How China's Military Views the United States

I don't think you need to be worried about a chemical engineer's finances. I'm doing just fine. And I don't use the subway.

Actually, most of China's subway stations have just as many rats as American subway stations. Taking a picture of one of the ones that doesn't does not change that fact. You may need to spend some more time in China so you aren't as easily swayed by propaganda.

 

China has been hiring Americans to protest U.S. policies, stealing a play from Russia's playbook.

Exclusive: A Baltimore musician was hired to organize a protest. He says he never knew his client had links to pro-China operatives

 

China's collapse is now estimated at ten years from today (or less). So set your calendars and stock up on popcorn.

It sounds like China pivoted from friendly neighbor country that makes things for other countries to angry, hostile country that demands everything that's not tied down just a little too soon. Chairman Xi got a little too ambitious before he took care of business. It will be interesting to see if China fabricates a war with one of its neighbors (likely Taiwan) as their economy falls apart. The analysis is apparently based on China fabricating population numbers to hide an additional 100 million loss in population. That would make the 24% unemployment numbers among China's youth even more serious, as jobs are disappearing faster than people.

'China Has 10 Years Left, At Most' — 100 Million Population Drop Could Lead To Economic Disaster, According To Famed Analyst

 

China's youth unemployment may be far worse than has been reported. There are a large number of young people who are "lying flat", which is a Chinese expression for living off of their parents' income and helping with household chores (and not actively looking for a job). How large a number? The real youth unemployment may be 46% or higher.

Young Chinese are getting paid to be ‘full-time children’ as jobs become harder to find

 

Paul Krugman weighs in on the economic future for China. He says bad times are coming. He says it will not be like what happened to Japan in the 1980's. It will be worse. Yikes.

Here's why China's economy is headed for stagnation, according to Nobel economist Paul Krugman

Of course, Japan did not take the additional step that China took recently of pissing off its highest paying customers (the U.S. and Europe) by threatening to invade other countries that also do business with those customers, as well as claiming a huge chunk of the sea offshore as their own. And Japan did not have a repressive communist government that denied freedoms to its citizens, who were becoming wealthier and more worldly-wise about the freedoms that other citizens globally have.

 

Taiwan is getting some new toys from the U.S. to deal with the China problem.

Exclusive-New Taiwan weapons package to be announced soon - US officials

 

U.S. military to take action to recover gallium from metals waste streams, now that China is restricting exports of the metal.

China Restrictions Lead Pentagon to Issue Gallium Recovery Contracts

 

Nikki Haley goes off on China in speech. She criticizes the Biden administration for not taking the threat seriously enough.

Haley: U.S. must treat China as an enemy

I don't know if she is too extreme in her views, or not political enough to see that all of China is not a danger to the U.S., but they do need to be made to play by the rules if they want to do business with the West.

 

Italy regrets joining China's Belt and Road Initiative. It seems that they feel like they got too much of the belt and not enough of the road to prosperity. And every time they complain, they are given more of the belt. It may be time to tell China to hit the road.

Italy joining China's Belt and Road Initiative was atrocious move, defence minister says

 

Here is something unexpected: a Chinese company has been operating a lab where mice are genetically engineered to catch and spread Covid and possibly other diseases. The strange part? It is an unregistered lab in some place called California.

Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California

 

The Xi Jinping Chinese economy is now referred to as "The Great Leap Backward". A good article on why China's economy is in deep trouble, and why things will only get worse. The main problems are described as compulsive over-investment and a shrinking population. China's economic policy uses GDP as an input, and not an output, like the rest of the world does. China tells provinces what their GDP needs to be for the coming year, and it is up to the province to borrow money to create investments that manufacture that GDP. This leads to excessive borrowing and debt. It is a very basic economic mistake, but China has not figured it out yet. Central government control over the economy is too ingrained in the Chinese culture.

China's non-financial corporate debt increased 50X what it was in 2007 (the U.S. increased their equivalent debt by 2X in the same time frame). China's population invests 70% of their assets in real estate (the U.S. is about half that). All of this is happening at the same time that the U.S. and Europe, China's biggest customers, are de-coupling from China (Mexico is now the biggest trading partner of the U.S., not China). Things are made worse because the provincial leaders often tell lies to Beijing. One common lie is to exaggerate (by 50% or more) how many students are in the province so the province gets more education funding from Beijing. New births are not as profitable, so they are only exaggerated by 12-15%.

China's population is expected to shrink to 450-600 million people by 2100 (versus a peak of 1.4 billion).

China's Great Leap Backward: So much for the next dominant superpower

 

Chinese malware found on U.S. military installations.

Officials found suspected Chinese malware hidden in various US military systems. Its intended use is disruption rather than surveillance, a 'disturbing' change in intent, experts say

 

China to prioritize counter-espionage to protect its political system, encouraging citizens to report on each other (and on foreigners).

China wants to mobilise entire nation in counter-espionage

 

Beijing, on top of all of its economic problems, is experiencing its worst rainfall in 140 years, with severe flooding over the entire region. After surviving the remnants of one typhoon, another typhoon looks like it is headed for Shanghai. They probably wish they didn't cut down half their trees to create farmland. Chairman Xi just seems like he can't get anything right. He's almost as big a danger to the Chinese people as Chairman Mao.

Heaviest rainfall in 140 years drenches Beijing while Typhoon Khanun hits Japan’s Okinawa

 

Two U.S. Navy soldiers (both of whom were born in China and immigrated to the U.S.) have been arrested on espionage charges. Apparently they have been selling info about U.S. Navy exercise plans and providing photos and video of the inside of a helicopter carrier ship and dock facilities. Why are we allowing people from a hostile nation to serve in the U.S. military and have access to sensitive technology?

2 US Navy sailors arrested on charges tied to national security and China

 

China has a new problem to deal with, in addition to Covid, economic disaster, flooding, a shrinking population, real estate collapse, and 46% youth unemployment. China is now dealing with an mpox (formerly monkey-pox, I believe) outbreak. Fortunately, China is demonstrating what they have learned from Covid by not contacting Denmark, which is the only country that has successfully developed a vaccine to mpox. Part of the Great Leap Backward, I suspect.

First was COVID. Now China is facing an mpox crisis as cases spike

 

China maintains the world's largest security apparatus to deal with the Five Poisons of China:

1) Taiwan independence. This one is considered the most important.
2) Tibetan independence.
3) Xinjiang separatists.
4) the Falun Gong.
5) Chinese democracy movement.

They have tens of thousands of agents gathering information for three civilian (government) agencies, plus the military.

China's sprawling spy agencies are designed to root out the 'five poisons' at home and abroad, British intelligence says