Archive for November, 2011

China and the US – Trade within the Balance As Obama Plays Political Rhetoric With Hu

November 25th, 2011

So, how is President barack obama doing on his Asian APEX Economic trip? Well, things looked to become on a good start before the President of China gave Obama a lecture concerning the United States’ debt, and our very own economic challenges here at home as they debated within the Yuan currency issues. Interestingly enough, there wasn’t greatly talk about China’s intellectual property theft or the plastic particles within their rice exports amongst other activities.

There was a fascinating article in Terra Daily Online News within the Trade Wars Section titled; ” Obama tells Hu of American impatience with China,” by Staff Writers in Honolulu, Hawaii (AFP) and published on Nov 13, 2011. The content made reference to the Yuan Currency manipulation, among other things, and stated:

” Obama delivered the frank warning in talks around the eve of a major Asia-Pacific summit, a senior US official said, following the president earlier warned that China must “play by the rules” of international trade. But Hu retorted that the big rise in the yuan would not help the Usa, adding the united states trade deficit and unemployment were not caused by his country’s exchange rate policy, that they qualified as “responsible” and “Even if the yuan rises substantially, it will not solve problems faced through the United States.”

Okay so, it’s nice to see Obama playing all this out in the worldwide media, perhaps for brownie points here at home and also to show he’s standing up to China also when he makes his case to East Asia that if they need the united states Military to assist them against China’s encroachment, then they too need to play fair, buy US products, and not play games either.

What Obama ought to be telling China is the truth, when China keeps playing games the united states consumer stop buying all Chinese products completely, and boycott any company making products there, because that really is where the United states citizens are at at this time, and this election is coming up there is going to be plenty of animosity in the media. China needs to play fair or they’ll lose the united states market completely, and at this time they cannot afford that as the European consumer and marketplace is in a slow motion train wreck and contains already fallen from the proverbial economic cliff.

China isn’t who is fit either, therefore if they would like to still throw around rhetoric, then Obama will not be elected, and China requires a weak president like Obama because the Republicans will see to that China plays fair or they’ll close the lid on and use of US markets whatever the consequences, which will leave China like the Eurozone and also the US the last major market standing, combined with the Middle East, that do not appear to such as the Chinese all that much.

If Hu looks weak to his own country, instability is only a stone’s throw away due to inflation, jobs, civil unrest, along with other challenges in China right now, everything could collapse, right now they are able to hide the debris of their over-cooked economy, corruption, fraud, and banking realities. So, please consider all of this and be sure to consider onto it, since it is obvious that the game continues.

Egypt 25th January Revolution Message To The World

November 25th, 2011

On the 25th January, 2011 the whole of Egypt was taken by surprise; the young and the old, the rich and also the poor, the civilian and also the army and many of President Hosni Mubarak. Nobody might have really thought that such protests would have gathered such strength. However, the demonstrations, which then became the revolution, was started by the Egyptian youth after many years of protesting on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Through the previous years there have been small demonstrations, but especially after the newest fake parliament elections it was obvious that corruption had increased and the protest groups became larger, exploded on 25th January as revolution throughout Egypt It was time to create change happen instead of expect it.

So, the only way the voice of the youth might be heard was through social networking – the form of media that may ‘t be controlled by anyone – least of Hosni Mubarak. Obviously,

Egyptians everywhere were demanding more freedom, removing corruption and bribery in the core of gov departments, the change of the regime of the country which included Mubarak to step down and also the elimination of the Minister of Interior specifically because of the arrests and detaining of political people. We demanded the Emergency Law be cancelled so that the police no longer have the capacity to just arrest anyone they decide for any reason they choose. The best change required was the change of the constitution to ensure that anyone could candidate themselves to become president apart from the son of the previous president. This demand was met after a few times of protests. When the protestors realised their demands could really be met and their voices really were heard there was no stopping them and the protests became greater in number and in power. The youth asked for so much and also got it. This year the heavens opened plus they got more than they could ever have dreamed possible.

Little did people all over Egypt know that whatever they were hoping for were about to come true. Little did the world realize that hope and despair, frustration and anger, purpose and destiny were all boiling in the pot together which around the 25th January the pot would boil over and spill out to the streets for the entire world to see.

It has created a new face of Egypt. A face, which shows expression instead of hides it. A face that smiles from deep within in the changes and what this can mean for our children and our children’s children. A face with eyes that sparkle with hope and gladness. A face, which can look to see what changes are needed and may now speak for all those changes to come into position having a voice which speaks with respect to anyone who has no voice. The old face of Egypt showed powerlessness, poverty for many and despair that their country would not change so that they might enjoy the freedoms that many other countries enjoy. The changing face of Egypt was like a woman giving birth: painful, messy, long and tiring but yet with much spilt blood. But the baby was born – the future Egypt is here. A new era has dawned.

What exactly has been achieved at the beginning of this new trend? President Mubarak has changed all the ministers in his Cabinet and also the constitution continues to be changed to ensure that you can now choose to stand for election. Justice has also been served on the Minister of Interior and all sorts of the other corrupted ministers who are now facing court proceedings. There have also been many other political reforms, for instance: Egyptian parliament will be re-elected inside a free election with international control – without this protest Egypt would have stood under the dark clouds of control for maybe another 30 years and more. Changes produced in Egypt through the original youth protests have also secured democracy for people across the whole from the Middle East: similar constitutional changes have happened in China, Jordan and Yemen. Syria and Bahrain also have started demonstrating to attain what Egyptians all over the land have achieved in 2 weeks.

With this protest, Egypt will become, and already is, a so democratic society where the voices of the people determine what Egypt is going to be and can become again. The strength of the Ancient civilisation has risen again like a phoenix from the ashes. Egypt will require it’s right position on the planet now – no longer will we take place back.