China 2.0 is in Trouble

Despite the many differences between China and the U.S., their basic problems are remarkably similiar: an economy that increasingly serves a tiny Elite, and a political/financial system that is incapable of meaningful reform. Setting aside the latest bird flu outbreak and sagging indicators of growth, China 2.0 is in trouble (with 1.0 being the Communist era of 1949 -1977 and 2.0 being the modernization/globalization era of 1978 – 2013), for it remains overly reliant on unsustainable growth dynamics. Add it all up and you get a clear picture of a government and economy that is incapable of making the kind of structural reforms that are needed to make growth sustainable. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-26/guest-post-china-20-trouble

North Korea is Someone Else’s Problem

War still could start from mistake or miscalculation, but that always has been the case. Washington gains nothing from fixating on the intentions of a bankrupt and backward state which has little ability to strike Americans, except those Washington has voluntarily placed within range—the 28,500 military personnel stationed in South Korea. Better would be to begin bringing them home, leaving North Korea’s neighbors to deal with Pyongyang. The Cold War turned the Korean Peninsula into a battleground for America. But that ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. The Republic of Korea has 40 times the GDP and twice the population of the North. Japan has the world’s third largest economy and a sophisticated military. China has interest in stability, if not democracy, on the peninsula. They have both the means and incentive to handle the DPRK. http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-the-us-take-north-koreas-saber-rattling-seriously/north-korea-is-someone-elses-problem

China Considers But Rejects Drone-Killing an Elusive Foreign Killer

What kind of weak, soft, overly legalistic government worries about trivial concerns like international law and “sovereignty issues” when it comes to drone-killing heinous murderers for whom capture is difficult? Why not just shoot Hellfire missiles wherever you think he might be hiding in weaker countries and kill him and anyone who happens to be near him? Or if you are able to find him, at least just riddle his skull with bullets, dump his corpse into the ocean, and then chant nationalistic slogans in the street and at your political conventions. Who would ever want to give a trial to such a heinous and savage foreign killer of your citizens, particularly if it means risking the lives of your soldiers to apprehend him? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/china-drones-mekong-naw-kham

Will There Be a U.S. War on China?

China has no desire to fight the United States unless absolutely necessary, and less to spark a US trade embargo. China holds over $1 trillion in U.S. government debt. Beijing has no desire to panic all of East Asia. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis326.html

Chinese Takeover With Free Trade Zones

The long-term goal of Communist Red Chinese is to take over the wealth creation resources of the planet. The quasi merger between the authoritarian Maoists and the global capitalists plays out as a sorry act in the Beijing Red Theater. The performance designed to distract and confuse really has the destruction of Western economies as the climax. The sell out of the West is entering the final stages of a planned implosion. Now that the de-industrialization of America as described in the article, Free Trade Created the Chinese Model, has taken placed, the theft of our natural assets is the next to go. http://www.batr.org/negotium/013013.html

Massive Squeeze Coming As WGC Confirms Gold-Backed Yuan

The second thing I want to make KWN readers aware of is the report which was commissioned by the World Gold Council. This is an incredible document, especially coming from the World Gold Council because it’s basically saying that the Chinese are going to back their currency with gold. This would, in turn, displace the US dollar and make the Chinese yuan the world’s reserve currency. http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/1/23_Massive_Squeeze_Coming_As_WGC_Confirms_Gold-Backed_Yuan.html

Chinese Eugenics

China has been running the world’s largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years, driving China’s ever-faster rise as the global superpower. I worry that this poses some existential threat to Western civilization. Yet the most likely result is that America and Europe linger around a few hundred more years as also-rans on the world-historical stage, nursing our anti-hereditarian political correctness to the bitter end. http://www.amren.com/news/2013/01/chinese-eugenics/

The Acceptable Enemy

A Chinese perspective on the problem of White pride. http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/untimely-observations/the-acceptable-enemy/

Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China now More Free Than America in Notable Ways

I’m not sure it’s God, however, who is destroying America. Far more likely it is the lazy cognitive convenience of modern-day liberalism, where the convalescent, illiterate masses strive only to achieve a lingering state of feeling comfortably numb as tyranny multiplies all around them. From such vacuous philosophy comes the slow, steady slide from freedom to enslavement, from peace to war, and from truth to delusion. Presiding over this drop into the dark abyss is the perfect man for the job: Obama the Deceiver, the populist wizard of emotional voter voodoo… the man who can transform abundance into enslavement while being worshipped by the stupefied, indolent masses who remain clueless that their Land of the Free has been meticulously replaced, piece by piece, with an oppressive matrix of total enslavement to the state. http://lewrockwell.com/adams-m/adams-m25.1.html

