Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz: The World’s Wealthy Old Widow (the U.S.) Selling Her Crown Jewels To Survive

[johnkarls]

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It is respectfully suggested that you make a list of your own questions that are provoked by “On Xi Jinping” – since all of us are unique and your questions are worth discussing also!!!


Question

Kevin Rudd starts right off (Preface first page, first sentence) saying the purpose of “On Xi Jinping” is to answer two questions (“What does Xi Jinping actually believe? And what are his plans for China’s and the world’s future?”) – but in negotiations, aren’t most business people worldwide at least subconsciously “reading” the other person’s “body language,” tone of voice, facial expressions, etc., etc. (and how they change in response to various stimuli) when they negotiate??? Aren’t such things often more important than what an adversary might want???

Answer 1

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Question 2

In other words, is a real negotiation aimed at fooling an adversary into believing that s/he is agreeing to something s/he wants anyway??? Or is it aimed at getting an adversary to give up something s/he wants???

Answer 2

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Question 3

Isn’t China already getting everything it wants???

Answer 3

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Question 4

In other words, isn’t America like an elderly but wealthy widow who is selling off her crown jewels in order to get others to take care of her???

Answer 4

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Question 5

And isn’t China delighted to have its poor workers manufacture everything for the elderly widow rather than the widow “lifting a finger” to have her own workers do anything???

Answer 5

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Question 6

And isn’t it even far worse than that???

Answer 6

Please read on Q&A-7 through Q&A-10.

Question 7

Isn’t America THE WORLD’S elderly but wealthy widow who is selling off her crown jewels???

Answer 7

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Question 8

In other words, countries other than China are creating trade barriers aimed at American workers so that all of the world’s other countries can obtain American dollars with which to hire, to the extent they run a trade surplus vis-à-vis the U.S., cheap Chinese workers???

Answer 8

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Question 9

So instead of selling their own crown jewels, only the idiot Americans are doing so??? And doing so for the entire world???

Answer 9

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Question 10

So why would China ever want to negotiate with us if we are already committing suicide???

Answer 10

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Question 11

And why would we have any use for an academic like Kevin Rudd who thinks he knows what Xi Jinping actually believes and what his plans are for China’s and the world’s future???

Answer 11

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Question 12

In other words, don’t we “have to get our heads screwed on straight” and wake up to reality??? Rather than prepare to die like a wealthy elderly widow???

Answer 12

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Question 13

BTW, don’t we need to do something about all those self-congratulating “citizens of the world” who live in America and have American citizenship but, as soon as they invent something, immediately hire cheap Chinese workers-to manufacture it???

Answer 13

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Question 14

And what about all those crown jewels – American farmland, American companies, American technology, etc., etc.???

Answer 14

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Question 15

Does it look like I got past page 1 of Kevin Rudd’s Preface so far???

Answer 15

Obviously not.

Question 16

After all, am I not too heavily influenced by the history of how America got into this morass 30-40 years ago when U.S. multinational-companies began forming non-resident Singapore subsidiaries to hire cheap Chinese workers to manufacture the US-MNC’s products using the US-MNC’s technology under the US-MNC’s supervision???

Answer 16

Absolutely!!!

Question 17

Wasn’t this structuring invented by the U.S. tax advisers of the US-MNC’s in order to escape U.S. taxation of the worldwide profits of the US-MNC’s???

Answer 17

Absolutely!!!

Question 18

HOWEVER, didn’t this structure mean that the US-MNC’s could NOT bring their worldwide profits home to the US but, as a practical matter, had to loan their profits to the UNRELATED CHUMP companies that had NOT exported American jobs???

Answer 18

Absolutely!!!

Question 19

Did this mean that Microsoft for example, which had more than $1 TRillion in its non-resident Singapore subs, was valued (as was often reported in the financial press) by stock analysts as a bank rather than as a software company???

Answer 19

Absolutely!!! Though the media, outside the financial press, took no notice!!!

Question 20

Did this mean that the “2008 economic meltdown” was really caused by U.S. legislation that permitted these constipated profits to be repatriated for a special one-time-only 5.25% US tax (vs. the then-normal 35% tax) – because, suddenly, those supposedly-offshore funds which were NOT stuffed in Singapore mattresses but had long-since been loaned to the CHUMP American companies that had NOT exported American jobs in order to finance their payrolls and “bricks and mortar” – NOW had to be suddenly repaid by the Chump companies???

Answer 20

Absolutely!!!

Question 21

Are American pols and the media still ignorant of the true cause of the “2008 economic meltdown”???

Answer 21

So it would appear!!!

Question 22

Did the “proof in the pudding” come in 2018???

Answer 22

Absolutely!!!

Question 23

And are American pols and the media still ignorant???

Answer 23

So it would appear!!!

Question 24

But isn’t it true that the so-called “2008 economic meltdown” was about to be repeated because the non-resident Singapore subs had become constipated once more with $4 - $5 TRillion that had again been loaned to the CHUMP American companies that had NOT exported American jobs and now Congress had passed new legislation to exempt such profits entirely from tax???

Answer 24

Absolutely!!!

Question 25

And didn’t our organization send a Certified-Mail Return-Receipt letter to each of the 12 Presidents of the 12 Regional Federal Reserve Banks to tutor them about all this???

Answer 25

Absolutely!!!

Question 26

After all, hadn’t their 12 predecessors in 2008 “run around like chickens with their heads cut off” complaining that the CHUMP U.S. companies had suddenly lost their financing – WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHY OR WHAT THEY, THE FED REGIONAL PRESIDENTS, SHOULD DO TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM???

Answer 26

Absolutely!!!

Question 27

Did our tutoring the 12 Presidents of the 12 Regional Federal Reserve Banks succeed in avoiding in 2018 another 2008 “economic meltdown”???

Answer 27

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Question 28

And can’t any “Doubting Thomas” read a sample letter sent to those 12 Presidents of the 12 Regional Federal Reserve Banks available for download at viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1685&sid=abe2d8f6b ... 64fcf08e8d?

Answer 28

Absolutely!!!

Question 29

But didn’t I just destroy my own thesis countering Kevin Rudd to the effect that knowledge is not so important as negotiating skill???

Answer 29

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Question 30

Or have I made a different but legitimate point that knowledge ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD (vs. the secret dreams of an adversary) is important???

Answer 30

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