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China Lashes Out At US "Hypocrisy", Blasts US Human Rights "Double Standard" In Pursuing "World Hegemony"
In what can only be described as a stunning deterioration in foreign relations between the world's two superpowers, following Friday's release by the US State Department of the annual report on human rights, which expressed sharp criticism of the human rights records of China, North Korea, Cuba and Belarus, among others, China decided it has had enough. Less than 48 hours later, it has lashed back at the US with a report that is making headlines at every government controlled, and otherwise, media in mainland China, which makes a mockery of the US double standard when it comes to human rights, and exposes US "hypocrisy" which China (rightly many would claim) asserts is merely a pretext for continued US attempts at world "hegemony". As Xinhua reports on its front page, "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was
released by the Information Office of China's State Council, or
cabinet, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
for 2010 issued by the U.S. Department of State on April. The U.S. reports are "full of distortions and
accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and
regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye
to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it,"
China's report said." The war of words hits a new all time record: "The United States has taken human rights as "a political instrument to defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests," the report said. While illustrating a dismal record of the United States on its own human rights, China's report said the United States could not be justified to pose as the world's "human rights justice." "However, it released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries for their human rights practices," the report said. These moves fully expose the United States' hypocrisy by exercising double standards on human rights and its malicious design to pursue hegemony under the pretext of human rights, it said. The report advised the U.S. government to "take concrete actions to improve its own human rights conditions, check and rectify its acts in the human rights field, and stop the hegemonistic deeds of using human rights issues to interfere in other countries' internal affairs." While that last sentence may not be an explicit warning for the US to shut the hell up and focus on its own dirty laundry, or else, it sure does sound like one.
VIOLATION OF CITIZENS' RIGHTS
In the United States, the violation of citizens' civil and political rights by the government is severe, said the report.
Citizen's privacy has been undermined. More than 6,600 travelers had been subject to electronic device searches between October 1, 2008 and June 2, 2010, nearly half of them American citizens, said the report, citing figures released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in September 2010.
The report said abuse of violence and torturing suspects to get confession is serious in the U.S. law enforcement, and "wrongful conviction occurred quite often."
While advocating Internet freedom, the U.S. in fact imposes fairly strict restriction on cyberspace, said the report.
The United States applies double standards on Internet freedom by requesting unrestricted "Internet freedom" in other countries, which becomes an important diplomatic tool for the U.S. to impose pressure and seek hegemony, and imposing strict restriction within its own territory, the report said.
The U.S. regards itself as "the beacon of democracy." However, its democracy is largely based on money, the report said.
According to media report in 2010, U.S. House and Senate candidates shattered fundraising records for a midterm election, taking in more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars as of October 24. The midterm election, held in November 2010, finally cost 3.98 billion U.S. dollars, the most expensive in the U.S. history.
HIGHEST INCIDENCE OF VIOLENT CRIMES
One out of every five people is a victim of a crime in the United States every year, said the report.
The United States reports the world' s highest incidence of violent crimes, and its people's lives, properties and personal security are not duly protected, the report said.
In 2009, an estimated 4.3 million violent crimes, 15.6 million property crimes and 133,000 personal thefts were committed against U.S. residents aged 12 or older, and the violent crime rate was 17.1 victimizations per 1,000 persons, said the report, quoting figures from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The United States also ranks first in the world in terms of the number of privately-owned guns and had high incidence of gun-related crimes, said the report, noting that the United States exercised lax control on the already rampant gun ownership.
Some 90 million people own an estimated 200 million guns in the United States, which has a population of about 300 million, the report said citing figures from the public media.
Statistics showed there were 12,000 gun murders a year in the United States, the report said.
The report also said that the frequent campus shootings in colleges in the United States came to the spotlight in recent years.
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DEEP-SEATED
"Racial discrimination, deep-seated in the United States, has permeated every aspect of social life," said the report.
Minority groups confront discrimination in their employment and occupation. The black people are treated unfairly or excluded in promotion, welfare and employment, the report quoted U.S media reports as saying.
It is reported that one-third of black people confronted discrimination at work, against which only one-sixteenth of the black people would lodge a complaint.
The New York Times reported on September 23, 2010 that by the end of September 30, 2009, Muslim workers had filed a record 803 claims of complaints over employment discrimination, up 20 percent from the previous year.
