China in the 21st Century

Cheng Guan are the local Chinese police of the National Public Safety Police by their official title.

As the China economy slows to a crawl and Xi Jinping has become the new emperor albeit in a business suit the police are clearing street vendors from the cities of the CCP, often violently. In one video below the local Cheng Guan killed a disabled vendor by beating him to death due to his resisting.

The uncountable number of street vendors we find outside of the CBD of CCP cities are literally taking a beating. Locals are fighting back however.

Cheng Guan....


Street Vendor Beaten to Death, Riot Rocks Chinese City








Students Clash with Cheng Guan Officers in Shandong, China







2000 Chinese police attack and beat demonstrating villagers

Fledermaus said:

Tangmo at times claims to live there. At other times he has refused to confirm this. My guess is that he isn't from mainland China. Perhaps Taiwan or Hong Kong or Kowloon. He does have a hard on for the PRC. And many of his C&P posts refer to Asian news sources.

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I am no fan of the CCP. I don't think his characterization of life in China though is one that most Chinese citizens would agree with though. I figured he probably was either from or lived in Taiwan. BTW, Kowloon is part of Hong Kong.

SouthernDemocrat said:

I am no fan of the CCP. I don't think his characterization of life in China though is one that most Chinese citizens would agree with though. I figured he probably was either from or lived in Taiwan. BTW, Kowloon is part of Hong Kong.

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I am no fan of the PRC since Tianemen Square. I thought they were advancing towards more freedom until the tanks rolled in.

And some folks made the distinction when I visited... I think the island dwellers were the ones emphasizing it.

Fledermaus said:

I am no fan of the PRC since Tianemen Square. I thought they were advancing towards more freedom until the tanks rolled in.

And some folks made the distinction when I visited... I think the island dwellers were the ones emphasizing it.

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China is a weird place when it comes to freedoms. In some areas they are very restrictive such at media / internet censorship and it can be hard to move. However, in other areas you can do whatever you want. For example, you can buy a beer in a convenience store there and just walk down the street drinking it. There is far less of a bureaucratic hassle for building out new infrastructure there than here. You can buy antibiotics over the counter (not a good thing for humanity). They are oppressive in some areas of life and completely ignore you in other areas of life.

It is hard to compare China to the United States in some ways because there are freedoms we enjoy here that are made possible by our low population densities.

Cheng Guan or municipal police beat on a woman vendor who resisted being moved until the woman was vomiting blood. After an hour or so a crowd had gathered to include students from the university several blocks away. Then the students decided to enact people's justice. They tossed the police van with five cops inside who had retreated into it.


Moment Crowd Turn On Chinese 'Chengguan' Police



The incident at Lingxi city in Cangnan county in the eastern province of Zhejiang is the latest instance of public outrage triggered by the behaviour of China's chengguan, quasi-police officials who enforce local regulations and have a reputation for brutality.







Hubei Protest Ends as Chinese Riot Police Storm Shishou City







This one was several years ago and it was a good lesson for the CCP Boyz in Beijing.

Chinese Authorities Lose Control as Village Revolt Drives out the Government and the Police




The consequence of the citizens driving all the authorities out of the village was that the Boyz laid seige to the village. Pigs, er police, closed the inflow of food and water etc. The villagers used their existing stocks, gardens, wells etc while negotiating to allow the authorities to bargain with 'em. The then governor of GuangDong province fired all the municipal authorities and replaced the police with cops from the capital city, GuangZhou which is Ye Olde Canton very close to Hong Kong.

GuangDong province former Governor Wang Yang is a pro-West reformer in the CCP who is now the only good guy on the seven member Standing Committee of the CCP which has Xi Jinping as chairman. Wang Yang is the only Party official in Beijing who has a sense of humor besides. Wang is the go-to guy for every Western leader to contact so his phone signal hums daily -- 24/7 in fact.

The saga of Wukan villiage in GuangDong province in southernmost CCP. Wukan is across the Strait of Taiwan. GuangDong province is on the South China Sea between Taiwan and Hong Kong and it makes the CCP Boyz in Beijing very very nervous.....



Chinese Authorities Lose Control as Village Revolts







Wukan Village Besieged, Water Supplies Cut Off







Massive Protests End in Wukan, Guangdong Province




Ah yes, the Flowery Heavenly Middle Kingdom.

