You have probably heard about – and may even know – people who refused to buy VWs and Mercedes-Benzes because of the dealings of those companies with the government of national socialist Germany during the years the national socialists ran Germany. Well, how about cars made under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party?
You know, Teslas.
Word has just leached out that Elon Musk will be importing a Chinese executive to oversee the new Tesla plant in Austin, Texas. His name is Tom Zhu and The Street says the Texas gig may be just a stepping stone to his next gig as the future CEO of Tesla.
Some might say this is comparable to having someone like Martin Bormann – a high official of the national socialist government of Germany – oversee a VW plant in America.
It’s worse, arguably – because there weren’t any VW (or other German) automobile plants in America while the national socialists were in power in Germany. By the time there were, the national socialists hadn’t been in control of Germany for decades. Buying a VW or Benz or Audi years after the national socialists had been removed from power did not empower national socialists.
But what about buying a Tesla built by a company that not only has direct ties to China but has a senior executive who is an emissary-agent of the Chinese Communist Party?
No one becomes a senior executive in China who is not approved by the Chinese Communist Party, which controls everything in China.
Put more bluntly, it means that Zhu does what he is told by the Chinese Communist Party.
And now he will be here in America – in Texas – doing what he is told by the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhu previously oversaw the building of Tesla’s so-called “Supercharger” network of “fast” electric car chargers in Shanghai. His new, possibly stepping-stone gig in Texas will be to “ramp up” the Giga Texas factory where the Tesla Model Y and – supposedly – Cybertruck – will be built.
All of this is interesting on a number of levels, the most obvious being that China is very interested in controlling American transportation. Just as it effectively controls American communications, via the smartphones that are almost all made in China. Ever wonder what the Chinese Communist Party may have had embedded in the phone you’re carrying around? The one that can be used to track and control you – as they do with smartphones in China?
It is established that the app Tik Tok many Americans have on their phones is a Chinese-developed/Chinese-owned data-mining/propaganda-propagation tool that does what the Chinese Communist Party tells it to do.
To America.
Controlling Americans will be greatly facilitated by getting Americans into electric cars – and not just those made by Tesla. All electric cars depend upon components largely made in China and so under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. Which means the Chinese Communist Party has an effective controlling stake in American electric car production, too.
There is a great deal of money involved.
That is the lever the Chinese Communist Party will use to get American car companies to do what the Chinese Communist Party wants them to do – to Americans.
Just as the money controlled by the Chinese Communist Party exerts a controlling influence over American entertainment. Viz, Tom Cruise – a massively rich movie star – who was obliged to kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party by removing the “offensive” patch depicting the flag of Taiwan from his aviator jacket in the recently released sequel to the classic Top Gun movie of the ’80s. The latter was filmed before the Chinese Communist Party gained leverage over Hollywood.
The Chinese Communist Party also wields immense leverage over American professional athletics. Viz, the kowtowing of the National Basketball Association to the Chinese Communist Party’s umbrage over “offensive” Tweets made by former Houston Rockets General Manage Daryl Morey about “standing with Hong Kong.”
Better sit down. Good doggie!
The New York Post – one of the few practitioners of journalism remaining in America – observed the following in an article earlier this year:
“Nets owner Joe Tsai, the executive vice chairman of Chinese firm Alibaba, has 53.5 percent of his wealth tied to China. Other owners named with big business in China included the Heat’s Micky Arison, the Grizzlies’ Robert Pera, the Sixers’ Josh Harris and the Rockets’ Tilman Fertitta. Michael Jordan, who owns the Hornets, also has an enormous brand in China through his affiliation with Nike’s Jordan Brand.”
This is how the Chinese Communist Party has acquired a controlling interest in America. And Tesla is a kind of American subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party. One that will perhaps shortly be headed in America by a representative of the Chinese Communist Party.
Martin Bormann, phone home.
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I don’t see much difference in buying a vehicle made by Chinese Communists and buying one made by American Communists like the UAW.
