Posted on 11/10/2023 8:31:47 PM PST by FarCenter
China’s leader Xi Jinping will meet President Biden Nov. 15 in San Francisco with four high cards in his hand. Policy advisers close to Xi express an unprecedented kind of confidence in China’s strategic position.
First, the collapse of Ukraine’s offensive against Russian forces and its commander’s admission that the war is a “stalemate” is a setback for America’s strategic position and a gain for China, which has doubled its exports to Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Second, the US tech war on China has flopped, as Chinese AI firms buy fast Huawei processers in place of chips from Nvidia and other US producers.
Third, the Gaza war provoked by Hamas on October 7 gives China a free option to act as the de facto leader of the Global South in opposition to Israel, an American ally. China now exports more to the Muslim world than it does to the United States.
And fourth, the US military wants to avoid confrontation with China in the Northwest Pacific region as well as its home waters in the South China Sea, where the PLA’s thousands of surface-to-ship missiles and nearly 1,000 fourth- and fifth-generation warplanes give China an overwhelming home-theater advantage in firepower.
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The Chinese are getting their money’s worth from the Bidens
Four aces? Yah,I suppose you could put it that way. Everyone knows that The Big Guy is owned,lock...stock...and barrel...by Red China.
Xi holds four aces as he meets Biden
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Five, if you count Biden’s contract renewal
Xi has no cards.
China is in the process of falling apart economically. The China with cards to play is no more.
...and Joe thinks he has a Royal Flush.
U N I T Y !!!!!!
China now exports more to the Muslim world than it does to the United States.
China is the leading owner and operator of all the commercial ports in the world they control the supply lines.
Breitbart
Make China 1959
Xi has nothing to worry about.
Biden who took $>30 million from Chinese sources over his career has their fingers so deep in his pocket they are likely holding his balls.
Many US firms manufacture in China and if you tackle the real issues you’ll have US HQ’d firms with names like Dell, HP, Cisco, Amazon, go after you.
China has grown to become one of the worlds biggest markets. It is already a market so influential that firms like Buick sell more cars there than in the US, Hollywood will make sure not to piss them off... The point being that they can leverage their size.
I’d imagine that we are at a point where the stress caused by Ukraine and the Middle East combined are making it to where we are not looking for trouble elsewhere, even if China is a real threat while Russia is simply a weaker rival/competitor we are tearing apart and seizing land from.
China is militarily far more powerful than Russia. We’re going after Russia, stripping them of their frontier nations that are allies or aligned with them (Venezuela, Syria, Iraq and Libya), building military bases all along their border, and we numerically outnumber them in every aspect except nuclear weapons all while we pretend them to be some huge threat and make them out as a boogieman. Russia is conventionally no longer truly a peer and that is why we are invading their space. But while Russia has descended, China has ascended and today stands as a peer with us, so we are far less aggressive with them as witnessed by Taiwan where China is doing to us what we did to Russia in Ukraine (Taiwan will be theirs in a matter of years).
Biden and this administration isn’t going to do anything about China.
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