All roads lead to Beijing, China

 From the election of Xi Jinping as the President of China for a third term in October, Xi's schedule has been fully packed. In G20 summit alone he had met more than 10 world leaders. Back in China, foreign leaders are all lining up to see him. So far more than 10 have came and gone and several more are coming. His schedule for 2023 is even more crowded and would surpass the last couple of months of 2022. Not only world leaders are squeezing their ways to see him, many corporate honchos are also heading to Beijing and Shanghai to be in the thick of things, the most industrious and active manufacturing and trading economy in the world.

It is all quiet on the eastern front. Biden is busy playing with his dogs and warding off irritating questions about Hunter Biden's missing laptop. Maybe this has kept him busy from meeting foreign leaders. Or is it that there is nothing worth making a trip to Washington for froeign leaders?

The trade war and economic war are still going on, especially the chip war. More sanctions and restrictions are thrown at American and European countries to stop trading with China. Many American and western companies are encouraged or coerced to pull out of China.  American smear China propaganda and machinery are running at full steam to demonise China.

Apparently these have little effects on the interest in China and doing business in China. The chips companies and related industries are either begging for the sanctions to be lifted or openly violating the sanctions and finding all ways to sell their wares to China, coercion or whatever is ignored completely.

Apple is still getting its supply from Foxconn with about 800,000 employees in China. The Covid flare up in Foxconn plants in China and the lockdown precipitated in many calls to diversify from China. How on earth would a foreign company have so many subsidiary plants in China and hiring nearly a million workers in one country? All the talks of diversifying are mere talks, hot air. Apple cannot find an alternative country that could provide the cheap, efficient, skilled and productive workers they could find in China. No country could provide the kind of stability, govt support and ease of doing business and making huge profits than in China. Come to think of it, a plant of a couple of hundred thousand workers anywhere in the world would be unmanageable without a disciplined workforce and governmental support and regulations. Added to it would be a crippling and destructive union to mess up productivity. Not forgetting corruption in govt machinery that could kill an industry.

The big talk is to pull out of China, cut down dependency on China, diversify. The realities is to put in more money into China, to build more plants in China, to be more dependent on China. One of the greatest advantage of locating plants and factories in China is that operations and businesses are never affected by political differences and interference. The trade war between China and the US and the West have been going on for several years, but American and western businesses are business as usual, except for a few irritants like fashion goods companies that got themselves embroiled in anti China activities like the ban on cotton products from Xinjiang. Even then, these companies are scrambling to be back in China as their revenues and bottom lines are hurt quite badly. But some would never be allowed to return to China for their incorrigible and recalcitrant anti China stands.

China is now making some of the finest weapon systems for sale. The Arab countries, Latin American countries, African  countries and countries that the American and the West labelled as enemies and cannot buy American weapons now can buy anything they want from China to defend themselves. Before this, the Americans and the West will only sell to their allies and stooges, especially to Israel, to control and dominate the Arab and Muslims countries in the Middle East and Africa. They only sell to the Arab and Muslim countries second rate weapons to keep them weaker than Israel, to keep the Latin American countries weaker than them and their former colonial masters, especially Argentina. Now China would sell them the best weapons money can buy to even the odds or to be better. 

In the recent Zhuhai Air Show, the Arabs were so happy buying up everything they need to protect themselves from Israel, the Americans and the West. They don't have to be kept waiting outside their doors, salivating for western weapons. No need to beg the Americans and the West for superior weapons. No longer would these countries be held at ransom by the Americans and West, to be treated with contempt and kept from being able to defend themselves and their own national interests.

China is still where the action is, where money is to be made, politics or no politics. The world's biggest consumer market and the factory of the world are just going to grow bigger and bigger by the day. Only foolish politicians would continue with their hate rhetorics but business honchos would know what is best for them to make greater profits for their businesses and keep their jobs. China is the answer, China is here to stay.

National leaders too see an increasingly reliable partner in China to protect them from the aggressive and bullying Americans and the West. They can get anything they want from China, buy anything they want from China, from infrastructure building, mining of resources to leading edge technology and equipment, including military and state of the art weaponry, and at very friendly prices. What the Americans and the West did not want to sell, China will sell, plus the protective umbrella of a rising military power in China to keep the hostile and terrorist Americans away from them.

The leaders of the world can see what is good for them and who is providing them value, and are their real friends in need. Yes, all roads now lead to China, for a better and more peaceful and properous world of cooperation and mutual benefits.