America’s relationship with China, in my opinion, will continue to remain at least as positive as it has since 1973. Especially now, when our economies are so closely linked and so much in danger of depression, the United States needs China and visa versa.
I believe President Obama is very intelligent and thoughtful. He will in the next few months meet privately and co-operatively with the senior Chinese leadership, as well as with other global leaders.
We understand we all want the same thing, a better life for all our citizens. Obama, like Clinton, is going to be a wise, thoughtful, leader, building international consensus with other world powers. He will seek mutual security co-operation and world peace.
Both China and the USA need to continue to pursue and encourage respect for minority human rights, allowing freedom for our citizens to write, to dissent, and to protest, but only so long as the dissident peacefully protests , demonstrates, and speaks in a non-violent way.
I expect China and the United States will continue to discuss trade policies, economic policies, and common objectives, co-operatively following a common rule of law and mutually beneficial free policies. I do not know, but I would predict China will be asked and should remove all trade restrictions and allow United States exports to China without limitations or import tariffs, especially on energy efficient automobiles, buses, and trucks which we will want to export and sell in China, so that bi-lateral Sino-American trade can move into balance and reduce our vast monthly trade deficit.
Before meeting with China leaders Obama will study existing Sino-American Trade and Security policies and relationships in order that he can better understand and assess the entire global situation before he meets with Chinese Party leaders.
President Obama is not emotional; he loves his wife, his children, and his faith in God. Do not sell him short. He is purposeful, dedicated, and extremely perceptive and intelligent. He is honest and forthright. He is not simplistic. He can be trusted, but he is enigmatic and a good student. He understands the mutual advantages and benefits of private meetings with world powers, especially China. I personally believe United States and Sino foreign policy will improve once your Premier meets with Obama ; why on earth would that not be the case? Obviously, purely from an economic, financial, security, and trade standpoint we are Siamese Twins, tied at the hip, mutually dependent on each other.
One very important matter, the global environment is being destroyed by our profligate use of hydro-carbons. We both need to eliminate our dependence on middle eastern oil not just for environmental reasons, but also importantly for security, financial, and economic reasons. We have the technology and the natural resources to do just that by cutting our national and international consumption of oil by 60% to 80% in the next eight years. We must encourage and assist the re-tooling and re-construction of our domestic globally competitive automotive and power industries, manufacturing and selling only vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen cells, hybrids, condensed 400% more efficient natural gas, and advanced batteries, by building mini-nuclear powered turbines developing 10 mega-watts per day to power million person self-sufficient cities, and by encouraging, developing, and using solar power, wind power, and hydro-electric power, and by having computer directed fail-safe power distribution grids, all financed by generous Investment Tax Credits and Government Loans.
Too much cash is going to the Sunni and Shia middle-eastern oil kingdoms, where oil profits are being siphoned off to finance radical fundamentalist mullahs and terrorists. So, by taking down their oil profits by eliminating demand, we will take away their oil profits in a peaceful manner. No longer will the United States have any need to participate in Middle Eastern military endeavors that drain our economies.
Obama is a brilliant man, tough, but fair. He is an honest, truthful, man of peace, smart enough to carry a big stick but to seek peaceful negotiation and mutually beneficial alliances. In America he will promote a stronger, better, public education system, a wider opportunity for all, universal medical care, and upward economic and social mobility for all of our citizens, not just the wealthy few. He understands the driving economic engine for America, and for the world, are our employed workers. In order to become better consumers, able to drive our economy by spending and buying goods and services, they must have increasing disposable personal income and less personal debt.
To obtain that goal of increased disposable personal income , our workers must be employed in production as well as service industries. The workers must be better trained and better employed at union wages with reasonable retirement benefits and a universal health care system. Obama understands. He has a great plan. In the next few months we will increase incremental income taxes on the top 5% of our population and on the “Excess Profits” of the Oil Companies; we will provide Investment Tax Credits to off set these higher taxes on the rich, and thereby encourage the oil companies and the richest 5% to invest in and re-develop our automotive plants so we can manufacture and sell fuel efficient cars and trucks in the United States and overseas. We will build less expensive, more efficient vehicles, less expensive transportation, and vastly increased energy efficiency and vastly reduced, in fact eliminated in five years, oil imports. We will employ over 5,000,000 re-trained engineers, technicians, and assembly workers, all Unionized with better salaries, automation, and disposable income. We will increase our exports, and we will build and sell competitive vehicles in the United States and for export, and we will need free trade.
Therefore we will need friends and allies like China, and we will seek global policy co-ordination, co-operation, global security and global co-operation and respect. I expect to see an even closer Sino-American mutually advantageous economic , financial , security and foreign policy co-operation.
Hope this is helpful. My opinions only.
Bill Harrison