SouthernDemocrat said:

China is a weird place when it comes to freedoms. In some areas they are very restrictive such at media / internet censorship and it can be hard to move. However, in other areas you can do whatever you want. For example, you can buy a beer in a convenience store there and just walk down the street drinking it. There is far less of a bureaucratic hassle for building out new infrastructure there than here. You can buy antibiotics over the counter (not a good thing for humanity). They are oppressive in some areas of life and completely ignore you in other areas of life.

It is hard to compare China to the United States in some ways because there are freedoms we enjoy here that are made possible by our low population densities.

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I agree 100%.

Well, have fun with Tangmo.

I notice he never answered your question about whether or not he has been to China.

Tangmo lived and worked in CCP eight years (3+5). Tangmo currently has a ten-year visa issued by the Government of the People's Republic of China. Tangmo is free and mobile across the borders of the CCP-PRC at will. Business and Travel related of course.

This is true despite the fact CCP knows Tangmo hates their 21st century fascist guts. Tangmo is however one of the tens of thousands of Americans in CCP-PRC who are of use to 'em in their economic and cultural development. Tangmo does, when he is in the CCP-PRC, use internet freely. Tangmo uses the China-specific VPN in the USA that focuses on successfully defeating the Red Army as it's popularly called, i.e., the Chinese State's 40,000 censors and facilities full of cyber technology. Tangmo continues to have many friends in CCP who are ordinary Chinese and we are excellent friends, neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances.

Anyone who might like to doubt or dispute Tangmo in these matters automatically gets videos that illustrate and document The 21st Century Fascist China thx.....



Those Pesky Students of GuangDong Province Protest Again

And Police Clobber Them Again This Time Cornering The Unarmed Boys And Girls Against A Wall And Whacking 'em With Riot Sticks......








Then Police Beat On Some Grandmothers Who Stopped The Police Clobbering Their Protesting Grandchildren In The Streets....









Middle Class Chinese Speak in the Streets of Their Shinny City : Police Read the Riot Act Then Start a Riot Complete With Tear Gas


This Time The Unarmed Boys Start Communicating To the Police With Feet and Fists.



CCP Boyz are getting screwed in their increasing repression and brutality due to cellphones. The people of the People's Republic video the Pigs, er, Police in their brutality and upload the videos using (illegal) VPN. These events never make the CCTV news -- or rarely -- so The People of The People's Republic become their own documentary producers to the world. Hats off to 'em all. It is a steady stream of real news coming out of 21st Century China because the repression, control and brutality are daily and they are opposed daily by the people.

Tangmo said:

Tangmo lived and worked in CCP eight years (3+5). Tangmo currently has a ten-year visa issued by the Government of the People's Republic of China. Tangmo is free and mobile across the borders of the CCP-PRC at will. Business and Travel related of course.

This is true despite the fact CCP knows Tangmo hates their 21st century fascist guts. Tangmo is however one of the tens of thousands of Americans in CCP-PRC who are of use to 'em in their economic and cultural development. Tangmo does, when he is in the CCP-PRC, use internet freely. Tangmo uses the China-specific VPN in the USA that focuses on successfully defeating the Red Army as it's popularly called, i.e., the Chinese State's 40,000 censors and facilities full of cyber technology. Tangmo continues to have many friends in CCP who are ordinary Chinese and we are excellent friends, neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances.

Anyone who might like to doubt or dispute Tangmo in these matters automatically gets videos that illustrate and document The 21st Century Fascist China thx.....



Those Pesky Students of GuangDong Province Protest Again

And Police Clobber Them Again This Time Cornering The Unarmed Boys And Girls Against A Wall And Whacking 'em With Riot Sticks......

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Then Police Beat On Some Grandmothers Who Stopped The Police Clobbering Their Protesting Grandchildren In The Streets....

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Middle Class Chinese Speak in the Streets of Their Shinny City : Police Read the Riot Act Then Start a Riot Complete With Tear Gas

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This Time The Unarmed Boys Start Communicating To the Police With Feet and Fists.


