American Cars: Made in China
Chris Floyd points out that the humanitarian disaster in Somalia is even
worse than that in Darfur, and that the Somalia disaster is caused by
the kind of American intervention and ‘regime change’ that the Zionists
are screaming for in Sudan. Of course, the Somalia regime change was yet
another Israeli-inspired replacement of a government which was
considered to be too Islamist. Floyd concludes by making the same big
mistake that has become commonplace: alleging that the United States is
in an energy war in East Africa with the Chinese. It is certainly true
that the Zionist infiltrators in the American government we know as
neocons have always hated China, and to the extent they still control
American foreign policy they are doing whatever they can to cause
conflict with China. However, as the American Establishment slowly
retakes control of the American government, we will be seeing American
foreign policy again reflect the real interests of the Establishment.
Since mathematicians started working on perfecting manufacturing as part
of the American war effort in the 1940s, it has taken decades for the
utopian dream of the capitalists – manufacturing anything, anywhere,
including where labor costs are the lowest – to be realized. There have
been many false attempts at dropping factories in the middle of nowhere,
but no matter how many Western managers and techniques have been
applied, they all ended in financial disaster. It was only in the 1980s
that computer control mechanisms were perfected to the extent that
capital was completely mobile. Since, both for legal and personal
reasons, labor isn’t mobile, an immediate arbitrage situation appeared
whereby capital could take even a larger slice of the pie from labor.
Thus, the sudden renewed interest in ‘free trade’. China quickly became
the obvious choice for manufacturing, with its combination of extremely
low wages, totalitarian police state discipline, and welcoming
government policies intending to use factories to modernize the country.
Just about everything that can be manufactured for the American market
is now manufactured in China. There is no debate in the American
Establishment: their wealth, and the financial health of the United
States, is dependent on Chinese manufacturing. Since Chinese
manufacturing is itself dependent on a reliable source of energy, there
is no real conflict between the United States and China over oil
(although there may be phony conflicts caused by the continuing malign
influence of the Zionists in the American government). This fact has
huge repercussion on American policy in the Middle East (more on this to
come).
The one industry where manufacturing is still largely done in the United
States is the automobile industry. The huge size of the industry,
together with the iconic symbolism of the automobile in American life,
meant that it was politically impossible to make the obvious move to
manufacture automobiles in China. Now that the big three American
automobile manufacturers are effectively insolvent, the time has come to
make the move to China. Why was the incompetently managed, and serially
insolvent, Chrysler attractive to Cerberus? Chrysler is the first
American automobile manufacturer to set up manufacturing in China for
the American market. Keith Naughton writes:
“Now the new owners at Chrysler promise to rethink what it means to be a
car company. Cerberus Capital Management, the Wall Street private-equity
firm named for the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell, has
Motown rabid with speculation this week about the fallout from its $7.4
billion buyout of beleaguered Chrysler. A skilled and secretive
turnaround outfit, Cerberus is expected to overhaul Chrysler in a way
that could create a new model for Detroit, which badly needs a tuneup.
Last year, GM, Ford and Chrysler combined to lose more than $16 billion,
as the remnants of Henry Ford’s old model finally ran out of gas.
Detroit insiders say they expect Cerberus to shake up the moribund
American auto industry by asking this simple question: does a car
company have to build all its own cars?
It could prove to be a transformative question. Rather than each Detroit
automaker building every kind of car and truck – and losing their shirt
on most of them – they could be design and brand houses that build only
the things that make them money. After all, the thinking goes, customers
only care about the product, the brand and the price. Why not focus on
designing a car, marketing it and selling it, rather than manufacturing
it?”
Cerberus will want to make Chrysler attractive so it can resell it in a
few years at a big profit. There is no way to do that by continuing to
manufacture in the United States. Despite some questions, the China deal
is still on. Once the profits start rolling in, it is inevitable that
all American automobile manufacturers will follow. The television
industry disappeared in the United States with nary a whimper, and the
automobile industry is sure to follow.
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