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Poll Watch: Americans View China as Leading Economic Power
According to the latest Gallup Poll.Americans believe China is the leading economic power in the world today, by a significant margin over the United States. This is the second consecutive year the majority of Americans have viewed China as economically dominant; previously, China held a smaller lead. By contrast, in 2000, Americans overwhelmingly believed the U.S. was the leading economic power.
The U.S. economic downturn and the continued expansion of the Chinese economy are the likely factors behind Americans’ belief that China is the world’s top economic power.
Still, the vast majority of Americans name either the U.S. or China as the world’s leading economic power. Relatively few Americans regard Japan (7%), the European Union (3%), India (2%), or Russia (less than 1%) in those terms. Japan has ranked third in recent years, but finished ahead of China in 2000.
Wow!
How far has the American economy fallen in the minds of its own people?
And, to think today the main debate in the country is whether ObamaCare should make Catholic Charities pay for birth control pills and sterilization for its employees.
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Video: Chinese Pianist Played Anti-American Propaganda Tune at White House
Movie clip from the well known anti-American movie “Battle of Triangle Hill”, same music played by Lang Lang in White House at the state dinner for Hu Jintaoon Jan. 19, 2011Another sign of how incomptent President Obama and his Administration are.
Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”
The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”
The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades. CCP propaganda has always referred to the Korean War as the “movement to resist America and help [North] Korea.” The message of the propaganda is that the United States is an enemy—in fighting in the Korean War the United States’ real goal was said to be to invade and conquer China. The victory at Triangle Hill was promoted as a victory over imperialists.
The Chinese are laughing their asses off at Obama after giving him and the United States the finger without him even knowing it.
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President Obama Names GOP Utah Governor Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to China
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (C) speaks next to his wife Mary Kaye and U.S. President Barack Obama (L) after accepting a nomination to be the new United States Ambassador to China, at the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington May 16, 2009
A smart political move by Obama and for Huntsman’s future political career.It gets Huntsman out of the way as a possible Obama rival for 2012 and Huntsman gets out of the way of fellow Mormon Mitt Romney.
Needless to say Huntsman is extremely qualified for this position and this only adds to his foreign policy bona fides should he decide to run in 2012 for the Presidency.
Huntsman, 49, served a Mormon mission in Taiwan. The governor and his wife, Mary Kaye, adopted a daughter, Gracie Mei, from China in 1999. In 2006, he led a trade mission to China “because of their prominence on the world stage and the way in which they are growing so rapidly,” he told the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City.
He served as a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department’s Trade Development Bureau under former President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him as Singapore ambassador
in June 1992. Huntsman was identified in news reports at the time as a political donor, bundling contributions from different people for Bush’s reelection.Huntsman also took a role in President George W. Bush’s administration, serving as Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador from 2001 to 2003.
A triple win: Obama, Huntsman and the United States.
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China and Russia Critical of U.S. Missile Defense
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Chinese President Hu Jintao inspect the honour guard during an official welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square May 23, 2008. Medvedev arrived in Beijing on Friday, offering energy deals and military cooperation by seeking pledges of solidarity with resurgent China at a time when ties with the West are strained.
In a shocker, China and Russia are upset with the United States over its National Missile Defense program.
China and Russia jointly condemned a U.S. plan for a global missile defense system on Friday at the start of a highly symbolic visit by new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
More specific than previous joint criticisms, the statement from Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao objected to the installation of missile defense components in “some regions,” an apparent reference to former Soviet bloc countries where the U.S. plans to deploy components of the system.
“The creation of global missile defense systems and their deployment in some regions of the world … does not help to maintain strategic balance and stability and hampers international efforts in arms control and nuclear nonproliferation,” Hu and Medvedev said.
Medvedev’s choice of China as the main destination of his first foreign trip reflected the two nations’ increasing closeness in recent years as part of their efforts to counterbalance what they have called Washington’s global dominance.
When his predecessor Vladimir Putin went abroad for the first time as president in 2000, he traveled to London — via Belarus — with a message Russia wanted closer ties to the West.
China and Russia also signed a $1 billion nuclear cooperation deal that strengthens Russia’s role as a supplier to China’s fast-growing nuclear power industry. It calls for Russia to build a $500 million nuclear fuel enrichment plant and supply semi-enriched uranium worth at least $500 million.
Russia is bitching about America placing interceptors in Eastern Europe and China needs Russia’s nuclear technology to build power plants. So, they are scratching each others backs.
Russia and China do not have the conventional military strength to intimidate/blackmail neighboring countries and must rely on their nuclear weapons to threaten. The United States Missile Defense program (in its various forms) can be used to neutralize their nuclear arsenals.
