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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: A detailed look at how China spends some of the money we give them for their goods...
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.”
-- Attributed to Vladimir Lenin
Most everyone knows that the United States runs a huge trade deficit with China, and has for decades. Americans buy inexpensive Chinese goods, which results in dollars flowing to China. Less well known is what China does with that surplus of dollars. The book Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, by Peter Schweizer, details how China spends some of that money back in the United States, by buying the influence of American elites...
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