The report said U.S. minority groups have high unemployment rate, and do not enjoy the same political status as white people.
Poverty proportion for U.S. minorities is high in the United States. The poverty proportion of the black was 25.8 percent in 2009, and those of Hispanic origin and Asian were 25.3 percent and 12.5 percent respectively, much higher than that of the non-Hispanic white at 9.4 percent, said the report, citing U.S. media figures.
The report also said that U.S. minority groups face obvious inequality in education, and the health care for African-American people is worrisome.
Racial discrimination is evident in the law enforcement and judicial systems, racial hate crimes are frequent, and immigrants' rights and interests are not guaranteed, said the report.
RIGHTS OF WOMEN, CHILDREN IS BOTHERING
Gender discrimination against women widely exists in the United States, and women in the country often experience sexual assault and violence.
Statistics showed that some 20 million women are rape victims in the country, some one fifth female students on campus are victims of sexual assault, and nearly 3,000 female soldiers were sexually assaulted in fiscal year 2008, up nine percent from the year before.
Women are also victims of domestic violence in the United States, said the report, as some 1.3 million people fall victim to domestic violence every year, with women accounting for 92 percent.
Many children in the U.S. live in poverty and their physical and mental health is not ensured as nearly one in four children struggles with hunger, according to the report.
The report also pointed out that violence against children is very severe in the country, citing figures from the official website of Love Our Children USA that every year, over three million children are victims of violence reportedly and the actual number is three times greater.
More than 93,000 children are currently incarcerated in the United States, and between 75 and 93 percent of children have experienced at least one traumatic experience, including sexual abuse and neglect, the report said.
According to the report, pornographic content is rampant on the Internet and severely harms American children as seven in 10 children have accidentally accessed pornography on the Internet and one in three has done so intentionally.
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
The United States has a notorious record of international human rights violations, said the report.
The U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused huge civilian casualties.
Figures from the WikiLeaks website revealed up to 285,000 war casualties in Iraq from March 2003 through the end of 2009, with 63 percent of the 109,000 people killed in the Iraq war being civilians.
"The U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and other regions have also brought tremendous casualties to local people," said the report.
The report cited the notorious case on a "kill team" formed by five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The team had committed at least three murders, where they randomly targeted and killed Afghan civilians, and dismembered the corpses and hoarded the human bones.
In addition, the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops had caused 535 Afghan civilian deaths and injuries in 2009. Among them 113 civilians were shot and killed, an increase of 43 percent over 2008, the report quoted McClatchy Newspapers as saying.
PRISONER ABUSE SCANDALS
The United States have been holding individuals captured under the pretext of the "war on terror" and abusing detainees with various methods, according to the report.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established secret detention facilities to interrogate so-called "high-value detainees," said the report, citing a document submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council in May 2010.
According to the document, the CIA had taken custody of 94 detainees, and had employed "enhanced techniques" to varying degrees, including stress positions, extreme temperature changes, sleep deprivation and "waterboarding" in the interrogation of 28 of those detainees.
Full, unabridged report can and should be read here.
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We won't need to China is building a shitload of nuke plants. All top quality!
Damn! Damn! Where's the popcorn? Beer and peanuts will have to do.
At the end of the day you can bet China and the US governments will climb into bed together and screw the citizens of all countries in order to maintain the status quo for the politcal elites.
Not much chance of that. The Chinese bloodline does not trace back to Egypt (or Babylon) and the oligarchs are even more racist than the Chinese. Game on!
I'm only going to posit this much...both the US and China are horrendous violators of basic human rights. The only difference is in the details. Maybe the real problem is that the human species, as an entity, still has a lot of growing-up left to do before we're all so much slag in the geological strata.
You mean the USA does not rule the world "yet"
Give it time....
No chance. Unless the US states secede and disband (ie. starve) the federal government---and therefore present the oligarchs with the equivalent of "herding cats"---the US is fucked. IMHO.
BS from both sides.
The report said abuse of violence and torturing suspects to get confession is serious in the U.S. law enforcement, and "wrongful conviction occurred quite often."
China calls a spade a spade.
