60% of Chinese exports to the US are from foreign-owned corporations

Foreign owned global corporations account for 60% of Chinese exports to the US.[1]

Did you know this? How many people understand that this means that non-Chinese corporations are responsible for the trade imbalance between the US and China.

Who does know this?

Not Bernanke and Greenspan who are reported to be blaming the "high-savings countries in East Asia" for "the immense pool of [global] liquidity" (particularly in the US). [2]

But who is creating this gigantic pool of liquidity? Economist Enzio von Pfeil has pointed to problems with the official [US] Treasury records that detail the owners of US 'foreign' debt - "there appear to be no data available on how much U.S. Treasury debt is held by U.S. MNCs". What, he says, do U.S. MNCs do with at least a portion of all of that money they are making in their fabulously successful overseas operations? [3]

Not Barry Eichengreen who holds the title of the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987.[2], [4]. He says that "Whether [or not] there is a permanent reduction in global imbalances will depend mainly on decisions taken outside the US, specifically in countries like China." [2] Well, how can that be? If China, itself, is not responsible for the great outflow of goods to the US?

Not economist Mark Thoma at Economist's View. Nor any other people who have posted comments to the Eichengreen article he linked there.[5]

Which is all VERY strange because the folks at the US Federal Reserve, like Greenspan and Bernanke, have worked closely with former Kissinger Associate Timothy Geithner [6] as well Roger Corbett who is a director of Wal-Mart Stores Inc and who is also a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia. [7] Kissinger Associates and Walmart folks know all about the true nature of US trade with China, after all. Walmart is China's fifth-largest export market, ahead of Germany and Britain. [8] and is responsible for approximately 10 percent of the United States' trade deficit with China.[9] And it was Kissinger's wheeler-dealing, backed up by US military aggression in Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea and elsewhere that led the Chinese Government to surrender its borders to western global corporations in 1971. [10]

As for the economists, how could they not know the pivotal role of western global corporations in world trade? What should the general public expect from this professional body?

Or is this just another exercise in 'preferred nomenclature' suited to U.S. interests? Much akin to the language used by the former Reagan administration.[11]
Terms were employed to create the reality which that aggessive administration wanted. The frightening thing is that all subsequent US administrations, including the present Obama-led one, are following this same atrocious template.

How important is it to get the facts of world trade right? Is trade between subsidiaries of the same transnational corporations trade at all? Think about it. Because the achievement of clarity on this topic may be, in my humble opinion, a key way to avoid a global nuclear conflict! (The current Chinese military build-up is another story).

"The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error and confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."

Francis Bacon, 1620.



[1] Undue Influence: Corporations Gain Ground in Battle over China's New Labor Law
2008-11-03 01:33:53
http://blog.ifeng.com/article/1822505.html

[2] By Barry Eichengreen /Beijing
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=292693&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

[3] Is it true that foreigners finance American debt? - Update 2. Brenda Rosser. Monday, December 1, 2008
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-true-that-foreigners-finance.html

[4] Barry Eichengreen
From Wikipedia, ON 30TH MAY 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eichengreen

[5] Mark Thoma
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/05/global-imbalances-and-future-crises.html

[6] http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2008/11/geithner-and-kissinger-associates-pt-1.html

[7] Sowing the seeds of a northern farm stampede
Matthew Stevens | October 27, 2007
Article from: The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22655071-5001641,00.html

[8] The Economic Crisis: A Wal-Mart Economy Dimension. Michael Perelman. Econospeak 18th October 2008

[9] U.S.-China Trade, 1989-2003 - Impact on jobs and industries, nationally and state-by-state
A Research Report Prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
By Dr. Robert E. Scott, Director of International Programs, Economic Policy Institute. January 2005
EPI Working Paper #270
http://epi.3cdn.net/c523ff01bec5bc1c25_7nm6i278j.pdf
..\..\..\Economics\China\China-US\China-US-trade-1989-2003.PDF

[10] China's trade policy was not an economic one. Brenda Rosser. May 2009
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2009/05/chinas-trade-policy-was-not-economic.html

[11] Under Reagan's 'governance' third world nations were to be rolled back (e.g., Nicaragua). Thus they were called 'terrorist' and the insurgents were labeled 'democratic'. The governments in countries to be supported by Reagan and Co, in turn, were called 'democratic' and the insurgents were labeled terrorists. From the book Rollback by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould