Let's just advert to posts on this blog bearing on this situation, Pillsbury's book, and on his so called revelations (actually they are more, for me, in the nature of confessions):
Here is the beginning of my post, this morning:
"Sunday, October 15, 2017
FOR MICHAEL PILLSBURY TERMS I HAVE USED MANY TIMES IN THE PAST
Little late...
Smell the coffee, game over...baby...."
Smell the coffee, game over...baby...."
Now let's move on to talk about why this situation is so ridiculous, regardless of what one calls intelligence....
We had just had several decades of so called surprises, by the seeming sudden rise of Japan as the third global economic super power, in only a few decades, by about 1980, starting really only since WWII, and they had been a big loser, not a winner, in WWII!
...Now let's move on to talk about why this situation is so ridiculous, regardless of what one calls intelligence....the simplest thing may just be to suggest terms searches:
Trading Places, trading American interests, van Wolferen, fattening things up, fattening, flattening, flat, bubble, weasel, Nixon Shock, Chalmers Johnson, Japan, Meiji, Japan Who Governs, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, the Chinese Connection, Thomas Friedman, Friedman LaBard, The Coming War with Japan, You Only Live Twice, you only die twice, playing three sides, Prestowitz, etc.
These posts, in turn, will have other terms to use to see other relavant posts on this very broad topic.
So, why is the situation so ridiculous?
We actually had already had our domestic economy, and industrial base, basically hollowed out, by Japan, and then the Asian Tigers, before we even gave what was then left, to the Chinese. That is the ridiculous thing about it, in a nutshell.
We also had made Japan, and then China, our principle creditor, during these decades sine WWII.
With China, as distinct from Japan, we not only gave away or had stolen all kinds of advantages, but also voluntarily have built all sorts of industrial and commercial private facilities on mainland China itself, over the past few decades.
These facilities have given China a huge advantage against the US, going forward.
It should have been transparently obvious, from the surprise and dismay of the experience of the sudden rise and sudden threat of Japan, by 1971, the Nixon Shock year, and then overwhelmingly obvious by at least 1980, the year Reagan was elected, that this had not at all been a good road to have gone down since WWII, regardless of what one thought of Russia, but that was not the lesson that Pillsbury, or those like him, had learned, even then.
So, why is the situation so ridiculous?
We actually had already had our domestic economy, and industrial base, basically hollowed out, by Japan, and then the Asian Tigers, before we even gave what was then left, to the Chinese. That is the ridiculous thing about it, in a nutshell.
We also had made Japan, and then China, our principle creditor, during these decades sine WWII.
With China, as distinct from Japan, we not only gave away or had stolen all kinds of advantages, but also voluntarily have built all sorts of industrial and commercial private facilities on mainland China itself, over the past few decades.
These facilities have given China a huge advantage against the US, going forward.
It should have been transparently obvious, from the surprise and dismay of the experience of the sudden rise and sudden threat of Japan, by 1971, the Nixon Shock year, and then overwhelmingly obvious by at least 1980, the year Reagan was elected, that this had not at all been a good road to have gone down since WWII, regardless of what one thought of Russia, but that was not the lesson that Pillsbury, or those like him, had learned, even then.
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