Anything you can find wrong in the usa regarding civil procedures and basic rights is far worse in china, but the.chinese people are awakening. They will have their basic freedoms.soon.
""let me quote at least this: "Mexican authorities have repeatedly complained that most of the weapons used by drug cartels there — including Barrett rifles — are coming from the U.S."""
The Barrett is a single shot rifle that weighs about a thousand pounds and is very long. It is 50 caliber which means each round is long and heavy to carry. It is not good for walking into a place and shooting several completion drug dealers, not can you hide it in your baggy pants. Because it is single shot, it is not the weapon of choice for anyone but a sniper. These are made in the hundreds not in the hundred of thousands like the Chinese AK.There are M1 US made carbines that were issued to the Mexican military that are showing up in the wrong hands.
If the US border were controlled, cross flow of drugs and weapons would not be the concern that they are now. But, hand grenades, real AK assault weapons, and other heavy stuff is not going from Wal Mart to Mexico. To try to blame the US for the activities of Venezuela (and Mexican gansters) is good politics but typical DC Left.
MarkMcgoldrick and LowProfile are faggots and suck each others cocks(Little we ones) often.
Mark wishes he owned Gold and LowProfile wishes he had a Brain.
He Came to the train station,too late.
Do not get excited-China is hardening its line with every USD increase in USA debt, as they know it will crash.
And China will suffer,but, they have stolen so much technology and science from the USA (data still continues to flow), implanted so many spies in the USA, during last 30 years that it was worth every penny they will loose on US debt crash and exported inflation.
So time is coming closer when hardliners will stop the capitalism experiment in China, at the same time conveniently avoiding overheating.
China needs to avoid doing UCC-1 financial law with Ben (I'm not monentizing debt I'm monetizing debt. Inflation is temporary though it's occured through 99.9999 percent of the history of the fed). Any contracts with the fed are so null and void as to be rediculous from a group that claims "The last duty of any central banker is to tell the truth".
They are just fucking full disclosure portions of any agreement like necrophilliacs. And the bodies they manufacture for you they turn around and poision the shit out of them.
This world is going to be completely guilt free before this is all over.
The US is a bully and a historical moron because it can. Its a nation without a common history and their mostly European heritage is denied. America simply is a historical lie and its getting worse since its degenerating into a bastard society (Balkanization). This will end at some point. When is unclear but people will sing of it in a thousands of years.
How stupid can a nation be to wage wars when at the same time your industrial base is being eroded? Are Americans that stupid or do they not understand how to play this game? Neocons, NAFTA, Globalisation and ridiculous laws broke its neck. Since Neocons are mostly Jewish this can only end in horror. Remember the Bolshevik traitors were 95% Jews and this ended in horror for Russia. When i read Jewish news and American news i can find no difference. They are hypocritical, self centered and full of distortions and propaganda.Yes, German Jews control the media and the debt based monetary system.
In Christianity and Islam it is forbidden to take interest. During the Middle Ages Christians and Muslims could not become money changers or they must do it without interest. Jews, on the other hand, were forbidden to do most of all jobs so they monopolized the debt based monetary system and the jewelry trade. So it all started.
Globalisation inclusive NAFTA led to the the export of technology and jobs once the hegemon owned. This way other societies can lift themself up which leads to the decline of the hegemon. Even the disastrous tools like IMF and World bank could not stop it. Thanks to David Rockefeller who is Globalisations most outspoken advocate and as it turns out is himself a German Jew.
Ridiculous laws are, for example, the war on drugs. Coincidentally another scheme based on the ideas by the Rockefellers. This is historical idiocy and is used to bully Europe and other once friends to apply to American schemes and to destroy peoples lives. Why should a friend do this? Because its a CIA scheme to monopolize the drug trade and finance government debt. But this is another American train wreck because the monopolies in Europe have shifted to Nigerians, Lebanese and Turks. Europeans are completely out of the game and money is leaving the continent which is bad for the economy. This is self defeating.
Finally, three things:
1. Europe and England have been bullied into the scheme of Monsanto. Would a friend do that?
2. American soldiers in occupied Germany deal drugs and make kids but America do not want the mongrels back and Germany has to feed American bastard children. America is not a friend its an enemy that must be defeated at all costs.
3. "We do not want peace between peoples. We want peace between markets", Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel.
