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Quo vadis, China?
Maybe one day the US will realize that China sees the US as a competitor and not a partner. Or that they've been executing a strategy to undermine the US economically and militarily for decades now.


Oh, we realize it. It's just that the Chinese have been exceptionally lucky in being able to buy American politicians off in bunches, and to get formal representation at very high levels in our government. We even have Elaine Chao (whose father was Zhang Zemin's roommate in college) as US Secretary of Labor - which is not unlike Donald Rumsfeld being appointed to the Chinese Politburo as Minister of Defense.

It would be difficult to imagine a more profound conflict of interest than this, considering her father builds Chinese cargo ships and leases and sells these ships to conduct trade in direct competition with equivalent US trade activity. Ms. Chao is the wife of a prominent US Senator, Mitch McConnell (a member of the Republican Party - the same party as President Bush).

Henry Kissinger has also exerted considerable effort representing China to various agencies of the US Government, something that we should be very wary of. The Chinese Government, then, has representation in Washington that is so effective that it's difficult to describe it in full detail.

We also know, many of us, that Hillary Clinton sits on the board of the discount store chain "Wal-Mart" - which does more business with China than all but four whole countries. Her relative Barbara Boxer, another US senator, is married to a member of the board of COSCO, the China state shipping corporation. So prominent members of the US's Democratic Party, which styles itself a reformist organization, have already been bought off by Communist China to the detriment of American workers.

We're aware of what's going on. We just have difficulty comprehending how to deal with it, and comprehending how the situation became as profoundly inconsistent with American workers' and consumers' interests as it now is.
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