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By Kenneth Raposa, Forbes, May 9, 2013
China’s president Xi Jinping pledged his support to the people of Palestine earlier this week, and then did the same to Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel on Thursday. Xi is not picking sides in this fight. [.....]
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Xi JuniorDr. Lucy Chen, the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health at Peking University in Beijing:by artappraiser on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:10am
President Xi Jinping and Dr. Chen, meet President George Washington:
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:26am
We should have listened to George Washington, we should reign in the military industrial complex and quit being the policeman of the world; maybe, our nation would have the money, to care for it's people and prevent the enemies from within.
by Resistance on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 2:55am
But I don't think he would agree with you on tariffs. Clue: a key takeaway from the Farewell Address is that free trade is both the key to a nation's success and to peace among nations and different peoples. Tariffs/trade protectionism is a tax restricting trade, like the taxes that England was trying to impose on the colonists, against which they rebelled. The point I am trying to make here is that the current Chinese method of doing international business is very much simpatico with George's views of how the new nation and the world should operate. Judging from your commenting history, I believe you, on the other hand, think American workers should be protected from Chinese goods. George thought unrestricted trade was the solution, not the problem. That instead of telling other countries what to do or instead of joining into alliances restricting trade or about things, one should trade freely and everything good would flow from the communication and understanding that ensued.
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 1:59pm
The ability to finance our fledgling government was done through tariffs and duties. George Washington nor any of our founding fathers would have approved of foreign countries undercutting American jobs, undermining the AMERICAN CITIZENS RIGHTS, to demand safe working conditions, TO DEMAND CHILD LABOR LAWS BE ENFORCED, clean air and water and all of the the other rights WE THE PEOPLE secure for ourselves ....... TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM FINANCIAL RUIN. Foreign workers could care less, if American workers have to grovel for a decent wage or any of our other rights and still have enough money to pay taxes for it's own defense.... America was sold out by traitors, who cared only about their own financial gain and not our Nations, overall well being. .... thousands of textile mills, closed in America because third world countires treat their citizens like crap and they can undersell, our own manufacturing base. ....... OUR TAX BASE, destroyed. Our tax base, that puts the ideals of the American working class people, ahead of all others...... America is not a colony to be plundered or forced to accept, living as the rest of the third world countries that are exploited...... We fought a war over slavery and it appears the slave masters have only moved offshore...... Is the only way the American worker can survive, is if they must work as cheap as the other third world country slaves do?...... Screw that. Dump the slave goods, dont let their trade goods undermine our standard of living, or our right to self determination...... To me it's obvious, the free
traderstraitors would starve us, to force us, to roll back our rights. (NO JOBS) I'd much rather say to them "comply with our laws or dont even think that our markets are open to you " THATS HOW YOU BRING BACK JOBS. tell them "WE WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT SLAVERY, EVEN IF THEY CHANGE THE NAME TO FREE TRADE (CORPORATE SLAVERY) " It is the same scheme and is designed to do the same as before. Slave goods are always cheaper. and are meant to undermine a free peoples gains. Slavery is good for corporate profits. DOH! So is free trade; only it isnt so free, it comes with a heavy cost. What does American trade? They get the work and we get the debt?by Resistance on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 5:33pm
I don't think you can make such sweeping conclusions based on one address. I haven't read much on Washington's views on tariffs but I do know he signed the first tariff bill on imported goods both to fund the federal government and to protect American industries. I'm not such an expert on American history to know all the details of every bill over 200 years ago so its possible he wasn't a advocate, but he did sign it so its also possible he was in favor of the bill. In fact tariffs on imported goods were the main source of revenue for the federal government until at least the time of Lincoln. So there seems to be a majority agreement over many years with the idea.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 5:41pm
Looks like there is definitely something of a "talking points" campaign going on, and and definitely more Western-style than the Mao maxims of ye olden days:
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 1:44am