Greetings from occupied Germany.
In Christianity and Islam it is forbidden to take interest...
I can't speak for Islam, but in a story right out of Jesus mouth:
" 26 But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;
27 thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.
28 Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away.
30 And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 25)
The bible is a contradictory piece of shit.
http://opus.fm/view/biblical_contradictions_now_with_pictures/
Ich verstehe. Frieden, Bruder!
As a gay man who used to live in the U.S., I always found it seriously hypocritical when the U.S. held itself out as the bastion of freedom of human rights over the rest of the world. I have since lived in Canada and New Zealand, where a gay man truly has something closer to "equal rights" (ie., I can marry my parter and sponsor him for residency, like every other citizen of the country--unlike the U.S. where I have no such rights whatsoever). It's shameful. And again, it's totally hypocritical. Not that China is any better in this regard. Just saying many, many countries trump the U.S. when it comes to human rights, and China is just as justified throwing stones at the American record as the U.S. is in throwing stones at China.
Moral equivalency? Not even close.
In the usa one may speak one's mind freely, one may peacably assemble to protest government action, and one may freely publish dissenting opinions.
In china it has been the pattern that you go to jail for any of those actions.
There is no moral equivalency here. The.chinese government doesnt even respect basic human rights. However their people.want to have freedom of speech without threats and without censorship and eventually they will get those freedoms, one way or another.
You may indeed speak your mind freely in this country. As long as it is in an approved "free speech zone." You may also get tazed and/or beaten and/or put on secret govt watch/no-fly lists and/or taken to jail and/or shot for exercising that arbitrary privilege.
Here for example is a video of Ray McGovern, who was assaulted and taken to jail for simply turning his back on one of our overlords while it was giving a speech on the topic of… free speech (to the article's point on the gross hypocrisy of the US government):
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/ray-mcgovern-physically-attacked-at-clinton-speech/0PSXuvANOTsBXBIcZUWF8A
US citizens cling to their fantasies.
Accross the world, and throughout history, thousands of despots. The vast majority of them exhibit the same behaviour: living their passion. Most had a passion for power games.
Yet, with the US, the requirement to justify freedom of speech as a subversive means has grown harder and from despots who could not care less about a peasant shitting in a ditch and cursing them, the special need for mentals who are concerned by every thing told about them has grown out.
Freedom of speech is not threat in the US. Historically, a power tries to suppress threats. On the contrary, allowing harmless free speech allows a person in power to feel tolerant.
Yet US citizens still come with their drivel freedom of speech.
I don't really trust any open dialogue like this on the international stage. Talk is cheap, but it does have a value. Try this:
Just keep in the back of your mind that the state and defense departments in the US are filled with "humanitarians" and neo-conservatives respectively. The Chinese government needs to show that it's resisting a foreign hegemon to galvanize it's own people toward something other than the Chinese government itself. They're just as paranoid of their own people as the US is of Americans. Entertain the possibility that the posturing is for Chinese government to maintain stability in china.
And if you don't believe that, then just remember that the US version of humanitarianism is a scud missile and trade sanctions that starve millions.
I call on the Chinese government to pressure the regime in Washinton to recognize the limits imposed by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution. I also call on the Chinese to help restore the Second Amendment to its full effect, especially in states like Illinios, New York and New Jersey that effectively prohibit a person from exercising their right to bear the arms that they please how they please.
I also call upon the Chinese government to pressure the regime in Washingon to restore the unalienable right of financial privacy and to eliminate the hypocricy of being forced to testify against one's self when forced to disclose all income for purposes of taxation.
Lastly, I call upon the Chinese government to pressure the current regime in Washington to immediately cease their theft of private wealth by diluting the value of the US currency as a matter of official policy.
China's just jealous they dont yet have a world hegemony. Its all about how unjustice things are until the next up and comer gets the power, then whammo!
America's bad, China is infintely worse. Only an idiot, or a univeristy professor -pardon the redundancy- would what China at the helm.
The moment the USA crumbles, the Anti-USA coalition fragments.
The chinese.government will collapse long before.ours.does. Look how scared the.chicom government is when anyone says.jasmine or questions one party.dictatorship. one might argue we are a two party dictatorship which would be a stretch, but still if you dont luke the two major parties you wont go to jail here in the usa.for forming a third party, or having a dissenting blog such as zero hedge.
