China and US: we are so in the sack with them, sigh…

My disclaimer: it’s one thing to be ‘in the sack’ and to me, that’s always a good thing bc you get to choose when and with whom to indulge that special pleasure with, a human privelege : ) ah, but when it comes to my country, the US, being ‘in the sack’ with another country and they’re so deeply entrenched that they can’t get out, well, that’s more like being taken prisoner…but hey, you know what, I like my current title so let’s just go with it…

I’ve been researching all things Chinese and China’s multi-facted relationship with the US, mainly bc I really want to get to the bottom of the question: why are we sooo ‘in the sack’ with this country? Their human rights record alone is legendarily and historically incorrigible, why oh why would the good old US give China ‘most favored nation’ status??

If we currently taxed incoming goods frlom China even a fraction of a point, that’s a lot of ren men bee, we could pay for the entire Iraq war to date (don’t even get me going on this subject, not now anyway…)

However, the more I looked, the more I found…and the more I found, and I’m now in the awkward postion of not really knowing where to begin to explain any of it and all of it.

Until I do decide…

I’ll just share a few tid-bit’s; one is about Walmart. This company boasts 4900 stores in 10 countries currently and still growing…Walmart as an ‘economy’ is 8th largest trading partner with China, just ahead of Russia, Australia and Canada; that fact alone is enough to make this woman take pause. That and the fact that the US trade deficit is about $150 billion is mighty distressing. That ‘Walmart as an economy’ statement makes me want to travel undercover to Bentonville, Arkansas to do some further ‘company’ research : ) how ’bout you?

The other tid-bit? well, a few days ago, a friend mentioned the following info. I reacted strongly to it at the time, I’ll leave her words ‘off the record.’ The info was that there’d been an airing of a Ted Koppel’s China documentary in which Ted interviews a family who saves all their money to send their daughter to school. How nice. Hmmmmmm, that’s where I felt my blood start to boil, so sorry but girls are not revered in China and this is one rare instance, I’m relatively sure everyone knows that, but maybe not.

Ted ‘found’ or in my opinion, was ‘lead to’ one of these very rare families in China that would do this for a daughter. again, in my opinion, is just the kind of info the Chinese want Americans and the Western world in general to believe…that given the huge population that this ‘investing in our daughters’ is business as usual, a regular happenstance. Yeah, right. But wait, what timing, oh aren’t the Beijing olympics right around the corner? How very convenient to disclose this lovely info now and documentary style with a well-respected journalist, no less. arrghhh….

After 20+ years of social engineering using that ‘one child’ policy, the Chinese find themselves in a strange position…in the grander scheme of this policy, who are all these revered grown boys to men going to marry now? Men don’t have babies on their own as far as I know, so why didn’t this massively sexist society get with the program and anticipate their NEED for women years ago? I have no idea, but it would seem that the requirement is equality of both sexes, aren’t both vital for a society to even exist?

Overall and historically speaking, most Chinese couples choose to keep the boys (the revered sex), often discarding their girl babies to orphanages (where Western women fly in and take these cuties back to their world for safe keeping) and that’s the good part of the story. I don’t know the exact stats but more often women either offer (to save family face) or are coerced into leaving their girl babies for dead. I’ll let you use your own macabre imagination re: the exact nature of how this is done bc it makes me sick to go there…

My own q is: why are the women the world over so disregarded?? Treated so savagely?

Ok, I digressed from the ‘most favored nation’ status topic and went down the ‘female’ agenda road, but if I don’t bring up the mistreatment of women around the globe, who will??

I’ll compile more info about the China/US ’sexcapades’ later…as I said, choosing what and when to dish on the subject of China is difficult, it’s all very convoluted, and has murky underpinnings.

I hope this entry doesn’t feel too random, if it does, I apologize, I’ll try harder in my next installment…

But, do me a favor, go revere a woman today: your mother, your sister, your honey, whoever, just try to get it that women are the ones who give the gift of life (with a little help from a hopefully loving male) so if you can’t find anything else to honor women for, just start there…

Your thoughts and comments are always welcome here even if you totally disagree with me : )