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Another day another material move towards fulfilling campaign promises. #winning

How are those Makita tools working for you?

Maybe it's just me, but NOT financially supporting a country that fucks us seems like a good idea.

Just a reminder to NOT send your consumption dollars to China. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — China is waging a "quiet kind of cold war" against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia said Friday. Beijing doesn't want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the U.S. in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia. "I would argue ... that what they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war — a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the U.S. and the Soviet Union) but a cold war by definition," Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA's East Asia mission center, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. Rising U.S.-China tension goes beyond the trade dispute playing out in a tariff tit-for-tat between the two nations. There is concern over China's pervasive efforts to steal business secrets and details about high-tech research being conducted in the U.S. The Chinese military is expanding and being modernized and the U.S., as well as other nations, have complained about China's construction of military outposts on islands in the South China Sea. "I would argue that it's the Crimea of the East," Collins said, referring to Russia's brash annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which was condemned throughout the West. Collins' comments track warnings about China's rising influence issued by others who spoke earlier this week at the security conference. The alarm bells come at a time when Washington needs China's help in ending its nuclear standoff with North Korea. On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China, from a counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest and most significant threat America faces. He said the FBI has economic espionage investigations in all 50 states that can be traced back to China. "The volume of it. The pervasiveness of it. The significance of it is something that I think this country cannot underestimate," Wray said. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats also warned of rising Chinese aggression. In particular, he said, the U.S. must stand strong against China's effort to steal business secrets and academic research. Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said increasing the public's awareness about the activities of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students or groups at U.S. universities could be one way to help mitigate potential damage. "China is not just a footnote to what we're dealing with with Russia," Thornton said. Marcel Lettre, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said China has the second-largest defense budget in the world, the largest standing army of ground forces, the third-largest air force and a navy of 300 ships and more than 60 submarines. "All of this is in the process of being modernized and upgraded," said Lettre, who sat on a panel with Collins and Thornton. He said China also is pursuing advances in cyber, artificial intelligence, engineering and technology, counter-space, anti-satellite capabilities and hypersonic glide weapons. Army Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told a congressional committee earlier this year that China is developing long-range cruise missiles — some capable of reaching supersonic speeds. "The Pentagon has noted that the Chinese have already pursued a test program that has had 20 times more tests than the U.S. has," Lettre said. Franklin Miller, former senior director for defense policy and arms control at the National Security Council, said China's weapons developments are emphasizing the need to have a dialogue with Beijing. "We need to try to engage," Miller said. "My expectations for successful engagement are medium-low, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try." https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-china-waging-quiet-kind-cold-war-against-051049862--politics.html

Some type of cancer?

No sunlight for 4+ months. Guessing that would lead to suicide.

There's some irony!!!

Crazy situation. Will be interesting to see how they get them out. I heard the swim in/out is high risk, even for experienced divers. Fuck!!!!

You really gotta let it go dude. People are gonna be paid their market value, and if they're fortunate enough to work for a good company, they'll get a bonus if/when the company performs well. Otherwise, companies don't form/exist for the sake of employing people.

Situational laws. How convenient!!!

I go about once per month. Use an inversion table 5 of 7 nights per week. 47 and still kickin ass and takin names!!!!

Only money and sex for me. So am I half normal?

We're a nation of laws, or we're not. I'd say do the math, but you'd be fucked.

So we should just let them come across the border at will? Or should we have a controlled process for who we let in?

LAW BREAKING asylum seekers. Just to clarify.

The operative word......AMERICANS. Implies legal from where I'm sitting. Perhaps our immigration policy should be adjusted to allow in more of the lower skilled workers, LEGALLY, to displace the lazy Americans. Again, I emphasize legally. Of note is I haven't seen you bitch about a US citizen, convicted of a crime...... and hence "separated" from his kids. How inhumane of our justice system, separating criminals from their kids!!!!!!!!

What part of illegal are you struggling with?

1) the meme is in a different thread and as such there is no relation 2) the meme isn't stupid, it's spot on 3) this thread title says illegal immigrants work hard for a better life. Of course they do, we all (well most of us) do. LEGAL immigrants go the extra mile, in more ways than one. Do the math.

LEGAL immigrants also work hard for a better life. In fact probably even a little harder than illegal immigrants......by definition.

Liberal situational heart bleeding......

Trump's tactics are aggressive. He does love negotiating via the media (Twitter, in particular). But, FINALLY someone in a leadership position is taking a hard look at our trade imperfections and trying to better our situation at the trade table. We shall see how it unfolds, but NO ONE in private industry that does business with China, for example, would disagree that they've been screwing us for decades. Time for action was 10+ years ago.......so at least someone is on the case, looking out for OUR interests.

Businesses are taxpayers too.

Why isn't this tax payer give away bothersome to MC?

Ask and he shall receive!!!! whether Christian, Muslim, jews, or Warmers, people do crazy shit in the name of their higher power

It also got the insurance industry out of the business for the first few thousand in annual customer spending. I get it, consumers NOW have incentive to shop around. But too bad it wasn't sold that way to the public. Fucking liars.