Reuters and a number of media sources have put out recent news that a senior China trade official says that it is hard for them to proceed on trade negotiations with the U.S. putting a 'knife to its neck.' https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-talks/china-says-u-s-putting-knife-to-its-neck-hard-to-proceed-on-trade-idUSKCN1M509S
Translation: "We have an advantage in trade with The United States, and we are going to try to keep it anyway that we can." In other words, "It is the fault of the U.S. that we have insisted for years in managing our trade, currency, and foreign relations to the advantage of China, and we are not going to stop this, as it is to our advantage, regardless of what agreements we signed with the World Trade Organization in 2001 to not do, exactly what we, in fact, are now doing."
"Oh, yes, by the way, we are for free trade worldwide."
It is hard to believe that anyone anywhere thinks that this blatant hypocrisy from China is not balderdash.
Additionally, in recent days many of us have physically and mentally watched comments on BBC and CNN by other world leaders, which have parroted the same line of reasoning as the senior China trade official.
"Me too. Me too!"
Nonsense!
Clearly the other "Me too" nations and China are insisting on colluding in continuing to violate WTO rules of fair international trade, and these managed trade, managed currency violations and hypocrisy have gone too far and for too long.
Who could blame the U.S. for putting full sanctions on the lot of them, or simply preventing other nations from trading with The United States, for just cause and for gross violations of WTO international trade rules?
President Trump recently came to a new modified signed agreement with Mexico over NAFTA trade, and he signed a new modified trade agreement with the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/trump-clinches-his-first-trade-deal-in-revamped-south-korea-pact?srnd=politics-vp
Although there was a most recent report that our President received some criticism at the United Nations over trade, there are also reports that President Trump has multiple trade agreements in varying degrees of readiness. Trump also had positive trade talks with President Macron, among other issues that the two presidents spoke to each other about on the sidelines of the UN.
In the past, President Trump has come to partial agreements with some European leaders, but, as of this moment, those agreements are not fully negotiated and ready for signature.
In a Bloomberg article earlier today, Josh Wingrove hinted that Prime Minister Trudeau wants to complete a modified new NAFTA agreement with the U.S. government. According to Wingrove, "...but it's his [Trudeau's] job to stand up for Canada's interests." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/u-s-canada-ties-can-survive-trade-friction-trudeau-says
References List:
Chen, Y., & Blanchard, B. (2018, September 25). Reuters.com. China says U.S. putting "knife to its neck", hard to proceed on trade. Retrieved September 25, 2018, from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-talks/china-says-u-s-putting-knife-to-its-neck-hard-to-proceed-on-trade-idUSKCN1M509S
Lee, Y., Tweed, D., & Leonard, J. (2018, September 25). Bloomberg.com. Trump Clinches His First Trade Deal With Revamped South Korea Pact. Retrieved September 25, 2018, from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/trump-clinches-his-first-trade-deal-in-revamped-south-korea-pact?srnd=politics-vp
Wingrove, J. (2018, September 25). Bloomberg.com. U.S.-Canada Ties Can survive Trade Friction, Trudeau Says. Retrieved September 25, 2018, from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/u-s-canada-ties-can-survive-trade-friction-trudeau-says
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Why so Few Articles on "Economic and Political Sanity" Blog?
Today the question was put to me, "Why do you publish so few and infrequent articles on your blog, 'Economic and Political Sanity?'"
The answer is simple: I do not write for a living but merely write and publish when something is important to me.
On the other hand, there are lots of subjects to write about, but I am not interested in writing to just scribble about something...anything. My gut and my subconscious tell me when and on what to scrawl an article.
My only deadline is when yours truly worries about something that concerns our country, economically or politically. There are many things to worry about in both of these areas, but this scribe works when there is a sliver of a chance that he can be a catalyst by getting through to a policy or decision maker.
"Economic and Political Sanity" has readers in 19 countries; one reader who is a former President of the United States and several who are current members of the U.S. Congress.
As citizens of this chaotic democratic republic, we should all concern ourselves about the future of this nation. Our survival as a nation depends on it.
Democracy is not easy; it is expensive and unruly to defend our rights and freedoms, but it is necessary to maintain our republic. Some of us just wish our political leaders would compromise more to get the peoples' business done, instead of digging their heels in on each and every issue.
The Revolutionary Founding Fathers of The United States did not have the luxury of not compromising, as Great Britain wanted their American colonies and tax base back. Therefore, we fought a second war with England in the early 1800s. Then France wanted us to fight as their ally in another war before America was able to even stand on its own.
Our politicians need to decide if their own egos or our democracy is more important.
Compromise in Congress, the Senate, and the Executive Branch to get the peoples' business done!
