You know, I read once a psychoanalysis of Adolph Hitler that theorized that the reason he almost always posed for photographs with his hands over his genitalia was because of embarrassment over some defect, deformity, or dysfunction...down there. I have never read a theory of why Secretary Clinton would have her hands posed like that.
Paramount Leader Hu Jintao of China arrived yesterday. And there were meetings and dinners and I was not invited to any of these meetings and dinners. That's okay.
What are they talking about at these meetings? As I understand the agenda it is this:
1. North Korea. Obama to Hu: control them. No. The president ought to say to the premier that the U.S. is getting out of South Korea, where we don't belong and have no interest and have stayed twenty-one years too long, that is since the end of the cold war. There will be a "timetable" for withdrawal. The president ought to say to Hu that if in that interregnum one hair on the chinny-chin-chin of one American soldier in South Korea is harmed, the U.S. will irradiate Kim Jong Il's nation of racist dwarfs out of existence. How long can that talk take?
2. Taiwan. See North Korea.
3. Human rights. Obama to Hu: Free Lu Xiaobo, et al. No. That is none of the U.S. government's business. If the U.S. wants to deal with China on a governmental level, it must accept that that government is going to conduct its internal affairs as it's going to conduct them. Barack Obama personally doesn't like what Hu Jintao does to his own people in his own country, I don't like it, you don't like it. It should not be any of the U.S.'s business at the governmental level. If the United Nations is good for anything, let them put pressure, in the name of all nations, on China. Another quick meeting.
4. Business. This is our business. China decided to go fascist after 1976, capitalist in economics, authoritarian in human rights. That is, China has decided to engage the world in business matters. Therefore, their business practices are not an internal matter. They are economic competitors of the U.S. I don't pretend to understand the details of the economic relationship, or of economics generally. I do understand what "dumping" means, what "internal barriers to trade" mean, what hacking into Google means, what stealing intellectual property means, and what an artificially undervalued currency means. And what all those together mean is that China is acting as an economic bully and hurting the U.S. economically. You have to push back when a bully pushes you (or so I say). The problem with economics is that if you pull on one strand of that spiderweb, the opposite end is affected. So pushing back too hard would mean tugging on that one strand of the web and China reacting by dumping it's reserves in U.S. treasury securities. I don't know what the precise economic term for the effect of that is, but in layman's terms it would F*** US UP. We don't wanted to get f***** up but we have to push back. There need to be concrete agreements: China will do these specific things to open up its market some to U.S. businesses. It will allow the yuan to appreciate by this much in this time frame. We can't threaten to steal Chinese intellectual property like they steal ours because the last thing China invented of any significance was explosives in 1161. We should absolutely sabotage Chinese websites like they did Google. The president ought to tell Premier Hu that if they don't stop it he's going to use his "moral suasion" as president to encourage Silicon Valley to hack into the Chinese government's official website to redirect all traffic to a gay porn site.
