Made in USA = "Made in China"
Chinese investors and firms own majority of 2,400 US companies
While America was sleeping, and on the heels of the NAFTA treaty, and China joining the WTO (World Trade Org)—the US was sold down the Yangtze River. To some economic observers this is old news— and to others merely more evidence for that ugly term, “globalization.” The biggest US corporations from A to Z (even Google and Yahoo) moved manufacturing to China. Aside from manufacturing, China is well invested in the US infrastructure as well—to include the literal ownership of US companies.
NPR Reports:
CHINA’s INVESTMENT IN YOUR STATE
The Axios map below can be accessed at their website and I’ve posted a link so you can see how much China has invested in your state. Predictably, and especially in light of Gov. Newsom and Nancy Pelosi’s performance, California ranks as having the most employees working for China—a whopping 598 firms employing 19.3 thousand workers to the tune of $12.3 Billion invested [these are 2018 figures, mind you]. Just behind California, at $6.5 Bil and $7.6 Bil respectively— we see Kentucky and Michigan next in line in China’s state investment queue.
California was an economic powerhouse and entertainment hub for the US during the 20th century. Today, we may consider that Hollywood is ‘Made in China.’ Grauman’s theater appears a bit sinister when we consider the giant ‘sleeping dragon’ parable. Since China owns AMC theaters we can understand why the CCP directs how “woke” Disney films must appear in order to pass muster.
GRAUMAN’S THEATER TODAY
AXIOS article from 2018
Chinese investors and firms own majority of 2,400 US companies
“Chinese investors and firms own a majority of almost 2,400 American companies employing 114,000 people, about the same number as the combined U.S. staffs of Google, Facebook and Tesla, according to data from MacroPolo.”
Why it matters:
“Chinese trade and investment are among the most divisive topics in the U.S., and a focus of Trump administration threats to crack down against Beijing. MacroPolo's map appears to be the first open-source, county-by-county study of every majority-owned Chinese company in the U.S. — $56 billion worth.”
How the Axios map works:
“Click on the state to reveal the investment's local financial contribution, how many firms are majority Chinese-owned, and how many employees work at them. As an example, even though Chinese-linked employment in the state is relatively small, Kentucky's circle rivals California's in size, a reflection almost entirely of the 2016, $5.4 billion buyout of GE Appliances in Louisville by Haier.”
https://www.axios.com/2018/01/10/working-for-china-1515542281
In 2012, Rhodium Group reported the following:
Enormous potential remains in the years ahead
“Today China is a minor US employer compared to long-time foreign investors such as Germany or Japan, but the potential for Chinese investment-led job creation is tremendous. If investment from China remains on track, Chinese firms will employ 200,000 – 400,000 Americans by 2020.”
Investment context detail of import:
“It is important to emphasize that our figures only refer to U.S. subsidiaries with a Chinese majority ownership, so they do not include employment provided by firms in which Chinese investors hold a minority interest. The latter account for about $8 billion or 40% of the total value of investments in our database from 2000-H1 2012, including shale gas assets by Devon Energy or Chesapeake Energy. If we added jobs at firms with Chinese minority equity stakes, our figure would be higher by several thousands. Nor do we include indirect job creation related to the construction of facilities or at suppliers. Tianjin Pipe Corporation’s (TPCO) new steel plant in Texas is estimated to employ 1,000-2,000 construction workers alone.”
Keeping in mind that the Rhodium report is 11 years old:
“We find that the number of Americans employed by Chinese-owned subsidiaries has risen in tandem with recent growth in China’s US investment. From fewer than 2,000 12 years ago, the number of US jobs associated with majority Chinese-owned subsidiaries in the United States grew to more than 27,000 today (Figure 2).
Chinese firms were negligible employers before 2008, with the exception of Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s personal computer division in 2005. Since 2009 the number or jobs provided has increased substantially on the back of greater annual investment flows and an increase in large-scale acquisitions.”
Notable military strategists, such as Jeffrey Prather, have stated that “infiltration” is more effective than a straight-out shooting war. Why go kinetic when you can simply weaken the walls of the empire by allowing masses of illegal immigrants easier access along the southern border? Or using American consumer dollars to build a bigger army, navy, and airforce for China?
We must also consider that Infiltration occurs at the indoctrination level within the hallowed halls of the US military institutions such as West Point. When ‘Critical Race Theory’ is considered a valuable course of instruction, our military officers are being groomed for a reason. The encroachment of “woke” liberalism has also resulted in some members of our society viewing testosterone as evil.
