Category China

Feb 5 2022

Pelosi Tells U.S. Olympians to Check Their Freedom and Do Not Speak Against Chinese Communist Party


Posted originally on the conservative tree House on February 4, 2022 | Sundance | 170 Comments

The United States Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Democrat, told the U.S. Olympic athletes today to drop their inherent freedom of speech perspective and comply with the Chinese Communist Party rules.

It seems the viewpoint of the United States being a beacon of freedom has morphed into a situation where the official position of government is to turn off the lights and adhere to the totalitarian state.  Quite a remarkable shift in worldview.  WATCH:

Then again, in Pelosi’s defense, it’s not like she could warn the Chinese government there would be hell to pay if a single U.S. athlete was ever threatened or harmed.  After all, the Chinese have purchased Pelosi’s compliance.

Jan 24 2022

Obama-Biden State Dept Orders Diplomats and Families to Leave Ukraine Ahead of U.S. Conflict with Russia


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 23, 2022 | Sundance | 283 Comments

For those who think the conflict is not being orchestrated by the Obama-Biden administration, consider this.  European countries and our NATO allies are not as worried about Russia entering Ukraine.

The people closest to the situation including France and Germany, are not asking for the U.S. to get involved.  Indeed, you can make the argument based on their public statements, that European NATO countries are not that concerned.  Even Chuck Todd (NBC) sees this.

It is the Obama-Biden foreign policy team that is creating anxiety over the potential for Russia to enter Ukraine, not our NATO allies. If we end up in a conflict in Ukraine, it will be because the professional political class in Washington DC want us to be in a conflict in Ukraine, not the American people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin can easily see this dynamic.

(Via ABC) – The State Department ordered diplomats’ families Sunday afternoon to depart the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid heightened fears of a Russian attack on the country.  The embassy has also authorized non-emergency employees to depart, according to an internal cable obtained by ABC News.

In an updated travel advisory issued later Sunday, the State Department confirmed the drawdown and urged U.S. citizens in Ukraine to consider departing the country now using commercial flights.

[…] “These are prudent precautions that in no way undermine our support for, our commitment to Ukraine,” a senior State Department official said Sunday. The department made the decision now “based on this military buildup, based on how we see these developments,” they added, calling it the “right moment.” (read more)

The professional political class in Washington DC, both wings of the UniParty with personal financial relationships with Ukraine, seem to want conflict with Russia.

Nothing personifies the absurd DC perspective and disconnect more than a group of bipartisan politicians concerned about the borders of Ukraine and ignoring the border crisis in our own country.

Who knows where this will end up?

Jan 23 2022

Hong Kong’s Hamster Genocide


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Jan 23, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Hong Kong’s “zero COVID” policy has caused schools and playgrounds to close as children learn how to be obedient to authority. The latest COVID measure is another way to psychologically traumatize children for years to come. After a 23-year-old pet store worker became infected with COVID, authorities tested both employees and pets for the virus. Unfortunately, some hamsters tested positive, and now the government plans to kill all hamsters purchased between December 22, 2021 and January 7, 2022.

The government will begin by slaughtering over 2,000 hamsters at pet stores across Hong Kong. The Controller of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) Edwin Tsui said that animal-to-human transmission is rare but possible and that it was more likely that the worker contracted the virus from another human. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) is now urging people to surrender their pets for euthanasia.

Luckily, the people of Hong Kong know how to gather and protest. Countless online groups are forming to protect pet hamsters from their ultimate fate. Hundreds of people are offering to foster hamsters, while others are spreading information about the current laws. The AFCD does not have the power to legally seize a pet as it is considered personal property. Anyone who surrenders their pet to AFCD will be forced to sign a waiver stating that they are willingly euthanizing their pet.

Lawmaker Michael Tien is currently proposing rounding up pet hamsters and massacring them. Is this a practice run for when they move on to unvaccinated people? There is no medical reason to implement such cruel laws.

Jan 20 2022

China’s President Xi Begs the Fed Not to Ease Rates


Armstrong Economics Blog/World Trade Re-Posted Jan 20, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Chinese President Xi Jinping has a request for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell — do not raise interest rates. “If major economies slam on the brakes or take a U-turn in their monetary policies, there would be serious negative spillovers. They would present challenges to global economic and financial stability, and developing countries would bear the brunt of it,” Xi said during the virtual Davos meeting.