China and Russia are Acquiring Gold, Dumping U.S. Dollars

There is evidence that central banks in several regions of the World are building up their gold reserves. What is published are the official purchases. A large part of these Central Bank purchases of gold bullion are not disclosed. They are undertaken through third party contracting companies, with utmost discretion. U.S. dollar holdings and U.S. dollar denominated debt instruments are in effect being traded in for gold, which in turn puts pressure on the U.S. dollar. http://www.globalresearch.ca/central-banks-are-acquiring-gold-dumping-us-dollars/22672

China to Challenge U.S. Dollar Reserve Currency Status

China is actively taking steps to phase out the US dollar which will decrease volatility in oil and commodity prices and deride the ‘exorbitant privilege’ the USA commands as the issuer of the reserve currency at the centre of a post-war international financial architecture which is now failing. In 1971, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally said, “It’s our currency and your problem”. China is frustrated with what it sees as the US government’s mismanagement of the dollar, and is now actively promoting the cross-border use of its own currency, the yuan, or also called the renminbi, in trade and investment. http://maxkeiser.com/2012/10/04/china-to-challenge-us-dollar-reserve-currency-status/#more-54724

Fire in the East

While most geopolitical fears are focused on the Middle East, it would be wise to also keep an eye on the Far East. There are no less than five major territorial disputes agitating the area, two of which have heated up in recent weeks, and all of which present potential headaches for the United States. http://takimag.com/article/fire_in_the_east_charles_coulombe/print#axzz27hd0Mtpq

Petro Dollar Going the Way of the Dodo Bird as China Begins Selling Oil Using Yuan

The dollar’s death by a thousand cuts just sustained a few hundred proverbial slashes as China officially announced Thursday that the international banking and payment transfer system is ready for any nation in the world to begin accepting the Chinese Yuan as payment for oil. Combine the Chinese announcement with Thursday’s open-ended and unlimited quantitative easing announcement by the Fed and the dollar is dead. http://www.silverdoctors.com/petro-dollar-going-the-way-of-the-dodo-bird-as-china-begins-selling-oil-using-yuan/

Russia, China Join Hands Against America’s Global ‘Missile Defense’ Plan

Washington announced plans last spring to expand its missile defence shield and install its components not only in Europe, but also in Asia and the Middle East. US Assistant Secretary of Defence for Global Strategic Issues Madelyn Creedon said at the time that locations in Australia, Japan, and South Korea could be selected. It was also reported in August that missile defence components – early warning radars – would appear in Japan and the Philippines. Observers haven’t ruled out the possibility that Russia and China could join efforts to resolve the American missile defence problem. “China has significantly intensified cooperation with Russia in terms of resisting the deployment of the American missile defence system. The deployment of missile defenses in the region will be met with rather stiff resistance from China, which will be expressed in diplomatic demarches and will also take some kind of practical form,” Captain Konstantin Sivkov, Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems. http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/russia-china-join-hands-against-americas-global-missile-defense-plan/21283/

Obama’s Geopolitical China ‘Pivot’: The Pentagon Targets China

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the nominal end of the Cold War some twenty years back, rather than reducing the size of its mammoth defense spending, the U.S. Congress and all U.S. Presidents have enormously expanded spending for new weapons systems, increased permanent military bases around the world and expansion of NATO not only to former Warsaw Pact countries on Russia’s immediate periphery; it also has expanded NATO and the U.S. military presence deep into Asia on the perimeters of China through its conduct of the Afghan war and related campaigns. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32474

California Will be the First Chinese Colony on the U.S. Mainland

They are part of the present day paradigm and must sustain it by any means possible. Our GDP is shrinking in nominal terms and cratering in inflation adjusted terms. California is going the way of Greece and 12 months from now it may be unrecognizable as the once Golden State. The Chinese, with their century and even millennium- long view of things can just wait for us to implode and take over without firing a shot. When we talk about fiscal crises, California is closest geographically to China so it will be the first sally port for Chinese influence, both monetarily and economically. When California defaults the Chinese will be there to help, slowly at first to get a toehold in the state and then with vigor as Chinese move to the state to take over industries, governmental positions and residences. http://www.silverdoctors.com/guest-post-california-will-be-the-first-real-chinese-colony-on-the-us-mainland/

American Delusion

An ascending China has already swept past a fast declining United States in economic wealth. http://www.silverdoctors.com/silver-update-american-delusion/

War On All Fronts

It looks as if an over-confident U.S. government is determined to have a three-front war: Syria, Lebanon, and Iran in the Middle East, China in the Far East, and Russia in Europe. This would appear to be an ambitious agenda for a government whose military was unable to occupy Iraq after nine years or to defeat the lightly-armed Taliban after eleven years, and whose economy and those of its NATO puppets are in trouble and decline with corresponding rising internal unrest and loss of confidence in political leadership. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/16/war-on-all-fronts/

Clinton: Russia, China Will Pay Price for Syria

Russia and China must “pay a price” for blocking U.N. sanctions that might press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad into stepping down, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said July 6 in some of Washington’s strongest remarks yet on the crisis. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russia-china-will-pay-price-for-syria-clinton.aspx?pageID=238&nID=24961&NewsCatID=359

Will Toledo Be the First Major American City to Be Owned by China?