Well, I guess you’re also supporting their political party, so maybe it’s better to support someone you don’t have to directly vote against.
The Climate Change Cult & authoritarians drunk with power would LOVE to implement climate lockdowns here in the U.S……
http://endoftheamericandream.com/climate-change-lockdowns-yup-they-are-actually-going-there/
Eric,
Funny that you didn’t mention Henry Ford selling trucks to Nazi Germany. Both before and during the war. Playing both sides has always been how the rich got richer.
Hi DL,
True. Your point is well-taken.
Wish I knew how to do that line-strike thingy:
Playing both sides has always been [not how the rich got richer] rather, it’s: the powerful get more power & control.
…’Cause, it ain’t about money.
Watch the movie “Coming Out of the Ice” which is based on a true story. Ford sent whole plants to the Soviet Union in the 1930’s.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oXf3Wl8wDUa5/
Ford, in spite of his Dearborn Independent newspaper and allegations that “Bolshevism” was a Jewish plot, still built factories in the Soviet Union, including the Kama River truck plant, which produces mainly military equipment.
Every Ivy Leaguer in the United States looked at Tiananmen Square, along with all the events leading up to that (and the fall of the Soviet Union) and figured the CCP was about to be toast. And nothing like a billion new customers to focus your attention. But instead of putting the screws to the CCP, they started to beleive they somehow had changed. And they did the deals, got themselves in bed and thought they were right. They were going to reform a billion people. The hubris!
Then came the thumb on the scale. “Favored Nation Status” and a fast track into the WTO. Who cares about a few human rights violations? They’ll come around in no time! And the citizenry will uprise if the CCP doesn’t fix their problems, right? Those same citizens who think it’s OK to use cooking oil they pumped out of the sewers, eat bugs and remove toilet paper from public restrooms. Wall street won’t pay for plant upgrades here, but gladly finance new build over there. The Chinese Postal Service offered manufacturers free shipping on anything exported.
Meanwhile we’re all scratching our heads trying to figure out how a product could be so cheap. Oh, it’s labor, we’re told. No, not just labor, it’s the free shipping, no hazmat cleanup and no patent or copyright fees. And a blind eye to the back door of the factory too.
And now just like the Japanese in the 1980s, the Chinese are looking to buy. Except this time it seems to be more about souls than real estate…
RE: “just like the Japanese in the 1980s, the Chinese are looking to buy.”
This, imho, was some interesting sheet:
‘The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 1: Food’
Why the CCP may not survive the coming crisis they have caused
https://crisiswatch.substack.com/p/the-coming-removal-of-the-mandate?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&s=r
…Seems to me, they’re in a pickle.
A big un.
What’s a few million deaths when you have a billion souls at your disposal?
What does Musk get from this? What in the hell would possess anyone to hire such a CCP proxy as their CEO? It SEEMS Musk likes to think for himself, at least at times, so why be subject to the whims of the communist Chinese?
China’s state apparatchik clandestinely baited the family members of the Obama-era vice president and secretary of state into joint business ventures in order to surreptitiously influence the trade and economic policies of the US government favoring China’s geo-economic interests spanning the globe.
“Hunter Biden partnered with the Chinese state. Entire investment partnership is Chinese state money from social security fund to China Development Bank. It is actually a subsidiary of the Bank of China. This is not remotely anything less than a Chinese state-funded play.
“Though the entire size of the fund cannot be reconstructed, the Taiwanese cofounder who is now detained in China, reports it to be NOT $1-1.5 billion but $6.5 billion. This would make Hunters stake worth at a minimum at least $50 million if he was to sell it.
“The believed Godfather arranging Hunter’s business ventures is a gentleman named Yang Jiechi. He is currently the CCP Director of Foreign Affairs leading strategist for America, Politburo member, one of the most powerful men in China, and Chinese President Xi Jingpin’s confidant.
“He met regularly with Joe Biden during his stint as Chinese ambassador the US when Biden chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Later he was Minister of Foreign Affairs when the investment partnership was made official in 2013.