Consider the trans-woke U.S. military celebs the media chose to promote as if this is some type of desirable outcome— as if to suggest a new ‘Rainbow Army.’ Imagine battleships adorned with unicorns and fairies as wallpaper in the officer’s quarters and mess halls.
Meantime, the Chinese Govt. was busy enforcing ‘one child per family’ during the 1980’s. This resulted in families favoring males above females(resulting in baby girls drowned in rivers, or aborted ). Testosterone was therefore—most desirable (and useful when considering the soldier/warrior on a battlefield). Over time this meant there were more men of fighting age ripe for careers in the growing Chinese military— less than twenty years later. I call this ‘planning.’
Washington Post headline-July 10th,2023
The US’s Mainstream Corporate Media (with its Chinese Oligarch owners) was emphatic about President Trump’s ‘Xenophobic’ concerns re China’s influence on the US Economy. I remember this detail very well. And yet—the MSM advanced its woke-liberal narrative with an even bolder commitment, and the Democrats and RINOs were on board; no doubt, some of them getting their campaign coffers filled with China-bucks.
Nowhere is there a better example of China-sponsored politicians than China-Joe and his crime org. We have an actor posing as POTUS who is the actual Manchurian candidate for these times. We might call the Manchurian candidate known as JB, ‘Mach II’—with his co-sponsor, O’bomba [who increased Drone development exponentially] as the ‘Mach I’ version.
This is not to choose favorites by any stretch—because the Clinton group [notably funded by the Walton dynasty re: Wal-Mart — aka, ‘China-Mart’] and the Bushy Klan also sold America (and shunned the ideals of ‘freedom from tyranny’) down the Yangtze river as well. I remember when Jesse Ventura made his comment about halfway through Obama’s second term: “I see no difference between Obama’s foreign policy and Bush’s foreign policy.”
In consideration of the Trump presidency—I am still astonished by how the MSM demonized the idea of ‘Making America Great Again’ as anathema to the ideals of democracy and fair play—and most importantly a threat to the well-being of We the American People. “American” still means people of all races, nationalities, religious preferences and political views—in my lexicon, at least. The word, “American” is not synonymous with technocratic, or tyrannical, or ‘vapidly woke.’ What I propose is that in order to act as faithful Americans (faithful to the ideals of the US Constitution), we must become ‘sovereigns’ rather than remain state-owned chattel.
Both terms— ‘consumer and citizen’, are traps designed to monetize our human value. Also, about the word- “Human”—I came across this etymological breadcrumb recently:
HUE-MAN = LIGHT-MIND …To my Hue Mind, this correlates as “Christ-Consciousness.”
To anyone who is not a little concerned with regard to China’s rise to the position of Global superpower of the century, and at the risk of sounding alarmist— they do persecute the Uyghurs and Christians in their own country. Religious freedom and tolerance are not recognized as desirable ideals by the CCP. Political dissidents are also silenced and censored when criticizing the CCP. The ‘social credit score’ in China is a weapon of the state used to punish disobedient Chinese citizens. Suffice to say, the idea of China setting the standard for the New Global Order doesn’t inspire confidence in anyone who believes in the ideals of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
NPR article—facial recognition on the rise in China:
Chi-Apps monitor the Chinese people
“There's this one app on every Chinese mobile phone that's called WeChat. And with WeChat basically you can live your whole life in WeChat. It started as a normal chat program like WhatsApp, but very soon it turned into a kind of Chinese Facebook. Then it became a Chinese Uber. You could get credit, you could apply for credit to your bank with it. You could use it as an ID. You could file your divorce papers through this app to the local court, and you can do all your financial transactions through this app. And that works with bar codes. And they've been using these bar codes for a long time already.”—NPR
Nobody in China uses credit cards. ... Everybody does everything with their mobile phones.
[an interesting footnote: during the research for this article I came across a heading on CNET. The title was roughly, “How facial recognition is used in China to regulate human behavior”—I tried to open the article link 5 times before Firefox crashed each time. I might presume that this is evidence of the extent of the CCP’s censorship activities.]
A historical tale of note & a useful example…
Or: “Hindsight is 20/20, and coincidentally—America’s hindsight was radically enhanced in 2020!”
‘The Walls of Constantinople’
Notes From the Field By Simon Black- Sovereign Man July 18, 2023
“The legendary walls of Constantinople were supposed to have been impenetrable. At least, that’s what the citizens thought. But shortly after midnight on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, they watched in horror as Turkmen mercenaries from the Ottoman Empire breached a section of the walls that had stood proudly for more than 1,000 years. The city fell hours later.