The answer is simple: I do not write for a living but merely write and publish when something is important to me.
On the other hand, there are lots of subjects to write about, but I am not interested in writing to just scribble about something...anything. My gut and my subconscious tell me when and on what to scrawl an article.
My only deadline is when yours truly worries about something that concerns our country, economically or politically. There are many things to worry about in both of these areas, but this scribe works when there is a sliver of a chance that he can be a catalyst by getting through to a policy or decision maker.
"Economic and Political Sanity" has readers in 19 countries; one reader who is a former President of the United States and several who are current members of the U.S. Congress.
As citizens of this chaotic democratic republic, we should all concern ourselves about the future of this nation. Our survival as a nation depends on it.
Democracy is not easy; it is expensive and unruly to defend our rights and freedoms, but it is necessary to maintain our republic. Some of us just wish our political leaders would compromise more to get the peoples' business done, instead of digging their heels in on each and every issue.
The Revolutionary Founding Fathers of The United States did not have the luxury of not compromising, as Great Britain wanted their American colonies and tax base back. Therefore, we fought a second war with England in the early 1800s. Then France wanted us to fight as their ally in another war before America was able to even stand on its own.
Our politicians need to decide if their own egos or our democracy is more important.
Compromise in Congress, the Senate, and the Executive Branch to get the peoples' business done!
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Entrust Has the Keys to the Kingdom, and it Needs to be Sold to the DOJ
Important U.S. partisan vested interests can and do find out anything that they want through the internet about any person or entity on this planet. No person or entity is safe, as it does not matter who or what they are. What do you think those same partisan vested interests use that information for?
You do not believe me you say?
Would it surprise you that Entrust, a private U.S. company that has worldwide operations, controls encryption keys for the entire internet? With encryption keys, Entrust and those associated with it can find out anything communicated on the internet by a person, government official or anyone else, anywhere on this planet.
Jerry C. Jones, a Democrat Party operative, and former law firm partner of Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm, runs Entrust, and it is owned by another Democrat Party operative, Thomas Bravo (Bruce, A. 2018).
It might be to our mutual advantage for you to read Alexandra Bruce's article here: forbiddenknowledgetv.net/this-is-how-they-can-turn-off-your-chip/
There is not a person, corporation, or government in this world that uses the internet that does not need the encryption capabilities of Entrust. That kind of power should be based on need-to-know, not personal contacts at the U.S. Democrat Party Headquarters.
In a fair world, it is in the interests of the entire planet that Entrust be sold at a considerable profit to the U.S. government, and then controlled and directed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Why should it be in the hands of the DOJ? The U.S. Attorney General on the advice of his staff and other departmental attorneys can legally decide when to share that information with law enforcement, government agencies and sovereign countries.
Why would we want to do that? Simply put, we want criminal and terrorist activities to be preempted and/or caught and the guilty parties tried in a court of law, domestically and/or internationally.
If there is someone who does not want that to be the case, then they are a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
Reference:
Bruce, A. (2018, September 19). Forbidden Knowledge TV. This Is How They Can ‘Turn Off Your Chip’ – Forbidden Knowledge TV. Retrieved September 23, 2018, from forbiddenknowledgetv.net/this-is-how-they-can-turn-off-your-chip/
Stifling Opinions in a Democracy by Large Techology, Internet, and Large Media
Again, someone is preventing me from properly formatting and publishing an article that I have written because they do not like the contents of the article.
It is a good thing that this is precisely what the U.S. White House is currently investigating about big technology and big internet companies and their interference in publishing of what they do not want in the public domain.
The Legal Office at Google and other companies should listen up, or, shall I say, read up?
It is a good thing that this is precisely what the U.S. White House is currently investigating about big technology and big internet companies and their interference in publishing of what they do not want in the public domain.
The Legal Office at Google and other companies should listen up, or, shall I say, read up?
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
U.S. and China Trade Negotiations
The United States should stop trading with China completely and permanently.
China agreed to fairness in trade and economics when joining the World Trade Organization in 2001 (BBC staff writers, 2001), but that fairness has never happened, and it never will. Its government had promised to abide by all international standards to join the WTO, but it does not abide by adverse rulings of the Permanent Court of Arbitration or the WTO, as all members of the UN are required to do.
The government of China is using the technicality that it did not agree to the arbitration of the PCA in its spat with the Philippines. However, Article 288 of the LOSC (a.k.a. Law of the Sea Treaty) and Article 9 of LOSC’s Annex VII gives the PCA jurisdiction to decide the matter, and the absence of one party from the proceeding cannot stop the matter from going forward even if it was brought unilaterally by the Philippines.
