We found this of all places on Quora, and we were happily surprised by its sharp informational content. So here it is.
If you are an American, do you live in Alaska? If not, how come you don’t know that 400,000+ Chinese students are studying /living in America and imagine how many teachers will lose their jobs if those Chinese students are not here?
You don’t see more than 1 million Chinese visitors each year coming to the US? You don’t see all major tourist sites and stores in the US have signs in Chinese language? Each Chinese tourist would spend $6,000-$7,000 in America, imagine how many jobs have been created by that. You don’t do any shopping and see how many goods are imported from China?
Do you know that China will purchase about 7,000 Boeing aircraft in the next 20 years (China has already bought thousands of Boeing planes), is there any other country that contributes so much to America’s economy?
You don’t know besides America and Russia, China is also able to send astronauts to space and has the ability to build a permanent space station?
You don’t know China built railroad and new trains in Africa which are better than rail / trains in America? You don’t know that LA, Boston, NYC all have ordered subway trains made in China and next month the first group of newly China built trains will be operated in the Boston subway?
Do you know that China is the biggest overseas market for three major US automakers ? In 2017, Buick sold 1,229,804 cars in China, Ford sold 951,396 and Chevrolet sold 538,671. Is that the dream of any automaker in the world?
Do you know that China 2017 Box office : Hollywood movies grab 3.26 billions us dollars ? Is there any bigger overseas market for Hollywood ? Nope.
Do you know Chinese have bought or are buying many iconic American businesses including :
Forbes Manazine , Chicago Stock Exchange, AMC (2.6 billion), Smith Foods ( 7.1 b), Legendary movie studio (3.5 b), GE Appliance division ( 5.4 b), The Waldorf-Astoria (2 b), Ingram Micro ( 6 b), Motorola (2.9 b), Ritz-Carlton (3.9b).
If you are an American, you don’t know that the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt is China, which owns more than $1.24 trillion? Without borrowed money from China, US government would shut down.
Do you know that without China’s vote, UN could not pass sanctions against N. Korea?
What Chinese influence you don’t see?
I have a longgggggggggg list but I got to go home now, it’s getting late.
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In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
