I am looking forward to the Democratic debates, especially from Jim Webb.
September 22, 2015
By Daniel Wiser
Jim Webb, (click here) a Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, urged President Obama on Tuesday to issue stern warnings to the visiting Chinese President on Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea and cyber attacks against U.S. businesses and federal agencies.
Webb said in a Facebook post that Xi Jinping’s state visit comes “just days after his government doubled down on South China Sea sovereignty, actually warning the United States against freely navigating those international waters.” China has embarked on an aggressive campaign in recent months to build nearly 3,000 acres of manmade islands in the South China Sea and outfit them with military-style facilities, including runways, surveillance towers, and artillery pieces....
Jim Webb has the best point of view regarding China. China has to live within it's natural borders. I have stated early on when the focus of the USA Navy turned it's attention to the Pacific there were going to be plenty of tensions that could explode. Jim Webb is correct. There is plenty to develop policy regarding China's movement into the Pacific.
This is just observation and speculation regarding China's currency problems. The Chinese government does not intervene with private commercial economic development unless there is serious problems. When there was a problem with dog food in the USA, China took over the issue and there were criminal prosecutions.
The Chinese currencies are the business of the government. Considering the actions of China in the Pacific a reasonable assumption has to be that the currency turbulence is as much a military tool as any of it's military ships.
One of the reasons the USA has to preserve it's stores of petroleum, including the Arctic, is because of the power of China to turn the global economy upside down. Implosions of Wall Street from time to time is measured by China to know exactly how to use it's currency as an aggressive tool. The Chinese government doesn't care about it's oligarchs as much as the financial markets wants to believe it does. China cares about it's people and growing the country's Middle Class, but, this is a communist government. The government has priorities far beyond it's oligarchs.
If China sets a path to aggression with the USA it clearly has enough clout on every front to be as much as a threat as Russia. Perhaps even more so. The USA's petroleum resources is very depleted. Peak oil clearly occurred in 2005 and the industry went to extremes to maintain it's case flow. The USA has to preserve it's petroleum resource still in the ground for future generations.
I am looking forward to the policy Jim Webb will bring to the Democratic debates. He is former Secretary of the Navy and we already know his position on the Iraq War. He is more than qualified to be President and/or Vice President. It should be interesting.
September 22, 2015
By Daniel Wiser
Jim Webb, (click here) a Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, urged President Obama on Tuesday to issue stern warnings to the visiting Chinese President on Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea and cyber attacks against U.S. businesses and federal agencies.
Webb said in a Facebook post that Xi Jinping’s state visit comes “just days after his government doubled down on South China Sea sovereignty, actually warning the United States against freely navigating those international waters.” China has embarked on an aggressive campaign in recent months to build nearly 3,000 acres of manmade islands in the South China Sea and outfit them with military-style facilities, including runways, surveillance towers, and artillery pieces....
Jim Webb has the best point of view regarding China. China has to live within it's natural borders. I have stated early on when the focus of the USA Navy turned it's attention to the Pacific there were going to be plenty of tensions that could explode. Jim Webb is correct. There is plenty to develop policy regarding China's movement into the Pacific.
This is just observation and speculation regarding China's currency problems. The Chinese government does not intervene with private commercial economic development unless there is serious problems. When there was a problem with dog food in the USA, China took over the issue and there were criminal prosecutions.
The Chinese currencies are the business of the government. Considering the actions of China in the Pacific a reasonable assumption has to be that the currency turbulence is as much a military tool as any of it's military ships.
One of the reasons the USA has to preserve it's stores of petroleum, including the Arctic, is because of the power of China to turn the global economy upside down. Implosions of Wall Street from time to time is measured by China to know exactly how to use it's currency as an aggressive tool. The Chinese government doesn't care about it's oligarchs as much as the financial markets wants to believe it does. China cares about it's people and growing the country's Middle Class, but, this is a communist government. The government has priorities far beyond it's oligarchs.
If China sets a path to aggression with the USA it clearly has enough clout on every front to be as much as a threat as Russia. Perhaps even more so. The USA's petroleum resources is very depleted. Peak oil clearly occurred in 2005 and the industry went to extremes to maintain it's case flow. The USA has to preserve it's petroleum resource still in the ground for future generations.
I am looking forward to the policy Jim Webb will bring to the Democratic debates. He is former Secretary of the Navy and we already know his position on the Iraq War. He is more than qualified to be President and/or Vice President. It should be interesting.
