Trade war

CHINA vs INDIA: The Shadow Battle Between President Trump and the Deep State

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MADE IN JAPAN.   Cars, industrial equipment, glassware, clothes; after WWII Japan became the ‘inexpensive’ manufacturer that the US turned to for imports.   Mexico had a brief stint, and then in the mid to late1980’s China opened its market to the US and ultimately took over as our largest source of imports given price and quality standards. Reaching it’s peaks right after the Trump election in 2016, it has been sliding precipitously since.   And waiting in the wings to be the next trade partner is – India.

Tooling up their manufacturing could be the next big shift in the solar eclipse of trade.

While China and India have flexed muscles in the past, the latest skirmish would seem to have resulted from a different tension – trade.   China’s economy has tanked since CoVid.   China’s largest trading partners have historically been: US, EU, Japan, Hong Kong. And South Korea.  The virus shuttered the US, EU and Japan, the protests shuttered Hong Kong, and North Korean rooster fights have put a damper on South Korea trade.

Knowledge that India might become the new China would destroy China – completely.   And if China goes – so does much of The Deep State.

Biden is fringe compared to Bill Gates and his clansmen.   Sold on Chinese scientists, Gates is not as well liked in India where he has conducted illegal vaccine trials that have resulted in maiming, disease, infertility, deformities and – death.   The Swamp has yet to make its 666 mark well defined.

As Prime Minister Modi continues his own crack-down on all things Chinese including apps – Weibo and Tik-Tok, he is ramping up infrastructure spending which is a common drive when trade and economic growth are anticipated.   And President Trump has been adamantly clear that “America loves India”.

As the fifth largest economy by GDP in 2019, overtaking France and the UK, India’s major exports include;   mineral fuels, precious metals and gems, machinery and equipment, organic chemicals, vehicles, pharma, electrical machinery and steel.

To date, China’s largest exports have evolved to literally everything surveillance; computers, phones, telecommunications, apps, and all relative equipment.

The riff between the two countries, India and China, would seem to follow the same issues that have plagued China for decades – land.   China has run out of useable land and land grabs along the border with India are the source of all animosity.   The grabs have been primarily focused on fertile and grazing land – some of which was private land, and some state owned.  Not wishing to escalate relations, previous Prime Ministers have done little to dissuade the grabs.

The most notable of attempted grabbing has been area along the shores of Pangong Tso Lake. While the lake itself is brackish and saline, the shores are a vital infrastructure roadway that India continues to expand and puts China on the defensive.   Any progress India makes is a threat to China’s monopoly.   And given the relationships that China courted are now well aware of the more sinister motive, China could very well face its final demise and implosion.

Counting on the US Deep State, China managed to infiltrate vast industries and businesses across the US – including Big Pharma supply chains.   The extent of the rise and the quickness with which it instituted itself as a dominant power could not have been possible without the assistance of the Deep State.   The same Deep State that has managed to stifle Russia’s role in world dominance.   And lest we forget, it was Soros who declared that the People of the United States were the largest obstruction to global governance, globalization, and a New World Order within the guise of the UN.   Russia was considered the second largest stigma.   And so, China became the defacto partner although as the Wild Wild West will reiterate – ‘there is no honor among thieves’ – and thus the two powers, China and The Deep State, kept a type of swords drawn but not raised alliance.

It would now be well advised for India to be careful who it allows to woo its evolutionary new phase of trade.   And the Deep State is known to come in many shades of Wolfe.

The RESET is in a precarious position – if President Trump is re-elected, the consensus is a promising Economic bounce for India.   If Trump is not re-elected, the China infiltration will likely become much more pronounced with lightening speed adoption as fear of a nationalist civil war could prolong the colonization.

Timing is everything – and President Trump has proven to be – a Master of Timing!   Ghislaine Maxwell has likely shifted offensive to defensive heartbeats….

BIDEN MEETS CHINA: The Real Corruption Story

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In understanding what VP Biden and Hunter Biden might be able to offer China in the tete-a-tete of 2013, one needs to know what China considers to be their biggest threat – in that time, aka Trump and trade did not yet exist.

The media is going bat-crazy over Ukraine. That means Ukraine is a deflection.   China is the story.

According to a paper issued by Brookings in early 2014, China’s economy was faltering, they were at a “tipping point”, and the entire political system was hinging on collapse.