CCP Boyz are getting screwed in their increasing repression and brutality due to cellphones. The people of the People's Republic video the Pigs, er, Police in their brutality and upload the videos using (illegal) VPN. These events never make the CCTV news -- or rarely -- so The People of The People's Republic become their own documentary producers to the world. Hats off to 'em all. It is a steady stream of real news coming out of 21st Century China because the repression, control and brutality are daily and they are opposed daily by the people.

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And you claimed you had me on ignore... Busted again.

You also Claimed that you could not access the UCMJ (and other subjects) because of your internet connection. Busted again.

The pigs in blue we see in the videos clobbering students wherever students may go or find themselves suddenly confined are the kind of pigs Donald Trump wants to see in the USA instead of police. Russia has 'em and we can say they are Putin's Pigs -- Polonium Putin.

The CCP Boyz in Blue clobber students, protesters of any kind and old ladies too who get in the way. Just to be sure everyone gets the point.

The Poink.

Not allowed or tolerated are demonstration protests against the polluted environment of air, water. soil. No more protests or demonstrations against corruption. And certainly no demonstrations or protests that demand the accountability of the Party-Government. Above all else however, absolutely no protests and demonstrations against censorship, harmonious thought, the Party and its government.

None. No more of any Wukan either which in its mighty struggle against corruption got the nick Democracy Village by Chinese supporters and sympathizers.

Yet not only do the protests and demonstrations continue, they are increasing in both numbers and causes. So with the economy tanking the BIB are surfacing. Loyal cadre that they are.

In Shanghai capitalist developers marketed the "office-residence" innovation to great success with the population. Buy a unit in an office building and double its utility as your residence too. The 'office turned residence' concept is the direct response to property prices that are over the moon. In Shanghai alone the property bubble is $24 Trillion and waiting to pop.

The property bubble in dozens of big cities through the CCP is astronomical so the world is waiting for the bubble market to nova. Indeed, when the property bubble in CCP detonates every time zone across the planet is going to be rocked. Yet the only solution is the "major economic adjustment" that is inevitable so the best everyone can do is to prepare for the convulsion. While the global elites of economics and politics are attuned to the unavoidable crash of the CCP economy the rest of us will have to make do when it does hit.

In the meantime the office-residence market innovation of the Chinese capitalists in Shanghai has been vetoed by the Boyz in Beijing. The Party's Shanghai Municipal Committee of Residence and Urban-Rural Construction issued its own rules earlier this year that said no. The Party wants people to buy the residence properties the state has built and which cost the new middle class an arm and a leg. It's how Party officials get rich. That is, swindle farmers out of their land, build expensive housing out of people's price range, force people to spend generations of life savings so the Party-Government gets rich quick.

The Pigs in Blue enforce the vile scheme. The Boyz in Blue of the Boyz of Beijing. Shanghai owners of 'office residences' took to the streets in June....


CIA Records An Average of 100,000 Public Protest Demonstrations in CCP China Over Recent Years





The following is the complete petition in English presented to the Party-Government of Shanghai by the "hundreds of thousands" of owners of the "office-residences" which are highly popular throughout the city:

今夜上海彻夜未眠！震撼人心的万人维权！2017610商住业主维权保卫家园！(June 10, 2017)


As the bereft owners of the “office-turned-residences”, hereby we’d like to plead for your reconsidering of the rules that were issued on May 17 by the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Residence and Urban-Rural Construction. In the newly issued rules, the “office-turned-residences” are called to get rid of their housing functions and can only be used as offices, but when we first bought the houses, they were advertised as can be used as both living places and offices. We understand that there could be transgressions on the part of the developers, but we’d also like to ask the rule makers to take into consideration our great predicament as the buyers of such houses: most of the buyers are just beguiled ordinary people who spent generations of family savings just to have a place to live in the great city Shanghai, and the newly issued rules would absolutely devastate their hope. For all I know, they could be hard-working young workers or old couples who want to be near their working children in the city, and they either cannot afford the sky-rocketing ordinary residences in Shanghai or they are not qualified to have one, so buying the “office-turned-residences” is their last resort. It is our sincere wish that the rule-makers would reconsider the rules’ effects on so many ordinary people; after all, these so called “office-turned-residences” have been more than a decade on the market, and this new policy could easily affect hundreds of thousands people’s lives. The government may or may not assume responsibility for the present dilemma, but the buyers certainly aren’t supposed to be held accountable, then why should we take all the consequences? Where was the government during the first decade when such houses emerged? And why so harsh policies now for us ordinary people? Doesn’t Shanghai want to be a great city that is “as welcoming as the sea welcomes all the rivers”？Then why can’t Shanghai take example after Beijing that allows the bygones be bygones and let the people have the houses that they thought they were buying? Now that the sky-rocketing real estate market has become the sore of millions of Chinese families, we sincerely plead to the government leaders to reconsider their decision: after all, such houses are all we have.

