{"id":2329,"date":"2010-11-18T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:02:01","slug":"further-evidence-of-the-coming-china-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/11\/18\/further-evidence-of-the-coming-china-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Further evidence of the coming China storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted earlier on the blog (see: “Larry Summers get real” post) that I felt it was likely that Obama would focus on foreign policy in the next 15 months in the run up to the Iowa caucuses.\u00a0 Specifically I said that he would likely focus on China.\u00a0 This is because so\u00a0many Americans, left and right, are in alignment in not having\u00a0a positive view of that nation.\u00a0 The left hates China’s human rights record.\u00a0 Unions, typically left, hate China’s very cheap skilled labor.\u00a0 The right hates China’s artificially low currency.\u00a0 So there are likely to be White House rumblings that, if they play well with the public, will turn into outright condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rumblings began last spring when the Obama Administration started publicly and frequently criticizing Chinese currency policy.\u00a0 Then earlier this week came Larry Summers publicly stating that China was the biggest problem for the U.S. economy.\u00a0 Now today we have a minor story, but one that is interesting in context.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review\u00a0Commission has issued a report about a moment last April when massive amounts of Internet traffic was suddenly re-routed to Chinese servers.\u00a0 Never heard of this commission?\u00a0 Me either.\u00a0 Never heard of this incident?\u00a0 Me either.\u00a0 So why is this story making news now?<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe, just maybe, the reporters who are following this story received indications from the Obama Administration that it was worth their while to cover this commission’s report.\u00a0 Typically this sort of thing would not be public news.\u00a0 Instead, it would be a white paper that would be spoken about at industry or academic conferences.\u00a0 So that this story is getting even a limited amount of press play is interesting.\u00a0 It makes me think: what kind of groundwork is being laid?<\/span><\/p>\n

Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted earlier on the blog (see: “Larry Summers get real” post) that I felt it was likely that Obama would focus on foreign policy in the next 15 months in the run up to the Iowa caucuses.\u00a0 Specifically I said that he would likely focus on China.\u00a0 This is because so\u00a0many Americans, left and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}