Sunday, August 6, 2017
FATTENING UP HOLLOWING OUT FLATTENING DOWN CLASSIC POST AND REFERENCE
Thursday, July 8, 2010
PLAYING THREE SIDES IN THE COLD WAR
Another reference for my allusions to team play, playing both sides, and whatever else one can make of this.
Johnson has an interesting passage, in ...WHO GOVERNS? re Cold War trade with PRC, Taiwan, and US, simultaneously, although he also points out it was not a one way street. P. 235 and following
Johnson has an interesting passage, in ...WHO GOVERNS? re Cold War trade with PRC, Taiwan, and US, simultaneously, although he also points out it was not a one way street. P. 235 and following
Monday, September 13, 2010
MISE EN SCENE RE CHINA JAPAN AMERICA KRUGMAN NYT TODAY DE LA TOUR CARD PLAYERS THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS FRIENDS
He talks about sharp, simple realities, re currencies, bonds, trade, jobs etc.
American policymakers, 'being taken', goes way back. See some of the prior posts, 'Playing Three Sides In the Cold War', Team Play, Maverick, etc.
There are sharper, simpler, realities, however.
One could do an interesting cartoon, using de la Tour's The Ace of Diamonds, or The Ace of Clubs, as a model.
Uncle Sam would be the 'taken' old lady, but would have to be in drag for this one; it's not that far fetched. Could also be the Maverick Executive in drag.
Cards could also double for currency, and for bonds.
MISE EN SCENE:
To one side, a fireplace; at the hearth a large long metal log poker, labelled 'Wittgenstein's Poker' (or 'Wittgenstein's Wien'). On the playing table, an elaborate decanter, glasses all around, the decanter labelled 'Gin'.
One player, call her Europa, is nodding off. Another, an Asian male, whispering to a third, Asian male, next to the nodder, 'Poke Her'. The Maverick, on the other side of nodder, gesticulating "Pop Her" (Popper).The Caption above might Read
"Trading Poker (Popper):
The Open Society and Its Friends"
The one below, being announced apparently by the old Lady Uncle Sam Maverick, laying down her cards on the table, the one word
"Gin".
American policymakers, 'being taken', goes way back. See some of the prior posts, 'Playing Three Sides In the Cold War', Team Play, Maverick, etc.
There are sharper, simpler, realities, however.
One could do an interesting cartoon, using de la Tour's The Ace of Diamonds, or The Ace of Clubs, as a model.
Uncle Sam would be the 'taken' old lady, but would have to be in drag for this one; it's not that far fetched. Could also be the Maverick Executive in drag.
Cards could also double for currency, and for bonds.
MISE EN SCENE:
To one side, a fireplace; at the hearth a large long metal log poker, labelled 'Wittgenstein's Poker' (or 'Wittgenstein's Wien'). On the playing table, an elaborate decanter, glasses all around, the decanter labelled 'Gin'.
One player, call her Europa, is nodding off. Another, an Asian male, whispering to a third, Asian male, next to the nodder, 'Poke Her'. The Maverick, on the other side of nodder, gesticulating "Pop Her" (Popper).The Caption above might Read
"Trading Poker (Popper):
The Open Society and Its Friends"
The one below, being announced apparently by the old Lady Uncle Sam Maverick, laying down her cards on the table, the one word
"Gin".
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
PLAYING THREE SIDES ECONOMISTS' ACCOUNTS OF THE RISE OF CHINA SINCE 1980
Why not give another account, a darker account, perhaps the real account, of the sudden and otherwise inexplicable rise of industrial China, since say 1980...
It has to do with the dark side of Japanese economic development throughout Asia, and the concomitant hollowing out of the West.
This sudden economic miracle, PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON, has been described, by Thurow and others, as having been founded somehow on brilliant Chinese agrarian reforms and suddenly boosted agrarian productivity which then allowed a take off of industrialization through a sudden influx of freed up rural labor into Chinese cities..... that is the liberal economists' story, it seems. I haven't studied it closely, but that is what Thurow has said in a lecture I watched.