Sincerely yours,
owners of the “office-turned-residences” in Shanghai


Rotsa Ruck.

How The Other Half Lives....




Villagers throughout the CCP know the drill. Local Party-Government officials swipe your land and give you a few bucks for it. The local officials then sell the land to developers for $200 million or so. Of course the agent development corporation was set up by the local officials to begin with who double their money then charge outrageous property prices to buyers from the nearby urban centers. The Pigs in Blue all the while protect the swindlers against the righteous wrath of the swindled.

No matter how distant from urban centers you live in CCP there's a police battalion near you. The BIB in the video above have the withdraw maneuver practiced to perfection. The village police idiots in the next video are still learning their lessons however....





Police Learn From Angry Workers Not To Interfere in a Wage Dispute at a Village Construction Site:



The fit hits the shan at 1:20 as the protesting workers come out swinging their metal longbars. The winning hit occurs at 1:34 as a young slugger ambushes a retreating cop upside the helmet with a clear shot heard a kilometer away.
The cop is today still trying to get his bearings back. :stars:

Urban cops are smarter cause they six at a time pick out women from the crowd and haul 'em off. Urban Boyz in Blue don't mess much with the men.





"Help Us Save Ningbo" From the PX Chemical Plant Complex Polluting The People's Fair City




PX is a huge polluter in CCP where chemical plants are located in the cities and operate with few if any limits.



CCP Boyz in Beijing didn't figure that when they gave the people cellphones with cameras in 'em it wuz going to demolish their PR Campaign of a peaceful and contented people cheerfully accommodating the Boyz in their massively corrupt and repressive rule. It's yet another instance of the best lain plans of mice and men.

People's Armed Police March To Stop a Protest Demonstration in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province



Fourteen platoons of the People's Armed Police Garrison in the city march and chant en route to break up a demonstration of protest by merchants and residents. The municipal government was demolishing several city blocks for a development project (which is all well and good). However and as is the standard swindle, the Party-Government paid the owners a fraction of the compensation due and told 'em to move on and go away.

Boyz in Beijing have the People's Armed Police, the 850,000 paramilitary domestic security force. PAP are organized in 48 divisions as part of the PLA and are garrisoned in every province and in cities of Tier 1-3 status. PAP are the most trusted police. The population of China fears this force.





Liang Villiagers in Guangxi province Roll Out the Unwelcome Wagon for Police of the Public Security Bureau of CCP



This is the circumstance villagers know with anger throughout CCP. Police are dispatched to quell yet another local population protest against corruption by local and county Party-Government officials. It's land always and every time. The officials swipe the land, pay a pittance, sell it to developers for hundreds of millions of usd and tell the locals to get lost somewhere else. Local Party-Government officials all the while have formed their own corporation to oversee the construction and operation of the developed property, thus pocketing millions in the deal and in rents and fees going forward -- not to mention the taxes they do not pay. The Public Security Bureau Police Pigs enforce this scheme everywhere throughout the CCP.





The Public Security Police Crash a Church in Wenzhai City to Remove the Cross.



The Public Security Bureau Police are unarmed and equipped instead with clubs and shields, which tells everyone of the (dirty) work they do throughout the CCP. The clubs vary in size. We see the "job" here calls for short clubs. Many uniformed Public Security Police are teenagers up to age mid-20s who need a job. The older PSB Police are mostly plainclothes and do things such as watch your comings and goings when you are under suspicion to include search your house and haul you away. During the last minute of the video we see a seasoned sergeant warning a churchgoer. When Xi Jinping assumed full power in 2013 he set the PSB on Christian churches nationally to remove their cross. Crosses atop a dome had to be removed and reset on a wall. Two masters are too many in China.

I'm yawning here.

they just want to be overall richer then us.
Do we the USA still owe China money?

