Re: Oz - Pacific Pawn in USA vs China
Now Lily....I trust that you know how much I luv you so that when I tell you I hate you hate hate....for posting an article where I am forced to agree with Kissinger!!!!
But alas it is true, a couple of points
a) the dream to tap into china as a market is actually eternal, and truly yet to be fufuilled. Don't worry Oz, as beautiful as the women are in Australia, as incredible the sunsets, if anyone is allowed the pipedream of selling "just one coke to every Chinaman" you get my vote....
b) Military build up is a red herring....Quick question who is the third largest military by country?
Any takers...........North Korea....... third largest standing army, big deal, and here is why, you starve a country and China could not feed itself for a week. They would dereciate to North Koreas level without our imports and our dollars, gold or no gold. China's real enemy are her own barbaric policies, her growth and the despots that are their version of our power elite. China needs us as much as we need her.
Japan is BTW the real winner. Japan has quietly been paying down debt, curbing consumption and has a population well able to do the jobs in the skilled manfacturing sector. When they purge their own North Korean despots, and European based elitists they will be a force to be reconed with!
I personally think that all of us country wise have to become more self sufficient. In America right now if people were not barbarically taxed by the IRS and encouraged there is land to grow food, things to be manufactured, traditions to be tendered and protected. The goal of every citizen of every nation should be to right their own backyard and then to help those that have problems right their back yard. I would love to grow food and send a surplus knowing it got to places like Mexico and obviously to my own country.