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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (127778)	1/6/2017 4:40:55 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219865

>> Elmat is simply pointing out the obvious holes in the glossy China narrative Jay has come to habitually smoke as a drug. << Yep, it looks like TJ's rope-a-dope shadowboxing finally got to Elmat! :-)

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (127778)	1/7/2017 8:20:51 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219865

How Mexico tried to cozy up with China and got Trump to go after Mexico. Could it be that Mexico threatening to do a Duterte and cozying up with the Chinese Philippines style caused Trump to be mad a Mexico? NOTE YOU DO NOT GET THAT PERSPECTIVE ANYWHERE BUT HERE IN THE THREAD How to process information: NY Times, Apple, China, Mexico. let's unwrap this Apple Removes NY Times App From Chinese App Store After Chinese Gov't Complains all internet news providers must be approved by the Chinese government -- which the Chinese are spinning as part of its effort to crack down on "fake news." Apple removed both the English-language and Chinese-language apps from the app store in China on Dec. 23. Apps from other international publications, including The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, were still available in the app store. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170104/18560036410/single-choke-point-problems-apple-removes-ny-times-app-chinese-app-store-after-chinese-govt-complains.shtml Easy one. Apple afraid of the Chinese as they manufacture and sell lots of devices there Now we make the Mexican connection via owner of NY Times Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, one of the richest men on earth, with a net worth of more than $51 billion. ...Slim is the largest shareholder of one of the most prominent media firms in the world: The New York Times Company Now let's close the circle with this piece from one year ago... China Is Going After Carlos Slim's Dominance Of Mexico's Mobile Market Christine Murray, Reuters Jan. 16, 2015, 11:23 AM 3,742 China's third-largest carrier China Telecom is preparing a possible bid for a contract to build and run a new mobile broadband network in Mexico and is seeking local partners to join it in a consortium, three people with knowledge of the matter said. It has already secured up to several billion dollars of financing from Chinese state-controlled banks, including the China Development Bank, for the project, which Mexico estimates will cost $10 billion over 10 years, one of the people said. (ELMAT: China sugar daddy buying good friends with money) The proposed network is part of a sweeping reform designed to break billionaire Carlos Slim's hold on the Mexican telecoms business, but the Chinese involvement could prove controversial and trigger concerns from the U.S., some Mexican officials say. Mexico's government is trying to ease its economic dependence on the United States and ramp up Chinese investment. A Chinese-led consortium looks poised to win a $3.75 billion contract to build a high-speed train system, sources with knowledge of the plan say. This is despite the group's previous winning bid being revoked late last year amid a political scandal. ... businessinsider.com What is happening here? AT&T bought Mexico wireless carriers Iusacell and Nextel Mexico last year to expand its footprint in Latin America. It has been integrating the two companies' networks to face off against Carlos Slim's America Movil, the dominant carrier in that region. fortune.com You can see a proxy war here: Mexico trying to bring a Chinese mobile operator to distance itself from the US while a US company enters Mexico for the same purpose of weaken billionaire Carlos Slim? Trump is unhappy with Mexico because it tried to bring the Chinese to the US border. Mexico threatening to do a Duterte and cozying up with the Chinese Philippines style caused Trump to be mad a Mexico. Mexico has to change his ways and throw overboard the Chinese and stop doing a Duterte. Do that and all goes smooth. It is not Trump who knows stuff that other don't Elmat does too...