January 14, 2011 Headlines
Paul Krugman calls them VSPs—very serious people. Three VSPs weigh in on U.S.-China relations ahead of next week’s summit between President Obama and President Hu Jintao:
Henry Kissinger, who ‘opened’ China, suggests that Chinese-American relations may defy a history of rising power conflict…if managed the right way.
Philip Stephens argues that “In the US administration’s version of events, Mr Obama’s offer in 2009 of a strategic partnership was misinterpreted by Beijing as admission of US decline.”
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says it takes five long steps for the Chinese to actually do something, and that we are at step one.
Reuters looks at key U.S.-China trade issues.
The U.S. and China are already “sparring” ahead of next week’s state visit. China is defending its currency manipulation. So, is China currency legislation really “less of a threat” this year?
Toyota is trying to work around its reliance on China for rare earth minerals.
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Jobs and manufacturing being lost to prison labor
I too have concern for our jobs and manufacturing. Many are so focused on losing their jobs to China that they fail to see the vast number of jobs and manufacturing being lost to prison labor through the PIECP program being run by the DOJ. Thousands of our jobs have been lost to prison inmates because of a total lack of oversight of the program and the involvement of private corporations who use that labor as a way of profiting from unfair competition.
For more on this see my recent Daily Kos segment at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/13/925470/-Slave-LaborA-Nation-of-Sovereign-Corruption-(c)-2011 or visit my website at www.piecp-violations,com . I have tried time and again to get unions and manufacturing organizations involved in addressing these abuses costing us thousands of jobs.
Bob Sloan
Prison Industry Consultant