“Hunter Biden’s 2013 Bohai Harvest Rosemont investment partnership was set-up by Ministry of Foreign Affairs institutions which are tasked with garnering influence with foreign leaders during Yang’s tenure as Foreign Minister.
“Hunter’s BHR stake (purchased for $400,000) is now likely be worth approx. $50 million (fees and capital appreciation based on BHR’s $6.5 billion AUM as stated by Michael Lin).
“Joe Biden’s foreign policy stance towards China (formerly hawkish), turned positive despite China’s country’s rising geopolitical assertiveness.”
In addition, China is alleged to practice “debt-trap diplomacy” for buying entire governments through extending financial grants and loans, and what better way to buy the rival government of the United States than by financing the Biden campaign through bestowing financial largesse on the Biden and John Kerry families and other prominent former officials of the Obama-Biden administration.
In an exclusive report for the Breitbart New on October 16, Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner allege that newly obtained emails from a former business associate of Hunter Biden’s inner-circle reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors—including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former vice president.
“On November 5, 2011, one of Archer’s business contacts forwarded him an email teasing an opportunity to gain ‘potentially outstanding new clients’ by helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials.
“The group was the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the delegation included Chinese billionaires, Chinese Communist Party loyalists, and at least one ‘respected diplomat’ from Beijing. Despite its benign name, CEC has been called ‘a second foreign ministry’ for the People’s Republic of China—a communist government that closely controls most businesses in its country. CEC was established in 2006 by a group of businessmen and Chinese government diplomats.
“CEC’s leadership boasts numerous senior members of the Chinese Communist Party, including Wang Zhongyu (vice chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the Party group), Ma Weihua (director of multiple Chinese Communist Party offices), and Jiang Xipei (member of the Chinese Communist Party and representative of the 16th National Congress), among others.
“‘I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,’ an intermediary named Mohamed A. Khashoggi wrote on behalf of the CEC to an associate of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer. ‘A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff’s office and John Kerry would be great.’
“The gross income of the CEC members’ companies allegedly ‘totaled more than renminbi 1.5 trillion, together accounting for roughly 4% of China’s GDP.’ The overture to Hunter Biden’s associates described the Chinese CEC members variously as ‘industrial elites,’ ‘highly influential,’ and among ‘the most important private sector individuals in China today,’ dubbed as the China Inc.
“Hunter Biden and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the Chinese Communist Party-connected industrial elites within ten days … The Obama-Biden administration archives reveal that this Chinese delegation did indeed visit the White House on November 14, 2011, and enjoyed high-level access.
“The visitor logs list Jeff Zients, the deputy director of Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as the host of the CEC delegation. Obama had tasked Zients with restructuring and ultimately consolidating the various export-import agencies under the Commerce Department—an effort in which the Chinese delegation would have a keen interest.”
Schweizer suggests that the meeting may have opened the door for Hunter and Devon Archer down the road—as just two years later they formed the Chinese government-funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund which saw Chinese money pour into it for investments in CEC-linked businesses.
During the last decade, all the manufacturing has outsourced to China, Chinese entrepreneurs are stealing American jobs and the American working classes are finding it hard to make ends meet, yet neoliberal Democrats are dogmatically sticking with market fundamentalism of globalization and free trade.
According to the report, “One of BHR’s first major portfolio investments was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache—now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi, the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings—the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest computer companies. Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House. His daughter was the President of Didi.”
After reading the names of these high-profile Chinese business and political elites visiting the White House and cultivating personal friendships and business relationships in the highest echelons of the Obama-Biden administration, one wonders whether the latter formulated trade and economic policies serving the interests of the American masses or took care of financial stakes of global power elites.
In order to understand the real and perceived grievances of Donald Trump’s “alt-right” electoral base, we need to understand the prevailing global economic order and its prognosis. The predictions of pragmatic economists about free market capitalism have turned out to be true. A kind of global economic entropy has set into motion, and money is flowing from the area of high monetary density to the area of low monetary density.