Jaygodmedia said:

they just want to be overall richer then us.
Do we the USA still owe China money?

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China has not yet responded to India's nuke test today, according to i24news out of Israel. (2.7 billion people) This after India and Israel just held high-level talks recently, on just about everything. India's leader being described as strong and stable.

China being surrounded by nuke neighbors India, Russia, NK, and the USA.

So Pakistan made some rather mild remarks related to the intentions of the USA, India and Israel. i24news did discuss China/India trade as well as India/Pakistan history, certainly a 'nuke hot spot' ...

United States hasn't any nuclear weapons deployed anywhere near the CCP's People's Republic of China. Pentagon has, rather, the Thaad missile defense platform deployed in Alaska, Guam, South Korea. CCP Boyz in Beijing are hot under the collar about the one in SK in particular given its powerful radars read virtually all missile activities in the CCP.

Thaad radars only are deployed in Japan where there's been a burst of discussion now about getting the Thaad platform itself. After the recent missile launch scare in Hawaii there's a stir to deploy Thaad to Hawaii too but no decisions have been made on either of these to date.

All of the missiles of the CCP Boyz are under the single and separate command of the elite PLA Rocket Force which is formerly the prestigious Second Artillery Force and which Xi Jinpingpong has elevated to the general staff level, i.e., equal to if not superior to the PLA command itself. Thaad in SK was the first to pick up the Rocket Force movements cited below, verified a few hours after by U.S. space satellites that orbit across the China land mass....


Why China will “reclaim” Siberia

China Daily Mail

China has made no secret that it will one day enforce its claims on much of Eastern Russia, which it sees as rightfully belonging to China. With Russia fast becoming the weaker partner in the alliance formed after the west imposed sanctions, just how would China legitimise their claim, and how much territory would they “take back?”

The border, all 2,738 miles of it, is the legacy of the Convention of Peking of 1860 and other unequal pacts between a strong, expanding Russia and a weakened China after the Second Opium War.

The 1.35 billion Chinese people south of the border outnumber Russia’s 144 million almost 10 to 1. The discrepancy is even starker for Siberia on its own, home to barely 38 million people, and especially the border area, where only 6 million Russians face over 90 million Chinese. With intermarriage, trade and investment across that border, Siberians have realized that, for better or for worse, Beijing is a lot closer than Moscow.

The vast expanses of Siberia would provide not just room for China’s huddled masses, now squeezed into the coastal half of their country by the mountains and deserts of western China. The land is already providing China, “the factory of the world,” with much of its raw materials, especially oil, gas and timber. Increasingly, Chinese-owned factories in Siberia churn out finished goods, as if the region already were a part of the Middle Kingdom’s economy.

Beijing could use Russia’s own strategy: hand out passports to sympathisers in contested areas, then move in militarily to “protect its citizens.” The Kremlin has tried that in Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and most recently the Crimea, all formally part of other post-Soviet states, but controlled by Moscow. And if Beijing chose to take Siberia by force, the only way Moscow could stop China would be using nuclear weapons.

https://chinadailymail.com/2014/07/05/why-china-will-reclaim-siberia/





China Moves Nuclear Missiles to Russian Border

Jan 24, 2017


DF-41 nuclear solid-fueled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile on Daqing Highway Bridge West of Heilongjiang province January 3, 2017. The province borders Russia at the Pacific.


China has deployed Dongfeng-41 nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles to the Heilongjiang province border with Russia, Chinese media has reported.

After photographs and videos of the missiles in transit to the province appeared on the Chinese internet, the Global Times newspaper confirmed the reports Tuesday.

"Based on the information from analysts, the photo was taken in the Heilongjiang province," the newspaper reported.

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/china-moves-nuclear-missiles-to-russian-border-56903


The Chinese are patient but not forever. China needs lebensraum and it needs living space desperately. China needs clean soil, water, air for its teeming masses.

In Hong Kong I was advised on several occasions by several Chinese businessmen that Siberia belongs to China and that China will regain it. The present China-Russia partnership doesn't have a non aggression pact but it does have its limits. Inherently so given CCP Dictators in Beijing claim more land area outside of China than they have in China (to include the northern third of India...then why not all of India eh).

