China Starts To Throw Its Weight Around

The last week seems to have seen a new level of antagonism between China and the US buy cialis. Diplomatic chit-chat has been flowing between Beijing and D cialis online.C viagra online. via the media, threats being made and tensions being revealed viagra cost. All very Cold War viagra.

We've had Google suddenly realising that China doesn't like freedom very much. We've had America selling weapons to Taiwan . Now we've had Obama wanting to talk to the Dalai Lama - or ObamaLama2010 as I prefer to call it.

The News Corp media have been their usual two faced selves, hoping nobody notices the huge Star interests they have in that country. The Left carry on regarding China as the new USSR which must therefore be worshipped as not only the ideal Lefty state but also the riposte to the imperialist aggressor. Some things never change.

How sad then that what China is gets forgotten in the news reporting. Hence the BBC stating that “China, which took over Tibet in 1950”. Invaded is how most people prefer to see that little number, but the BBC prefers 'took over'. Much more seemly.

China is a communist state that ruthlessly crushes liberty. Religious freedoms are viciously removed, democracy is binned and free expression is automatically against the state and therefore must be destroyed. Those that question are removed, usually literally.

The Left has painted itself into a corner here with China's economic liberalisation. In what is effectively the ultimate capitalist state - those in power literally do as they wish to make money, those that aren't in power are totally destroyed in the quest for power and money - the vast majority of China's billion or so people are still living the life they did 300 years ago. The environment is decimated and the cities rampage across the country.

There is nothing Left Wing about China. It is a hybrid, the people rule by committee when chosen to, a state-capitalist system of wealth is allowed for those that do as they are told.

The only power China has is Chimerica - they make everything that America wants, America buys it. As a result America owes China a lot of money so that it can service it's people's desire for cheap goods, China gets a lot of money for the few so that it can build up its infrastructure and play the financial markets. America is in a pickle here, because China basically owns it's currency.

But that is all it has.

It is basically in the middle of nowhere geographically, the political and economic power of Europe and North America are not close enough for it to be that sort of threat. China's military power is limited to a huge army, although this may be changing if the West is stupid enough to supply it with aircraft carriers.

In effect, China can throw its weight around all it likes, but it knows that the biggest threat to it is that it can simply be switched off. Goods would become expensive, sure, but if push came to shove that would be a small price to pay. And in reality, there is a huge third world out there just ready to be used by the caring people at America Corp for cheap bracelets and toot you throw away at Christmas.

China is now threatening to place sanctions on companies like Boeing (which supplies its planes) in retaliation. This is poker time, the ultimate bluff. It is a play that America should take, go on, do it, I dare you.

In fact I would double dare no returns.

Countries have credit ratings that play the major part in servicing their debts. That credit rating goes out the window when at war. China may well have a financial hold, but that is only when that hold is binding. If things when sour and America simply defaulted - followed quickly by its allies - China would being holding billions of bits of toilet paper. Its financial muscle is totally reliant on nations wanting to deal with it. In the Second World War, when Germany was suspended, it had nothing. No one to trade with and its currency worthless. It relied completely on gold.

That is a long way off, but the West needs to stop messing about here and acting like China is the one in control, because it just isn't. So China screws over Boeing, that's going to hurt, but who does it get its planes from? Where does it buy the parts? Because no other producer like Airbus will step in knowing that it is dealing with a country that will ruin them at the drop of a hat.

I still believe that the next big thing is China. By that I mean we are seriously overdue, historically, a big war and China will be it. No one should be so naive as to think the big boy powers of Europe and America haven't played this one out, they are well aware of the possibility. Markets would be suspended, debts defaulted and China as a market banned. It would be sealed off with nowhere to go short of marching 10 million of the People's Army across Asia and into Europe.

China is preparing itself for this by buying political favour in Africa, something the West is well aware of, and hoarding reserves.

But it is time to stand up and say enough is enough. Democracy, freedom, free trade must be defended and China made fully aware of the ramifications of its actions in the long term. Cold War II really isn't that far off.