China's leadership claims it has no obligation to abide by a decision of the PCA in the matter of The Philippine's case against China building military bases on territory claimed by other nations with senior claims to China's. In fact, China's government claims the entire South China Seas, with no historical basis whatsoever for that claim, except for a reference to an ancient map of a Chinese emperor's dynasty from long ago in antiquity, which proves little or next to nothing. The PCA ruled that there is no basis for China's claim to the entire South China Seas.
China's leaders say that the Philippines should have brought the claim in the International Court of Justice, not at the PCA (Puspitawati*, D., 2018). What do you want to bet that the Philippines would win that legal battle also, and China and its leaders will not submit to that future ruling, either -- even if it is submitted to the ICJ and won by the Philippines?
Selective logic from China's leaders means we are better off without China, totally, as it and its leaders are not reliable partners in anything.
When China and its government finally does come to the negotiating table, whatever they agree to will not be lived up to just as China agreed to abide by WTO rules and has not. Just like China agreed not to manipulate its currency and not to manipulate trade against other countries, and it has in both cases while maintaining that China is for global free trade. Not!
It is true that China allows joint ventures between Chinese and foreign companies, but the outsiders' companies must reveal all technical and trade secrets to their Chinese joint venture partners, the ones Chinese operatives have not stolen.
The government of China and its domestic industry leaders have no intention of changing its unfair trade tactics (President Trump, 2018). Indeed, Chinese producers are already beating President Trump's growing tariffs on Chinese goods by rerouting them through other countries, where they are repackaged in the second country and represented as non-Chinese goods, before they are sent to the U.S. to avoid tariffs (Nikkei Asian Review staff writers, 2018).
The truth is, China and its leaders are for global free trade only if China unfairly gets the best of its trading partners the majority of the time.
China is not worth the trouble that it causes, and we need to stop doing any business with them at all. It is a complete waste of our time and resources, which could be spent better elsewhere.
China has no intention of completely opening its markets, as required by the WTO, and China never had any such intention. The actions of China's leaders speak much louder than their words, which are meaningless.
The government of The United States, including its Executive Branch and all of Congress, needs to stop wishful thinking that China will open its markets to free trade, which is something China's leaders are not committed to and never will be fully committed to, no matter what China's leaders say to the contrary.
References list:
BBC News | BUSINESS | China joins the WTO - at last. (2001). News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2018, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1702241
Puspitawati*, D. (2018). China And The SEA In Asia’s Troubled Waters – Analysis. Eurasia Review. Retrieved 19 September 2018, from https://www.eurasiareview.com/17092018-china-and-the-sea-in-asias-troubled-waters-analysis/
Chinese producers expected to beat US tariffs by rerouting goods. (2018). Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 19 September 2018, from https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-War/Chinese-producers-expected-to-beat-US-tariffs-by-rerouting-goods
Statement from the President Regarding Trade with China | The White House. (2018). The White House. Retrieved 19 September 2018, from https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-regarding-trade-china-2/
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Obama Plans Regime Change in November 2018 Elections
Former Democratic President Barack Obama recently spoke at the University of Illinois to give us our sanity back, as, according to him, something is not right in the current Whitehouse, or words to that effect. So Obama is out to foment an outright regime change during the U.S. House of Representatives election in approximately two months from now.
To say that Barack Obama is a Democrat-Socialist would be putting it lightly. It would be like saying that Bernie Sanders is a hardcore conservative constitutionalist.
In a 2014 article in The Western Journal, "Just How Radical Were The People Who Influenced Barack Hussein Obama?" Steven Baldwin clearly points to overwhelming documented evidence that Obama's entire life has been in the political company and association with Marxists and Socialists. Indeed, former President Obama made numerous appointments to these Democrat-Socialist-Marxists in both of his previous presidential administrations. (https://www.westernjournal.com/just-radical-people-influen…/)
Who remembers when in a televised meeting between former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former U.S. President Barack Obama that Chavez turned to the crowd and cameras and said, "He's more of a Socialists than I am?" The now deceased Chavez was in amazement that such a political radical was then President of The United States. We all saw it in Chavez' face expression.
It is hard to see how The United States of America was winning under the business-restrictive policies of Kenyan national former CIA operative Barry Soetoro, a.k.a. former President and Socialist-Democrat-Marxist-in-Chief, Barack Obama. Of course, Marxist Obama is coming out against a progressive, winning President Trump who is renegotiating Obama's bad trade deals that were not in the interests of America. On the other hand, anti-colonialist Obama gave billions in bribes to Iran and helped his Muslim Brotherhood allies, while Ambassador Stevens was tortured, and, eventually killed, and Stevens' NCIS agents were murdered in Libya. Former U.S. President Obama is the same man who created ISIS and did everything he could to ruin America. Now Obama says, in essence, that there is something wrong with President Trump's America.