Jaygodmedia said:

they just want to be overall richer then us.
Do we the USA still owe China money?

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From mid 2015 to summer 2016 the Boyz in Beijing sold off $500 billion of US Treasuries they'd held up to then. As we see even to the present moment nobody noticed. Well, almost nobody.

The global bond markets sucked 'em up immediately. It's as predictable as clockwork that markets buy US Treasuries that have a guaranteed due date. The buyer can't claim the bucks owed until the contracted due date. And the due date is a good payout every time for a long time. The US economy and financial markets hummed right along as expected and predicted to include government operations.

The Boyz had to sell half of their Treasuries holdings. The Boyz had to cough 'em up despite hating to do it. Global markets had depreciated the rmb/yuan radically, drastically, quickly so the Boyz had to cover their precious monopoly money. The rmb went sharply from 6.1 to 6.9 overnight. The rmb depreciation by global markets was stripping Chinese who held dollar denominated debt which is almost all of 'em.

Global markets were punishing the Boyz for their two successive equity market crashes in the summer then again in the fall of 2015. The Boyz had pumped up investing in the equity markets to compensate for the economy tanking into slower than slow growth -- more like 4% than the 6.7% the man-made data claimed. Some global banks such as BNP Paribas said growth was more like 2% which was backed up by Lombard Street of London among others.

The Boyz had cooked the Shanghai Exchange so hot and so fast they blew the lid off it. Ordinary Chinese sucked in by the Boyz claims of get rich quick lost $5 Trillion between breakfast and dinner. It ate their lunch too. People got physically ill. The Boyz stopped trading for a week and had the central bank throw trillions of rmb into the exchange. The Boyz then declared everything upright and afloat. Chinese went back in again only to lose the shirt off their backs a second time -- and in a record time. Cars and homes were repossessed and so on.

The Boyz torched a trillion bucks off their forex reserve that remains depleted by that amount in rough terms, i.e., down to $2.3 Trillion. Another six months of rmb depreciation which was finally arrested and the Boyz forex would have been scraping against $1 Trillion -- that's peanuts given China's debts. It wuz a eureka moment for global markets. It revealed to all the world the Boyz have no clue of what they're doing. They just do it. For how much longer is the only actual question.

FastPace said:

They will simply continue on with their long term plan while the USA has been blowing its money on fighting in Libya and Syria and the Ukraine.












Part of why the US could keep skyrocketing its national debt under Democrats or Republicans was because there is/was a global demand for dollars to purchase the energy source of oil, which is only traded in US dollars (until approaching now), and so the Fed could just keep printing more paper money with not enough gold to back it.

Sanctions on Iran, Russia, or whoever the hell else will have increasingly limited impact as they can now go through China.

Russia by the way has pegged its currency to gold and the commodities it produces, whereas the US dollar is still pegged only to a promises (bolstered by the fact up until now all nations needed US dollars like crack addicts need crack). Promises are mystical, mysteries, faith based like prayer for rain. So, what this means is that Russia is attempting to draw attraction to its currency, or trade with Russia, by guaranteeing that another country can ask to be paid in gold or any Russian commodity (grain etc.) rather than rubles.

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There isn't enough gold in the universe to support a modern 20th century society circa 1950 never mind the advancing societies of the 21st century. God would be a happy man if he had enough gold to back the economies of the G-20 counties combined. G-20 are 80% of global GDP. God Him Self can't do it. No matter.

So you'd have to put gold at $10,000 an ounce usd value to price and support modern economies in gold terms. In Chinese rmb that would be 60,000 rmb per ounce. In Russian monetary terms of rubles that would be 600,000 per ounce to 700K rubles depending on how the Russian economy is doing as the gas station of Europe and China. At those values the 1% would become the 0.001% in control of the global economy, global GDP, geostrategic decision making.

The 187,000 tons of gold mined to date globally is currently valued at $7 Trillion. This is in a world which has a GDP of more than $100 Trillion. Returning to a gold standard would mean also that the extant tons of gold that have been mined would be targeted for hoarding by the wealthiest and most powerful governments, individuals, groups of individuals. Access to unmined troves of gold and control over same would begin immediately and aggressively. This is a recipe for intense competition, instability, disorder, conflict, chaos. In contrast USA can print however many dollars the global economy needs or demands. Period. Peace on earth.