They cited necessary economic reforms including deregulation and liberalization of industry, and an interesting bottom point – ‘taxation’.

In China, local governments get no tax revenues, instead they issue debt bonds to cover costs of infrastructure and investment programs.  These debt obligations are off the books when China reports its economic data.   It is believed that as of 2013, that debt represented 100% of GDP.   Social unrest was escalating. And the collapse of private funding was pushing China into a spiraling catastrophic spin.  XI was VP, and Biden road in on a yellow horse.

SO what could VP Biden as the US advisor on all things China do to mitigate this impending disaster for a country he routinely seems to spin adoration commentary?

Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas have been given full access to the debt market in China. They are the first and ONLY banks to have such access. And in August, JP Morgan won an auction to purchase a majority stake in a “Chinese joint venture, making it the first foreign business to take control of a local asset management JV.”

What does that mean?

It means that China was so desperate given its failing economy and debt, that it allowed the dyke to rush in and take control. The waters would include JP Morgan, the largest bank in the world owned mostly by the Rockefeller’s and Chase, BNP – a Rothschild entity, and Deutsche Bank – the German steam engine. Xi Jinping sold out his country to the cabal – to seemingly save it.

And due to massive censorship, it is likely the people of China – don’t even know.

How could little VP Biden maneuver this clandestine takeover?

IN 2011, while in China, Biden is quoted as saying, “A rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China but for the United States and the world as a whole,” U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden said recently when giving a speech on U.S.-China relations in Chengdu, China.

In his speech, Biden specifically grandizes four companies; Google, Microsoft, GE and Ford. He further exploits his apologetics by stating that Americans are nothing special, nothing unique, if not for ‘our enduring political system’.

Why is Biden an important candidate?   Because from the standpoint of the megaconglomeration of banks and Wall Street, Biden supports China, and China means kega $$$$ for those entities. And Germany.

Elizabeth Warren is a nobody who knows nothing. Bernie Sanders is a Communist who knows nothing and can do nothing.   But Biden created a relationship as VP, and while the $1.5 billion laundered money thrown at Hunter was likely not from China at all, but from JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and BNP, they expect something from their ‘investment’. If Biden is brought down by Trump, they have no China.  Lots of MONEY!

In the meantime, Google and Microsoft are helping Xi Jinping with facial recognition software to find Muslims who they are rounding up and transporting by train to ‘camps’, detention centers.   Tit-for-Tat.  Nothing is free, but despite the inhumanity of man, dollars always win.

China’s other major issue is loss of agriculture land, and a hyper loss of water.   Giving China control of the agriculture in Ukraine would be an easy parlay given the infiltration of a puppet President, Poroshenko.

IN 2020, China will surpass Russia as Ukraine’s largest trading partner, ‘a staggering increase since 2014’! ~South China Morning Post.

At the same time, Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky, is demanding that western nations ‘forgive’ all of Ukraine’s debt. The US portion? $82.4 billion. Most of this debt occurred as a result of the coup that installed the Chocolate monster.

With a VP like Biden, who needs Hillary!

The nice package means China has a new debt free trading partner, Ukraine hands over it’s agriculture land, the US eats $83 billion, and Hunter gets to clean the plate with more payments after Joey becomes President and the final agreement is fulfilled.    

But hey, according to Biden, Trump is creating a smear campaign and Biden would never ever pinky swear do anything so lowly as to defame another politician – least of all – TRUMP!

WORLD TRADE WAR: TRUMP WINS

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The EU Commission is backtracking their previous rejected deal with Theresa May and claiming that the no-deal BREXIT really means the rejected deal that gave them $46 billion is the best solution for all… according to Mina Andreeva, a spokesperson.

Certainly $46 billion is a whole lot better than the $9 billion they would likely get in the Johnson no-deal deal.   Of course, resurrecting a ‘rejected’ deal would legally be starting from scratch.   But in the mélange of chaos, the EU Commission would seem to be grasping and gasping – albeit too late.

All economic indicators now rally behind an impending recession for Germany. Given they are the stalwart economy behind the EU, where Germany goes, everyone else follows.

The primary cause of Germany’s implosion is trade not BREXIT.   Industrial output has tanked, primarily in the auto and machine parts industries. Merkel’s outright refusal to negotiate a fair trade with the US having been advised that in so doing she could create a German recession – is simply corrupt.

