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Evans W's avatar

The DC elites sold us out to the CCP 20 years ago. Xi Jinping must laugh out loud on the regular at our leaders corruption and greed, knowing that he'll probably end up controlling most of the western hemisphere nations without ever firing a shot.

Think that's a stretch....think again. Just have a cursory glance at Africa. To date, there are over 10,000 Chinese firms operating throughout the African continent, with Chinese business interests amounting to more than $2 trillion dollars. Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela all have rapidly growing investments from the CCP and Chinese owned businesses in an almost lockstep formula to China's infiltration into Africa.

Meanwhile, the clowns in DC continue the lie that Putin is trying to get the Soviet Union band back together.

Tell your grandkids to download the Babbel app so that they can get boned up in Mandarin.

This would probably be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

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Jim Howes's avatar

You’re not wrong, but China also has some serious problems--demographics chief among them. There will never be large-scale immigration into China, and their birth rate is already among the lowest in the world thanks to decades of state-mandated abortion. They may have 4x the population of the US, but this becomes a liability when that population is mostly elderly.

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DemonHunter's avatar

The good news is that China's economy continues to cool down and they are experiencing significant population issues. Xi has control through the police state and control of the media.

China has a cyclical history pattern. Following a revolution China becomes introspective and focuses mostly on China. As the system advances they begin to embrace foreign economies and the power and wealth shifts to the south and coastal regions. The 3/4 billion left eating crickets tend not to like that. And the cycle starts over. Xi is in the latter phase prior to a revolution. A shock to the system whether environmental, economic, political, etc may be all it takes (especially on the heels of covid, where China was able to keep the death total to 5,272 according to WorldMeters.info). Xi knows that the people (and the rest of the world) don't buy that. That Xi lied by such a staggering degree is indicative if a fragile state. Revolution is not imminent, but they keep slouching in that direction.

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Pacificus's avatar

"Almost every American can be bought. And for most, the price is shockingly low."

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Kate Cahill's avatar

back in the '70's, my dear ole dad used to say "it's a good thing you like wearing those overalls kid, because that's all you're going to have to wear when the Red Chinese take over!" He was quite prescient!

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Bakelite72's avatar

So we should ask the people of every nation in Central & South America and Africa: who has produced the most damage, destruction, corruption, and negative outside influence in your lives for the past 125 years? China,... or the good ol' freedom & democracy-lovin' United States?

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BetsyB's avatar

my guess is that they may not mind changing one for the other…whatever WE did, at least we weren’t full time occupiers (you said the US, not the West)…their new friends maybe not so much….

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Centrist's avatar

Actually we sold out long ago, with the most telling action was offshoring military parts to China in the late 60's.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

I would bet that most people don't know about China's huge investments in Africa. It's not like the MSM reports on this.

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Deb Hill's avatar

Or, the illegal lab in California. Which I suspect there are others.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

Yup, where there is one, I don't doubt there are more.

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George Neidorf's avatar

Read; When China Rules the World. The whole plan is laid out in that book, and agrees with what you said.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Diane Feinstein had a CCP spy as a driver for 20 years. Eric Swalwell fell for the honeypot Fang Fang. But it’s no big deal because they’re democrats.

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Timothy Kaluhiokalani's avatar

"Eric Swalwell fell for the honeypot Fang Fang"

And here I thought her name was Bang Bang.

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Honey Daly's avatar

Yuri, Evans W, Timothy, Bruce & others, y’all must be “QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Nut Jobs” to believe the CCP would harm the USA, in any way! Don’t you know our Biden Crime Family Regime & DC WOKE Left Democrats have everything under control! Nothing to see here & nothing to fear from the CCP. We all know our MSM would tell us otherwise, so just calm down & take a breath!

This Biden Administration / Regime has SO much more + more important pressing issues to contend with, don’t you know! In addition to the TRANS, BLM, ANTIFA, ILLEGAL ALIEN, etc., etc. MARGINALIZED GROUPS, see the below list:

#1) The Number One Threat to America - The Climate Crisis!

#2) Another Number One Threat to America - Funding & Keeping the War going Against Putin!

#3) Of course, the OTHER Number One Threat to America - Orange Man Bad!

#4) Plus, don’t forget ANOTHER Number One Threat to America - Fighting the MAGA White Supremacists (including ALL people of Color who are Conservative) Racists Homophobes!

#5) And, ANOTHER Number One MAJOR Threat to America - RFK Jr.