Going into this year the Boyz in Beijing gold reserves equal only 2% of their forex holdings. This is in contrast to USA gold holdings covering 75% of its economy. USA holds more gold than any country -- 8000 tons. Since the end of WW II moreover the US possesses significant amounts of the gold reserves of 60 foreign governments. Most USA gold is at Ft. Knox while Washington's custodial holdings of foreign sovereign gold are in vaults at the New York Federal Reserve building 80 feet below on bedrock. CCP Dictators in Beijing are adding to their modest possession of gold as they must; the same is true of Moscow. They are all the same squirrels running in a cage.

We all know the golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. From the standpoint of USA, global peace, order, development, it's a cool rule.

Should the USA be more concerned about Chinese influence in Africa? Or...

Mexico?

CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing will run free everywhere they please while Trump is Potus.

CCP Boyz will be received wherever they go. There is no alternative to 'em while Trump is Potus.

Get used to the new United States of the Russian Federation. Putin-Trump.

WTF you going to-do about this trump?

Australia's foreign policy white paper issued in November does not mention Potus Trump and the reason is clear...


According to John Blaxland, Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies and director of ANU’s Southeast Asia Institute, the absence of Mr Trump’s name is hardly surprising. “The absence of any focus on Trump appears to point to the White Paper’s assessment that the Trump phenomenon is not necessarily an aberration but indicative instead of a broader and perhaps long lasting phenomenon,” he said.

“The paper reflects concern over the American president’s transactional approach to international relations, his distancing from multilateral trade arrangements like the TPP and his inconsistencies over regional security crises and arrangements.”

Prof Blaxland said the combination of factors makes the foreign policy pronouncements all the more important.

“It reflects the passing of the unipolar moment of US hegemony and the emergence of a more unsettled era wherein Australia has to work considerably harder to build relationships and mechanisms that will bolster security and stability and, in turn, provide further opportunities for boosting our economic prospects,” he said.

Dougal Robinson, research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, said the paper contains a heavy emphasis on Australia’s values and sovereignty. Mr Robinson noted the thinly-veiled references to China “undermining international law” through its island-building in the South China Sea, and the Chinese Communist Party’s influence within liberal, democratic Australia.

Mr Robinson said the comprehensive Australian international policy document acknowledged that ongoing US leadership in Asia is far from assured. “Canberra was shocked by the 2016 election, not only by Hillary Clinton’s loss, but also the success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ calls for the United States to do less in the world,” he said.

“In response to uncertainty about the United States’ long-term role in Asia, it proposes deeper engagement with three established middle powers in Asia — Japan, India and the Republic of Korea — and a rising power, Indonesia.”

China, North Korea: Australia can?t rely on allies for threats



The times they're-a-changin.



In respect of the piece below, we would do well however to keep in mind the guy quoted in it Hugh White is at heart a Frenchman surrender monkey....


Why Australia and Asian allies are turning away from US to China

DONALD Trump’s America First policy is opening new doors for China as Australia and Asian nations turn away from the US.

KEY United States allies including Australia have lost faith in their long-term ally as Donald Trump’s America First policy helps shake up the region. Hugh White, professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University told the US broadcaster the country could be caught between a disinterested Trump and an aggressive China.

Growing uncertainty about America’s commitment and its apparent lack of interest expressed by a US administration are taking hold. While not specifically mentioning Mr Trump by name, the paper does state the US President is charting a new “America first” course.

It also revealed while the alliance with the US is central to Australia’s approach to the Indo-Pacific, a rising China is reshaping the region. “Powerful drivers are converging in a way that is reshaping the international order and challenging Australia’s interests,” it warned.

However, it’s not just Asia — the US is also feeling the pinch. A new Gallup poll has found the world’s approval of the US leadership has dropped to a new low.

Donald Trump, US: Why Australia, Asian allies are looking to China


This second piece which appeared in a Murdoch owned journal goes on to point out the Trump China foreign policy team which is ferociously anti-Beijing is beginning to hit its stride in the White House and at the Pentagon. For instance, Trump at Davos muttered into his tie the (distinct) possibly of rejoing the Trans-Pacific Partnership of trade, economics, finance. The piece also notes that for the first time since 1990 the U.S. National Strategic Study discussed ways to increase US-Taiwan military and trade connections. Most of Trump's China advisors such as UC Davis economist Peter Navarone want Trump to recognize Taiwan and exchange formal ambassadors. Let's encourage the Trump China Team to move ahead stridently during 2018.