So, what do you think the true story might look like?
Think about it.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
BBC CHINA FREE RIDER BASHING SAME OLD STORY DIFFERENT COUNTRY
As Prestowitz pointed out in Trading Places, and many others have too, opening EU markets to Asian trade was our, call it Cold War, idea.
Congratulations.
Win Win.
Here is a reference to an older post, on a Krugman essay, in connection with Germany's China trade:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-krugman-what-about-germany.html
Term search also things like: Steingart, soft power, The War For Wealth, playing three sides, etc.
DeGucht:
"You cannot be one of the biggest economies in the world and a free rider at the same time."
False. Eg: Japan.......
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.
Congratulations.
Win Win.
Here is a reference to an older post, on a Krugman essay, in connection with Germany's China trade:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-krugman-what-about-germany.html
Term search also things like: Steingart, soft power, The War For Wealth, playing three sides, etc.
DeGucht:
"You cannot be one of the biggest economies in the world and a free rider at the same time."
False. Eg: Japan.......
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
BBC sovereignty at bay Okinawa China Japan and you
Now seems indeed a very opportune moment for these goodly academics to discuss Okinawa etc., given the shifting, kaleidoscopic international scene.
terms search: fattening things up, Mary Poppins, leverage, playing three sides, etc.
We need to appease both of their ways out, say, with more soft power, market opening, initiatives.
Australia perhaps has already thrown in the appeasement towel, for China: too much ' leverage ', so to speak....
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. You can quote me.
terms search: fattening things up, Mary Poppins, leverage, playing three sides, etc.
We need to appease both of their ways out, say, with more soft power, market opening, initiatives.
Australia perhaps has already thrown in the appeasement towel, for China: too much ' leverage ', so to speak....
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. You can quote me.
Monday, May 6, 2013
NETANYAHU AND ABBAS IN CHINA SIMULTANEOUSLY TO CUT LAISSEZ FAIRE DEALS
Term search
Playing three sides
Playing three sides
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
THE RISE OF CHINA IS THE WAGES OF SIN NOT ONLY FOR US BUT ALSO FOR JAPAN
Term search: playing three sides, leverage, etc.
See, eg:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-market-power-and-trickle-down.html
See, eg:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-market-power-and-trickle-down.html
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
RUFUS FEARS ON CHURCHILL NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ETC
The Economist, 'don't want to risk a trade war..."
See my prior post:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/01/post-globalist-capitalism-on-horizon.html
Watched, last night, again, Rufus on Churchill, and British politics, Halifax, in the 30s...............
didn't want to risk a trade war......
term search playing three sides, Mary Poppins, etc.
See my prior post:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/01/post-globalist-capitalism-on-horizon.html
Watched, last night, again, Rufus on Churchill, and British politics, Halifax, in the 30s...............
didn't want to risk a trade war......
term search playing three sides, Mary Poppins, etc.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
RE BBC ARTICLE RE EAST CHINA SEA ISLANDS CHINA JAPAN
They, BBC, mentioned in passing that Japan and China established diplomatic relations only in 1972.
(Maybe they, relations, had existed in the past at some point. Certainly, playing three sides, non diplomatically, in the Cold War, had long been surreptitiously going on behind the scenes.)
Coincidental that that was around the time of the Nixon Shock? The dumb money in the room.
Term search: poker, poke her, Wittgenstein, gin.
(Maybe they, relations, had existed in the past at some point. Certainly, playing three sides, non diplomatically, in the Cold War, had long been surreptitiously going on behind the scenes.)
Coincidental that that was around the time of the Nixon Shock? The dumb money in the room.
Term search: poker, poke her, Wittgenstein, gin.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
RE BBC CHINA BUYS STAKE IN HEATHROW AIRPORT
This is just a tiny example, of what one now often sees, with relatively unbridled so called market capitalism.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
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