The rise of BRICS countries in the 21st century is the proof of this tendency. BRICS are growing economically because the labor in developing economies is cheap; labor laws and rights are virtually nonexistent; expenses on creating a safe and healthy work environment are minimal; regulatory framework is lax; expenses on environmental protection are negligible; taxes are low; and, in the nutshell, windfalls for multinational corporations are massive.
Thus, BRICS are threatening the global economic monopoly of the Western capitalist bloc: North America and Western Europe. Here we need to understand the difference between manufacturing sector and services sector. Manufacturing sector is the backbone of economy; one cannot create a manufacturing base overnight.
It is based on hard assets: the national economies need raw materials; production equipment; transport and power infrastructure; and, last but not the least, a technically educated labor force. It takes decades to build and sustain a manufacturing base. But the services sector, like the Western financial institutions, can be built and dismantled in a relatively short period of time.
If we take a cursory look at the economy of the Western capitalist bloc, it has still retained some of its high-tech manufacturing base, but it is losing fast to the cheaper and equally robust manufacturing base of the developing BRICS nations. Everything is made in China these days, except for high-tech microprocessors, software, several internet giants, some pharmaceutical products, the Big Oil and the military hardware and defense production industry.
Apart from that, the entire economy of the Western capitalist bloc is based on financial institutions: the behemoth investment banks that dominate and control the global economy, like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs in the US; BNP Paribas and Axa Group in France; Deutsche Bank and Allianz Group in Germany; and Barclays and HSBC in the UK.
After establishing the fact that the Western economy is mostly based on its financial services sector, we need to understand its implications. Like I have contended earlier that it takes time to build a manufacturing base, but it is relatively easy to build and dismantle an economy based on financial services.
Moreover, the manufacturing sector is labor-intensive whereas the financial services sector is capital-intensive, therefore the latter does not create as much job opportunities to keep the workforce of a nation gainfully employed and sufficiently remunerated as the industrial sector does.
Although the bankers and corporate executives of the Western economies are the beneficiaries of such exploitative practices, the middle and working classes are suffering. Besides the Trump supporters in the United States, the far-right populist leaders in Europe are also exploiting popular resentment against free trade and globalization.
The Brexiteers in the United Kingdom, the Yellow Vest protesters in France and the far-right movements in Germany and across Europe are a manifestation of a paradigm shift in the global economic order in which nationalist and protectionist slogans have replaced the free trade and globalization mantra of the nineties.
Though the “alt-right agenda” of the Trump presidency has been scuttled by the political establishment and the deep state, Trump’s views regarding global politics and economics are starkly different from the establishment Democrats and Republicans pursuing neoliberal economics masqueraded as globalization and free trade.
With his anti-globalist and protectionist agenda, Trump represents a paradigm shift in the global economic order. Trump withdrawing the United States from multilateral treaties, restructuring trade agreements, bringing investments and employments back to the US and initiating a trade war against China are a silent revolution against neoliberal ideals of globalization and free trade of which China is the new beneficiary with its strong manufacturing base and massive export potential.
Thus, it’s only natural for the Chinese government to try to oust Trump from the presidency with all available means, including providing financial support to his neoliberal Democratic rivals, favoring globalization and free trade, in the upcoming US presidential elections slated for November 3. Trump lost……
Your government is pushing EV’s? Why?
Re: EV’s and grid upgrade equipment……
China has infiltrated all levels of governments, taken control, (check out the leftist/communist takeover), your politicians bought off, paid to push the EV agenda.
Anybody pushing EV’s is a paid ccp shill.
Who benefits the most from the EV vehicle conversion? china does.
All the most important components in the new EV’s are all made in china.
