Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting California during his trip to the United States for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. Xi and President Joe Biden are set to meet on Wednesday to discuss further U.S. business deals with China, which could see huge benefits to the Chinese economy. But given the fact that China presents itself as a competitor, at the least, if not an outright adversary, why do we continue to give China our business? With tensions rising between the United States and China, why are we continuing to propose massive deals with them when they possibly stand to be our next enemy in a major shooting war?

 [...]the two leaders will ink a deal that will cut the US off at the knees and lock in China's military dominance in the Western Pacific.

In a landmark agreement set to be announced at Wednesday's much-awaited bilateral meeting, Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are poised to pledge a ban on the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weaponry, such as drones, and in the control and deployment of nuclear warheads, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the Post.

There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this deal, starting with the Biden Crime Family's long history of doing business with businesses owned more or less directly by the Chinese government. 

China and America share a big problem and a big lie: Both of our economies are in danger, and both our governments are either denying it to our respective citizens or are lying about it by saying they are doing great. Here at home, inflation is technically down, as the official inflation number is at 3.2 percent. However, inflation-related costs for everyday goods and services are still way over normal. Costs for groceries are still at record highs and are still rising, albeit slower than anticipated. 

Food prices rose 3.7% between September 2022 and September 2023, according to the most recent consumer price index (CPI) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By comparison, at the same time in 2022 prices rose 11.2% over a one-year period. The CPI uses indexes to measure changes in average costs of items in a given period. There are specific indexes for these items, including food costs.

New and used car sales have dropped dramatically due to high interest rates. In fact, the national average interest rate for new and used cars is at the highest it has been in years. With the average interest rate for new cars at approximately 7.4 percent and 11.4 percent for used cars, more and more people are holding onto their cars for as long as they can because they cannot afford the high rates. Not to mention the sky-high prices of the cars, with more and more dealerships putting so-called "dealer markups" on the ticket prices of cars. A local Ford dealership in my area of Southern California was selling a 2022 Ford Raptor F-150 for $80,000 with an additional $25,000 dealer markup. More dealerships are doing this to compensate for lower-than-normal car sales.  

Gas prices are still at record highs as well. Even though they have fallen in recent months and continue on a downward trend, prices are still almost double what they were in 2020. This month, the national average price of gas is $3.742, but that is $1.49 higher than this month in 2020. The cost for everyday goods is higher across the board, whether it be for food, gas, home goods, etc. As RedState reported, only 16 percent of Californians can afford to buy a home, while the rest of the nation is feeling similar problems in the home-buying arena, not to mention the average home mortgage rate is over seven percent.  

That's the main takeaway from a new report from real estate data provider ATTOM. Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM.

For all of China's woes at home, they are making bold and strategic moves across the globe, but when it comes to the US, they are making even bolder moves. Chinese shell companies are buying up swaths of land across the country, especially land that is adjacent to several American military bases and installations. 

The Wall Street Journal wrote about some of what is going on — not just that they’re buying land near military installations, but they’re also buying up farmland and foods companies that could come back to haunt us if they were able to have control over food products.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data show that Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland leapt more than 20-fold in a decade, from $81 million in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2020. Beijing hasn’t outlined a strategy, but large-scale state backing for these investments indicates there is one. In 2013 the government-owned Bank of China loaned $4 billion to Hong Kong-headquartered WH Group, the world’s largest pork producer, to buy Virginia’s Smithfield Foods. WH now controls much of the U.S. pork supply and revenue because of the deal. […]

And for the past 30 to 40 years, more and more manufacturing jobs and abilities have been sent overseas to places like China. China leads the entire globe in manufacturing, with it making up 27 percent of its national output and 20 percent of the world's manufacturing, compared to just 12 percent nationally and 18 percent globally for the US. When it comes to goods like electronics, clothes, appliances, furniture, etc, the overwhelming majority of them are made in China. We used to lead the world in manufacturing, but over the last several decades, we have sent more and more of our manufacturing jobs to China, among other places. 

Yet, in all the business deals we make with China, we abdicate our national interests to them. The left's push for their "green energy" policies just affirms China's role in our country. The solar panels, batteries, and raw materials to make them all come from China. We used to manufacture the computer chips that went in all the cars, but we decided it would be cheaper to have China and Taiwan make them and import them back to us. China is setting the stage to own us as a nation. We depend on China for so much, yet our elected leaders refuse to stop doing business with them, fully knowing that they are not our friends. 

Elected leaders like California Governor Gavin Newsom went to extraordinary lengths to show Chinese President Xi that San Francisco is a shining example of what America looks like. All in a vain attempt at getting more Chinese influence and money.

Suddenly, the homeless have been cleared out of the areas that you normally find them in and the downtown area where they are usually lying all over the street has been cleaned up. 

The city focused on seven intersections in the Tenderloin and South of Market, or SoMa, neighborhoods which is home to some of the more concentrated encampments where drug-addled people high on fentanyl and heroin can be seen passed out on the streets every day. 

“They started clearing the tents earlier this week and there is definitely a lot more police presence,” SoMa resident and community activist Ricci Lee Wynne told The Post. 

“They’ve cleared out the tents that were near the Moscone Center on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along — instead they just do the bare minimum.

It is more than embarrassing when we bow down to a dictator the way that Newsom did. It's bad enough that Hollywood does it; now we see our elected leaders openly doing it, knowing it will only lead to our undoing. It is outright shameful and needs to stop before it is too late. America needs to return to its glory days of being the world's leading manufacturing powerhouse and having countries depend on us for goods, rather than us depending on China.