It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt. Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt. The borrower is the servant of the lender, and today we owe China more than a trillion dollars. By running a gigantic trade deficit with us, China has been able to become incredibly wealthy. We have begged them to lend us back some of the money that we have sent them and this has made them even wealthier. Now China is gobbling up U.S. real estate and U.S. assets at an astounding pace. In fact, some cities are in danger of becoming completely dominated by Chinese ownership. One of those cities is Toledo, Ohio. In many “rust belt” areas, real estate can be had for a song, and the Chinese are taking full advantage of this. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/will-toledo-ohio-be-the-first-major-american-city-to-be-owned-by-china

Hubris as the Evil Force in History

Hubris returned to America with the neoconservative ascendency. Americans have become “the indispensable people.” Like the Jacobins of the French Revolution who intended to impose “liberty, equality, fraternity” upon all of Europe, Washington asserts the superiority of the American way and the right to impose it on the rest of the world. Hubris is in full flower despite its defeats. The “three week” Iraq war lasted eight years, and after 11 years the Taliban control more of Afghanistan than the “world’s only superpower.” Sooner or later American hubris is going to run up against Russia and China, neither of which will give way. Either the US, like Napoleon and Hitler, will have its Russian (or Chinese) moment, or the world will go up in thermonuclear smoke. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/06/12/hubris-as-the-evil-force-in-history/

The Glorious Empire Seeks to Encircle China

America has been at war for decades. Its aircraft and warships are aging rapidly. Equally threatening, Congress may force deep military spending cuts as deficits worsen – at a time when the US military is being ordered to keep China bottled up on the Asian mainland. China need only build its military power close to home. The United States must project and maintain its naval and air power 10,000 km across the Pacific Ocean, a hugely expensive, complex undertaking that gives cash-rich China an important, even decisive advantage. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis296.html

China Calls Out U.S. for Hypocrisy on Human Rights

Last week, the U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights around the world. It covers nearly 200 countries, from Tunisia and Egypt and their uprisings, to North Korea and Cuba and the repression in those nations. The report is an annual State Department tradition, going back nearly four decades. And for the last 13 years, it has been followed immediately by another tradition: a rebuttal. China has released its own report on America. It says Washington is full of “overcritical” remarks about the world and “turns a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation.” http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/01/china-calls-out-overcritical-u-s/?iref=allsearch

The Chinese Advantage

China is thus spared a multiethnic society’s massive inefficiencies and vexations. Whatever may happen to their system of government, they will at least be dealing with each other without ethnic rancor. The 21st century will not be like that for America. What will it be like? I think genetics blogger “TangoMan” gets it pretty much right in this very interesting comment thread on Chuck Rudd’s blog: As the demography changes further and we become a minority-majority nation, the costs of maintaining equality of outcome become ever more onerous so more taxes must be raised, more spending must be dedicated towards social programs designed to equalize outcomes, more restrictions on freedom must be imposed to maintain good order and the burden on high income whites and Asians grows and the prospects for their children diminish as they enter a world ruled by a racial spoils system. As TangoMan also points out (further down the thread): “The majority of children in kindergarten last year were NAMs [i.e., Non-Asian Minorities].” The die is cast. http://takimag.com/article/the_chinese_advantage_john_derbyshire#axzz1u1iygFD2

Brewing a Conflict with China

China’s rise is a great boon to the U.S. military/security complex, which governs America in which there is a pretense of “freedom and democracy.” China is the profitable replacement for the “Soviet threat.” As the days go by, the presstitute media will create in the feeble minds of Americans “The CHINA Threat.” Soon whatever little remains of the U.S. living standard will be sacrificed to Washington’s confrontation with China, along with the seizure of our pensions and personal savings in order to deter “the China threat.” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/04/30/brewing-a-conflict-with-china/

China’s Rise, America’s Fall

The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic hardship, and the Chinese economy poised to surpass our own before the end of this decade, China looms very large on the horizon. We are living in the early years of what journalists once dubbed “The Pacific Century,” yet there are worrisome signs it may instead become known as “The Chinese Century.” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/chinas-rise-americas-fall/

U.S. Roads and Bridges Being Built by Chinese Companies As American Economy Teeters on Collapse

A recent report by ABC has confirmed what many have claimed for years; infrastructure jobs are going directly to foreign countries, particularly China. Regardless of the fact that U.S. law usually requires American companies to be picked first for infrastructure jobs, multiple Chinease companies are currently working on U.S. bridges and roads throughout the country. http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/15/u-s-roads-and-bridges-being-built-by-chinese-companies-as-american-economy-teeters-on-collapse/

Four Obvious Signs of Asia’s Rise Over the West

Most Westerners refuse to believe it. They can’t envision an era in which the West doesn’t lead the world in everything. And yet, that time is already upon us. http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/four-obvious-signs-of-asias-rise-over-the-west/

Saudi Arabia and China Team Up to Build a Gigantic New Oil Refinery – Is This The Beginning of the End For the Petrodollar?

