Revealed: China Is Funded and Backed by Wall Street and Western Corporations
Revealed: China Is Funded and Backed by Wall Street and Western Corporations
Perhaps out of concern that his former boss might be pushing Robert
Lighthizer and Steve Mnuchin to cave on enforcement, technology
transfers and market access for the sake of securing a deal with Beijing,
former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon appeared alongside
hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, Wall Street’s most visible China bear, to
try and explain why Washington needs to stick to its guns and make
sure Beijing is held to account for its decades of trade abuses.
Bass, who just the other day distributed his first investor letter in three
years warning about a coming blowup in Hong Kong’s balance of
payments, argued that the immense pressure for Trump to strike a deal
isn’t coming from voters, but from Wall Street and corporate America,
who have abetted Beijing in its efforts to maintain the status quo on
trade – selling out their country in the process.
For years, Beijing has sought to curry favor with individual companies
and industries by granting them piecemeal concessions, mostly in the
form of market access. And since the start of the trade war, Beijing
hasn’t been shy about calling in favors, which is why most of the
American business and financial community just wants Trump to end the
trade war, even if it means settling for a deal that achieves none of
Washington’s objectives on ‘structural reform’, kicks the can on
enforcement to Trump’s successor, and touts promises for purchases of
billions of dollars of agricultural goods instead of meaningful changes.
And by the way, the funding — the entire operation of the Chinese
Communist Party and what they’re running in China is being funded
by Wall Street, which Kyle can walk through, being funded by Wall
Street. And corporate America – remember, PBS or NPR had this
thing the other day about intrusions into stealing Intellectual
Property in American companies. They talked to a Treasury official
went around to 200 companies. Not one company would — had
been stolen from would press charges because they didn’t want to
be blocked out of China. Corporate America today is the
lobbying arm of the Chinese Communist Party and Wall
Street is the investor relations department. You can see this on
President Trump’s — on President Trump’s trade negotiation, which
I say is an armistice on the economic war. When Liu He comes to
the United States, where does he go first?