boywonder wrote:
Totally agree with all mate. Do well. Any mention of China on DIF and many other places is only pulled up when someone wants to bang on about..... WW3!! Which is really unhelpful and doesn't draw any logical conclusions.
There could be some sort of military stand-off at some time. This is quite possible. The only reason we're hearing about Iran, for example, is because they have 10% of the world's oil reserves. It's got absolutely nothing to do with what's happening in Iran. You very rarely hear a bad word about the Saudis, particularly on TV. Coincidentally, the US has a favourable relationship with the Saudis and the Saudis are a huge supplier of oil to the US, and the Bushes and the House of Saud famously had a close relationship.
But it's not really a supply and demand issue. When the US invades such countries, it's not so they can get access to the oil. It's because the banking-military-industrial structure which can pull the rug from under the US at any moment, who can literally crash its economy in a day if they choose to do so, wants control over it. They just use the US military to get what they want. This is actually the last plan of action. They will try to takeover the infrastucture using the World Bank, US Aid, IMF, etc first and put pressure on the political leaders. If this doesn't work they will try to run propaganda campaigns against the leaders, finance opposition, even fund radio stations and media within the nations. The CIA has done this all over the world. If this doesn't work they will try to assassinate the leader, or run a coup, or both. The CIA has also done this all over the world, as has MI5. And if this doesn't work they send in the troops.
You can read all about this in John Perkins' book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
You seem to know your shit bud, have you looked into the history of HSBC's holdings in China, (I mean over the past 100 or so years?)
Thanks, I wrote a book about these issues so I should theoretically know a bit about it.
As Feather says HSBC is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. However, when you're looking at these mega-corporations whether HSBC, ExxonMobil, whoever it may be, they're often referred to as 'American' corporations, or 'Chinese', or whatever. Ultimately, they will ditch the United States completely tomorrow if they can make one extra dollar by doing so. At the moment, this isn't in their interest, but they know very well that China is the coming power, and that the Chinese workforce does more work for less money and asks less questions. That's why you see the likes of General Motors shifting production to China. All the banks and corporate people will love China because there isn't even the pretence of democracy. You only have to bribe one party. And you absolutely know that they're corrupt because they're the Communist Party of China! And the people don't demand any rights. And they can't even get access to the 'net like we can, so they don't know Monsanto was implicated in dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam and then washed its hands of any responsibility. So they just get the corporate propaganda and nothing else. So China is a wet dream for corporations. And, of course, they've also forged this alliance with Russia, and most of what I just said would apply to them. So it's a very fertile environment for money-makers and ultimately the banksters that control the whole system.
And, finally, the Chinese have virtually no government debt, Russia has reatively little and tonnes of oil, and the US and all the European nations are leveraged up to the eyeballs. Check it out:
www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
So they don't really have to do much, just sit there and watch us getting slowly boiled like a frog in a pot.
boywonder wrote:
Yeah I did know what HSBC stands for. What I was getting at was if wub knows anything about how HSBC was used to subvert and take over massive amounts of the Chinese economy before being shipped off to Canary Wharf when control of Hong Kong passed back to China in 1997.
Sorry I don't know anything about this at all. Do you? This is normal practice, though. I remember when they took over the Midland Bank. "The Listening Bank" they used to call themselves. I remember that they 'listened' to that offer very attentively!