The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it. This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be fully operational in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu by 2014. Over the past several years, China has sought to aggressively expand trade with Saudi Arabia, and China now actually imports more oil from Saudi Arabia than the United States does. http://www.blacklistednews.com/Saudi_Arabia_And_China_Team_Up_To_Build_A_Gigantic_New_Oil_Refinery_%E2%80%93_Is_This_The_Beginning_Of_The_End_For_The_Petrodollar%3F_/18601/0/0/0/Y/M.html

China’s Supremacy Need Not Mean War With U.S.

When Germany challenged British supremacy and Japan began building its empire in the Pacific and East Asia in the early 20th century, the transition involved two world wars — and resulted in the de facto division of the world between two non-European superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States has no truly vital interests on the Asian mainland, or at least none that it could protect by fighting China. It was entirely safe from foreign attack before it became the world’s greatest power, and it will still be militarily invulnerable long after it loses that distinction. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/02/23/in-dealing-with-china-look-to-brits.html

Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?

This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold imports. Analysts believe China bought as much as 490 tons of gold in 2011, double the estimated 245 tons in 2010. http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/01/29/why-are-the-chinese-buying-record-quantities-of-gold/

China Failing, as Predicted?

After writing many articles in the past few years – long before it was fashionable even among alternative news services – explaining that the ChiComs were on the proverbial thin ice with their huge 1.4 billion population, we find this weird article explaining that China is about to tip over into outright rebellion. Even stranger, it appears on the Drudge Report, which is read by millions. Foreign Policy magazine is an elite mouthpiece and the Drudge Report, as good as it is, would not be tolerated (given its size) by US intel if it did not toe SOME line or other. You won’t find a lot of articles on Drudge questioning the “official” story of 9/11, for instance. So perhaps the powers-that-be are coming to the conclusion that the Chinese Miracle is indeed an unsustainable one. And that people ought to know about it. It doesn’t add much to the credibility of an already maligned mainstream press to be blindsided by the collapse of the world’s biggest country, after all. http://www.thedailybell.com/3522/China-Failing-as-Predicted

A New Reserve Currency to Challenge the Dollar — What’s Really Going On in The Straits of Hormuz

I think the stand-off with Iran in the Straits of Hormuz over sanctions is as much to do with the moves to replace the dollar as anything else. The stand off is as much with China and its allies as it is specifically with Iran. The US is testing China’s nerve and the solidity of its network of bilateral currency settlement agreements. We are seeing military power deployed to counter economic power. I think the US will lose. Depending on the nature of its loss we could see a precipitate decline in the standing of the dollar as global reserve currency. 2012 could see the beginning of large scale defections from the dollar settlement currency. Which would in turn have massive, perhaps even catastrophic consequences for how the world perceives what is an acceptable level of debt for the US. What is acceptable when you have the global reserve currency is quite different from what is acceptable when you don’t. And the reverse is also true. If China can transform the netwrok of bilateral agreements which centre upon China and the Yuan, in to becoming accepted as a de facto reserve currency, then for those, like me, who wonder how China can possibly avoid a hard landing as its bad bank and property bubble deflates faster and faster, look no further. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30190.htm

China Skids Towards Hard Landing; Hot Money Outflows Increase; Risk of Devastating Trade Wars Increases

The Chinese hard landing is on its way. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/china-skids-towards-hard-landing-hot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis+%28Mish%27s+Global+Economic+Trend+Analysis%29

Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Frontiers of China and Russia

After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the disintegration of puppet regimes in Somalia and South Sudan, the Obama regime has learned nothing: instead he has turned toward greater military confrontation with global powers, namely Russia and China. Obama has adopted a provocative offensive military strategy on the very frontiers of both China and Russia. http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1883

Renewed U.S. Focus on Pacific Region Intended to Distract from Unrest at Home?

One might think that a bitter Central Asian war in Afghanistan, spilling into Pakistan, with no sign of ending, and an as yet ambiguous military commitment to a defeated and incompletely reconstituted Iraq, now overshadowed by Iran and the Arab Awakening across the Middle East, would be enough for President Barack Obama to cope with. He was, after all, elected to reduce American military commitments. He was going to end things in Iraq, fight the “right war” in Afghanistan, which Gen. David Petraeus told him could be wound up in a year. Unaccustomed to generals as he might have been, he surely did not expect “Af-Pak” to turn into a permanent activity and a source of income for the Pentagon and the American arms industry. Why then does he now want a war with China? No one seems to have made much of this in American press reports and comment, but others have noticed, most of all in China. http://www.tmsfeatures.com/columns/political/international/william-pfaff/William-Pfaff.html?articleURL=http://rss.tmsfeatures.com/websvc-bin/rss_story_read.cgi?resid=201111221730TMS_____WPFAFF___tr–v-a_20111122