But allies can sometimes reveal the wolf behind the mask.   Germany is not a US ally, Germany milked the US economy for decades.

The US/China trade war tipped the balance, and Germany remained staunch and unmoving.

Timing is everything.

If the UK remainers win, the UK will derail with Germany and France.   They will be boarding a sinking ship. Short-sighted, ramping up trade with the US would be an economic win.   But sometimes, pride and principle are fervent manufacturers of destruction.

While the socialists in the EU argue against Trump’s tariffs, they seem to forget that Trump offered a zero tariff exchange which Germany and the EU snubbed.   Is the EU working for the people?   It would seem not.   And like the rejected BREXIT deal that they want to suddenly reinstate, a zero tariff trade with the US may be the no-deal deal.

Is it the trade deal or is it the ally that wasn’t?

While rejecting the US zero trade deal, the EU simultaneously agreed to zero tariff’s with Japan.   The wolf showed his face.  And the ally that was, revealed it’s true corruption.  The EU wanted an imbalance and it served them well for 30 years.

The US trade balance was at zero up until 1976.   The following 15 years saw the trade balance dip and trough before coming back to zero.   Between 1991 and 2010, the trade balance tanked! Why?

Clintonomics.

Clinton lowered US tariffs which ultimately destroyed US ability to compete in the export and trade markets, particularly with China.   Because while the US lowered its tariffs, other countries did not follow suit which would have been the job of the WTO…   The World Trade Organization, which was originally the General Agreement on Tariffs and Tax, was created to provide an equality, a balance of tariffs among all member countries. Apparently, that nondiscrimination balance didn’t apply to the US.

When Clinton lowered the tariff rate in the US trade disparities began to escalate rapidly to the detriment of the US. In fact, it was a binge selloff with the US trade balance going from zero to -900billion with the speed of a Lamborghini on a German autobahn!

Prior to this binge selloff, US small businesses were a growing, the economic boom of entrepreneurship expanded significantly.   Mom and pop stores changed the face of the US.   But with the advent of Clintonesque cheap imports, these small businesses began to shutter, unable to compete.   The Walmarts of the world took over increasing the trade balance even more as Chinese goods became the mainstay.   And middle class shrunk like Alice.

In 1980 small business start-ups represented 12% of all US companies and employed 4% of workers. Today those numbers are halved. Those companies were The American Dream. That Dream died when Clinton lowered tariffs despite advice from both parties that such a move would destroy US businesses. The World Trade Center obviously did nothing to balance the discrepancies in countries tariffs, and have proven to be a truly non-essential entity.

Back to BREXIT.

The creation of new trade partners invoking a zero tariff policy is the ultimate free-trade deal.   It is the deal that is now in effect with Mexico and Canada. Today China has slipped to third place in US imports with Mexico rising to number 1 and Canada to number 2.   Expanding their economies, Trump’s zero tariff trade is picking up the slack of China imports while contracting their economy.  It is a non-tax trade.

Adding the UK, would provide them with a backstop and relieve the angst of impending doom and gloom that the naysayers of BREXIT fear.  Trump and Johnson have already made arrangements to soften the initial BREXIT wind and create a sovereign economy without the welfare payouts to the EU.

It is change.   Change requires stamina and patience. Fear will only forebode chaos.

No-Deal BREXIT: The COST

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Brussels claims the UK will need to cough up $47.7 billion in a hard BREXIT. PM Johnson claims the number is closer to $8 billion. Who is right?

When Theresa May was PM, she supposedly offered $40 billion to the EU Commission and that was rejected.   Obviously, the art of the deal was to never have a deal. And May was a part of that treason. While the EU continues to use this number as an agreed dollar figure, given there was ‘no agreement’, that number disappears from any future negotiations.  As in – poof.

In other words, the EU Commission may have royally screwed themselves in not making any partial or piecemeal form of agreement within the Theresa May treason. That could have obligated the UK to some form of payment.   But a ‘no deal’ means exactly that, nothing was resolved.   A legal misstep.

And in that, Boris Johnson is correct, the only potential obligation would be the UK’s annual membership fee through 2020.

