Chapter 1290: American Elite Salon
Rand Corporation Board of Directors Ryan O'Neill added: "Our researchers are not at all surprised that China will rise in a short period of time, and the reason why this research conclusion is given to you for free is because you have a premonition of this in your mind, but there is a slight difference in time.
The fact that you all think that China will rise is already a fact of existence, so what difference does it make if it is extended by a few years or shortened? In the long river of history, just a few years is a drop in the sea, which is not worth paying attention to. Even in our lives, just a few years may not seem like a big deal.
Yes, we will have no choice but to face China's rise in our lifetime, and we will face the fact that China is on our side.
So, the next thing we have to think about is how we get along with China. What is more important is whether the United States has the ability and possibility to undermine China's rise, and whether it is possible to delay China's rise. I think that's the ultimate purpose of this gathering. It's all about the future and future of our great United States of America, and I'm going to be more direct.
As you all know, our current policy of support for China is aimed at arming a weak China and helping us to fight against the mighty Soviet Union and to stop its ambitions and ambitions to dominate the world. We do not have the good intentions to make China strong, nor do we have the intention of putting China on an equal footing with us, let alone the foolishness of helping China become a world hegemon......
But we don't see that the CCP regime in the red sè is far from the **, greedy Chiang-Kai-shek led national zhèngfǔ in World War II, it is a pile of sand that cannot be supported. No amount of weapons or money will only spread the sand wider.
And this red regime is now a machine that has not yet been run-in, and we don't need to give them any parts, as long as they are given a little bit of lubricating oil, this machine can run at high speed.
I believe that you have been comparing China with the Soviet Union in private, and in the end you still feel that the Soviet Union is strong, and the biggest enemy of the United States is still the Soviet Union. I do not deny this impression in your minds. Because since the history of the United States of America, Russia has been a powerful country, the tsar is even more murderous, and the Soviet Union is even more majestic.
And China has always been in our impression of being weak and powerless, and it is at the mercy of others. Even if Red Sè China was established, it was only a war in Korea, and they did their best, and we, the United States, had to guard against the Soviet Union and protect Europe when we were conducting this war, but China still did not drive our American team away from the Korean Peninsula, how strong can they be?
However, I have to say here that you are all wrong, and I want me to say that China is the biggest enemy of the United States. I may be a bit arbitrary, but I can say with certainty that China will be our worst enemy, and that this 'future' is not far off, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, or in our lifetime anyway.
When comparing the Soviet Union and China, many people focus more on the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal, which was powerful enough to destroy the world and destroy the earth dozens of times, on the tens of thousands of heavy tanks of the Soviet Union, on the space technology that they could land on the moon, and on the powerful intercontinental missiles.
These are indeed terrible enough, if the Soviet Union is going crazy, we should really tremble about it, but we must put aside the idea that the Soviet Union will go crazy, if it is really going crazy, we just have no use to guard against it. With a bang, this world is gone, how to guard against it?
Therefore, our starting point should be more on the basis of certain principles that the world will follow, and we should first think that the vast majority of countries in this world, especially the big countries, their leaders are rational, know how to weigh up, and are reasonable. And then think about our relations with China, the Soviet Union, on this basis.
China does not have a nuclear arsenal that is strong enough to destroy the earth dozens of times, but China has a few nuclear weapons that can hurt us, the United States and the Soviet Union, and that is enough, no amount of more is just a waste. China doesn't have tens of thousands of heavy tanks, but they do have fortifications to defend themselves, as long as they send a few hundred tanks outside to stir it up.
The main thing is that China has far more advantages than the Soviet Union in that it learns, and the Soviet Union has always held its head high and has always asked other countries to learn from them, and they have been exporting their own ideas, so they are isolated day by day, and they pay the price of development stagnation for arrogance day by day.
