Caught in the act?

[guyfriday]

With this news about the Chinese invasion... err... asylum seekers coming across the border, and the attacks on China over issues of slave labor and enforced population control of certain ethnics (ie Genocide). China is now in full swing in showing that, "China isn't doing anything wrong, in fact America does the same thing". The thing is we don't do these things like China.

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart | AP News

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.

Now first let me just say that except for some health and safety issues, I don't have a major issue with this Prisoner/workforce. These people in jail have been placed there for doing a crime against society, and they should have to provide some benefit to society to justify them living in jail. Otherwise, they would just sit it out doing nothing more than sucking off the tit of tax payer money. I don't like the image of private companies receiving the benefits for this workforce, but as long as they are paying the state for this service I don't see a major issue.

Now as to the issue with China getting caught. It's been shown recently that a higher number of Chinese have been coming across the southern border. 

California Sees Surge in Chinese Migrants (newsweek.com)

There have been approximately 15,700 Chinese migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border just in the three or so months of fiscal year 2024, already topping the approximate 14,600 encounters in the entire 2023 fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

There have been approximately 15,700 Chinese migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border just in the three or so months of fiscal year 2024, already topping the approximate 14,600 encounters in the entire 2023 fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

More than 24,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the 2023 fiscal year—a total higher than the past 10 years combined, and an approximate 7,000 percent increase from 2021 when 323 Chinese nationals crossed the border during the height of COVID.

To put that in perspective, according to a story from Business Insider.
New Pentagon Maps Show the Chinese Military's Growing Reach (businessinsider.com)

 The brigades, each of which can have up to 5,000 troops, are the PLAA's "primary maneuver force" and are organized into heavy (tracked armored vehicles), medium (wheeled armored vehicles), and light (high-mobility, mountain, air-assault and motorized) categories.

So in '23 that would be the size of 5 Chinese Military Brigades entering the US, and while I doubt all the people coming across are CCP, if even half of that number is, then we already have a sizable military force within the US to deal with. 

Much as we saw with the video of Dr K getting yelled at by the Chinese Security Agent, throwing out distractions, such as this story of Prison Labor is par for the course of yelling that a person is racist. It's done to distract the real story (in the case of the Dr K incident the Chinese Spy). Here the real story is the number of Chinese personal of military age illegally coming into the US via a Swiss-cheese like border, then when in the country no accountability is provided on many of these people. 

I posted a story over at ATS (reported below):

originally posted by: [post=27286087]Guyfriday[/post]
More evidence that China is preparing for something big. I believe that it's closing its boarders, but that's just me.
From: Reuters

HONG KONG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of property giant China Evergrande Group (3333.HK), opens new tab, a move likely to send ripples through China's crumbling financial markets as policymakers scramble to contain a deepening crisis.

Justice Linda Chan decided to liquidate the world's most indebted developer, with more than $300 billion of total liabilities, after noting Evergrande had been unable to offer a concrete restructuring plan more than two years after defaulting on a bond repayment and after several court hearings.

"It is time for the court to say enough is enough," said Chan, who will give her detailed reasoning later on Monday.
Evergrande chief executive Siu Shawn told Chinese media the company will ensure home building projects will still be delivered despite the liquidation order. The order would not affect the operations of Evergrande's onshore and offshore units, he added.

The decision sets the stage for what is expected to be drawn-out and complicated process with potential political considerations, given the many authorities involved. Offshore investors will be focused on how Chinese authorities treat foreign creditors when a company fails.

300 billion is going to hurt China's bottom line. I wonder how they will lie their way out of this, or will they just shut their doors and tell the world "Go to hell".

There are stories going around that some military units are not getting paid in China, and it's possible that these soldiers might not be as fighting ready as they are being advertised as, but it's also possible that China is projecting itself as being weak so that it can take a strategic advantage with the false story. Though it does seem that China will either be acting out soon, or it will be closing up it's doors to outside visitors to the country.

Either way we should stay on top of these actions and propaganda tactics being used so that we can dig through this mess they are projecting.