So, they bitch and moan.
Too bad. They lost the argument during the Reagan Administration over twenty years ago. The American missile defense shield is operational. Get over it.
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Missile Defense Watch: United States to Target Failed Satellite Tonight?
*****Update*****
The Pentagon says the window of opportunity is now open to shoot down failing spy satellite.
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Successful intercept of ballistic missile target by Aegis SM-3 missile
Tonight around 7:30 PM Pacific time the United States Navy may attempt to target and shoot down a failed spy satellite using a heat-seeking Aegis SM-3 missile.
A Navy heat-seeking missile is getting its first real-world use in an attempt to demolish a crippled U.S. spy satellite before the orbiting craft falls back to Earth.
The targeting of the satellite – which could come Wednesday night – is not the mission for which this piece of the Pentagon’s missile defense network was intended, however.
The attempted shootdown, already approved by President Bush out of concern about toxic fuel on board the satellite, is seen by some as blurring the lines between defending against a weapon like a long-range missile and targeting satellites in orbit.
The three-stage Navy missile, designated the SM-3, has chalked up a high rate of success in a series of tests since 2002, in each case targeting a short- or medium-range ballistic missile, never a satellite. A hurry-up program to adapt the missile for this anti-satellite mission was completed in a matter of weeks; Navy officials say the changes will be reversed once this satellite is down.
The government issued notices to aviators and mariners to remain clear of a section of the Pacific Ocean beginning at 10:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, indicating the first window of opportunity to launch an SM-3 missile from a Navy cruiser, the USS Lake Erie, in an effort to hit the wayward satellite.
The world will be watching this display of American technological strength. The Atlantis space shuttle has just landed in Florida and now the United States will demonstrate its anti-ballistic missile program.
And, the United States, if successful tonight, will achieve a win-win. One it will silence Democrat Congressional critics of the Missile Defense Agency and send a message to China and Russia that exisiting American anti-ballistic forces can be easily modified to be used as an anti-satellite weapon in times of warfare.
Stay tuned…….
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Unlikely Chinatown Campaign Contributions Raise More Questions
The candidate’s unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York’s Chinatown — some of whom can’t be tracked down.
Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.
And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.
All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate — Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.
Flap knew the Norman Hsu scandal would grow. Plus, look at the Charlie Trie scandal. This is a continuing program of deception and money laundering.
Now, is there enough evidence for a Federal Elections Commission and a Federal Grand Jury to explore the faintest idea that offshore Chinese interests have been bolstering the campaign of Hillary Clinton?
Why has former President Bill Clinton REFUSED to list the donors to his Presidential Library?
This scandal will continue to grow as the Clinton campaign hurriedly starts to return contributions. If they can find them that is.
Will someone from the Clinton Cabal rat them out? And, what has Norman Hsu been blabbing to Federal investigators?
Stay tuned……….
Update:
Jailed fund-raiser Norman Hsu began popping pills on his way out to California for a court appearance last month and continued to down over-the-counter drugs in a failed suicide attempt when he went on the run, the Daily News has learned.
Hsu’s effort to kill himself is detailed in court papers obtained Wednesday by The News. The “excessive number of over-the-counter pills” eventually led Hsu’s kidneys to fail and induced severe delirium. He was in such bad shape when authorities pulled him off an Amtrak train in Colorado that emergency room doctors thought he was suffering from West Nile virus.
Hsu, who helped raise some $800,000 for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) while a fugitive from crimes in California, is in jail. He is due back before a California judge Nov. 2. He also faces federal charges he bilked $60 million from investors in a huge Ponzi scheme.
Clinton has returned donations from 249 Hsu associates, but yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported some of the same donors also gave $263,000 to her Senate accounts – money she doesn’t intend to return.
