What a trillion dollars buys
The absolute worst foreign policy was opening trade to Red China
JUL 29, 2026.1/3
I may be the only person left in the world to call the land Red China, but that does not make me wrong. Chairman Xi runs the joint and he is the president of the Chinese Communist Party—the largest political party in the world.
On February 28, 1972, President Nixon visited Peking. Nixon went to Red China seeking to exploit the divide between Moscow and Mao. Driving a wedge between them helped hasten the end of the Soviet Union, but look at what Red China got out of the deal.
Over the next 54 years, Red China cheated, stole and lied its way to world economic domination. Last year, despite President Trump’s tariffs, the Evil Empire posted a record trade surplus of $1.2 trillion.
While our government is adding $2 trillion a year to the national debt to fluff the economy,Red China is raking in a trillion bucks a year in profit.
That’s a lot of money to spread around the world.
It owns colleges and universities across America and the Western world. Politicians too. Its 2025 plan from 10 years ago seems to be on target.
Consider steel. In 2025, Red China produced 961 million tons. The total global output was 1,849 million tons.
India was the runner-up at 165 million tons. The USA was third with 82 million tons. Japan was fourth with 81 million tons.
The political push worldwide to fight global cooling/global warming/climate change requires everywestern nation to make sacrifices while Red China and India get a pass. Red China found a way to profit from this egregious error:
Itdominates solar panelsand supply chain production, accountingfor 80% of global manufacturingcapacity (polysilicon, wafers, cells, and modules.
Red Chinaproduces 70% of EV batteries. Chinese firms dominate cell and material supply.
Half the electric vehicles in the world are made in Red China. It also is the world’s top overall vehicle producer (about one-third of global output).
Red China makes 60% of the windmills.
It processes 90% of rare earthelements including lithium, cobalt and graphite.
And of course,Red China leads the world in manmade viruses. Satan doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks about biological warfare.
Economic modernization took off under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms from late 1978 onward.Autonomy gradually was given to the people running state companies.
Red China followed the same game planthat Germany and Japan did to become manufacturing power—exploit the good will of Americans. Our economy was so big in the 1950s that we thought we could just buy their trinkets and toys and help them climb out of their bombed-out bunkers, and they did.
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