Russia, China and Iran are Considering a Joint Missile Shield Directed Against the U.S. and NATO

Unofficial sources have announced that Iran, Russia, and China are currently holding talks on a proposal to establish a joint missile defense shield as a counterweight to a NATO defense shield, Mehr news agency reported. The report, which was published in the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan on Sunday, said that the sources cited two reasons why serious consultations have been held on the initiative. First, all three states have come to the conclusion that U.S. officials’ assertion that their concern over the alleged missile and nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea is the reason for the decision to establish a NATO missile defense shield is just a pretext and the true objective of the shield is to threaten Russia and China. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26771

Obama Plays the China Card

Declaring the U.S. is “here to stay,” President Obama made his Asian trip the occasion for a renewed assertion of U.S. hegemony in the region, announcing a new agreement with Australia that would see thousands of U.S. marines stationed at a base in Australia. Dispelling any doubt about who or what this garrison is meant to guard against, the One declared China must “play by the rules.” Who sets those rules? Washington does, of course. Which raises the question: what are the rules, anyway? Actually, there’s only one: Washington is always right — even when it’s wrong, and you may apply it in any situation, no matter the specifics. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/17/obama-plays-the-china-card/

China’s Ghost Towns

As sprawling housing developments and skyscrapers in one of the world’s most populous countries, these tower blocks and recently-built neighbourhoods should be busy and swarming with people. But on closer inspection these stunning pictures show elaborate public buildings and open spaces which are left completely empty. The most recent pictures of unused housing emerged as China announced plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005231/Chinas-ghost-towns-New-satellite-pictures-massive-skyscraper-cities-STILL-completely-empty.html

Ahmadinejad Joins Leaders of China and Russia at Summit

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the “slavers and colonisers” of the West. In a characteristically firebrand speech peppered with rhetorical questions, he launched a new call for a wholesale shake-up of the world order, which he said was “managed and run by slavers and colonizers of the past.” http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iK-uoG7aI7dCBPyVCPotpZeFc4Sg?docId=CNG.d8b17504535e4f19218999090de182f4.641

Battle Stations. Battle Stations. The Red Chinese Navy Is Coming at Flank Speed!

Those Cassandras who believe Cathay is about to rule waves after launching its first aircraft carrier are getting way, way ahead of themselves. One swallow does not make the spring, and one aircraft carrier does not make a battle fleet in being. The Red Chinese Navy is not about to steam up Chesapeake Bay and launch Jimmy Doolittle-style air strikes on Washington. But the appearance of China’s flattop is noteworthy coming at a time when maritime tensions have again flared up in the disputed South China Sea. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis245.html

How the Empire Will Prevail — Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?

What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-the-empire-will-prevai-by-paul-craig-roberts-110605-526.html

China: U.S. Should Respect Pakistan’s Sovereignty

China has warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China. Beijing has advised Washington to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty and solidarity and this was formally conveyed to the United States at last week’s China-U.S. strategic dialogue and economic talks. http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?239475

Will China Be Number One?

Back before 9/11, China was, of course, the favored future uber-enemy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and all those neocons who signed onto the Project for the New American Century and later staffed George W. Bush’s administration. After all, if you wanted to build a military beyond compare to enforce a long-term Pax Americana on the planet, you needed a nightmare enemy large enough to justify all the advanced weapons systems in which you planned to invest. As late as June 2005, neocon journalist Robert Kaplan was still writing in The Atlantic about “How We Would Fight China,” an article with this provocative subhead: “The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was.” As everyone knows, however, that “blip” proved far too much for the Bush administration. http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2011/05/01/will-china-be-number-one/

‘U.S. at Risk of War With China, Russia’

The U.S. is at the risk of a war with Russia and China as its main objective behind engineering the Libyan war and Syrian unrest is to remove the two world powers out of the Mediterranean, a former U.S. official warns. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176960.html

The U.S. War on China

Press TV has interviewed Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of U.S. Treasury from Panama City, who gives his insight on the revolution in Libya and why U.S. President Barack Obama needs to overthrow Qaddafi when no other U.S. presidents did. http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts300.html

The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil

The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gangs are actually being backed and directed by US, UK and Israel intelligence agencies, broader long-range Western policy objectives for Libya are being completely ignored. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24327

The Coming Chinese Superstate

So how will this nation of a billion people treat the rest of the world after it’s raised its IQ to 150+? Lynn might be too optimistic here. He believes the Chinese will colonize the world and try to improve the IQs and living standards of their subjects. The Europeans will be kept around for their biological uniqueness and admired for their cultural accomplishments, the way that the Romans subjugated the Greeks but appreciated their philosophy and art. If the Chinese decide that the Europeans should be preserved they’d be doing more for them than whites are currently doing for themselves. A global eugenic superstate led by by the Chinese will be the “end of history.” http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/04/the-coming-chinese-superstate-richard-lynns-eugenics/

