That was simply Groper's empty excuse to try and take credit for "giving us our identity" via his empty, vapid virtue signaling shtick. The man has all the moral, emotional and political depth of piss on a plate.
OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy Justin can wear all manner of RUDE NAMES.................................
and HARSH LABELS WITH EASE.......................
and carry it off with that sense of ENTITLEMENT...................
that LIE-berals exude like Skunks with weak glandular control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article warning us about Red China and the Beijing Butchers...............................
that Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals are promoting as our new Best friends...........................
and as our best allies and trading partners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating the growing Red Chinese threat and proving that Trump is right to be pushing his trade war with the Beijing Butchers!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
China is building financial leverage over all Americans
From The Washington Post
Published: October 12, 2019, Updated: October 12, 2019 5:00 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
A worker removes a promotional banner from a building for the National Basketball Association (NBA) October 10 preseason game in China between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai on October 9, 2019. - Chinese state media slammed the NBA for an "about-face" on October 9 after the body said it would not apologize for a tweet by the Houston Rockets General Manager supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images
By Josh Rogin
The American public was outraged this week when the Chinese government severely punished the Houston Rockets and the National Basketball Association over one pro-Hong Kong tweet. The NBA was caught between its financial incentives and the American values that underpin its reputation, namely defending free speech and human rights. Soon, all Americans may find themselves in the same bind.
(Yes- the Beijing Butchers regard the Hong Kong protests as an “internal matter” not to be discussed or commented on by foreigners!! Beijing thinks repression and slave labourers and internment camps and even state sponsored murder are PRIVATE BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Red China has recently used its new military muscle- paid for by selling crap to the west - to begin making land grabs in the South China Sea - annexing islands and fortifying them with missile defences and air bases - while five other countries who have EQUAL CLAIMS protest in vain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Red China wants control of BOTH the islands and the surrounding waters - firstly for exclusive fishing rights and secondly because there is natural gas and some oil under the sea bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Red China has also harassed ships passing through international waters and this appears to be a carefully planned testing of the limits of international patience in preparation for future disputes over Red Chinese activity in the Beaufort Sea and North West Passage as arctic sea ice melts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(It should be seen as ominous to Cdns that Red China now has two class one ice breakers yet they have not a metre of Arctic coast line - thus there is reason to expect an expansion of Red Chinese bullying activities into new oceans - especially in the Cdn Arctic!!!!!!!!!)
Every major U.S. corporation that does business in China is now trying to balance the financial benefits against the risks. For years, few financial managers factored in human rights. But as Beijing becomes more repressive at home and more aggressive about enforcing political loyalty aboard, that calculation is changing.
“I think American businesses are waking up to the risks,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told “PBS NewsHour” on Wednesday. “It may seem that [doing business in China] makes profit in the short run, but the cost, the reputational cost to these companies, I think, will prove to be higher and higher as Beijing’s long arm reaches out to them.”
(There is also the graphic warning provided by the two Cdns Kovrig and Spavor - both are Cdn businessmen experienced in doing business with China - yet both men were snatched off the street by Chinese cops and have been in jail under harsh conditions for over a year - simply because China is PISSED that Huawei CEO Meng has been arrested for helping the Muslim nuclear nutbars of Tehran to violate United Nations sanctions as Tehran seeks nuclear weapons to blow up Israel and lay waste to the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The Iranian terrorist madness is bad enough but Beijing is currently holding tens of thousands of Muslims from its far northern territories in huge prisons and nasty “Re-education Centres” because Muslims are considered to be politically un-reliable by Beijing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(It is bad enough that Iran may allow nuclear weapons to get into the hands of radical Jihadists who hate the west - but has Beijing considered that one day Jihadists may strike at BEIJING TO PAY BACK the Godless Communists holding Muslims in their re-education camps?? How far ahead is Beijing planning???????)
But did you know that millions of Americans are currently – often unwittingly – betting their financial futures on the future success of the Chinese government’s strategy? Without much oversight or consideration of the risks, Wall Street institutions are steering trillions of American investors’ dollars toward Chinese companies that are complicit in China’s military expansion and gross human rights abuses.
Congress is now making an effort to force these Wall Street firms to stop exposing American investors’ financial futures to Chinese companies that are not only beholden to the Chinese Communist Party but also in many cases directly involved in repression. The Chinese government is hoping Americans don’t realize what’s going on until it’s too late.
