Zhong Xuanli does not exist as a person but does exist as the collective voice of the Bureau of Theory at China’s Central Propaganda Department.
In two massive commentaries in the influential People’s Daily, “Zhong” waded into the trade war row with the finesse of a wrecking ball.
Taking aim at a 45-minute policy speech made by the United States Vice-President Mike Pence at the Hudson Institute in Washington, the Communist Party provocateur countered:
“It is noteworthy that [Chinese] growth was achieved as the US has strictly restricted the categories of exports to China and banned the sales of certain high technologies.
“The US trade deficit with China would probably be narrower if the US allowed sales of high-tech products to China. If the US sold four [Gerald R.] Ford-class aircraft carriers priced at US$15 billion each, it would easily make up for a $60 billion trade deficit with China.
“Pence even said that much of China’s success was driven by American investment in China and that the US ‘rebuilt’ China over the last 25 years – what a huge joke!”
Indeed, it is inconceivable that Washington would ever sanction the sale of Ford-class carriers, which are at the sharp end of America’s maritime power. But the fact they were mentioned illustrated how relations have become frozen in a Cold War permafrost.
Earlier this month, Pence accused China of military aggression, commercial theft and human rights violations as he cast the world’s second largest economy in the role of a regional bully in Asia.
His speech preceded a report by the Pentagon that China represents a “significant and growing risk” to the supply of materials vital to the US military.
Yet in Beijing, President Donald Trump’s trade conflict is seen increasingly as a way to contain the country’s growing economic and military might.
By weaponizing tariffs on more than $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, Trump’s administration hopes to force President Xi Jinping’s government to change direction.
This, of course, would involve recasting the “Made in China 2025” high-tech program, as well as adding a layer of transparency to the Belt and Road Initiative, which is at the heart of Beijing’s foreign policy push.
“The world’s two largest economies – China and the United States – are engaged in a full-blown trade war, and what Trump hoped would be a blitzkrieg has turned out more like trench warfare,” Keyu Jin, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics,” said. “Many fear that this is only the beginning of a long conflict that could include weapons – and casualties – far outside the realm of trade.
“Yet, in China’s view, what the US is really reacting to is not only the specifics of its trade policy but also its overall development model and its aspirations to become a major global power – aspirations that are not out of reach,” Jin added. “In fact, the Chinese believe, Trump’s trade war effectively proves that China has become a real and present threat to American hegemony.”
Before the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Bali at the weekend, the IMF managing director Christine Lagarde warned of the damage the trade war would cause.
“The stakes are high because the fracturing of global value chains could have a devastating effect on many countries, including advanced economies,” she said.
Uncertainty has always been the breeding ground for anxiety.
Last week, stock markets tanked after a wave of negative data about the global economy and rising trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
On Monday, Asian indices wobbled again. But then, hard economic facts have a habit of drowning out the collective voice of the Bureau of Theory.
I like how Trevor Noah depict him as a duck head. Hilarious!!
Daniel Harvey …china is the more dangerous than the united states…..history proves
Daniel Harvey …china is the more dangerous than the united states…..history proves
VP Pence is a sad joke. He just reads what some hack writes for him.
If he became POTUS, we would be even worse off than we are now
VP Pence is a sad joke. He just reads what some hack writes for him.
If he became POTUS, we would be even worse off than we are now
Vikram Reddy travelling in Asia, I certainly trust Chinese immigration. Not so in India or any other country in the region where extortion by immigration personnel is a norm.
Vikram Reddy travelling in Asia, I certainly trust Chinese immigration. Not so in India or any other country in the region where extortion by immigration personnel is a norm.
Wait till the German tech is copied their IP is stolen and In-sourced by China and sold at a lot cheaper price. Germany will feel the same heat then!
Wait till the German tech is copied their IP is stolen and In-sourced by China and sold at a lot cheaper price. Germany will feel the same heat then!
China is Germany’s #1 trading partner, and China has only a small surplus in this trade because Germany has high value products which it sells. The US actually prevents China from buying a whole lineup of high value products. National security, you know. What the US would like to do is get a surplus in "services", mosly financial hocus pocus, in which it specializes.
