The Grand Chinese Fraud
by ilene - March 16th, 2010 5:02 pm
Here’s Karl Denninger on China,…
The Grand Chinese Fraud
Wen "cats in the kettle" Jaibao spouted:
“I don’t think the renminbi is undervalued,” Wen said yesterday at a press conference in Beijing marking the end of China’s annual parliamentary meetings, using another term for the yuan. “We oppose countries pointing fingers at each other and even forcing a country to appreciate its currency.”
Oh really?
It’s time that we stop the the BS here with regard to China.
The entire premise of so-called "Free Trade" with the Chinese was predicated on the belief that if we opened our borders to their products on a "no tariff" basis that we would, over time, change their political system. That is, we would import cheap Chinese plastic junk and export democracy. More or less.
Well, we got all the cheap DVD players but they didn’t get any democracy. Quite to the contrary. There have been no meaningful improvements in areas of environmental protection, workers rights and wages or political freedom. Indeed, the recent dust-up with Google just underlines the reality in China:Their government is a band of murderous brigands and thugs.
Disagree with them inside their nation, refuse to censor The Internet, for example, so that people can’t read about Falun Gong and China will be happy to arrest the executives of your firm inside the nation and provide this as "corrective influence" to your head:
Oh, they send the 50 cent bill for it to your family too. Isn’t that special?
At least in this country they don’t shoot people for talking about the evil-doing that both private parties and government…