Dragon and Eagle
Published May 22, 2021 12:28 am
MEDIUM RARE
Jullie Y. Daza
Words, words, words. What else is there? Wars? And more wars, like what’s happening in Israel and Gaza City?
JPE to PRRD: Did you get anything from Trump?
PRRD: We tried to ask for 23,000 rifles, it was disapproved by the US Congress, “human rights violations.” The lobby is so strong there.
JPE: During my time as defense secretary – there were only 48,000 members of our Armed Forces – we asked the US for 2,500 Armalites but were told, you are low priority because we are fighting a war in Vietnam. So we asked Singapore for arms. Taiwan gave 10,000 guns and ammunition... If we depend on US, with the problems they’re having in Israel-Gaza, with Russia, even if we get a resolution from the UN, UN will still bank on the US. Your posture is correct: no hot heads.
PRRD: We cannot be at parity with China, that’s why we can only talk.
JPE: We lose more if we antagonize China. We need foreign money – technology, capital to exploit our Exclusive Economic Zone. China is one of the top explorers of the world now. Its engineering (program) is about to overtake MIT.
Steve Berry, from his novel, The Patriot Threat: The United States’ national debt stands at $16 trillion, with interest rates hitting $200 billion a year. That’s $1 million a minute. Ninety percent of America’s revenue is used to pay the national debt, with income tax as the source of those funds.
Agence France Presse, May 7, 2021: President Biden pitched his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal as a way to secure US preeminence on the global stage as much as fixing bridges and roads. The plan is to raise the corporate tax from 21 to 28 percent. Renew the economy, Biden said, “because China is eating our lunch.”
As an old joke puts it, God created the world in seven days and China took care of the rest.
A quatrain in Nostradamus’ book (circa 1547) contains his vision of the world and its future. His prophesies are said to be enigmatic and obscure, but certain interpretations point to a happy resolution of the fight between Dragon and Eagle: They will become friends.
Jullie Y. Daza
Words, words, words. What else is there? Wars? And more wars, like what’s happening in Israel and Gaza City?
JPE to PRRD: Did you get anything from Trump?
PRRD: We tried to ask for 23,000 rifles, it was disapproved by the US Congress, “human rights violations.” The lobby is so strong there.
JPE: During my time as defense secretary – there were only 48,000 members of our Armed Forces – we asked the US for 2,500 Armalites but were told, you are low priority because we are fighting a war in Vietnam. So we asked Singapore for arms. Taiwan gave 10,000 guns and ammunition... If we depend on US, with the problems they’re having in Israel-Gaza, with Russia, even if we get a resolution from the UN, UN will still bank on the US. Your posture is correct: no hot heads.
PRRD: We cannot be at parity with China, that’s why we can only talk.
JPE: We lose more if we antagonize China. We need foreign money – technology, capital to exploit our Exclusive Economic Zone. China is one of the top explorers of the world now. Its engineering (program) is about to overtake MIT.
Steve Berry, from his novel, The Patriot Threat: The United States’ national debt stands at $16 trillion, with interest rates hitting $200 billion a year. That’s $1 million a minute. Ninety percent of America’s revenue is used to pay the national debt, with income tax as the source of those funds.
Agence France Presse, May 7, 2021: President Biden pitched his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal as a way to secure US preeminence on the global stage as much as fixing bridges and roads. The plan is to raise the corporate tax from 21 to 28 percent. Renew the economy, Biden said, “because China is eating our lunch.”
As an old joke puts it, God created the world in seven days and China took care of the rest.
A quatrain in Nostradamus’ book (circa 1547) contains his vision of the world and its future. His prophesies are said to be enigmatic and obscure, but certain interpretations point to a happy resolution of the fight between Dragon and Eagle: They will become friends.