Most recently, the EU has insinuated that a nonpayment scheme would result in instituting a trade war to punish the UK.   Roughly 35% of UK exports find their way to EU countries. But more significantly, 45% of UK imports come from the EU bloc.   With the economy of Germany tanking, a trade war with the UK would all but collapse the EU. Still, the EU is adamant, “UK will have to pay no deal BREXIT”.

But the UK isn’t arguing that, the argument is how and how much?

The problem? The legal position is unclear, allowing for vast differences of ‘opinion’ as to how and how much.

While May invoked Article 50 in 2016 giving a two year window for negotiations, there is no mandate in that Article for financial reparations.   Article 210(3) discusses the exact template of divorce, but also provides no insight into a financial obligations.   However, some legal opinion states that the UK is subject to trade agreements made by the EU in 2014, which are valid for seven years, placing the UK liable for their unused share – November 1, 2019 thru December 31, 2020, which would amount to 16%.

It is then up to the EU Commission to provide substantive analysis of each and every trade agreement created in 2014 for which the UK would be held responsible, and the amount that remains unpaid in such negotiations.   But that is rather simplistic when one considers the co-mingling of assets – as in a marital divorce.   Those assets far exceed any dollar figure the EU can legally assert against the UK, and will require extensive research and market analysis.

In 2017, the UK’s net contribution to the EU was roughly $9 billion.  If the EU wants to have access to the single market system like Switzerland, it is estimated to cost $3.71 billion per year.   It is based on a flat rate of .2% of GDP.   But someone hasn’t done their math!   In 2017, Switzerland’s GDP was roughly $679 billion. If their contribution rate is .2% – their contribution would only be $1.35billion.

In 2017, the UK GDP was $2.62 trillion. If we impose the same deal as Switzerland, the incorporated trade deal would cost the UK, $5.2 billion per year or about half its current contribution with all the luxuries that are afforded other non-EU members including Switzerland.

In that light, the UK would have no obligation to commit to the Socialist rules and agendas imposed by the EU, would not be propping up faltering economies, and would enjoy the freedom of single market trade.

But during the massive treason exploited by Theresa May, the GDP growth rate for the UK tanked falling recently to negative territory triggered by manufacturing.     France and Germany have also experienced a sharp decline in the GDP since the beginning of 2018.   (Interestingly, Russia’s GDP growth rate has far surpassed that of the EU member states – but the media is silent…).

Forecasts for France and Germany, the EU powerhouses, are glum with high unemployment, low growth, a rising trade imbalance, and high personal and corporate tax rates. They have lost their ‘mojo’.

The EU Commission no longer holds the aces in a poker hand, and PM Johnson and President Trump are all too aware of that truth.

A no-deal BREXIT may have a sluggish start, but given assistance from the US in trade, it would be absolutely disastrous for EU partners to lose the UK as a trade account.   Germany’s economy would tank, France’s would follow, while other lesser trade countries might take advantage of a lucrative deal; Hong Kong, Italy, China, Japan, South Korea, Turkey and UAE, to name a few.

If Germany and France go – so shall the entire EU, as in – poof…

Trump’s China Trade War – The Facts

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The Federal Reserve and the World Bank at the behest of a handful of economists who are decidedly left leaning have published two scathing reports which claim that Trump’s trade war with China is costing US taxpayers upwards of $68 billion annually.

Of course the statements are biased. Of course they represent an agenda and potential fodder. If they are true.

Economists are an interesting breed. They sit in glass houses and create a conclusion without seeming to have a basic understanding of real world business and tend to adamantly disagree with each other on a broader scale while presenting a portion of the facts.

Somewhat like the climate change fiasco.

Trades are business contracts. They may be executed as a one-time transaction, transactions that occur over a series of months, and often are transactions that are locked years.   They take time to execute. Terms are pre-determined. Terms are re-negotiated.

These ‘Economists’ have made a determination based on data that is virtually impossible to track. In addition, their supposition ‘estimates’ an annual cost. But even that is wholly unreliable because the Tariffs were imposed over the course of several months in 2018, with intellectual property, aluminum and steel at the forefront.   They effectively began in July and phased in over a number of months.

China’s “implemented and ‘proposed’ tariffs” would affect $110 billion of imports. That does not mean the US exports stop. It means they will be levied a tariff which will effect the profit margin.

