[The Beast1]

(Today 03:57 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

What exactly do the China bashers want anyway? The criticisms are all over the place starting with muh intellectual property and ending with “they’re colonizing Africa”.

What is it that you want China to stop doing?

You've got 17 pages of criticisms to mull over. If it's too hard to figure out why it's bad, then maybe this topic might be over your head.

Or what is more likely is that you hate your country. Something that is frankly sad and puts you in line with antifa, communists, and the other degenerates we dislike in this community.

While I may disagree and find that mindset weak and disgusting, the best part about America is that you have a right to that opinion and I will happily defend that right from Chicoms with force here and abroad.

Good luck feeling similarly and vocalizing such an opinion about China if the unipolar world changes and you decide that living under their force isn't as fun as you thought it was.

Just admit it, you're just trying to bolster your social credit score when the chicoms go all Red Dawn.

[CaptainChardonnay]

They've literally published a book on what they're doing

https://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare

[Deepdiver]

The latest perspective from Jim Rickards Strategic Intelligence Report:

Will China Use Its “Nuclear Option” in the U.S. Trade War?

The trade war was never going to be easy for China. There are several reasons for this. The easiest one boils down to third-grade math. In round numbers, the U.S. imports about $500 billion per year from China. In turn, China imports about $150 billion per year from the U.S. The difference is a $350 billion-per-year trade deficit with China that Trump wants to eliminate (or at least greatly reduce). When Trump put tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, the Chinese initially retaliated with dollar-for-dollar tariffs on U.S. goods. The problem is they ran out of headroom. China is now proposing tariffs on almost 100% of its imports from the U.S., but Trump still has $300 billion to go.

When Trump puts tariffs on those goods (which he is planning to do over the coming months), China has no way to retaliate directly because they simply don’t buy enough from the U.S. If China wants to retaliate, they’ll have to use nontariff measures. These can include bans on acquisitions of Chinese companies by U.S. companies and limits on U.S. direct investment in China. But these restrictions are already tough, so it’s not clear how much more China can do.

The theft of intellectual property has been going on for decades and is continuing. That’s a big problem, but it’s not new and does not represent an escalation, because it’s already there. What can China do? One so-called “nuclear option” is for China to dump its massive holdings of U.S. Treasury notes, about $1.4 trillion in value. The idea is that if China dumps these Treasuries, prices will drop, interest rates will go up, stocks will drop and the U.S. housing market will hit a wall. It’s a kind of economic warfare. Everything about this scenario is wrong.

China won’t dump Treasuries because they would be the biggest loser (because they own so many themselves and you can’t sell them all at once). The president can freeze China’s accounts with one phone call if any economic damage begins. Besides, there are plenty of other buyers of U.S. Treasuries including U.S. banks and, if needed, the Federal Reserve. The bottom line is that China is stuck with a losing hand. And Trump knows it.

[CaptainChardonnay]

In simpler terms, dumping T-bills is about the dumbest thing they can do. The reason people buy US T-bills is because they're the safest asset available. It is the asset which CAPM is based off of. It's actually a compliment that they own so many.

[Deepdiver]

(Today 03:20 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:  

In simpler terms, dumping T-bills is about the dumbest thing they can do. The reason people buy US T-bills is because they're the safest asset available. It is the asset which CAPM is based off of. It's actually a compliment that they own so many.

Add to that the US T Bills pay actual interest unlike Zero Interest Rates/Negative Interest rates now prevalent in places like the EU/Japan etc. The EU and Japan not to mention US-based Pension funds would buy up all the T Bills China would like to sell if just to convert their surplus trade dollars into safe interest-bearing assets just to get out of NIRP/ZIRP accounts.

[capitangeneral dela armada]

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Or what is more likely is that you hate your country. Something that is frankly sad and puts you in line with antifa, communists, and the other degenerates we dislike in this community.

While I may disagree and find that mindset weak and disgusting, the best part about America is that you have a right to that opinion and I will happily defend that right from Chicoms with force here and abroad.

Good luck feeling similarly and vocalizing such an opinion about China if the unipolar world changes and you decide that living under their force isn't as fun as you thought it was.

Just admit it, you're just trying to bolster your social credit score when the chicoms go all Red Dawn.Laugh