(It is Red Chinese LAW that any China based company may be COMPELLED - at the whim of the Chinese dictators - to aid the Red Army in an fashion govt demands!! Failure to render aid can result in jail time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In August, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote to Michael Kennedy, the chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), which administers the pensions of more than 5 million federal employees and military service members. They demanded he reverse the board’s decision to steer over $50 billion in the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) toward China.
(Canada long ago got into a similar position when Pierre Trudope gave permission for Cdn civil service union HOGS to invest their pension gravy in China!! And it was Pierre Trudope who referred in writing to “the genius of Chairman Mao in rushing 30 million Chinese to the gallows”!! Should we TRUST the judgement of a man who thinks MASS MURDER is a form of genius?????????????????????)
In 2017, the board decided to have the TSP’s international stock fund mirror the MSCI All Country World ex-USA Investable Market Index, beginning next year. MSCI, the world’s largest index provider, has been steadily increasing its holdings of Chinese assets, reportedly under severe pressure from the Chinese government.
“The FRTIB’s decision to track this MSCI index constitutes a decision to invest in China-based companies, including many firms that are involved in the Chinese Government’s military, espionage, human rights abuses, and ‘Made in China 2025’ industrial policy,” the senators wrote.
The index invests in Chinese companies that build equipment for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), have been repeatedly sanctioned by the United States for proliferating dangerous weapons, and assist Chinese government repression in places such as Xinjiang, where more than 1 million Uighur Muslims have been interned in camps.
One of these companies, Hikvision, was just this week added with seven other firms to the Commerce Department’s list of banned entities. The reason: It produces the surveillance cameras used in the Xinjiang camps. When Hikvision was sanctioned, its stock took a hit, understandably. If millions of federal workers were invested in this fund, their 401(k) accounts would take a hit, as well.
In addition to the added risk for investors, it doesn’t make policy sense to sanction a Chinese company and then allow the same company to raise money from U.S. capital markets, Shaheen told me.
“As it stands, if this change goes into effect, national security professionals who work daily to sanction companies that threaten the U.S. will likely invest their retirement savings in some of those very same companies,” she said.
(The irony of that investment scenario is LOST on LIE-berals who spend a lot of time talking about democracy and equality - and yet DO LITTLE to defend it!!!!!)
In a letter to the senators, the board said it was reviewing their concerns and would decide later this month whether to move forward with the plan. But even if the board changes course, millions of other American investors are still passively investing in illicit Chinese companies. Nearly $14 trillion in U.S. investment funds follow the MSCI indexes or use them as a yardstick.
The typical response from Wall Street types is that Washington China hawks can’t be allowed to politicize investment decisions. But that argument misses the point; the risk is there because Beijing insists on weaponizing its economic leverage. Americans are becoming increasingly vulnerable, whether we point it out or not.
“It would be ludicrous to claim that taking steps to avoid investing in Chinese concentration camps, sanctions violators, proliferators, PLA weapons manufacturers and other corporate abusers constitutes ‘politicizing’ our capital markets,” stated Roger Robinson,chief executive of RWR Advisory Group, a Washington-based risk consultancy.
(LIE-berals are focused on gravy -and buying votes - and all that Red Chinese bullying is a downer that can be ignored by LIE-beral aspiring dictators - FOR NOW simply because LIE-berals NEVER PLAN AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The NBA is finding out the hard way that its financial exposure in China is a huge risk to its bottom line. American investors must make sure they don’t find themselves, like the NBA, in a position where the Chinese government forces them to choose between their pocketbooks and their values.
(Too late!! AS Cdn farmers already know to their cost - with China canceling their purchase of various Cdn farm products in protest over the arrest of Huawei ceo Meng!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In related news -we should aks WHY Meng has not been put on a plane and sent off to Washington?? Firstly - we Cdns DO NOT have the resources to determine if Yankee accusations against her are true!! And secondly if she is in Washington then the two Michaels- Spavor and Kovrig might be released since they will be of no further use AS HOSTAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(There is ample reason to suspect Meng has not been sent to Washington because Our idiot Boy is sucking up to the Beijing Butchers and seeking some legal loophole so he can release her without serious consequences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The ENTIRE Trudeau clan meets or exceeds the Lenin definitions of “USEFUL IDIOTS” who will - in Lenin`s words - “sell Communists the rope they need to HANG THE WEST”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