The economist’s reports both extrapolate the outcome as an annual loss. A year has not yet occurred.   In fact, there is only two months of trade numbers in 2019 to analyze. Certainly one can extrapolate based on previous data… right? Yes and no.

It is like a poll wherein a random sample of 1000 Democrats all residing in New York are sampled and the results will determine the US Presidential election…

Example:   During Obama’s reign trade data is available on a monthly basis.   At the end of 2008 when Obama came into office, the US trade deficit with China was roughly $268 billion.   By the end of 2016 when Obama left office, it was $347 billion. Before any tariffs had any measurable impact, by the end of 2017 the deficit had climbed to $375 billion.

This ‘non-important’ deficit has climbed every single year since it began in 1986. Since 2000, it has quadrupled. And not one sitting President did a damn thing.

Suddenly, with two measurable months of data available for 2019, the media is calling Trump’s trade war a calamity.

In actuality, the value of imports for January and February of 2019 were down 10% and 20% respectively compared to the previous year – before any tariffs were imposed.

Lets look at another trading partner – Germany.

When Obama came into power that deficit was roughly $28 billion. By the time Obama left office that deficit had spiked to nearly $65 billion. It torched at $68 billion by the end of 2018, well before Trump’s tariffs took effect. The first two months of 2019, the deficit had lowered nearly 10%.

Even in the world of an Economist, 2 months is clearly not enough of a data set to make any conclusion or opinion.   And yet they do. Why?

Obviously it is an attempt to discredit Trump and provide fodder for Democrats who are bent on finding fodder because they are frustrated with the incorrigible corruption, instead of truth.

What this also reveals is the larger picture in which both the US Federal Reserve and the World Bank are colluding in this massive demonization of all things Trump.     It also reveals that these institutions have provided absolutely no guidance or stipulations or concern for the annual increase in US trade deficit for the last 30 years.

Which technically is a reflection on their incompetence. Economic Policy is their mainstay. Their existence. So obviously they did not have the US in their sights for at least 30 years.

Why?
1) According to it’s own website, the World Bank’s field of study is on ‘Developing Countries’.   So why did they commission a report on Trump’s China trade – two well developed countries outside of the scope of their jurisdiction?

2) The second part of these reports claims that US agriculture farms have been hit hard by Trump’s tariffs.   But the agriculture business isn’t the mom and pop farm of a hundred years ago. Mainstream media have been sounding the alarm on the changing face of farms for a decade or two.

Statistics: Most small farms are ‘hobby farms’.   Tax incentives during the Bush and Obama years gave wealthy elites the ability to classify their compound acreage in the middle of such places as Long Island and the Hamptons as farmland, take a tax benefit, and produce enough to feed a cat.

Secondly, ‘large farms make up less than 4% of all farms and account for more than 66% of all sales. And that number continues to edge higher.   They are corporate farms.

And third, the Federal government continues to subsidize small farms up to $20 billion annually.

The value of agricultural exports to China is roughly $23 billion, which represents about 5% of all production in US.

It isn’t just the US Swamp that is fearful of Trump. It is The Swamps that exist globally.   He has turned their power off. He has broken the rules. He does not recognize their structure. And he wants to fix the chaos that they have so dedicatedly created for well over a hundred years.

Certainly there have been a few anomalies in the US; Kennedy, surely. But his fate and that of his brother reveal how determined the International Swamp is to maintain their brotherhood as is.

Lastly, the Federal Reserve Bank:   What is their job? Primarily – to address ‘banking panics’. Secondarily to manage money supply.   In 2012 when Obamanomics was considered an economic catastrophe the response of the Federal Reserve was not to commission economist papers, but to ‘do something’ to leverage that catastrophe. They have no business commissioning reports – outside of their Banking duties.

Trump recently threatened to take down the Federal Reserve; his animosity for that corrupt regime has been no secret.

The Enemy of my Enemy is My Friend.

Trump has been in office two+ years. He has fought for The People while being verbally attacked, legally attacked, his family in jeopardy, his life threated, and still he rose for us.  They are – running scared.

EU Commission: Gluttonous Spending

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The EU Commission is embarking on a massive mission of garnering sought after revenue by suing major US companies including; Google, Amazon, Starbucks, Qualcomm and Apple. The woman behind the coup is Denmark’s, Margreth Vestager, a Socialist Liberal.   Vestager was the primary instigator in leveling a fine on Cyprus Airlines that ultimately resulted in their going bankrupt and the loss of 550 jobs.  By all accounts, she is – brutal.