Update #2:Clinton’s campaign is so full of questionable transactions that even the Nation, a left-wing magazine, has dug up a mysterious influence peddler named Alan Quasha who hires Clinton operatives and has links to top Clinton’s top fundraisers.Meanwhile, the online magazine Salon is wondering why the Clintons are not disclosing the identities of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation as it increases its cash intake just as Hillary becomes the presidential front-runner. Bill Clinton refuses to release their names because he says they gave anonymously. Could they too be foreign and looking to buy influence?For the mainstream media, and especially those on the left side of the spectrum, to rouse themselves to such reporting is unusual. It points to something very dramatic, like a threat to democracy.Sen. Clinton knows that enforcing election laws is difficult. When she gets called out, she returns the cash, pleads ignorance, claims a vetting glitch and returns to normal.Unfortunately, the odds of getting caught are low, the political costs are slight and the sanctions are so light they invite lawbreaking. Most candidates won’t go over the line, but a bounder like Hillary may cynically calculate that voters are easily distracted.But things aren’t the same as they were in the days of Whitewater. That Clinton scandal may have been hard for the public to grasp, but the current shenanigans are not. News outlets are picking them up with ease and can describe them in a couple of sentences.Also, the advent of FEC databases and political cash Web sites such as campaignmoney.com and opensecrets.com are providing transparency and easy access to financing information. They show who is buying whom in the electoral races, and bloggers and pundits are on it. If Hillary thinks this will dissipate like Whitewater, she is mistaken.Indeed, this story is just startingPrevious:Bill and Hillary Clinton: Double Trouble
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China Watch: China Uses Ballistic Missile to Destroy a Satellite in Space
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Telegraph: Chinese missile destroys satellite in space
The prospect of “Star Wars” between China and the West loomed last night after Beijing used a ballistic missile to destroy a satellite in space.
The missile, which hit a 4ft-wide obsolete Chinese weather satellite 530 miles above the Earth, is thought to have been launched from the Xichang space centre in -China’s Sichuan province.
It suggests that the Chinese have developed a major new capability that underscores the communist regime’s desire to use its military might as well as burgeoning economic power to expand its influence.
“The US believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of co-operation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokes-man for the US National Security Council, yesterday. “We and other countries have expressed our concern regarding this action to the Chinese.”
It is understood that Australia and Canada have also protested to China.
Remember last summer when China was firing lasers to interfere with United States satellites.
And what Flap said at the time:
China is an ADVERSARY. Make NO mistake about it.
China has been unwilling or unable to contain North Korea’s nuclear amibtions and ICBM program.
China has been the chief apologist for Iran developing/acquiring nuclear weapons.
China is undertaking a massive military build-up and now directly attacks United States Spy Satellites.
What can it ALL mean?
China is NOT our friend and a Bamboo Cold War which has been underway since the 1940’s is blossoming.
The United States MUST be prepared for the coming confrontation and embark on strategies to combat the “militarization of space” by the Chinese and possibly the Russians.
Since the mid-1980s, the United States has had the ability to take down satellites, but the Chinese don’t have satellites worth attacking, Pike said. The United States may have to develop alternatives to its current spy satellites — perhaps stealthy satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles, which are harder to detect than the current well-established U.S. satellite network.
Reconnaissance satellites in low-Earth orbit — “eyes in the sky” — are essential to how the United States fights wars.
“Our space assets are the first asset on the scene,” Pike said. “They are absolutely central to why we are a superpower — a signature component to America’s style of warfare.”
Stay tuned…….
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Michael Ramirez on China and North Korea
But, was the North Korean nuclear test a set-up and a FRAUD?
Results from an initial air sampling after North Korea’s announced nuclear test showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said Friday.
In the meantime at the United Nations.
Members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Friday on the wording of a resolution that would clamp sanctions on the communist country. The draft, which U.S. officials said they hoped would be approved on Saturday, would authorize non-military sanctions against the North, and says that any further action the council might want to take would require another U.N. resolution.
Diplomacy takes time and time is what many diplomats have.
Stay tuned…….
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with former Chinese foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan before talks in Moscow October 13, 2006. Russia and China oppose ‘extreme sanctions’ against North Korea, Lavrov said on Friday.
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China Watch: Beijing Secretly Fires Lasers to Disable US Satellites
Telegraph.co.uk: Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites
China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by “blinding” their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.
The hitherto unreported attacks have been kept secret by the Bush administration for fear that it would damage attempts to co-opt China in diplomatic offensives against North Korea and Iran.
Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon’s annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.
“After a contentious debate, the White House directed the Pentagon to limit its concern to one line,” Defense News said.
The document said that China could blind American satellites with a ground-based laser firing a beam of light to prevent spy photography as they pass over China.
According to senior American officials: “China not only has the capability, but has exercised it.” American satellites like the giant Keyhole craft have come under attack “several times” in recent years.
Although the Chinese tests do not aim to destroy American satellites, the laser attacks could make them useless over Chinese territory.
China is an ADVERSARY. Make NO mistake about it.
China has been unwilling or unable to contain North Korea’s nuclear amibtions and ICBM program.
China has been the chief apologist for Iran developing/acquiring nuclear weapons.
China is undertaking a massive military build-up and now directly attacks United States Spy Satellites.
What can it ALL mean?
China is NOT our friend and a Bamboo Cold War which has been underway since the 1940’s is blossoming.
The United States MUST be prepared for the coming confrontation.
Stay tuned……..
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