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Beijing Spending Hundreds of Billions to Undermine America

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Laugh out loud.

China could literally just sit back and watch the convicted felon in charge do it for them. Russia and China are high-fiving each other with glee watching what is happening in this country.
 
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China is a threat and we don't need to help them with our money.
  • USAID: US Agency for International Development, which has provided funding to various projects in China, including research on coronaviruses8
  • **Wuhan Institute of Virology**: A lab in China that has been linked to the originsof the COVID-19 pandemic and received USAID funding for gain-of-function research on coronaviruses8
  • Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): A Chinese development project that has received funding from USAID and other international organizations3
    And yet what is the US response? Gutting USaid and leaving the world to China.
 
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I think this has been the general goal ever since Mao. I'm not surprised, and I reject their atheistic, political hegemony.
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And we've been funding them to do it at every level.

I am super excited about stopping!
 
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2PhiloVoid said:
I think this has been the general goal ever since Mao. I'm not surprised, and I reject their atheistic, political hegemony.
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We knew them yet made them into a superpower.
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And we've been funding them to do it at every level.
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Yep for cheap stuff. I feel our greedy corporations had a hand in this.
 
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Laodicean60 said:
We knew them yet made them into a superpower.
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And that's just mindblowing, isn't it?
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Yep for cheap stuff. I feel our greedy corporations had a hand in this.
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Yes, I think you're definitely right. It's a little nerve wracking to see things going that way, even if we sort of knew it would.
 
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2PhiloVoid said:
Yes, I think you're definitely right. It's a little nerve wracking to see things going that way, even if we sort of knew it would.
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As a result of stress, I had a heart attack because I got caught up in the world. I would say yes to "nerve wracking".
 
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Laodicean60 said:
As a result of stress, I had a heart attack because I got caught up in the world. I would say yes to "nerve wracking".
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That's a lot to deal with, and you're certainly right that it is nerve wracking. I like that you're insinuating we need to learn to rest in the Lord.

Thank you for that. I need to remind myself of doing that more too. :)
 
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I believe this because a House divided can not stand and boy are we a divided bunch. I've wondered how other countries with their different cultures view us with everything in the news.

"In the past year, money transfers to al-Qaeda cells around the world have reportedly been accompanied by instructions to use the funds to outfit safe houses with the proper equipment to receive American cable news broadcasts and view top U.S. news websites, allowing terrorists to fully relish each detail of the impending demise of the last global superpower."
 
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China is fairly broke right now in a real estate and local government lending crisis. Developers and local governments borrowed lots of money and the profits and funds never really materialized. Opinion | China’s local government financing vehicles are a ticking debt bomb
I imagine theses ports are going forward but many Chinese funded projects to poorer nations have already been put on hold or abandoned. Lots of nations have pulled back, just as Panama recently did. Malaysia, Australia, Italy, Philippines just to name a few. .
I think this sums up the Belt and Road initiative (BRI). "Notwithstanding large and ambitious efforts to build infrastructure and connectivity throughout emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, the BRI has failed to live up to China’s lofty goals. Worse, it has simultaneously burdened developing economies around the world with substantial debt and insufficiently productive assets." Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10
No surprise here because China is struggling with their domestic development. Of course the USA struggles too when projects like alternative energy etc are not accomplished by market forces but instead rely on "government" funding/incentives.
 
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