The Google fine is heavy, weighing in at an astounding $5.1 billion as well as a demand that they change their business model to allow greater competition in the European market.  Whether this affects the share price is debatable, but the fact that the EU is specifically targeting US firms is of more interest as the Commission revenues have floundered and an appeal for funds is most likely the driving force, especially when BREXIT is finalized and 14 billion euro’s result in a significant shortfall.

The Trade War Behind The Trade War

This is not the first time the EU Commission has made headlines and enemies in trade disputes. IN 2004 Microsoft was ordered to pay $497 million which was the largest fine to date.  In 2006, they again attacked Microsoft and imposed an additional $448 million for competition violations.   And again in 2009 imposed $1.44 billion in fines.  And again in 2013, 561 million Euros.  In 2009, the EU Commission fined Intel $1.45 billion.

It would seem that the EU Commission is pocketing quite a bit of revenue from fines which, according to Article 83 of the EU Commission Protocol, are not reported as revenue but instead are held in a ‘special fund’ portfolio of high quality sovereign bonds with no designated purpose. 

In 2014, the Commission reported that of 70 separate fines imposed on various businesses, they collected $2.2 billion in ‘funds’.   In 2016, the EU Commission expenditures topped 136.4 billion Euros with roughly 8 billion going toward ‘Administration’.  Of course, it is important to note that administration is not an all inclusive of salaries and wages given that each sub-section absorbs costs that are ‘allocated’ to the specific project.   The two largest projects are;  Sustainable Growth Natural Resources, and Smart and Inclusive Growth which combined absorb over 90% of expenditures.

What the heck?

Smart and Inclusive Growth is supposedly targeting infrastructure and jobs in the least developed EU countries.   Sustainable Growth targets increased agriculture productivity.

In 2013, an external audit revealed that £109 billion out of a total of £117 billion spent by the EU in 2013 was “affected by material error”.  In fact, the audits for the previous 19 years all revealed similar deficits.  At the same time, the Commission was demanding additional sums from the UK in the amount of 1.7 billion creating  a havoc of hypocrisy and distrust.

The newly released budget for the Commission is slated at 1.14 trillion Euro.  The largest expenditure is applied to ‘foreign aid’ for countries wishing to become EU members – 123 billion Euros.

Given such an astronomical budget, what exactly has the EU Commission accomplished over it’s lifetime?

1)  It ratified the Paris Climate Accord

2)  It initiated the phasing out of export subsidies to allow poorer countries the opportunity to compete in agriculture

3)  It banished the death penalty

4)  It created a single market

5)  It ‘theoretically created open borders that meant passports were not necessary – although in reality due to the EU’s refuge and immigrant abject failures this open border policy is no longer being followed.

But most of the funding supports Research and studies that tackle various concerns including a project that determined cargo ships use less fuel than lorries, a mobile app to monitor weight loss, a publication of our galaxy, the design of an electric car for aging people, continuing research to expand renewable energy supply which now accounts for 5% of all energy output, and a project in which busses were subjected to a three year trial to determine if hydrogen fuel is a viable alternative…

While these projects all have relevance, it would seem the cost of funding the commission is rather extraordinary in comparison to the actual economic benefits achieved.

BY contrast, it would appear the US does not reciprocate in embarking in lawsuits against EU businesses that violate trade competition.

CHINA Trade War – Unraveled

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Communist China – is telling the EU to come together and work against the US in the trade war that is rapidly escalating…   Germany now wants to be acting mediator to resolve the conflict on behalf of China and the US.   And while Germany appears to agree that China has had an unfair advantage for years – and everyone was afraid to do anything – they still negotiate from a position of fear, instead of rationale.  Which is why we are in this situation to begin with.

It’s like playing Chess without a Queen or King…  what’s the point?

The deficit trade with China has been ignored for decades and now we have a President willing to narrow that gap, but the EU is still curled up in a ball of fear and ‘what ifs’.

It is a bizarre mentality that is willing to continually erode trade out of fear of retaliation when the continued spiral will only grow steadily until China is the wealthiest country – and global control has been attained.  It is the race between the ‘tortoise and the hare’.   In the end, if the EU was a bit more observant they might see that a positive result could occur wherein trade between the US and the EU could heighten leaving China on the outside…   In other words, trade would simply ‘shift’.

