Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   China Date:   4/6/2023 12:42:46 PM

When I am in the car, I lsiten to a variety of news broadcasts.  There is a lot being said about China that is not on the national news, and most of it centers on China and what they are up to.  Even if only half of it is true, it's distrubing and worrisom.  After Biden jumped on the limb and immediately said we would defense Taiwan if China attacked, now they are walking back.  They didn't publicly support the Speaker meeting with the President of Taiwan, nothing about the bloccade that China is attempting to do around Taiwan, nothing about China's vast increase in their nuclear capability and their threat to the US on Taiwan.  The news is not reporting much on the role Xi has taken up in the MIddle East, and his visit to France and Macron.  Journalists are not reporting on what is being done to our military - being treated as a social experiment instead of a premier fighting force.  Also, NK is threatening us with a nuclear attack.They aren't talking about how dependent we are on getting electronic parts from Taiwan.  They aren't paying attention to what is going on internationally, and it does not appear that the old fool iin the WH is concerned in the least.  

Earlier this year, Biden went to the oil producers and asked that they increase production - instead they voted to decrease production.  In the past, Saudi Arabia tried to support the US, and all of us reember that during the Trump years, we were much less dependent on foreign oil.  Now they laugh at us.  

Our country is in grave condition.  The vast majority of Americans don't know about economics to ask the hard questios.  They don't know enough about national security to ask the hard questions.  One opinion piece I read suggested that as long as people had their phone and their internet connection, it wouldn't matter to them if our country collapsed.