy

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14 hours ago, Traubert said:

Maybe that was true in the 1970's but this is a different world. You'd be amazed how wary the CPC is of it's population.

 

100m of the much derided Chinese tourists venture overseas every year, smartphone in hand. How do you keep them uninformed?

And one way the Chinese government is dealing with mass tourism is the social credit problem. You get out of line, you don't travel.  And of course, once you're back in China, your links to the outside world are severely curtailed. And to contend that China under Xi hasn't grown steadily more repressive is nuts.

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 3:15 PM, Thaidream said:

It was more like a loan since private banking which caused the crash could not and would not be able to handle  such a thing.

 

Trump is right to go after the Chinese as they are the greatest threat to America from any foreign power.  They refuse to allow any US Company to set up china without an agreement that there must be technology transfer and what they cannot get via agreement- they steal it.  They have manipulated their currency for decades,

Their goal is to find natural resources and food to continue to feed its huge population and keep the Communist Party in charge. 

They buy up industry everywhere; establish a foothold and spy on the local government and transfer wealth back to China

 

While I totally dislike Trump- he is right to challenge the Chinese both economically and militarily- Someone, has to tell and show the Chinese that they are not going to get everything

their way anymore.

 

The mistake that Trump has made is that he has not established a firm relationship and sought out markets for American farmers and other industries to replace the Chinese markets and he still allows the Chinese Government to purchase American debt.

 

The way to force the Chinese  to bend is to hurt them economically; cut off their investment opportunities and box them in by expanding the US military presence in the Pacific.

 

 

 

 

The Chinese won't bent, they got the USA by the balls with rare earth:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-chinas-threat-to-restrict-rare-earth-minerals-is-so-serious/ar-AAC9sdJ?ocid=spartanntp

It is time the USA learns they can't bully the whole world anymore.

On 5/25/2019 at 5:41 AM, rooster59 said:

China can maintain healthy, sustainable economic growth even as it suffers some impact from the trade friction, a senior official from China's state planner told state television on Friday.

Good on ya China kick US arse big time, about time they learn a lesson in understanding cultural differences.