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    The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics
    The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics
    The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics
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    The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics

    By Martin Ravas

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    Different cultural and business practices lead to an uneven trade between China and the West,benefitting China disproportionately. New approach by the West is needed to remedy the situation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Ravas
    Release dateMar 23, 2024
    ISBN9798224539895
    The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics

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      Book preview

      The Masterplan With Chinese Characteristics - Martin Ravas

      The Masterplan

      With Chinese Characteristics

      主要计划

      China’s Neo-Imperial Strategy

      And The End of America’s Illusions

      Contents

      Foreword  .......................................................pages:     2-15 

      Imperial Dynasties of China...........................pages:    16-23

      The Consolidation of Power...........................pages:     24-30

      The Old Imperial Philosophies........................pages:    32-46

      Mistrust of China’s Motives is Growing........pages:    47-52

      The Realignment..............................................pages:  52-76

      China’s Territorial Disputes.............................pages:  76-83

      China’s growing Military Might......................pages:  84-88

      China’s Economic Strategy..............................pages:  88-93

      American and Allied Response.......................pages:  93-101

      Index/References..............................................pages:  102-108

      Foreword.

      It only takes a walk through the side streets of Detroit, for example, for you to start noticing that something isn’t right.

      You begin to notice that many roads and sidewalks are in disrepair, full of potholes and cracks. Walk a little farther away from the main thoroughfare, and the sight of numerous abandoned, crumbling houses and apartment buildings with boarded-up windows becomes commonplace.

      You realize it is difficult to call this prosperity, try as you might. Stagnation comes to mind, or even an outright economic decline.

      It strikes you odd because you remember the old ‘Motor City’ used to be full of economic activity, with up-to-date infrastructure, modern housing and recreational facilities. Workers had decent salaries and a sense of economic security. That prosperity gave rise to numerous service industries and a raucous nightlife to go along with, not so long ago.

      It was probably like that, because the cars you saw all around you had been made by American workers with substantial spending power, along with various corresponding employment benefits, right here, in Detroit.

      But that was then.

      Now, many of those cars are still ‘American’, but in the name only. (30) Many are made in China, by Chinese workers, then shipped back to the US as finished products. But it is the Chinese workers who get both the salaries, the benefits, and the spending power, instead of the American ones. Kind of hard to swallow because they told you that globalization would make America more prosperous. While GM claims it has not transferred any manufacturing to China, it has basically built most of the new plants there, instead of America. And as far as the American workers are concerned, that is tantamount to transferring production. Shutting down five plants in North America, including in Detroit, while focusing its growth on China, means the remaining US-based production has been substantially reduced. (31)

      Meanwhile, the ex-American workers are wandering the streets of Detroit, many unemployed and some even homeless.

      Because of the lost revenue for the local government, caused by the plant shutdown, the subsequent loss of local parts manufacturing companies and all the service industries which flourished along with it, a staggering 44% of all major roads and 53% of minor arterials in Detroit are now in poor condition or in disrepair. (29) There simply aren’t sufficient resources to patch things up, anymore.

      This type of situation is a direct result of globalization and outsourcing, mostly to China.

      This same bleak scenario is not limited to Detroit, either. A similar situation exists in many other cities, such as Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego, or Cleveland, just to name a few.

      Take a walk in San Francisco or Oakland, CA, the home of the famous ‘Silicon Valley. As in Detroit, the roads are falling apart. A whopping 71% of all major roads and 88% of minor arterials are in bad condition. (29) The homeless are taking over one neighborhood after another, living out of tents and cardboard boxes.

      Even though iPhones and various chips are still designed there, nearly all of their production has been outsourced. You guessed it, mostly to China. Needless to say, the production plants generate a lot more revenue, jobs, and side businesses than the design bureaus ever could.

      Apple let China learn from producing their phones there, and now a number of Chinese mobile phone makers dominate the world market. Xiaomi now even outsells iPhone and not only in China, but globally!

      While we are proud of our ‘American’ iPhones, what benefits do American workers have from them? Most of the benefits go to the Chinese workers, Chinese companies, and the Chinese state.

      And this same story goes for hundreds of other American and Western companies which either relocated or simply built up new factories overseas, mostly in China.

      Under our naive, ultra-liberal economic policies, exploited by a number of unscrupulous trading partners, more and more American cities are meeting the fate of Detroit, Oakland, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and others.

      Crumbling bridges, bad roads, collapsing buildings, abandoned shopping malls. The sight of the homeless, unemployed, and destitute people wandering aimlessly through the run-down neighborhoods, living out of tents and card boxes, is becoming more common by the day, across America.

      It should be obvious by now, to all concerned, that we no longer have the luxury to have our companies’ products made overseas by foreign workers, especially in China. To add insult to injury, then have many of them even shipped back to America as finished products, robbing our own people of livelihoods. Americans now need those jobs and the spending power that comes with them, more than ever.

      Not all can be blamed on China, however.

      Excessive affirmative action, equality drives, and benefit demands by our workers are at least some of the reasons our companies either transfer production overseas or start building new factories there, instead of home.

      Furthermore, the American government needs better oversight and regulation of large multinational companies, in order to give small and medium-sized businesses a better fighting chance. For it is they which traditionally create jobs in inner cities for the lower-skilled workers.

      Chinese workers do not get the kind of benefits American

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