Daniel Harvey Okay I’ll bite. Prove that the Chinese are killing Uighurs as you said. There are no news stories concerning this. Prove that the BRI is all about seizing assets. You have one example in Sri Lanka out of the hundreds of BRI projects either completed or under construction. So your claim is based on less than 0.5% of cases. Sounds like propaganda to me. Yukon Huang showed in his research that only 18% of American companies which operate in China are asked to lease their technology (China spent over 220 billion dollars leasing foreign technology last year), they never steal it…again propaganda. China has successfully challenged the U.S. at the WTO for trade infractions more often than the U.S. has successfully challenged China, so the U.S. violates WTO rules more often than China does. Also, the U.S. is actively preventing the appointment of WTO judges to adjudicate disputes in the hope of making the organization impotent, and, lastly, the U.S. has threatened to leave the WTO as they don’t like its rules. And, finally, the IMF has said a few weeks ago that China is not a currency manipulator despite what Trump, a verified pathological liar, has stated.
So, as you can clearly see, you are spouting unsubstantiated propaganda.
Daniel Harvey Okay I’ll bite. Prove that the Chinese are killing Uighurs as you said. There are no news stories concerning this. Prove that the BRI is all about seizing assets. You have one example in Sri Lanka out of the hundreds of BRI projects either completed or under construction. So your claim is based on less than 0.5% of cases. Sounds like propaganda to me. Yukon Huang showed in his research that only 18% of American companies which operate in China are asked to lease their technology (China spent over 220 billion dollars leasing foreign technology last year), they never steal it…again propaganda. China has successfully challenged the U.S. at the WTO for trade infractions more often than the U.S. has successfully challenged China, so the U.S. violates WTO rules more often than China does. Also, the U.S. is actively preventing the appointment of WTO judges to adjudicate disputes in the hope of making the organization impotent, and, lastly, the U.S. has threatened to leave the WTO as they don’t like its rules. And, finally, the IMF has said a few weeks ago that China is not a currency manipulator despite what Trump, a verified pathological liar, has stated.
So, as you can clearly see, you are spouting unsubstantiated propaganda.
and you want to trust China?
Tmadhava Menon innocent people in Viet cong? The innocent children the Viet gong were using to blow up market and meeting places of anyone that opposed them, Before, during and after America’s involvement?
Isreal is killing 1000’s in Syria? That would be Russia and the Syrian Gov’t using barrel bombs and chemical weapons.
Palestinians are being used as pawns and vast majority of their fighters aren’t from the region. This has been stated repeatedly by Palestinian leaders that are quite hostile to isreal.
You talk of propaganda but I have been to these countries and seen the truth… have you?
China’s behavior is unacceptable and the points I made in my 1st post are correct, provable and accepted on a global scale, it’s not propaganda… It’s FACT!
Don,t trust the American, they only see their iinterest and wants to be superpower forever. Once their interest obstructed they will not hesitate to act wildly like atom bomb in Japan in second world war.
these charges are mostly USA propaganda!!! Spokesmen and media for USA are experts in repeating lies thousands of times in the hope that the world will believe them. The USA are the biggest international killers – they killed innocent people in Viet Cong to such an extent and so brutally that their own insensitive people reacted! USA and its stooge Isreel are killing thousands in Syria and Palestine, and the media downplays that. The world should thank CHINA for showing up what the USA is, and for making all of us beware of USA, while at the same time, laughing at its postures.
It’s about time someone put an end to the theft and bullying of China. Their enslavement of their neighbours by burdening them with huge debts associated with B&R then appropriation of the assets, their bullying techniques regarding Taiwan and Hong Kong, their theft and forced acquisition of technology, Thier murdering of Urgurs in west of the country, their abuse of WTO rules and currency manipulation. The list goes on. China WAS built on western money whether they want to accept it or not and their behavior in the last decade is disgusting. I hope they realise the danger they their economy faces now that someone has been willing to stand up to them. I hope its onlytheir economy that suffers from the behavior of their leaders.
TRUMP AND HIS ADM.ARE LIKE A"" BULL IN A CHINA SHOP"" [PARDON THE PUN] RAMBLING AROUND STABBING AT WHAT THEY THINK IS DIPLOMACY.WHAT A BAD JOKE. CHINA COMPARED TO T HE US IS A MASTER DIPLOMAT !!!
United States Of (making others)Slavery! By selling to Taiwan and other countries, their war weapons , they make these countries america’s slaves!
Nonsense! Sunni Islam has long been infiltrated and undermined by the west. This is just rhetoric from the sawdi’s for its own dumb public’s consumption. Without the US these helpless Sunnis wouldn’t even exist…..buncha slaves.