Guess you can say that because you're white and conservative or JSOP would send you to the pyre!
China Overtakes U.S. as World's Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
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I don't intend to make this thread or this site about you or me.
You can check, I discuss many other subjects but you seem to always respond to my political discussions. Does that mean you only discuss politics?
My views on China are pretty balanced if you chose to read all I write. I'm just not a rabid anti Chinese.
Without knowing you, I can confidently assert that my origins are more rooted in America than yours. But don't worry, that doesn't make you less American than me!
Yet we are different. I'm an avowed globalist, in the Republican liberal view, because trade breaks down barriers and prevents wars. I've also lived in 9 different countries for over a year, spanning Europe, Asia and Africa other than the US. It's my outlook that I bring to threads discussing global affairs and politics, and note that I don't start those threads.
Shall we return to trading matters?
You can tell your spymaster in China that if China wants to attract foreign trading capital, it needs to get rid of capital control. No foreigner in their right mind would be willing to put their money into Chinese financial markets only to risk not being able to take the money out of China to spend them in their own country. And we are not going to all live in China just so we can spend our hard-earned profit while fattening the Chinese local economy and seeing our own country's economy wither and at the same time not being able to even become permanent residents or citizens of China to enjoy its social benefits that it chooses to restrict only for its own China-born "Chinese" Chinese citizens. China wants all the benefits but none of the obligations. It just wants to take take take and never want to give. That doesn't work in a global economy. If you are so called a globalist, you would understand that.
There, how is that "trading matter" for ya?
Lol... you seem to know so much about China. You're right, who in their right mind would want to invest there...
I am a trader. It's my job to know everything about trading. Just like you have to know everything about spreading Chinese propaganda as a Chinese spy.
If you know about trading as much as you know about the flow, or supposed lack of, investments in China you might consider doing something else.
"you might want to consider doing something else." If you are as "white" and American as you claim and with English as your native language, you wouldn't have made this rudimentary mistake in English. What you said did not make sense in English. You need to retake your English course in the Chinese spy school.
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Maybe read this article and review your opinion about nonsense about Huawei.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/commercial-disinformation-huawei-belgium.html
Behind paywall
Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.
LONDON — Edwin Vermulst, a trade lawyer in Brussels, did not think twice before he agreed to write an article for Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, that would criticize a Belgian policy that threatened to box the company out of lucrative contracts. He had worked with the company for years.
After the article was published Dec. 17 on a Dutch-language website, he moved on to other work. “That was the beginning and end of my involvement,” he said.
Little did he know that the article would take on a life of its own. It soon became part of a covert pro-Huawei influence campaign in Belgium about 5G networks, the high-speed wireless technology at the center of a geopolitical dispute between the United States and China.
First, at least 14 Twitter accounts posing as telecommunications experts, writers and academics shared articles by Mr. Vermulst and many others attacking draft Belgium legislation that would limit “high risk” vendors like Huawei from building the country’s 5G system, according to Graphika, a research firm that studies misinformation and fake social media accounts. The pro-Huawei accounts used computer-generated profile pictures, a telltale sign of inauthentic activity.
Next, Huawei officials retweeted the fake accounts, giving the articles even wider reach to policymakers, journalists and business leaders. Kevin Liu, Huawei’s president for public affairs and communications in Western Europe, who has a verified Twitter account with 1.1 million followers, shared 60 posts from the fake accounts over three weeks in December, according to Graphika. Huawei’s official account in Europe, with more than five million followers, did so 47 times.