Collapse is a strong word - the USA was also still around after October 1929.
"The United States has taken human rights as "a political instrument to defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests," the report said.
Sounds like they're describing the Democrat's approach to political opposition for the last 50 years. Just change "nations' to Republican enemy du jour, rinse and repeat.
Wow. Lots of America hate.
Just for the sake of conversation, what country do y'all think we should be more like, and why?
Which nation on earth is the model we should seek to emulate?
You really can't beat the Chinese - they are socialist AND capitalist at the same time.
Yeah i am curious.
Do people think we ought to restrict basic.freedoms like china and north korea and all those other countries on the naughty list?
Will you miss the freedoms ?
Or better yet
Will you miss the people missing the freedoms ?
Yes i would.
I like an internet that is not censored based on political content or.for expressing a dissenting view.
I like the ability to speak my mind freely without worrying about going to jail.
I like to go to protests and attempt to influence the government wirhour going to jail.
The second amendment has been the traditional deterrant against loss of freedoms and i like being armed.openly, versus.having.to hide my weapons.
I would too.
However there is a wider change of perspective, if Authoritarianism manages to deliver wealth constantly and efficiently (and beyond any musings of Austrians etc. about constitutional monarchy or Singaporean-style "meritocracy") the model with all its implications will find its supporters elsewhere in the world.
We are after all already prepared to the necessity of circuses and bread, well at least the most of us.
Wow. Lots of America hate.
Just for the sake of conversation, what country do y'all think we should be more like, and why?
Which nation on earth is the model we should seek to emulate?
None of them you collectivist puke. How about weaning yourself from mommy's nipple? Then you wouldn't have an emotional need to be part of a "nation" in the first place.
Ivory Coast. I love the ironic name...
He has to serve something bigger and more noble than himself. A big giant gang of violent murdering fucks doing god's work or freedoms work or some damn bullshit propaganda machines work. It's ok though they are under the control of firm leadership. It's not like they can shoot bloomerg reporters without first lying aout what they see and what's going on and patiently waiting for an OK to blow the nosey fuckers away. And we have tv cameras with such high resolution you can spot wheither a guy has hepatitis b from his skin tone in a convenience store. But you can't see shit on those goddamn helicopter recorders.
It's like watching stupid ass tv. The "head shrinker" guy is always all like. We got an arsonists and everyone knows once you start burning shit to the ground you won't stop till you are caught. Well we got fucking killers and everybody knows once you start murdering the fuck out of people to solve your problems you're not going to stop. I saw a funny news blurb the other day. A marine got shot in the head in afghanistan and he had his head bandaged and was smoking a cigarette. I was like fuck. The brain isn't a vital organ any longer.
That's why we got a ponzi system. Nobody want a king but a few "seed" people are always willing to give it up for a king in exchange for enjoying the raping of everybody who doesn't want the existance. Which is why the king model won't ever live and won't ever die. And it'll keep you stuck in temporal insanity as long as you have any fucking sympathy for it.
"None of them you collectivist puke."
The world is only interested in collective conciousness. But first it has to mind fuck you before it can do the collecting. Because it's just not going to accept your fuck off you ignorant fucking piece of shit conciousness that this place keeps creating no matter how many times it knocks you unconcious and sticks you as a blank slate ready for another stupid mind fucking attempt.
Just shut up and drink the bitter juice bitches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Yeah , and China arrested 750,000 non violent cannabis smokers last year... oh, yeah, that was the US too.
People can change the laws in the usa and advocate for changes in the law. The marijuana laws can change. In some states they have. You have the right here to organize and publish opinions advocating change in the law.
Except that unlike China, the future for those people is not a mix between harvested organs and "fertilizer".
In china you go to jail if you say the wrong thing, organize a protest, go to an unlicensed church, or publish something the government.doesnt like
China tries to censor the internet. The.chinese government.denies its people the most basic of.rights.
The usa is by no means perfect. Every country and every government has made mistakes, but at least we allow people to publish dissenting views and to organize and promote change in the government. We are allowed to speak dissenting views freely.