China is different, and China does not learn from others and constantly adjusts its own policies. In the past, they were idealists who could selflessly help others, but now they are beneficiaries and only do things that have benefits. In the past, they always paid attention to fairness, reasonableness and moderation in doing things, but now they sneak attack when they should do sneak attacks, and play scoundrels when they should play scoundrels, as long as it is beneficial to them, they are devils, and they are willing to talk to them. In this regard, they are already very similar to us in the United States. ”
Seeing that Ryan O'Neill was pausing to drink champagne, the host of the salon, Mitchellson, smiled and interjected: "Mr. Ryan O'Neill, but we still do not feel that China is more dangerous than the Soviet Union.
As you said, now that China has changed their policies and practices, and is far more in harmony with us and the West than the Soviet Union, and their values and ways of doing things are very close to ours, it seems that we can assimilate them and make China a member of the free world, isn't it better? ”
Federal Reserve Chairman Brown raised his wine glass and signaled that he was to speak, and when the eyes of others fell on him, he shook his hand and said, "No, Mr. Mitchellson, although I am grateful that you invited me to this salon, I still do not agree with your opinion. It is a big mistake for you to pull China into the big club of our free world. Although you are fraternal, you are wrong.
Regarding this, I think it is our zhèngfǔ that we are doing it right, China or India and even rì can only use the people who can't be their own people, or rather, they can only be their own people who can help us, and as long as they can't help us anymore, we should weed them out.
Please note that the earth's resources are finite, and if we divide the total amount of the earth's resources by the total population of the world, we Americans will not be able to enjoy them, and we will have to live in the same hardship as other natives.
On the one hand, we want to occupy as many resources as possible, which we in the United States have been doing, and on the other hand, we want to reduce the denominator as much as possible, and the smaller the denominator, the more resources we will get. What is the population of China? What is the population of India? If they are disqualified from resource allocation, how much more can we increase? It's a simple math problem that doesn't require even a thought.
What we have to do is how to make good use of China and India first, and then throw them away when they run out. We are not here today because of fraternity.
Just now Mr. Ryan-O'Neill said that China will be the biggest enemy of the United States in the future and even now, and I don't know if it will become an enemy in the future, but as the chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States, I think China is already our economic rival now. The yuan, two years ago we didn't seem to know what it was, people all over the world only knew the dollar, and at most they knew what pounds, rubles, and francs, but the pound was often seen in novels and movies, rubles, just in our newspapers.
However, many of you here now know about the renminbi, and those who have a little bit of economic experience know the impact it has on us. Although China has not hyped it, nor has it hyped it up, nor has it even signed currency circulation agreements with certain countries, it has been circulated in many countries and has become a world currency that should not be underestimated.
I think you are well aware of the benefits of the right to issue and print money, and I don't need to repeat it here. With the right to issue and print currency, we can decide the amount of money to be issued according to the needs of our own economy. If we issue a large number of dollars in excess of the printed dollar, we will be able to devalue our dollar, we will be able to promote the export of goods from our country, and we will be able to passively and invisibly import wealth into our country by countries that have dollars.
If we control the amount of issuance and reduce the issuance of dollars, the dollar will appreciate, and when the debt-ridden countries repay their debts, they will have to give us more money and goods.
The accession of the renminbi has not only greatly weakened our ability to control the exchange rate of the US dollar, not only plundered the wealth of other countries in the world together with our dollar, but more importantly, it has lowered the prestige of our dollar; on the one hand, we have to change from a robber who plunders wealth to a gentleman who tries to put on a kind face, and on the other hand, we have to give up the territory occupied by our dollar and hand over our dollar's sphere of influence to the renminbi.
With the spread of the renminbi in various countries around the world, the culture and ideas of the Chinese people have also subtly entered the hearts of the people of these countries, and they originally chose our American culture first to choose between Chinese culture and American culture.
The renminbi has become the second currency of Iraq, Argentina, Iran and many other African countries, and its circulation is almost as strong as their own currencies, and many shops even prefer to accept renminbi rather than their own currency, because the renminbi is relatively stronger. What makes us most desperate and jealous is that with the economic development between China and the Soviet Union, the renminbi has begun to enter the Soviet Union, into the Warsaw Pact countries dominated by the Soviet Union, which we cannot enter if the dollar wants to. ”
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