Ottoman soldiers looted and pillaged Constantinople with such barbarous ferocity that their ruler, Mehmed II, was said to have wept when he inspected the city three days later, remarking, “What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction.”
Prior to the Ottoman siege, Constantinople had been the capital of the Byzantine Empire… which was for centuries one of the most powerful empires in the world.
Byzantium was the legitimate continuation of the original Roman Empire; Constantinople was even initially known as “Nova Roma,” or New Rome.
But over time, the Byzantine Empire became weaker and weaker, just as the Roman Empire before it.
And, similar to Rome, many Byzantine emperors were legendary for their incompetence. A 2012 study from the medical journal Geriatrics & Gerontology International, in fact, concluded that at least seven Byzantine emperors exhibited signs of pathological confusion consistent with dementia.
Byzantine rulers squandered the empire’s wealth, inflated the currency, and failed to secure their borders.
They engaged in disastrous trade and economic policy. They adopted highly unpopular social positions that were out of touch with mainstream citizens… then canceled anyone who disagreed with them. Some ideological dissidents were exiled, while others were blinded or had their tongues cut out.
Political blunders led to humiliating defeats of the Byzantine’s once-dominant military, causing a severe loss of the empire’s reputation around the world.
They failed to keep up with their rising adversaries; as rivals like the Ottoman Empire and Venice grew more powerful, many Byzantine rulers ignored the obvious threats and continued to mismanage the empire.
Just like Rome, there were occasionally strong Byzantine emperors who undid some of the damage of their predecessors. But they couldn’t stop the inevitable decline.
And by the time the Ottoman armies approached in the spring of 1453, the Byzantine Empire was done. It wasn’t even an empire at that point; at just a few square miles, it was no larger than the size of a small county in Rhode Island.
Yet even with such an obvious decline-- and even with an invading army moving towards their city-- the residents of Constantinople clung to the past… to the idea that their empire and city were still invincible.
As a result, many people did absolutely nothing in the face of such obvious danger. They just sat and watched Ottoman engineers chip away, brick by brick, until the walls fell.
This is what I call “Plan A”, i.e. do nothing. Hope for the best.
Misguided optimism is a powerful force in human nature: our instincts are great at detecting threats. But our brains make us want to ignore these threats and assume that everything will be OK... because it always has been in the past.
This is why people consistently misplace their confidence in a system that produces terrible leaders who have a track record of deceit, corruption, or incompetence. And this irrational trust in a broken system is at the core of “Plan A”.
The fall of Constantinople is just one example; “Plan A” is very common throughout history… and we can certainly see a lot of it today, especially in the West.”—Simon Black
WHERE IS “PLAN B”?
I am wary of misguided optimism as much as I am alarmed by how many adults I’ve known who embrace denial, or display outright avoidance when it comes to sharing political insights. As if any discussion of politics will poison a friendship. I know a couple of people (who lean left) who will say things like, “Don’t email me anything political.” To my ears this is akin to saying, “Don’t bother me with facts, I’ve already made up my mind.”; or “I’m not interested in details regarding quality of life.”; or “I don’t like to listen to weather reports.”
In order to create an effective “Plan B” we need to have open-minded discussions grounded in reality, and willing to assess the ugly truths with rigorous discernment.
China clearly has political divisions on par with the same types of grievances we see in other countries today. Perhaps the CCP will fail, and there will be no megalomaniacal Chi-com generals hungry for a fight. Perhaps China’s mega military buildup is just the means to inspire the Asian sector with its rise to power, and its ability to stand up to NATO bullying. There are so many unknowns, and despite the universities course of study called, ‘PolySci’—I cannot accept the idea that anything to do with Politics can be called “scientific.” I can accept the idea that political discourse requires an understanding of history, social-anthropology, and psychology. Pillaging and looting and acquiring real estate is just more piracy—regardless of the time period.
Let’s pray for the greater enlightenment of our planetary Hue-Mans.
Wednesday night, July 19th, 2023—11:23 pm EST—409 US Military aircraft in the air…what’s up?
For more on the facial recognition dialog and debate:
https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/public-debate-on-facial-recognition-technologies-in-china/release/1
Excellent piece! I've been moaning about this since the late 80s. I do my very best to use old made in America things. The biggest issue though is keeping those old things running. Virtually ever part I've ordered in the last 8 months to fix my DD truck a 89 F250 diesel and my 1966 MF tractor have come from cheena. I've got a starter sitting on my work bench right now that I'm rebuilding w stuff salvaged from a junk yard. We are so screwed. Thanks for binging attention to this.