Free Trade Created the Chinese Model

East will never meet the West of Adam Smith. China never had a culture or tradition of respecting individual human rights. Why would anyone assume that a regime that houses worker slaves in huge chicken coops would adopt a fair trade economy? The Chinese juggernaut is a creature of Western creation. The Red Dragon never reflects the noble contributions of wealth development that grew a stable middle class and spread the fruits of democratic principles. The Chinese model is a harbinger of the global gulag and the coerced society designed to demolish cherished Western Civilization values and liberties. The masters of political confrontations have found a better way than waging world wars for imposing their planetary dominance. http://batr.org/reactionary/012311.html

China – A Paper Tiger

The utter hypocrisy, economic ignorance, and general all around cluelessness of America’s political class – never very far from the surface — was on full display during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington this week. There was Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Sinophobe, hectoring the Chinese leader over his country’s human rights record – when her own country openly practices torture, spies on its own citizens, and has murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in a series of wars of “liberation. There was Paul Krugman, economist-in-chief of Bizarro World, explaining to us that Chinese subsidies which keep their exports affordable for US consumers are supposedly hurting us – when actually the opposite is the case. And there were the neocons over the Weekly Standard, pointing to the “boundless” military ambitions of the People’s Liberation Army and the alleged threat from Beijing – this from a magazine whose editor has proclaimed that the goal of US foreign policy ought to be “global hegemony”! Are these people deaf to their own absurd utterances? My guess is they just don’t care: after all, to whom are they answerable? Only their financial patrons, the various special interests that fund their careers, so making fools of themselves in sight of the whole world – the world outside the sealed cocoon of official Washington – is no big deal. The shameless – by definition – are immune to embarrassment. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/20/china-%e2%80%93-a-paper-tiger/

How the Chinese Must See Us

As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America’s hectoring still ringing in his ears, he must be thinking that maybe we Americans should stop lecturing them and take a closer look at ourselves. Revalue your currency, we demand of the Chinese, stop running these trade surpluses at our expense, start practicing free trade, and abandon these mercantilist and protectionist policies. But why should they? Why should China abandon a trade policy that is working marvelously well for them, and adopt a trade policy that is failing dismally for us? Does that make sense? Why should any nation emulate the U.S. trade policy of the Bush-Clinton-Bush era that has stripped us of a third of our manufacturing jobs and made us dependent on China and the world for the needs of our national life and the borrowed money to pay for them? Why would China, seeking to make herself an independent and self-sufficient nation, adopt a policy that cost us our independence? http://vdare.com/buchanan/110120_migrant_mistreatment.htm

The U.S. and China Going In Opposite Directions

Whether it is the Obama Administration or any other we expect the change in attitude towards China by the U.S. as being one where both seek mutually beneficial policies. Despite the change in the fortunes of the two nations, there will be a desire to quietly adjust to the situation by both sides. And these adjustments will be huge. Just as Britain in the last century started as the number one world power and had to slip well down the ranks, so the U.S. will see the beginning of a similar process in the next couple of years. The greatest change in that process will be the shrinkage of the use of the U.S. dollar as the use of the yuan grows rapidly. http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/phillips011911.html

Meet The New Boss: China Owns The United States

Everyone is painfully aware of the fact that China now owns the United States economically, with the Chinese central bank being the largest debt holder at approaching $1 trillion dollars. The average American family with two children collectively owes around $12,000 dollars to China. The Communist state’s ownership of long term U.S. Treasury Securities means the United States pays upwards of $100 million dollars a day to China in terms of interest alone. China’s huge accumulation of US dollars gives it the sway to lead the United States by the nose like a sheep to slaughter, holding in its hands the power to decide the economic destiny of the now collapsing American empire. The culmination of this process moved a step closer this week when Hu Jintao made it clear that China was preparing to sharpen the knife for the bloodletting to begin, by deriding the dollar as a “product of the past” and signaling its replacement with a new global monetary system based around the Chinese yuan. http://www.infowars.com/meet-the-new-boss-china-owns-the-united-states/

An Anti-Interventionist Looks at China

Most discussion of China in the mainstream press, especially the left-liberal press, focuses on China’s “human rights” record, or freedom of press and speech, or labor issues, or family planning policies. One may argue endlessly about those matters. But they are China’s internal affairs, and for a genuine anti-interventionist, they are none of our government’s business and have no place in setting foreign policy. There is a world of difference between an anti-interventionist and an advocate for “humanitarian” imperialism, witting or not. How does an anti-interventionist look at China? http://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2011/01/17/an-anti-interventionist-looks-at-china/

China Now Shaping the World

Welcome to a new era of globalisation, China-style. As the financial crisis recedes, one of the big fears is that the process of increasingly closer links among big economies worldwide will go into reverse as governments and countries look inward. The message coming from the world’s second-largest economy for the past year has been clear: China wants to accelerate the integration of the global economy, but on its own terms. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b852a826-2272-11e0-b6a2-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=ca6ea7d6-1d94-11e0-a163-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BPlhl1sI