Wake up people! Don’t you trust our Government to tell us all we need to worry about? China is our friend! Biden says he & Xi Jinping go way back! I think they drove 18 wheelers together + attended the same poor Black, Porto Rican, Jewish churches growing up + ALMOST lost their wives, pets & beloved cars to devastating house fires!

“Come On Man, WHY would they spy on us? I’m not joking!” All they have to do is call on their contact (Hunter & the Big Guy) to get any information they want. Oh yes, and of course, pay their $$$$ fee! China wouldn’t bite the hand that feeds it, or is it the other way around?!

Either way, China isn’t a threat! Neither is Out of Control High Crime, Open Borders, Human Trafficking, Fentanyl Poisoning, Homelessness, 40 year high Inflation + gas & grocery prices and the National Debt, Failing Public Schools, Crumbling Infrastructure (just think, with all the new illegals we’ll have workers! YAY!), and the rest of that MAGA racist Bull$hit propaganda those Conservatives Conspiracy Theory QAnoners are spreading!

Y’all need to STOP freaking out about anything, except the 5 Number One Threats to America I listed above!

And, remember “VOTE WOKE in 2024” least anything changes in this country!

(This ad provided by an Ignorant, Uninformed, Deplorable, Southern White, Free Speech Loving, Gun Owning Older Woman (yep, I said WOMAN!) who is totally & completely disgusted with BOTH Democrats & RINO Republicans!

Should I be afraid my home will be raided by the FBI😳

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Sierras23's avatar

Honey Daly, your rant is spot on. To summarize, the Number #1 threat to our country is a complacent populace happily ingesting the propaganda fed by our corrupt media empires. And the complicit public education/indoctrination system.

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Shirley G's avatar

Let’s not forget that fentanyl killing 100,000 Americans each year is largely manufactured in China and smuggled through the southern border. They are in a very efficient war with America without lifting a single weapon or ever setting foot on American soil.

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Sierras23's avatar

A narcotic version of the Cold War.

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Paul R.'s avatar

Whatever the Chinese' participation was in the original wave of fentanyl, the cartels have now supplanted the Chinese supply chain with their own. It is cheap and relatively easy to manufacture so no need to pay the CCP anymore.

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Sierras23's avatar

The ingredients are sourced from China.

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SW's avatar

That's right. Then formulated in Mexico and brought over the border. If you want a more complete picture of Mexico's involvement with the opiate trade, read Dreamland by Sam Quinones.

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NCMaureen's avatar

I’m OK with China getting welched on all those bad loans to third world countries.

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Evans W's avatar

You think they're gonna just lick their wounds and head back to the motherland once they default? You've got better odds of catching on fire then that happening.

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NCMaureen's avatar

They will just impoverish those countries even worse. And end up with zilch.

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Brian Katz's avatar

Land is what they end up with.

Minerals, etc….

Military bases, expansion.

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NCMaureen's avatar

Right. But I don’t believe the Chinese can control an empire.

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Brian Katz's avatar

If they are poor and impoverished countries, China will be able to do as it pleases.

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Shirley G's avatar

No they will take over the countries. That’s the whole point of low interest loans. They give them to poor countries to lure them in then they take the land. They are positioned to own most of Africa soon.

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STL Mama's avatar

They won’t take over the “countries” because that would mean dealing with the people and all of the inherent issues. However, they are and will continue to take over natural resources and construct ports and transportation systems all over the southern hemisphere. In that way they hedge their bets. When a country goes into civil war or anarchy, there will still be plenty of access to necessary raw materials to support CCP dominance. Countries defaulting on all those loans is just the cost of doing business.

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Brian Katz's avatar

Correct, that’s what China did with a port in Sri Lanka.

They took over the port.

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Carol's avatar

Maybe the Left could look at modern colonialism and China’s role. But no no…and we know why.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

Exactly. I don't hear a peep from the Left about China's involvement in Africa, which looks more and more like colonialism the deeper you dig.

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Timothy Kaluhiokalani's avatar

"No they will take over the countries"

That may be the conventional wisdom but I remember similar "wisdom being applied to places like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...

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Lynne Morris's avatar

But it looks like it is happening. Maybe slower than feared but happening.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

They've discovered that economic takeover is much easier than military takeover. And much less likely to be resisted.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

We can take some heart in that Milei in Argentina understands this explicitly and has started yelling it from the rooftops.

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