The US is not alone in its trade deficit with China.  The EU deficit is also a significant number hitting over $175 billion in 2016 comprised mostly of ‘industrial products including machinery, transport and appliances.  Exports have tripled since 2006 rising from roughly 60 billion to 160 billion, while imports have risen from about 195 billion to 350 billion.   Trade with the US is considerably more with the US exporting valued at $501 billion and imports at $592 billion.  The EU thus has a surplus with the US of roughly $92 billion.

Seems a rather logical conclusion that trade with the US is much more valuable than China.  Trade with the US could grow to cover any deficiencies with China, and everyone would be happy… except China.

While the US and China trade with the EU are overall relatively neck-and-neck, the US provides a surplus.  The question remains, do you, the EU, support a Communist state or a Democratic state?

China is the largest export economy in the world generating a $736 billion surplus.   Its main exports include:  computers, broadcasting equipment, telephones, circuits and light fixtures.   Top imports are:  circuits, oil, gold and iron ore.   The US is its largest export partner and Hong Kong is its largest import partner.

From a purely business standpoint, the numbers put China on the defensive.

The argument is the fact that China holds the key in their ownership of US Treasuries which currently stands at roughly 7% of total US debt.   What is not so widely discussed is the fact that during the Obama administration, China quietly divested 97% of its US holdings.  Of the $14,34 trillion of US government debt, $4,64 trillion was intragovernmental, meaning that the government borrows from one pocket to give to another pocket. Sort of the classic Ponzi Scheme we put people in jail for.

A shell game of ‘guess where the money  is’ is how the government has routinely claimed that Social Security is funded – albeit by ‘debt’.  Debt for which there is no return because we continue to operate at a deficit in trade and spending!

Because that’s the game of how to destroy the US and gain global power.

So what Trump is doing is trying to unravel that absolute destructive mess decades of corrupt Presidents have created at the behest of the global elite.   And it won’t be fun, and it won’t be pretty, and sometimes it will hurt, but from an economic standpoint it is the ONLY solution.  

TRADE WAR: TTIP and The Global Agenda

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Isolating the UK from trade with Russia and the US means they become a groveling dependent of the EU.

Obama openly declared in 2016 that there was absolutely no way that the US would open trade with the UK because the EU took precedence.

EU Council President, Donald Tusk, believes this is the perfect time to reintroduce TTIP claiming that it will solve all the tariff issues within the EU, UK and US…

TTIP is the largest ever trade initiative ever negotiated or proposed – and its contents are completely ‘classified’ we the public have no right to know what it involves, we are told how great it will be and how economically productive. What we do know comes from leaked documents which establish as a goal, universalism. This would mean that the US would effectively become an EU state subject to EU laws, regulations, banking and insurance restrictions at the discretion of a universal EU appointed Tribunal.

One of the more threatening aspects of TTIP is that it gives corporations power over nations. A corporation could sue a nation for failing to perform according to the corporate standards. As such, nations and their governments would be squeezed out and corporate CEO’s would become absolute powers.

In 1933, Musolini declared that he envisioned a corporatism world in which the state governments ‘serve the corporations’.   Renamed Globalization, the concept was later re-introduced by Democrat, George Ball, who claimed that nation states and sovereignty were obsolete. A founding member of the Bilderberg Group, Ball and Rockefeller have been active proponents of creating this new corporate sovereign rule.

TTIP fills this Communist agenda.

Most of the staid countries within the EU are aligned with the Socialist Party.   A shift by the Eastern Bloc toward a more nationalistic view has been infesting the landscape and disrupting the rule of order.   Alienating the UK from trade partners including Russia and the US would have the effect of hitting them where it most hurts in BREXIT and bringing them to their proverbial knees – once again.

Macron’s “En Marche” party was supposedly inspired by Obama, but that would mean that Obama was more than a puppet. In fact, the corporate elites have been behind Italy’s Five Star Movement as well as En Marche as they devised a methodology of moving from Socialism to Communism through Media propaganda.   Thus the New Centrist, is really Communism in disguise.