Scarborough Shoal is in the Philippines EEZ and less than 20 minutes by an intruder jet aircraft and its rockets from Manila. CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing have done nothing to build or to occupy the shoal but only because then Potus Obama told Xi Jinpingpong face to face each time the two met to stay off Scarborough. Scarborough is the critical hot spot in the South China Sea that USN will not accept in Beijing's hands.

The USN Freedom of Navigation Operations in international waters prevent Beijing legally claiming sovereignty over its islands both natural such as Woody Island in the Paracels off Vietnam and the Spratlys which span across the south of the SCS or artificial islands constructed mainly in the Spratlys.

To gain control of the Sea Beijing needs do accomplish two things the U.S. prohibits absolutely. One is to build on Scarborough. Another is to establish unilaterally a Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone over the Sea or parts of it. CCP Boyz islands are meaningless without control of the air so Beijing has vowed to do both. Yet CCP Dictator-Tyrants know doing either would pull the trigger.




China vows action after US warship sails near South China Sea island

Beijing claims passage of destroyer USS Hopper in disputed water violates sovereignty but Pentagon says operations are routine

The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Hopper sailed within 12 miles of Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, with China's Foreign Ministry accusing the United States of trespassing in its territorial waters.

The USS Hopper carried out an "innocent passage" not a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) within 12 miles of Scarborough Shoal, said a U.S. official who also said the “message” is the same as with a FONOP. The guided missile destroyer was shadowed by a Chinese Navy ship, and the Chinese missile destroyer Huangshan immediately conducted an identification and warning process.

Scarborough Shoal is claimed by China and the Philippines, but since 2012, China has turned Philippine fishing vessels away from the area. In 2016, an international court at The Hague ruled against China’s claim to Scarborough Shoal in a case filed by the Philippines.

China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the USS Hopper had sailed within its 12 mile territorial limit "without gaining permission from the Chinese government."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-us-warship-sails-near-south-china-sea-island





Navy Says It Won't Be Deterred By Chinese-Built Islands

Saturday, February 17, 2018


A Navy officer aboard a mammoth U.S. aircraft carrier said Saturday that American forces would continue to patrol the South China Sea wherever "international law allows us" when asked if China's newly built islands could restrain them in the disputed waters.


Carl Vinson hosted top Philippine government and military officials, Feb. 14, before arriving. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II. Rear Admiral Narciso Vingson Jr, deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and others flew aboard the carrier with U.S. Ambassador Sung Kim. The strike group includes Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Air Wing 2, USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and Michael Murphy of Destroyer Squadron 1, and guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57).



Lt. Cmdr. Tim Hawkins told The Associated Press on board the USS Carl Vinson that the Navy has carried out routine patrols at sea and on air in the strategic waters for 70 years to promote regional security and guarantee the unimpeded flow of trade that's crucial for Asian and U.S. economies.

"International law allows us to operate here, allows us to fly here, allows us to train here, allows us to sail here, and that's what we're doing and we're going to continue to do that," Hawkins said on the flight deck of the 95,000-ton warship, which anchored at Manila Bay while on a visit to the Philippines.

In December, the Trump administration outlined a new security strategy that emphasized countering China's rise and reinforcing the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific region, where Beijing and Washington have accused each other of stoking a dangerous military buildup and fought for wider influence.

Navy Says It Won't Be Deterred By Chinese-Built Islands


Phils Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has returned to the Phils and the Duterte cabinet after 14 years in Washington as the president's personal representative to the Potus.

The Chinese are spoiling for a fight but they want it close enough to undisputed terriorty so they can sucker punch us and run, thereby getting the publicity without a fight.

A big problem is we don’t know the form it will take, plus we don’t want to tip off our countermeasures.

We should also keep on pace to right the export/import budget - that creates surplus iron and steel for example. Where are they going to store it? They will have to start shutting plants because a surplus means they aren’t consuming it, but expect us to.

They seem feel the world is going to bend over and spread its cheeks because they have overbuilt their manufacturing capacity.