Darwin Was Right

The [U.S.] is well on its way to being a merely regional power militarily, economically, and diplomatically. Short of a miracle, short of a conceivable but unlikely catastrophe in China, Americans will soon be medium potatoes. There is nothing we can do about it, but we will bankrupt ourselves trying. We can’t let go. If you look beyond the Reader’s Digest patriotism of Fox News, and the high-school cheerleading of little Sarah Palin, if you look beyond the national borders, all of this is obvious. By Chinese standards, America is a small country, having a quarter of its population. Their economy grows at close to double digits. Yes, it may slow down, or it may not. Short of unforeseen disaster, the question is not whether but when the Chinese economy will dwarf the American economy. Tell me why this is not true. http://original.antiwar.com/reed/2011/01/12/darwin-was-right/

Chinese Rating Agency Pegs U.S. GDP at $5 Trillion, Not $14 Trillion

The Chinese rating agency, which hit headlines earlier this year for its AA-view on the United States, is back, with another US downgrade. The serious defects in the United States economic development and management model will lead to the long-term recession of its national economy, fundamentally lowering the national solvency. The new round of quantitative easing monetary policy adopted by the Federal Reserve has brought about an obvious trend of depreciation of the U.S. dollar, and the continuation and deepening of credit crisis in the U.S. http://dailybail.com/home/chinese-rating-agency-says-us-as-creditworthy-as-costco-pegs.html

Feminism in China

boy or a girl?

Feminism has been eating away at the core of American demographics, dating and domestic life for decades. What’s often not understood is that this process is under way all over the world, everywhere industrial economies have taken root. I lived in Japan, Korea and China, though I have the most personal experience in Korea, where I lived for several years. Feminism is definitely altering the equation for young men and women in Korea. I was able to watch as the social environment was literally percolating and bubbling over. I go back regularly, and from what I can see, the process is only accelerating. Korea is maybe 10-15 years behind the same process in other Asian countries, though, where this trend has been radically changing societies for some time. http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/12/29/feminism-in-china/

China Warns U.S. On Naval Exercises as North Korea Promises Retaliation

It was reported today that Obama would be speaking with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in coming days. China has refused to condemn North Korea’s attack. The Chinese statement arrives ahead of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises, according to Reuters. Earlier in the week, the Pentagon sent the USS George Washington and four other Navy ships to the Yellow Sea after North Korea shelled South Korean soldiers and civilians in response to South Korean military exercises. http://www.infowars.com/china-warns-u-s-on-naval-exercises-as-north-korea-promises-retaliation/

China and Russia Quit the Dollar

Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on a visit to St. Petersburg on Tuesday.

China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-11/24/content_11599087.htm

China Scorns U.S. Funny-Money

Today, the name for debauching a nation’s currency is called “quantitative easing (QE),” but it’s still the same old fraud committed by financial flim-flam men. Washington is flooding financial markets with $600 billion of worthless dollars, hoping a rising tide of Monopoly money will somehow lift America out of recession. The Fed’s first QE effort was a fizzle. Welcome to QE2. In high finance, hope springs eternal. The U.S. government is stoking worldwide inflation in order to lower its outstanding debt by repaying creditors with depreciated dollars. The rest of the world is boiling angry at Washington. http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis214.html

Currency Wars Among Controlled Economies

As a beleaguered tool of mega economic control, the consumer has only one purpose, buy more junk. Paying for the garbage translates into incurring higher personal debt levels. That formula maintained its momentum when the Federal Reserve notes were the coin of the worldwide realm, but no longer. Countries can no longer service their own government debt and the prospects of extorting even higher taxes to pay the banksters for their debt created currency racket is hitting a brick wall. Thus, the need to resurrect inflation and devalue the U.S. Dollar is upon us. Debt repayment in cheaper currency stretches the sting for a while, but the breaking point is approaching. The globalists fully understand this process, since it is part of their master plan. Not every country is willing to suffer the same fate from this spider web of national self-destructive bankruptcy. http://batr.org/autonomy/102410.html

The Chances of a War with China are Rising

Neither the Obama administration nor the Fed want a full-blown trade war with China. They’d rather see China “assume its position in the global system”. (as US diplomats aver) But that means that China will have to compromise on, what it considers to be, a matter of national sovereignty. And, there’s the rub. China is a proud nation and doesn’t want to be told what to do. But that’s not how the system works. Behind the facade of free markets and international institutions, lies an imperial system ruled from Washington. That leaves Beijing with two options; they can either bow to US pressure and fall in line or shrug off Washington’s demands and continue on the same path. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21559