The Fed indicated that they will gradually raise rates this year after failing to combat inflation through artificially low rates. Rates have been low for quite some time and “slamming the breaks” isn’t exactly the situation here. Poor countries risk facing a spike in debt repayments, but that is likely not Xi’s main concern.

Xi realizes that China will be forced to abandon easing policies when the Fed raises rates. China is burdened with debt, namely in the real estate sector, and developers such as Evergrande cannot currently climb out of its financial grave. China’s GDP fell to 4% year-on-year in Q4 2021 and advanced only 1.6% on a quarterly basis. The People’s Bank of China cut rates by ten basis points on Monday, but they’re going to need to change their strategy once the Fed does.

Capital will begin to flow from China to the US once it becomes an increasingly attractive place to park money. If America decreases the demand for imports, Chinese exports will feel the brunt of the burden. China heavily relies on its top trading partner, with over $463 billion entering the US through November.

“We will build a unified, open, competitive and orderly market system where all businesses enjoy equal status before the law, and have equal opportunities in the marketplace,” Xi said. Well, that is not how the world economy functions. The Fed will not abandon domestic interests in favor of foreign ones and Powell knows he needs to act soon to control runaway inflation.

Jan 20 2022

Corn Pop Slayer Says It’s Okay if Russia Just Takes a Little Bit More of Ukraine, But Not Too Much


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 19, 2022 | Sundance | 223 Comments

The incoherent mess of jumbled marbles occupying the oval office told everyone today that it’s okay if Russia takes a little piece of Ukraine territory, but not too much – or else it’s curtains for Putin, or something.  WATCH:

Forget Putin for a moment, imagine how Chairman Xi views this against the backdrop of Taiwan.

Longer segment of the response below:

Jan 9 2022

Western Social Media v Chinese Communist Party Media


Armstrong Economics Blog/Media Re-Posted Jan 9, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

A reader sent this image in and asked me to spot the differences. A few independent news sources remain in America, but they are not part of what we consider the “mainstream media.” So seek out the truth because what is presented to you will be an altered version of reality.

Jan 5 2022

Hong Kong Banishes All Independent News Outlets


Armstrong economics Blog/Hong Kong Re-Posted Jan 5, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has completely surrendered to Beijing after condoning the shutdown of Hong Kong’s last independent news outlet. Hong Kong police raided the Citizen News building on Sunday, seized all records, and arrested several board members and editors for conspiracy and sedition. Stand News and Apple Daily suffered the same fate for allegedly inciting hate and promoting fake news.

“Seditious acts and activities and inciting other people through public acts and activities could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting,” Carrie Lam said. “These actions are law enforcement actions. These actions have nothing to do with ‘suppression of press freedom’ or ‘suppression of democracy,’ as some will put it.” Lam went on to use the age-old excuse of “national security” being at risk as the truth would lead to civil unrest.

The people of Hong Kong no longer have access to independent news sources. The government has made it clear that anyone attempting to report the honest news will become an enemy of the state who is too dangerous to exist among society. The people of Hong Kong warned us in 2019 that if this tyranny happened there, it could happen anywhere.

Jan 1 2022

Using your Internet Searching for your Credit Score


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 31, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Sir,

I cannot thank you enough for your tireless efforts in keeping us informed.

The insanity just keeps ramping up. An article today about Rebel News being denied a bank loan because they oppose Trudeau. Headline & link to the article:

Royal Bank of Canada rejected our mortgage because we’re conservative

DS

REPLY: There are serious proposals in the United States that they should follow China and make your browser searching part of the credit score. I have had serious off-the-record conversations that this proposal is being promoted behind the curtain and it appears to be coming from the Biden Administration.

I also spoke with a school psychologist who is very upset over what is taking place in identifying students. If they are anti-COVID VAX, they are immediately being associated with anti-all Vaccines and are considered to be White Supremacists. Well I have two black girls working for me and both are anti-COVID Vax so I do not see how this makes them a White Supremacist. Our staff covers ALL races and both Christain and Muslim. They are all anti-COVID Vax, not anti-vaccines, but have the intelligence to QUESTION what governments are pushing.

