tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post5622030859962587505..comments2024-03-17T05:58:44.116+08:00Comments on Economic Policy: Paradigm & Strategy in Economic Policy: China & USUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-49895724485194218762011-01-24T15:43:37.139+08:002011-01-24T15:43:37.139+08:00The "scientists" are of course divided o...The "scientists" are of course divided on the situation, and espouse the full spectrum of opinions. On the US side, some say that China's surplus is a good thing. In the other camp, some say taking China on will be disasterous, and other say not. Outside this Middle Kingdom (US) that only talks to itself and reads/hears only what Robert Murdoch approves, some say it is the US that is manipulating its currency against its Chinese counterpart. <br /> <br />The problem the Great Terrorist faces is how to tropedo the Chinese economy without blowing itself up. We have seen repeatedly how this would have been a trivial problem with smaller nations. In the long term, it is clear that China must extricate itself from this psychotic trade partner. <br /><br />China itself is no angel. We have seen its agression in Xinjiang, Tibet and the parts of the South China Sea claimed by others. The 2 provinces mentioned are to the rest of China what East Malaysia is to West Malaysia. <br /><br />The Great Terrorist is provoking some of this through assistance to Xinjiang subversives, arms for Taiwan and its unending war in Pipelineistan.<br /><br />Agriculture is a basic security. The capitalist model has ensured that<br />(a) food steadily gets more expensive, poisoned (by GM, agro-chemicals, processing, processing additives), degraded in nutrition quality by storage (by processing, cheap fillers, loss of variety) (c) the industry becomes more amenable to gigantism, small farmers getting squeezed out at the expense of climate change (energy use), biodiversity, local food security, food quality, crop diversity.semuanya OK kotnoreply@blogger.com