80% of the lithium fire bomb batteries in EV’s are made in china….in factories powered by coal….lol
Then you are dependent on china for replacement parts, etc., in effect they take over the whole vehicle supply chain. Vehicle production then centralized in China.
the chinese are taking over the electric car market, they are starting to export their EV’s worldwide, their EV’s are supposed to be advanced and cheap, they will kill off the other manufacturers……
the chinese make most of the chips, maybe the shortage was to help their EV launch….lots of their cars coming here soon
at this rate everyone will be driving a chinese car soon, a lot of electronics in your car are made there already…….
no wonder tesla moved a lot of production to china…
china…..it is where most rare earths are processed; and most of the mineral supply-chains for electric vehicles lead there, with existing supply sewn up.
With more EV’s the grid has to be upgraded, most of the equipment for expanding the grid is made in china.
The largest beneficiaries are the Chinese manufacturers of electric transformers, cables, generators, etc. since almost none of that stuff is made anywhere else anymore.
If there is a war and china detonates a neutron bo mb that takes out the grid, they get to supply all the replacement equipment, another win for them.
What about all the vac cin,,,,,es and drugs the government has been pushing, all the ingredients come from china, they benefited the most from the bat germ bs narrative.
china was chosen to lead the wef great reset, they probably cooperate to help their own agenda
My schadenfreude will be satisfied by seeing these Chinese collaborator corporations all get their comeuppance when the slave labor protesters are burning the Apple factories and the Nike factories to the ground.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
Like I needed another excuse not to get a Douchella or Rolling Crematorium.
Im with Miles Guo, lets take down the CCP!
Why worry –the big guy and his drug addled son; the Bushes, the Mcconnell’s, et al will be just fine. Heck, Eric Swalwell may get some new fang fang to bang bang. /s/
‘This is how the Chinese Communist Party has acquired a controlling interest in America.’ — eric
Which is worse, the Chicoms, or the internally spying, warmongering US fedgov? For me, it’s a toss-up.
Put it this way: if I could buy a Chinese cell phone that probably spies for the commies, versus an Apple or Android phone that’s definitely compromised by the NSA and FBI, probably I’d tilt for the Chinese phone.
Why? Because given the hostility between these two global hegemons, data stolen by China isn’t gonna be shared with the US fedgov. Hell, China likely would encourage secession movements, an agenda which definitely would get you on an FBI monitoring list via Android.
Since there are no good governments, the best we can do is play off one murderous mafia against the other, just as they themselves cynically do on the global stage.
Jim,
Really, what’s the difference? The only reason the US Psychopaths In Charge don’t like the Chinese Psychopaths In Charge is that the US Psychopaths In Charge aren’t in charge of China. Otherwise, those of the US appear to me to be pursuing the exact same goals as those in China.
Jim & John,
Absolutely agree, doesn’t make any difference what group of control freak psychos spies on us and steals our money and freedom. The end result is the same.
Jim H said “Hell, China likely would encourage secession movements”
They likely already are, but by celebrating the freakshow that has become education and higher learning, not secession. The history of the CCP included the Cultural Revolution. Everyone in the party is damn well aware of what happens to a country when you cut off your brain to spite your body. There are a billion Chinese people, so training a few million shitposters on social media to retweet blue haired freaks is nothing. Seems like one heck of a way to put the US populace against the intellectuals.
For many years David Icke has been exposing Musk:
“David Icke analyzes Elon Musk’s role in the global technocratic dictatorship now under construction. Even though Musk has warned that artificial intelligence could lead to the end of humanity, he remains in the forefront of the movement. He created a company called NeuroLink to connect the human brain to computers, and his SpaceX operation now is putting tens-of-thousands of satellites into space to beam 5G at the Earth, designed to become the backbone for a human-control and surveillance grid. Icke believes that, when Musk warns about the danger of Technology, he is merely pretending in an attempt to convince the public that he is on the side of caution and sanity. This is a tactic known as controlled opposition. Technocracy is defined as the control of government, society, and industry by an elite of technical experts. Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was the head of Canada’s technocracy movement in the 1930s. -GEG”
ELON MUSK IS NOT WHO WE THINK HE IS! By David Icke
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SkFHThFmFCW2/