China Incredulous At Trump’s Tech Threat: ‘He’s Acting Like A Bully, Is America Really That Fragile?’
So let’s see how hard he pushes for this and in the process we’ll find out if lawmakers are prepared to take one more step down the road to authoritarianism by allowing Trump to start using “national security” as an excuse for anything and everything.
That's what we said late last month when the Washington Post reported that Trump is apparently considering whether to try and get the Pentagon to pay for that “tremendous”, “big league”, “beautiful”, “see-through”, mon
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Life out of balance, totally.
Just my thought.
China has a long history of staggering theft of intellectual property and bullying American companies that set up shop in China. Like the Mafia, they demand a ‘Piece of the action’.
> Like the Mafia, they demand a ‘Piece of the action’.
You mean like what the IRS does to anyone that sets up shop in the US? US demands “a piece of the action” to the tune of 35-40%. At least the tax in china for most foreign companies is zero. So tell us again which gov’t is really “like the Mafia”?
It all goes into the “kitty” to keep the country afloat — bills to pay, things to buy, roads to fix, clean the air, wash the water, trim the parks, wash the monuments, fight CRIME,
and alot for the bloated military and bloated salaries/pensions of fat politicians.
An enlightened and historical perspective from a hedge fund mgr now living the good life in NZ:
“The US government are hooting and panting that the Chinese are stealing their intellectual property forgetting context and history. What intellectual property the US has is likely not worth stealing.”
https://capitalistexploits.at/2018/04/those-thieving-bastards-trade-wars-and-ip-theft/
A bit of hypocrisy revealed therein. UK said same about US in the last century until US tech largely surpassed UK, much like China tech is now surpassing US tech in numerous fields today.
“Like Japan before them and the US before them, China is on this path towards empire-dom. In the next decade their economy will be triple the size of the US.”
You finally got it right; comparing the Flaming Pumpkin to Il Duce. The only difference is that Benito was more intelligent.
And to QE programs that boost the rich and their assets
… all on the poor and middle class’ dime.