The New Norm is seeking to characterize everyone and the end goal here is to isolate and ostracize anyone who is anti-government/Republican/Libertarian. Today, they would be canceling Patrick Henry for daring to say “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” or Thomas Jefferson for his obvious terrorist statement in this cancel culture: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

ANYONE who disagrees with the left is now being called far-right extremists. This is all about suppression and altering our free societies into a new Schwab/Marxist Wonderland.

Dec 1 2021

CNBC Pundit Calls Unvaxxed People “Psychotic”, Demands U.S. Military Hunt Them Down, Force Vaccine or Force Quarantine


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 30, 2021 | Sundance | 354 Comments

This is one of the people inside the inner circle of Nancy Pelosi, a good personal friend.

As you watch this short video segment ask yourself about the mental stability of a person who would advocate publicly for American citizens to be hunted down by the U.S. military, vaccinated against their will or forcibly quarantined.

This was actually broadcast to the CNBC audience.

In a twisted display of irony, financial pundit Jim Cramer calls unvaccinated people “psychotic“?

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There is indeed some serious psychosis running around in the mind of Americans; but it’s not the unvaccinated people exhibiting the symptoms.

For whatever reason, perhaps purposefully valuable, the fear around the SARS-CoV-2 virus has brought to the surface just who the unstable people are who live in the U.S.  People of reasonable minds and sensible disposition do not run around advocating for the military to round up healthy Americans and quarantine them from society based on a fear of something that is highly treatable and generally not dangerous.

Additionally, the spread of COVID-19 has nothing whatsoever to do with the vaccine.  If the vaccine is actually a vaccine, then what do the vaccinated people worry about?

Nov 28 2021

Sensing Biden Inflation Weakness China Hits U.S. Supply Lines With Shipping Cargo Quarantine


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 27, 2021 | Sundance | 168 Comments

When you are at war, you target the enemy supply lines.  A cunning move by the smart Panda targets Joe Biden’s domestic inflation vulnerability.

Beijing can see Joe Biden under internal political attack caused by massive domestic inflation.  China also knows Biden is weak strategically, handcuffed by the leftist demand for climate change / energy policy, and Beijing can see the administration trying to deflect from the consequences of their economic and energy policy.

After the U.S-China summit, used by cunning panda to size up the potential for backlash, anything China can do to further gain dominant position is now just a matter of easy chess moves on the board of dependency.

Business Insider – China’s strict COVID-19 quarantines are making it difficult for ships to change crews, contributing to lags in the shipping process that could worsen the supply chain crisis.

The country has a zero-Covid policy and is imposing ever more stringent containment measures as it tackles its latest wave of outbreaks. On Halloween night, for example, 30,000 people were locked inside Shanghai Disneyland after just one COVID-19 case was detected. And in the northern city of Shenyang, arriving overseas travelers face a 56-day quarantine.

Now, the export hub is imposing mandatory quarantines of up to seven weeks — around 49 days — for Chinese seafarers returning from overseas, Bloomberg reported. These take place in designated facilities and are typically paid for by the employers, according to information posted on various China shipping websites.

The country has also banned crew changes for foreign seafarers, the media outlet reported. Even ships that had their crews changed out elsewhere need to wait before they can enter Chinese ports, Bloomberg added. (read more)

The team behind Joe Biden are playing checkers while Xi Jinping is playing chess.

This is the reverse scenario to how President Trump played the leverage game with Beijing.

Donald Trump saw China as the dependent nation in the geopolitical game of economics.  Beijing needed access to our markets more than we needed the Chinese products; and Trump treated them that way.  However, JoeBama sees the U.S. economy as dependent on China, and from that perspective Xi Jinping has the leverage.

Biden will acquiesce to the demands of the panda mask, and the red dragon wants the Trump tariffs removed.  Team Xi will now hint that supply chains might speed up again if Trump era tariffs are removed, and Biden will give in because all his policies make him the dependent.

Place your bets.