We are not perfect, but we are swimming with the inevitable tides of history. China is frantically and.hopelessly fighting the tides. It will be a losing battle because the.chinese people want freedom and they will get it.
i've always wondered when Bush-Blair or Obama-Cameron press the trigger on a 'smart bomb' for the reason of regime change, wether the 200,000 innocent civilians murdered by their trigger (happy) fingers in say Iraq is cold blooded Govt institutionalised murder or just 'friendly fire' and something we can do nothing to avoid ....avoid killing innocent people that is
Given China's history, one only needs to call their bluff at the wrong time(for them). Their weaponry will be sold off, be replaced with second-rate equipment, and fail when they need it the most. To that end, that is why China whitewashes their despotic government as being the home of various multinationals, all seeking a pliant labor pool.
Unlike China we don't have a contradictory Constitution, the presence of company towns in spite of "progress", forced organ donations from convicts, deliberately built towns in the middle of nowhere for nobody, a completely squelched media, and other things that China has done to please multinationals.
China is a Third World nation full of thugs that make junk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob05sr6hKW8
Instead, you have a government that contradicts the constitution, death panels and whimsical abortion, a completely compromised mass media, all to serve multinationals, aspiring to third world status, full of financial thugs that make nothing.
You should move to china then. It must be an amazing bastion of human rights compared to the usa. I am sure you would like it better as a chinese citizen.
If 1 out of 100,000 chinks posts a comment here it will set the page record by 2225%.
U.S. criticizing China for not paying lip service to liberty.
Pot to kettle: You are black!"
I read a Johns Hopkins report in 2007 that the USA (and Allies) had killed over 700,000 Iraqi civilians..
That is not what it says. Those are total deaths due to violence of all kinds.
The proportion of deaths attributed to coalition forces diminished in 2006 to 26 percent. Between March 2003 and July 2006, households attributed 31 percent of deaths to the coalition
So, even the locals say 74% of the violent deaths were muslim on muslim violence.
Perhaps you should re-read it.
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2006/burnham_iraq_2006.html
I stand corrected. Here are some other Iraq "violent death" numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
I think Chinese peasants should all own firearms.
Let's see how that turns out.
cHINA IS NOT A Superpower.
While that last sentence may not be an explicit warning for the US to shut the hell up and focus on its own dirty laundry, or else, it sure does sound like one.
I'm reading China's tongue-lashing as a shot over the bow. China has just about had enough of U.S. bullshit.
They know the dollar is tanking (74.85) and likely to open way down monday.
They have America in a weak spot. I bet it's all they can do to not go for the kill.
A weak spot?
Compared to china?
Hardly.
We have been trying to get the.chinese to allow the dollar to devalue against the yuan. We win, compared to china, no matter what happens here.
What do you win?
We win ...
A trillion in dumpable treasuries says you're wrong.
Maybe Bill Gross knows something you don't.
I love all this talk of past history. The US is in 4 wars NOW. Nobody ever attacked the US. A few CIA-trained Arabs blew up a couple of buildings. The whole thing was at least allowed to happen, and possibly planned. And that's the justification for 4 wars, domestic surveillance on a massive scale, torturing prisoners and the Patriot act. Yes, China may have been worse in the past but we are rapidly catching up.
The talk about the past is necessary. The chinese record of invasions of late has been thin.
How do you want them to match the US record?
Shorter China: "Hey US, bite me."
This whole "war for humanitarian purposes" doctrine created by Obama's newest czar Samantha Power, is going to be catastrophic. Are we going to intervene to prevent China's next Tiananmen Square? Are we going to intervene to stop North Korea from imprisoning 3-4 generations of entire familes, with children raised in slave labor camps, and entire family shot at the whim of prison administrators? Where will it end?
Ans. No, No, and No. Why? those places all have the capability of fighting back... and not enough oil to speak of. The MIC KEY is to stick to weak, poor and brown, but with natural resources.
And this is the best answer you have?
We are being led by children fighting over who gets the ball.
The ball being, of course . . . what exactly?
What would happen politically in the U.S. if China started to show some kind of financial sympathy for the millions of struggling U.S. citizens that have been , and continue to be screwed over by their own banks and Federal government. A sort of "hey, we know that your own government has no interest in you because you can't buy the Russel, nor fund campaigns, but we still think your important."