Chinese Water Torture

We continue our series on the global economy, by focusing on China. What’s China's end-game??The last two dispatches cover the growing disparity between US and foreign equities, and the future of the US Dollar.?This final piece in the series covers the growing role of China in our own politics and economics.

To begin, let’s discuss a few ‘givens.’??First, China knows it has already won the global financial war, without shooting a bullet or killing a soldier.?It has bought off—paid for--the support of Western governments, capturing hoards?of politicians in Washington DC, Brussels and London, placing them on its payroll.?China knows the power of money, and it has used this power to infiltrate the deepest recesses of our governments, from top down.?Hunter Biden and the Biden family is but a cherry on the cake, but the cake itself is massive.

Second, and more interesting, China has also purchased our elites through their two most obvious hang-outs: Universities and Media.??These days, our universities are loaded with Chinese students, many paying full tuition to attend (with compliments of the Chinese Government).?Without China, the US university system would implode.??Our best schools need Chinese students badly, and are willing to sacrifice their principles to capture them. They know this younger generation, who are often vetted to work on behalf of the Chinese government, are part of the bargain of bolstering university payrolls and endowments.? London and the UK are learning the same game.?Follow the money.

As for the media, the key is "soft dollar” support in the form of advertising revenues.?The CIA and State Department, our military and NGOs support this scheme, encouraging the media to work with our governments, and to suppress information that doesn’t follow the ‘party line.’ Recent revelations from Elon Musk and Twitter are more proof that this group is complicit to, and organized by government, almost without exception.? Intelligence agencies are implanted inside social media companies to control the dialogue.

At its height, the New York Times had 1.7 million paid subscribers of the hard copy of their daily. Today it’s less than 350,000.?But the NYT finds a way around this reality by explaining that its digital on-line support has skyrocketed….as it has.??But this is not the normal, traditional method of generating revenues, and things could change in the blink of an eye.? In many mainstream media, on-line is already declining, threatening survival. Just yesterday, the political blog Buzzfeed announced it was shutting down. Meanwhile, you can only imagine how much the Chinese government can add to the revenue stream by placing fresh advertising in publications favorable to its politics.?

Next, shift to our financial markets.??Years ago friends in the business told me of a huge movement to encourage companies on Wall Street to open offices in Hong Kong.? Wall Street was sprinting across the Pacific to open new ventures in Asia. The Chinese had money and US finance industry was willing to play with a non-transparent government to fund their projects.?Private Equity was on fire, tech stocks were skyrocketing, liquidity was flowing in the streets of New York, and Chinese companies arrived in The Big Apple en masse to list on our own stock exchanges, making their equities available to US investors---most notably US pensions.

Readers can extrapolate from this scheme to calculate how this game ends. It goes something like this:?Worthless Chinese stocks flow into our Pension Funds—destroying our retirements and making us even more dependent on China. We end up working for China--the US and Europe become the new slave markets for workers...all of us.

This is how the Chinese win wars--without shooting bullets. They torture us with a steady drip-drip-drip, with water supplied by our own governments, who are on the take.?Observe, since Donald Trump came to office, the problem has been Russian Collusion, but only as a way to deflect from much bigger issues, like China.?

In fact, poor Mr. Putin has become the Rodney Dangerfield of international politics—he can’t get any respect.?Instead, the honor goes to China, which has learned the art of fighting with money, not bullets.?The Chinese have figured out our politicians, our think tanks and elites are easily purchased, and by the lowest bidder.? Again, take Joe Biden and his family.?When it’s all over, this single investment may end up to be the cheapest China ever made—to take control of Wall Street, international politics, and an entire country.

Finally, it’s worth noting one end-game for China also involves geography.?The US and Europe are now weak protagonists in the energy rich region of the Middle East.?Within the last few weeks, China has announced peace agreements between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and then between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The US is now desperately looking around for a place to sit in the game of musical chairs, but finding it is difficult to make friends. ?We are all waiting to see what happens when the music stops.

For icing on the cake, China and Russia are also urging a rapprochement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria.??Look at the map below, then try to imagine what China may capture from any peace dividend it structures in Yemen, a war our intelligence agencies have been funding for years.

If a strategic Deep Water Port comes to mind, you're on the right track.?The US has a military base across the Red Sea in Djibouti, while Russia is working with Eritrea. Just today, news arose that neighboring Sudan is on the verge of a civil war (funded and organized by the usual cast of characters in the West). It’s a given that China is would entertain the construction of a port off the coast of Yemen, to control regional sea traffic for the next generation.

In all likelihood, this is something the brains in Washington DC haven’t yet dreamed up as a possibility.?China is investing in the region, while America and NATO are bombing.?No pun intended, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how far the West is falling behind China, Russia, together with India, Latin America and large parts of Eurasia.?The collective West is looking like a failing minority rather than a Superpower.?

Finally, the effects on the US Dollar are not yet catastrophic, but shall soon consume us.?Bet on it. Add to this the flow of human traffic throughout the world. We now see how China is maneuvering its own workers into the US, from borders on both the South and the North--Mexico and Canada--to replace and reinforce China within the US using its own work force.?Don’t be surprised if US politicians on both sides of the aisle support this effort, and are already on China's payroll. Soon, mainstream news will start reporting about hoards of Chinese illegals flowing into the USA.?

It’s all part of China’s water torture against the will of free people everywhere, with the exception of our own leaders who have too much to lose by closing the tap.?Those we vote into office are in on the game, and all of us will suffer for the greed and corruption of our leaders.?