China Offers Infrastructure Funding & Technology to Rebuild America Under Trump

[Shotgunner51]

China Offers Infrastructure Funding & Technology to Rebuild America Under Trump
January 2, 2017 eClinik

While incoming president Donald Trump accused China of currency manipulation, among others, during the campaign, China is offering the necessary funding and engineering know-how to build bridges of friendship in America as part of its global New Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road economic outreach programs.

Yes, the offer does look like the absence of tit-for-tat counter-sanctions from Putin after Obama’s “kitchen diplomacy,” i.e. stupid kicking out of 35 Russian diplomats.

But fixing America, and make it great again, require Donald Trump to be bold. That’s because the Khazarian Cult doesn’t want to get any American leader to cozy up with Asia, as that would mean peace in the region. Very bad for the arms business.

In U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s book, Great Again, he said, “You go to countries like China…and you look at their train systems and their public transport. It’s so much better. We’re like a third-world country.”​

Despite his tough talk, Trump admires China for its GDP growth and for its infrastructure investment and engineering. He sees that, while America is aging and falling behind in certain areas, China is growing and moving forward. The U.S. can learn from China on infrastructure building, and benefit from its successes.

China is leading the world in infrastructure investment and engineering. China’s Beipan River bridge, which connects Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, is a 4,400-feet-long cable-stayed suspension bridge that hangs 1,854 feet in the sky. That is equivalent to 200 stories, roughly the height of four Trump Tower’s stacked.

Another example is Guizhou’s high-speed railway bridge connecting Shanghai and Kunming. This amazing achievement caught the attention of some foreign scholars. Duke University Professor Ralph Litzinger (@BeijingNomad) said, “Serious infrastructure investment in China. Makes the [U.S.] look like a backward country.” Kingston University Professor Steve Keen (@ProfSteveKeen) called it an example of China’s impressive engineering and said Trump “could learn a lot from [China] about infrastructure planning.”

America may be the contemporary example on building a great country, but China is the contemporary example on rebuilding a great country. The two massive bridges in Guizhou are a tiny example of China’s strength in infrastructure investment and engineering. No other country in the world has lifted more than double the size of America’s entire population out of poverty in such a short period of time. Since then, China has opened the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and is building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. These are massive cooperation projects, and the hallmark of modern-day China. Meanwhile, America cannot even realize high-speed rail after years and years of planning. Rather than bash China, perhaps America should learn from and work with China.

Trump wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure upgrades in America to rebuild the nation and put people back to work. The problem is how to pay for it and how to do it. China knows how to fund and carry out serious infrastructure building, and deep-pocketed Chinese investors want to invest billions more in America. One way for Trump to realize his plan would be to use Chinese funds and technology. This would help return some of America’s investment in China back to America for the benefit of America, and strengthen the bilateral relationship. Trump’s plan to rebuild America is bold, but it remains to be seen if he will be bold enough to do what is best for America.

Read the full article at https://geopolitics.co/2017/01/02/c...ng-technology-to-rebuild-america-under-trump/

 

[Dalit]

Very wise move by China. Keep the devil contained.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Correction to one big mistake in the article:

Inbound FDI to China was dominated by one source - Hong Kong (70%+), then followed by Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to round up the top five. If any large funding is required to help US infra, that would be Chinese.

 

[ahojunk]

Make America great again.
I love to see that.
Trump will need to do many things other than tweets and slogans.
But will it happen, what are the chances during his 4-year term?
Thoughts?

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Make America great again.
I love to see that.
Trump will need to do many things other than tweets and slogans.
But will it happen, what are the chances during his 4-year term?
Thoughts?

The real building and improvement needs to be done in the people. There are certain groups of people who are good for nothing except having babies and getting food stamps and section 8 housing.

Look at New Orleans. Its been over a decade since Hurricane Katrina but the city is still in disrepair. Its easy to rebuild but most of the people there are lazy good for nothings so its pointless.

Imagine when the demographics change to the point where 2 certain racial groups in the U.S start making the whites a minority.

 

[LeGenD]

Very humane gesture by China, if true.

Chinese might be able to pacify Donald Trump by offering to stimulate American economy and additional acts of goodwill.