Yankee Utopians in a Chinese Century

In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has held since surpassing Great Britain around 1890. Each year, China passes a new milestone. For decades, America’s leaders have followed the Wall Street Journal ideology. We put a mythical world economy before our own economy. We put “global prosperity” before national interest. We forced our workers to compete, in their own country, against the products of foreign laborers earning a tenth of their pay. And we let in tens of millions of semi-skilled and unskilled immigrants, legal and illegal, to take the jobs of our countrymen. http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/yankee-utopians-in-a-chinese-century.html

The Drums of War? Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China

Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago and are evocative more of the Korean War era than of any time since the entente cordiale initiated by the Richard Nixon-Mao Zedong meeting in Beijing in 1972. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20087

Yankee Utopians in a Chinese Century

For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao’s China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring. In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has held since surpassing Great Britain around 1890. Each year, China passes a new milestone. http://vdare.com/buchanan/100701_yankee_utopians.htm

China’s Currency Manipulation: About to Cause a Global Explosion?

China’s currency continues to be a subject the U.S. is willing to tap dance around diplomatically. Because when the gloves eventually do come off, U.S./China relations could rapidly collapse. http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/chinas-currency-manipulation-about-to-cause-a-global-explosion-39257?FIELD9=1

War with China? The Dangers of a Global Conflagration

Will the intensified conflicts between the U.S. and China inevitably lead to a global conflagration? If recent past history is any indication the answer is a resounding yes. The most destructive wars of the 20th century were the result of confrontations between established (EIP) and rising (RIP) imperial powers. The practices and policies of the former serve as guides to the latter. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18913

China’s Documentation Of U.S. Human Rights Abuses

While China is no model human rights champion, America is guilty of far worse crimes as well as all of the above abuses, yet rarely do major media reports reveal them. . . Countering official American mythology, its Information Office of the State Council presented an accurate account of what US propaganda suppresses, revealing some of what’s known but publicly concealed about: the world’s most lawless state, a society in social crisis. http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman030410.htm

China Becoming Jew-Wise?

Who’s to blame for the current global financial crisis? According to a bestselling book in China, which is leading the sales charts in the country, the answer is clear: The Jews.

In the eyes of most Chinese, Jewish people are considered “smart,” “rich” and “good at making money.”

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/03/china-finally-learns-the-truth-about-the-jews/

Will the Dragon Awake?

While the power of Taiwan’s lobby has long since waned, the arms manufacturers who derive a regular source of income from the provisions of the Taiwan Relations Act – Lockheed-Martin, United Technologies, Boeing, and Raytheon – employ a powerful Washington lobby that doubtless had a major hand in getting the go-ahead for the $6.4 billion arms deal. That’s what Washington is all about: the national interest has little if anything to do with it. As long as the merchants of death make huge profits – while the rest of the country is slipping into an economic depression – that’s all anyone in the Imperial City cares about. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/01/31/will-the-dragon-awake/

China Resets Terms of Engagement in Central Asia

Growing nervousness in Washington about the Chinese pipeline was quite palpable. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a rare hearing in July regarding China’s geopolitical thrust into the Central Asian region. Testifying at the hearing, Richard Morningstar, the U.S. special envoy for energy, underlined that the U.S. needed to develop strategies to compete with China for energy in Central Asia. This was perhaps the first time that a senior U.S. official has openly flagged China as the U.S.’s rival in the energy politics of Central Asia. http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KL24Ag04.html

China’s Dumping of the Dollar Has Begun

China, once a proud holder of United States post-World War II debt, is getting scared. For years the People’s Republic has bought U.S. Treasuries, eventually becoming the largest holder of U.S. debt ($799 BILLION to be exact!). Those days are long gone, though. During 2009, China hasn’t been buying many Treasuries and has been unloading dollars in a way that makes Geithner shiver at night. http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-unloading-us-dollars-rapidly-2009-12

Looking for Entrepreneurs? Head for China

Filmmaker Ole Schell has given us a compelling one-hour documentary that reveals exactly why we should be concerned about China’s challenge to the United States. It ain’t because they’re “communists,” no matter how persistently the Warrior Conservatives parrot that outdated line. That China started to end 20 years ago. Today’s challenge is the subject of Schell’s film, Win in China: The Story of China’s Entrepreneurial Revolution. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/franke9.1.1.html

China’s High Speed Rail Will Leave U.S. in the Dust

While it attempts to kick-start its struggling auto industry, the U.S. is talking about building a high-speech rail network with an initial $8 billion in stimulus funds. Meanwhile, China is investing over $300 billion in high-speed rail through 2020, in a bid to speed ahead of the rest of the world’s train systems. The numbers alone are head-spinning: 16,000 miles of new track by 2020, requiring 117 million tons of concrete just to construct the buttresses on which the tracks will lie. Top speeds from Beijing to Shanghai will approach 220 miles an hour, halving the current travel time to four hours. This year China Railway Company plans to hire 20,000 young engineers.  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/china-high-speed-rail-leave-us-in-the-dust.php