Before Macron was a “Centrist” he was a Socialist.   Before Merkel was a Democrat, she was a Socialist.   Italy, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Norway, and Switzerland are entirely Socialist.   Giving way to the Rand philosophy of Corporatism is a natural evolution.

In the meantime, Soros has made a fervent call to the EU to regulate social media content, and censor dissenting views… although in his terms it is to “fight populism”.   But wait! The Definition of Populism is: A political philosophy to support the rights and power of the people in their struggle against privilege elite.  

And no one noticed. Censorship on a multinational level is in line with Communism.

BREXIT gave rise to multi-level problems with trade, communism, and the fight against sovereignty.   Trump aggravated the agenda.   Putin was already considered an enemy of the globalization movement when he issued an arrest warrant for Soros and banned all his NGO’s from Russia.

Reeling in each country meant isolating them from trade. Trade was the tool.

So, has Trump inadvertently leaped on the trade band wagon – or is he establishing his own negotiating tactics.

In the end, the script is rather well written.   And the players perfectly cloned. But there are a few good men… and I think I’ll place my trust in them.

Macron Trade Deal Bust?

Posted on by Helena

Macron is trying to eek out a new trade relationship with India claiming that the exodus of the UK means France will be the winner of the EU. But apparently he forgot to ask Merkel, because behind the UK at $8.6 billion, Germany ranks second at $7.2 billion in 2016 for the EU.   In addition, the UK provides a huge surplus of trade to India which I imagine they will not want to put at risk.   By contrast, China represents their biggest deficit at $51.6 billion.   The largest export items from China to India include: electronic equipment, machinery, furniture, and apparel.  

Problem? Is France even competitive?

India has been ramping up its nuclear program recently, including a push to build 10 new reactors with its inked partner – Russia. Macron is beeming after a handshake to expedite the construction of one nuclear facility in Jaitpur, which is situated on a seismic zone… Oops!  Villagers are not too happy about being forced to hand over their land to the Indian government for this project especially after the catastrophic meltdown at the Japanese facility in 2011.

France has also asked India to support them militarily given India currently has the largest military manpower in the world, and France is more than happy to continue to provide more fighter jets to counter the threat from China in the Indian Ocean. At the center of the India/China dispute is an area that borders Bhouton, India and China, Doklam. China and Bhouton each claim the area belongs to them and historically, like everything else, it is complicated and unclear/muddy. India claims they are acting on behalf of Bhouton in fighting China. And Bhouton recently declared they no longer were giving India the right to negotiate on their behalf.

But India isn’t quite willing to let it go.

Doklam is a notable trade route that was exploited by the British when they occupied parts of India in the 19th century.

France is gearing itself up for a trade war, but can it compete with China? Easy answer – No.   Instead, what they are doing is ramping up tensions between the two with a military antagonist.

January, Macron was in China wooing president Jinping with promises of ramping up trade between the two and putting on the table French wine, cheese, meats, and the Airbus for which sales have been less than robust.

Economists have conjectured that Macron’s China visit was about deriding Trump and the US as benign and lost trading partners for which he, Macron, was ready, willing and able to fill. But Macron was always a big fan of Xi Jinping, in fact last August, he was adamantly anti-China trade due to the significant deficit France incurred.

The EU trade deficit with China was $200 billion last year. The power that China wields in trade is the weapon of choice.   In 2016, China’s military spending was roughly $146 billion.   Despite increases in spending since 1980, the budget as a percentage of GNP has declined sharply to a mere 1% or about 1/3 of the US although China’s has significantly larger active personnel.

While the US has plundered its funds for the purpose of warring other countries, China has behaved liked a tortoise slowly enriching itself via trade.

If Macron was serious before, or serious now, it is unknown.   Given the derision between the EU and the US, the EU and Russia, and the EU and China, they are left to pick.   And for now, the pickings seem to be slim.

As for the US: The fastest growing import is pharmaceuticals. The main suppliers include: Ireland, India, Germany and France.   But the top $$$ import is electronic equipment from: China, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea leading the market. If our trading ‘allies’ really wanted to inch out China, they would be offering discounts to curb those deficits.   If the US really wanted to hit China, they would put tariffs on Electronic Equipment and Machinery.

FYI:   The value of Mexico’s imports of electronic equipment and machinery to the US is roughly half of that of China – yet Mexico remains rife in poverty…