 

[Shotgunner51]

There are certain groups of people who are good for nothing except having babies and getting food stamps and section 8 housing

Yes that's what worries investors. Other than staggering $20 trillion of national debt (that's just federal government alone, non-GAAP i.e. excluding unfunded liabilities), $1.4 trillion student loan, food stamp receivers has also crossed 45 million.

 

[Godman]

America's infrastructure issues are the result of their own mistakes. They spend billions on unsuccesful wars. The most succesful are Iraq and Afghanistan where they managed to create a rather stable but spineless governments that collapse the moment they leave(Forget the money wasted on training and arming them)
Libya is now a warzone and Ex-Libyan armouries were sacked by terrorists and criminals flooding the black market with advanced weapons.

They need Billions more and lets not forget the money wasted on the Rebels who just get behaded ,join ISIS or Nusra or fight eachother.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Make America great again.
I love to see that.
Trump will need to do many things other than tweets and slogans.
But will it happen, what are the chances during his 4-year term?
Thoughts?

Offering technology is fine. China has far bigger technology reserves and industrial complex than any nation. China is already building Africa, Global South, OBOR-CPEC, LatAm, adding US shouldn't be a problem. I believe Chinese firms are interested in sectors like new energy sources, roads/expressways, bridges, tunnels, advanced urban transport system, inter-city transport systems, seaports, UHV power grid, ICT/cyberspace network, smart cities, etc.

https://defence.pk/threads/un-world...-2016-global-ranking-of-171-countries.462744/​

However when it comes to funding, things get complicated. It's not about Trump or any individual, but because US fiscal path (and monetary policy) has already been decided by the establishment, by vested interest group, it's not easy to alter US debt-piling path. So federal debt wouldn't work any more, China is already unloading it, the most probable way is FDI (Chinese ODI) in US infra sectors. Then comes the political question: China owning critical US infra, collecting revenue directly from American users.

 

[ahojunk]

Yes that's what worries investors. Other than staggering $20 trillion of national debt (i.e. debt owed by every American), $1.4 trillion student loan, food stamp receivers has also crossed 45 million.

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Holy molly! 45 million Americans on food stamps, wth.
What has happened to US.

There is no free lunch. If US wants the infrastructure, they will have to pay for it.

Where they will get the money, perhaps from the printing press or QE again?

 

[Godman]

 

[Shotgunner51]

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Holy molly! 45 million on food stamps, wth.
What has happened to US.

There is no free lunch. If US wants the infrastructure, they will have to pay for it.

Where they will get the money, perhaps from the printing press or QE again?


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Exactly, that's the key question again - payment. China won't fund any more federal debt, so the probable way is FDI aka Chinese firms directly own and operate infra business in US. Say in ICT sector, backed by Huawei tech, China Telecom take control of an existing telco like AT&T, or build a new one, then expand investment. Similarly in power grid, China State Grid (SGCC) can acquire existing grids and expand UHV, smart grids. I guess now people know what is the "complication".

 

[TaiShang]

Correction to one big mistake in the article:

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Inbound FDI to China was dominated by one source - Hong Kong (70%+), then followed by Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to round up the top five. If any large funding is required to help US infra, that would be Chinese.

The cumulative US investment in China is around 250 billion USD - from the 1990s. China's cumulative investment at the point is 60 billion USD. From 2015 onwards, China has been a larger investor to the US. The US should not even insinuate that China somehow is obliged to provide the US a magnanimous package.

The fact is China is not a charity. There won't be no free lunch for the US; if we are going to make business, it is only because there is a win-win option.

China owes the US nothing. It is, in fact, vice versa.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

FDI aka Chinese firms directly own and operate infra business in US.

Is that likely to happen? Going by recent history, i dont think so. The us congress will likely intervene, veto and cite 'security reasons' for the refusal of any takeover of american companies with significant assets on US soil by Chinese investors- even in civilian sectors like infrastructure.

Also, it is my opinion that a nation should never invest too heavily into a potentially hostile state- unless the profits/benefits to be reaped far outweigh the risks.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Is that likely to happen? Going by recent history, i dont think so. The us congress will likely intervene, veto and cite 'security reasons' for the refusal of any takeover of american companies with assets on US soil by Chinese investors- even in civilian sectors like infrastructure.

That's why I said complicated. US being cautious about China taking over critical US assets/infra, and China not interested in being vested over other low value assets in a hostile territory.