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2020-04-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
It's time for a reckoning for China and its compradors
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 02:49|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Believe it when I see it.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 03:24||   2020-04-23 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Prediction: Chinese President Xi Jinping will become the scapegoat. We'll all be friends again soon. You'll see.

Sadly, I suspect we're in too deep. The only event which might alter this would be armed conflict.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 03:31||   2020-04-23 03:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Prediction: Chinese President Xi Jinping will become the scapegoat.

Said they need their own Lavrentiy Beria, weeks ago.

The only event which might alter this would be armed conflict.

Which isn't long in coming.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 03:36||   2020-04-23 03:36|| Front Page Top

#4 God sent His Orange Prophet to warn the Pharisees and the wicked.

Looks like some of them got the message and are finally repenting of their worship of China-Moloch
Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 04:40||   2020-04-23 04:40|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 And we have first candidate for snark of the day.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 04:45||   2020-04-23 04:45|| Front Page Top

#6 They were called "compradors" ("Mǎibàn" in Chinese) — a term originally from Portuguese, meaning "buyers" — and are reviled in Chinese culture as traitors who sold out their country. Some became so wealthy that they even helped finance railway development in the United States.

Fascinating history lesson. So the Chinese view us the way we viewed the Nazis, and any pro-western figures from prior periods as equivalent to the way we view Nazi collaborators.

btw Fairbank was one of our great scholars in the last century who slapped down Howard Zinn and his New Left fellow morons; need to go back and read Fairbank's US And China

We're learning a great deal about Why They Hate Us.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 05:11||   2020-04-23 05:11|| Front Page Top

#7 . Some became so wealthy that they even helped finance railway development in the United States.


Sound like Globalists.
Posted by AlanC 2020-04-23 07:49||   2020-04-23 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Chinese commercial habits - as tool of state, precede their encounter with post-Renaissance Europeans, by a considerable margin.
And cheating's been their national sport for thousands of years.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 08:11||   2020-04-23 08:11|| Front Page Top

#9 ^History in wiki article.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 08:12||   2020-04-23 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 The only event which might alter this would be armed conflict.

Oh, say it ain't so Doomsayer!

Stop buying Made in China.
Buy Chinese Made in Mexico labels.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 12:55||   2020-04-23 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 US troops invaded China and burned down the emperor's palace. US also kept gunboats on the Yangtze to intimidate China into compliance. Imagine Chinese doing the same on the Mississippi. And Americans cooperating with them and making a fortune. Would that make you angry, or not? Why?
Posted by Spike Grineng8188 2020-04-23 18:45||   2020-04-23 18:45|| Front Page Top

#12 ^British troops, not Herb. British troops.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 19:02||   2020-04-23 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13  ^British troops, not Herb. British troops.

Doesn't mean we couldn't be talked into it though.
Posted by SteveS 2020-04-23 19:06||   2020-04-23 19:06|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ One (Yankee) vote for gunboats here.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 19:11||   2020-04-23 19:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Check tomorrow's satellite news...

Images from satellites in orbit can detect patches of plastic pollution in the oceans - and it could help clean the world's waterways, scientists say
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 19:22||   2020-04-23 19:22|| Front Page Top

#16 In my DVD Steve McQueen section:
Sand Pebbles

Most frustrating "Valve" lesson, EVER
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-23 19:25||   2020-04-23 19:25|| Front Page Top

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