Some thoughts on China

Alan L. Maki

Les, I have passed your comments on to Sidney for his response since your comments are directed at his views which quite often differ from mine; although, with this letter he has sent out I tend to mostly agree with him... especially his concluding statement:

"The world is moving on two axes, and we should, in our own country, start fighting for change, prevent the impoverishment of the working people in this country, demand stopping the wars, use the money to build up industry, help them create jobs, and invest in high tech, These are the only ways they will turn around this particular economic crisis, which will develop into a deep depression if they do not do it.

We had better start shouting."

Personally, and I have told Sidney this, I think he is too hopeful that the Chinese leadership is doing the right things by the Chinese people... I would like to think this is the case but given what I see (which is from afar; I have never been to China--- but, I have discussed things with many Chinese people visiting this country and lower level Chinese "officials"), I find it very hard to agree that things are moving in the best of all directions... but, I do think that the one thing China has is a very peaceful foreign policy which excludes war as a means of solving international conflicts and problems.

As to how China resolves the problems with Tibet, this will probably be a while before this is resolved because of the sharp divisions within Tibet itself. Almost every country in the world has similar problems and it isn't helpful when another country is always trying to antagonize the situation as the United States has done as part of its foreign policy. It often seems to me that if the situation in Tibet was resolved to everyone's satisfaction the United States would be the least happy. We have seen the United States use religious, racial, national and ethnic tensions as a means of exerting control all over the world. The NSA and the CIA along with the Schools of the Americas specifically trains people to do just this. Here in the United States, the FBI has carried out this policy internally--- its COINTELPRO operations were a perfect example; and the revelations that came out in the joint FBI-CIA document that has come to be known as "The Family Jewels" explained all of this in minute detail.

To the extent that China has any policies that hurt us (these same policies in my opinion are also detrimental to Chinese working people); these policies are being implemented at the behest of Wall Street coupon clippers and the international financiers, investors, bankers and industrialists--- for the sake of securing maximum profits off their investments.

I don't know who actually "owns" this aircraft industry you are referring to... but, I am guessing that if you look into this "ownership" question you are going to find the same thing I found looking into who "owns" the rail industry in China that is producing locomotives and other rail components now being sold all over the world: General Electric is a major partner along with the huge Canadian multinational out of Quebec, Bombardier.

Your statement that there are 1,000 billionaires in China is very disconcerting, to say the least--- this represents tremendous wealth being stolen from the Chinese people. I was under the impression there were like maybe 50 or 60 billionaires in China and even that represents tremendous wealth. No wonder there is such poverty in China if your figures are accurate. And this doesn't even consider the swindles of George Soros and his bunch nor does it consider the stock and bond transactions taking place where tremendous wealth is leaving China--- wealth derived from cheap labor.

I was wondering why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would bother going to China to discuss the need for "philanthropy" with China's billionaires... now this makes sense. Of course if there are so many billionaires one can only imagine how many millionaires there are in China. Obviously the Chinese people are going to have to figure out what they intend to do to prevent this hemorrhaging of their nation's wealth and the redistribution of wealth just like we now have to consider this since wealth in our country has been rapidly making its way to the top since the end of the Civil War (actually, the beginning of the Civil War where so much profit was made).

This uneven distribution of wealth in the hands of a few has the same results in China that it has here in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France or any other country in the world... it places us on the road to ruin and perdition... no country can survive this kind of wealth in the hands of a very few any more than it can survive a war economy.