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The law was passed after a late-1990s scandal involving the U.S. companies Space Systems/Loral and Hughes Electronics Corp. "
Originally posted by plumranch
reply to post by marg6043
I think of China as a paper tiger, a house of cards. It has too many critical problems that could surface at any time.
People always say China has a quarter of the worlds people, bla, bla etc., but those citizens are not all happy campers esp. now.
China was never a paper tiger. Historically as far as I can recall either they're number two or number one in the world stage, economically or technologically, until the industrial revolution and colonization began in the west.
Originally posted by plumranch
But China is not number one or two on the world stage. Call the US the big economic bully or whatever and the EU number two and you can arrange the other powers however you wish.
However I still don't quite grasp the purpose of this move by Obama. It is always the desire of the US to weaken her enemy in the long term, so it's not true that any of the US president is 'selling out'
Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the United States, but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!