The Chinese surely understand how international trade negotiations work, & they also understand bribery, extortion, market manipulations, & disruption of supply chain through competitive maneuvering. So, suffice it to say that the Chinese aren’t nearly as naïve as many in the Western World might assume. In fact, in many regards China sees trade as just another lesser version of war, & in case you forgot Sun Tzu was Chinese – so, the only folks naïve are those who think the Chinese are somehow lesser in strategic trade issues or ignorant to business affairs. They are running their own game plan & thus, recognize when someone is trying to pull over a fast one on them. Okay so, let’s take all this to a higher level & leave the Council on Foreign relations, EU’s Belgium know-it-alls, UN diatribes, & the WTO’s loosely enforced rhetoric out of it for a moment.
It appears that the whole Airliner Cap & Trade (tax & fee) program has been concocted by a few higher-ups at the EU who are perpetuating the Global Warming Theory (myth) which states that emissions of CO2 from human industry & activities are causing the planet to melt? Now then, there was an interesting article recently in the Wall Street Journal entitled; “China Envoy Backs Shunning of Airbus,” by Daniel Michaels published on 3/10/2012 which discussed some sharp words coming out of a Brussels meeting recently. The article stated that; “China’s ambassador to the EU said that “it makes sense for Chinese Airlines to shun Europe’s Airbus planes in favor of competing American models from Boeing Company in response to the EU’s new levies on aviation greenhouse emissions.” Of course it does, it makes a lot of sense, especially as it really appeared to me to be an extortion like move from the EU to get Chinese Airlines to buy Airbus jets, which would have re-balanced trade surpluses slightly & put 10s of thousands of folks to work in factories building those jets – along with another win for Global Warming Alarmists showing they can control markets & introduce a new form of currency to control & force environmentalism down the throats of nations world-wide, while also keeping Chinese, Russian, African, Indonesian low-cost carries with older aircraft out of the lucrative European airline markets. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6932471
