Time for Thorns

I want to know how much the  ChiComs paid the WaPo  to print their propaganda   —  I mean,  advertising section.  Or perhaps they did it for free?

What is China  building in the desert?   And why are  they building whatever it is?  And why has someone been ordering photographs of this since 2004?

Look at what one  woman risks for less than $10.

is China.

But this one isn’t in the desert  –  it’s over water in China.   I’ve heard of them,  but this one  is astonishing in  its clarity.

Inflation is   accelerating in China.   It’s hard to verify numbers,  since the ChiComs  frown on  any being available other than those they provide.

Of course,  the USA has no inflation,  despite the bond  market telling  the Fed back in February that inflation was a problem and the Fed was making it worse.   So is ObamaCare.    Investors Business Daily is a bit late to the party,  but correct in that  big government  would be to blame for inflation.

Never mind that  wages aren’t  keeping up with inflation,  or  that we have just seen the largest  food price  spike in nearly 4o years.   And don’t even mention that under the old method of accounting, real inflation is  nearing 10%.   Under His Oneness,  the costs of food and energy  are conveniently  omitted,  but any shopper knows everything is headed up.

I continue to be amazed by all the people who think  His Oneness is super-intelligent.

“And I want to suggest that there has been an evolution in China over the last 30 years since the first normalization of relations between the United States and China,”  Obama said on Wednesday.

What “evolution”?    The Communist Party runs the country,  allows no freedom of the press or of religion,  and still jails political dissidents.   His Oneness can not even garner the nerve to publicly note that Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is among those so imprisoned,  even though the White House claims to have mentioned him in private discussions.   A public mention is worth a billion private ones,  and anybody with a brain knows this.

China and Russia have  quit the dollar.   MSM is remarkably uninterested in this story,  don’t you think?   We’ll see if the talking heads bring it up on Sunday.

I can’t be the only person in the world unsurprised by North Korea showing an American scientist its  shiny new centrifuges.   The Obama Administration  claims it isn’t,  and that fresh evidence the NoKos have lied doesn’t constitute a crisis.

Having paid no penalty for  sinking a South Korean ship,   the NoKos have now  fired artillery on a small South Korean island.  The South returned fire,  and now the North is accusing the South of provocation and  threatening a massive military action.

This is more of the same,  courtesy of three successive administrations screwing up diplomacy with the NoKos.  His Oneness apparently also thinks China is our friend.   It isn’t,  and it suits it quite well for its client state to be taking our time,  attention,  and resources.

UPDATE:  As always,  Victor Davis Hanson  says so much more,  as does John Bolton.