[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Blacksmith', 'T')hank your president that gave China most favoured nation status. Anyone care to guess who it was?

[SeaGypsy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Blacksmith', 'T')hank your president that gave China most favoured nation status. Anyone care to guess who it was?

[Sixstrings]

Pat Buchanan wrote a good article about the rise of China and decline of America, and whose fault it is:

http://peakoil.com/forums/buchanan-china-s-rise-is-fault-of-free-trade-republicans-t60129.html

(hint -- it's the globalist free trading Republicans' fault, along with their conservadem lackeys)

[SeaGypsy]

So Guru of the moment blames the repug for the act they voted for which was finally proceeded under a dumo president; kinda proves the point doesn't it? When are you yanks going to realise you are not in charge, nor living in a real democracy?

Money rules. A lot of big players in moneywold are American. These did not become big players in moneyworld by giving a rat's bum about America.
The big money has been in international trading since the invention of the stock market by the Dutch East India company 400 odd years ago.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', '[')b]So Guru of the moment blames the repug for the act they voted for which was finally proceeded under a dumo president;

[SeaGypsy]

Sorry sixstrings it's a nuance in Australian English; Plato or Aristotle can equally be 'guru of the moment' if quoted in context.

Point being it doesn't matter who Pat is, who Plato or Aristotle were or who was at the so called 'Helm Office' at the time free trade with China was let loose. My point is the decision was made in the engine room; where the money is, the guys on deck had to do as they were told to keep their line of credit.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Point being it doesn't matter who Pat is, who Plato or Aristotle were or who was at the so called 'Helm Office' at the time free trade with China was let loose. My point is the decision was made in the engine room; where the money is, the guys on deck had to do as they were told to keep their line of credit.

[SeaGypsy]

Until recently we had a PM who spoke fluent Mandarin and Cantonese.
The current PM is learning.

The big mulah has spoken and said:

"Congratulations Australia!
By virtue of being 'the Lucky Country'
You have won!
The right to dig the world's biggest swimming pool!
The right to sell the stuff you dig to pay for the fuel you use digging it!
And even better!
You get to live in cloud cuckoo na na land for another 15 years!
While America goes begging to Canada and Europe to Russia.
While the middle east gets armed for armageddon.
Wooppeee!"

I'm just so dang glad my mom was Australian.