China

[sdw]

Chuck Cook is interviewed in the Vancouver Sun on his trip to China. The Expat community in Beijing is over a million, mostly diplomats and business development types along with people that provide services and entertainment. The Expat community in Shanghai is larger, over 1.2 million and involved in the import of energy, building safe water works, etc. To operate, you must have a business development license from Beijing and fit into the official plan for one of the provinces. There are a lot of construction companies in China building what I call "clone cities" because they will build a 100 of exactly the same building around a transit hub.

We have some local, well known construction companies working in both Beijing and Shanghai.

Anyway, here's the Vancouver Sun article

http://www.vancouversun.com/Busines...+business+success+bustling/9806118/story.html

Chuck Chiang: B.C. expats find business success in bustling China

CKNW broadcaster Bill Good recently visited China for the first time. He talks to The Sun about his impressions

By Chuck Chiang, Vancouver Sun Columnist May 4, 2014

Despite a lot of talk in the past decade about B.C. doing business with China, most British Columbians do not have direct, on-the-ground experience in China.

What would their perspective be like, if they were to gain that experience first-hand?

In a sense, that’s what Bill Good did. The B.C. broadcaster recently spent a week in China — his first time visiting the country’s mainland — and held three radio shows there as part of CKNW’s recent Putting B.C. to Work series, taking a closer look at B.C.’s global economic links at the granular level.

Upon Good’s return last week, he discussed his experience there.

His perspective is especially valuable. Not only is Good one of the most respected broadcasters in the Vancouver market, his background as a first-time visitor can provide a compass for other British Columbians when it comes to understanding the China story.

Q: This was your first time travelling to Beijing and Shanghai. What struck you the most about the experience?

A: I was struck most by the degree B.C. officials threw their efforts into developing business links there. And I’m surprised how many B.C. businesses are over there right now, in that market, and how successful some of them have become. Leo Cheung, who’s with P & C International Trading, told me about their business of importing cherries. They said they are bringing in 13 containers every year — that amounts to, they told me, about $10 million in total trade, and they are projecting that amount to be at about $20 million in the next five years. There’s this Richmond-based company that makes parts for water parks. They now have a full-time representative in Shanghai. One of the First Nation firms near Prince Rupert (lumber/resource products) said business in China created 200-plus jobs and basically brought them out of bankruptcy; they now have a full-time rep in Beijing. . . . more

It's valuable to use the resources that the Canadian and Australian governments provide and to hook into the Expat community. http://www.internations.org/china-expats

 

[Elle Diablo]

Here's a documentary that you can see on Netflix ...

 

[sdw]

Here's a documentary that you can see on Netflix ...

The USA owes 60% or more of the money they have borrowed so that Americans can pay lower taxes to China. Propaganda like this is because the USA doesn't intend to repay that money. The USA was trying to devalue the Yuan so that the debt as expressed in US Dollars would be less. Now, the USA is trying to sell the idea that the Chinese don't deserve to be repaid. It's the same tactic that Nazi Germany used to avoid repaying the loans that they had borrowed from Jewish financiers.

The Chinese learned long ago that if you don't have armed forces, if you don't have nukes - - - the USA will invade you. Iraq, no nukes, not much of a military - - - invaded by the USA on a bullshit pretext Iraq had WMDs. Iran, almost certainly has nukes, has a huge military - - - not invaded by the USA. North Korea, has nukes, has a huge military - - - not invaded by the USA. A whole bunch of South American and African countries, no nukes, no military to speak of - - - invaded by the USA, sometimes not even necessary to send more than a few Marines.

Even Russia has learned that if you weaken yourself, the USA will start having it's client states pick at you. That's why Putin is fighting back now. The USA and Europe had agreed not to surround Russia with NATO members, if Putin allows the Ukraine to become a NATO state, Russia is pretty much surrounded. I don't know if the dummies that are running Ukraine realize that Europe and the USA will abandon them if they actually go to war with Russia. If not, they will find out how the Swamp People in Southern Iraq felt as Saddam diverted the water and bombed the crap out of them.

 

[Elle Diablo]

Thanx for the info.

 

[sdw]

I would think that people in Canada would begin to pick up that the USA views Canada as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. A lot of the "Environmentalists" are funded by various business interests that want resources to be untapped in Canada until the USA requires them.

Alberta's Oil is a prime example. To the Americans the Oil is money in the bank, being saved so that it's available when needed.

One would think that Canada would have learned from what the Americans have done with Canadian Lumber, Canadian Beef, Canadian Auto Parts, etc

Canada is a colony of the USA. A pristine playground for outdoor holidays and full of untapped resources against future need.

That's why the Conservatives are beginning to use "Temporary Foriegn Workers" the way the USA uses Mexicans and Germany uses Italians. It's also why a lot of effort is put into making sure that Canada doesn't have the military to be at all "inconvenient" if the USA ever needs to take anything by force.

 

[sdw]

The USA owes 60% or more of the money they have borrowed so that Americans can pay lower taxes to China. Propaganda like this is because the USA doesn't intend to repay that money. The USA was trying to devalue the Yuan so that the debt as expressed in US Dollars would be less. Now, the USA is trying to sell the idea that the Chinese don't deserve to be repaid. It's the same tactic that Nazi Germany used to avoid repaying the loans that they had borrowed from Jewish financiers.

The Chinese learned long ago that if you don't have armed forces, if you don't have nukes - - - the USA will invade you. Iraq, no nukes, not much of a military - - - invaded by the USA on a bullshit pretext Iraq had WMDs. Iran, almost certainly has nukes, has a huge military - - - not invaded by the USA. North Korea, has nukes, has a huge military - - - not invaded by the USA. A whole bunch of South American and African countries, no nukes, no military to speak of - - - invaded by the USA, sometimes not even necessary to send more than a few Marines.

Even Russia has learned that if you weaken yourself, the USA will start having it's client states pick at you. That's why Putin is fighting back now. The USA and Europe had agreed not to surround Russia with NATO members, if Putin allows the Ukraine to become a NATO state, Russia is pretty much surrounded. I don't know if the dummies that are running Ukraine realize that Europe and the USA will abandon them if they actually go to war with Russia. If not, they will find out how the Swamp People in Southern Iraq felt as Saddam diverted the water and bombed the crap out of them.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ls-to-limit-missiles-idiotic/article18597568/

Iran’s Khamenei says West’s calls to limit missiles ‘idiotic’

DUBAI

Reuters

Published Sunday, May. 11 2014, 10:30 AM EDT

Last updated Sunday, May. 11 2014, 10:32 AM EDT

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Western expectations for the Islamic Republic to limit its missile programme were “stupid and idiotic”.

The Supreme Leader also called on the country’s Revolutionary Guards to mass-produce missiles.

The United States and its allies have said they are worried about Iran’s missile programme as they fear the weapons could carry nuclear warheads. Iran has long denied having any plans to develop atomic weapons.

“They expect us to limit our missile programme while they constantly threaten Iran with military action. So this is a stupid, idiotic expectation,” Khamenei was quoted as telling the IRNA news agency while on a visit to an aeronautics fair by the Revolutionary Guards.

“The revolutionary guards should definitely carry out their programme and not be satisfied with the present level. They should mass produce. This is a main duty of all military officials,” Khamenei said.