Hey, all you radical terrorist Tea Party fiscal budget-balancers! Here’s why you’re all wrong, and we should immediately borrow $Zillions more from the Chinese and Spend! Spend! Spend!
China must punish US for Taiwan arm sales with ‘financial weapon’
- Now is the time for China to use its “financial weapon” to teach the United States a lesson if it moves forward with a plan to sale arms to Taiwan.
The US House of Representatives just passed a debt ceiling bill on Aug. 1. On the next day, a total of 181 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter sent to US President Barack Obama stating that the federal government should approve the sale of F-16 C/D fighter jets to Taiwan as soon as possible to help ensure peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Despite knowing that major creditor countries, especially China, would be the main buyers of its new debt, certain arrogant and disrespectful US Congress members have totally ignored China’s core interests by pressuring the president to sell advanced jets and even an arms upgrade package to Taiwan.
US treasuries will lose value if China stops or reduces its purchases of them on a large scale, which will also affect the value of China’s US treasury holdings. However, as the situation has gotten out of hand, allowing Washington politicians to continue their game might lead to more losses.
The essence of the problem is that some US Congress members hold a contemptuous attitude toward the core interests of China, which shows that they will never respect China. China-US relations will always be constrained by these people and will continue along a roller coaster pattern if China does not beat them until they feel the pain.
China should consider how to build a direct link between the US Treasury bond purchase and US domestic politics while adopting measures to gradually adjust the structure of China’s foreign exchange reserves.
China can also launch limited trade sanctions to the states of those US Congress members who vigorously advocated arms sales to Taiwan to affect their employment.[emphasis added]