Yes, that is correct. We are winning, again! -- like we have not done since Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy, arguably two of the best Presidents that The United States has ever had. The current Trump administration is not only renegotiating the bad trade and political deals of previous administrations, but President Trump has also delivered on his promises to the American people to create more jobs, bolster the economy, and he has brought back trillions of USDs from overseas holdings of U.S. corporations. Generally, our current President is running government like a business, not a "vote for me and I will give you any kind of largess you want to further ruin the credit of the U.S., while adding enormous debt to our nation." Actually, having the temerity to move our U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is the favorite action of President Trump that many Americans love, both Democrats and Republicans.
The list of accomplishments of President Trump and his administration is too long to enumerate, but few Americans have been hiding under rocks. Our citizens know completely what those accomplishments are, though not all Americans are willing to give the Trump administration credit, even where credit is due.
Now deep state cheerleader Obama is fighting to have a mid-term regime change of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of the Democrat-Socialist-Marxists so The United States of America will collapse, like Venezuela, the old Soviet Union, and Democrat-controlled Chicago. Eventually, that will usher in Obama's One World Government led by the UN.
It is not in the best interests of Americans for us to continue this political divide, those who want to destroy America and those who want to strengthen it. There was a time when all of us, on the left, in the middle, and on the right, politically, would fight for The United States, instead of tearing it apart for the vested interests of others.
Reference:
To say that Barack Obama is a Democrat-Socialist would be putting it lightly. It would be like saying that Bernie Sanders is a hardcore conservative constitutionalist.
In a 2014 article in The Western Journal, "Just How Radical Were The People Who Influenced Barack Hussein Obama?" Steven Baldwin clearly points to overwhelming documented evidence that Obama's entire life has been in the political company and association with Marxists and Socialists. Indeed, former President Obama made numerous appointments to these Democrat-Socialist-Marxists in both of his previous presidential administrations. (https://www.westernjournal.com/just-radical-people-influen…/)
Who remembers when in a televised meeting between former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former U.S. President Barack Obama that Chavez turned to the crowd and cameras and said, "He's more of a Socialists than I am?" The now deceased Chavez was in amazement that such a political radical was then President of The United States. We all saw it in Chavez' face expression.
It is hard to see how The United States of America was winning under the business-restrictive policies of Kenyan national former CIA operative Barry Soetoro, a.k.a. former President and Socialist-Democrat-Marxist-in-Chief, Barack Obama. Of course, Marxist Obama is coming out against a progressive, winning President Trump who is renegotiating Obama's bad trade deals that were not in the interests of America. On the other hand, anti-colonialist Obama gave billions in bribes to Iran and helped his Muslim Brotherhood allies, while Ambassador Stevens was tortured, and, eventually killed, and Stevens' NCIS agents were murdered in Libya. Former U.S. President Obama is the same man who created ISIS and did everything he could to ruin America. Now Obama says, in essence, that there is something wrong with President Trump's America.
Yes, that is correct. We are winning, again! -- like we have not done since Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy, arguably two of the best Presidents that The United States has ever had. The current Trump administration is not only renegotiating the bad trade and political deals of previous administrations, but President Trump has also delivered on his promises to the American people to create more jobs, bolster the economy, and he has brought back trillions of USDs from overseas holdings of U.S. corporations. Generally, our current President is running government like a business, not a "vote for me and I will give you any kind of largess you want to further ruin the credit of the U.S., while adding enormous debt to our nation." Actually, having the temerity to move our U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is the favorite action of President Trump that many Americans love, both Democrats and Republicans.
The list of accomplishments of President Trump and his administration is too long to enumerate, but few Americans have been hiding under rocks. Our citizens know completely what those accomplishments are, though not all Americans are willing to give the Trump administration credit, even where credit is due.
Now deep state cheerleader Obama is fighting to have a mid-term regime change of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of the Democrat-Socialist-Marxists so The United States of America will collapse, like Venezuela, the old Soviet Union, and Democrat-controlled Chicago. Eventually, that will usher in Obama's One World Government led by the UN.
It is not in the best interests of Americans for us to continue this political divide, those who want to destroy America and those who want to strengthen it. There was a time when all of us, on the left, in the middle, and on the right, politically, would fight for The United States, instead of tearing it apart for the vested interests of others.
Reference:
Just How Radical Were The People Who Influenced Barack Hussein Obama?. (2014). The Western Journal. Retrieved 19 September 2018, from https://www.westernjournal.com/just-radical-people-influenced-barack-hussein-obama/
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