Turnabout's Fair Play

IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA, in the south of china, a government financed research institute is spearheading technologies of the future, nano technology, robot development, and many areas of medical research. New innovations and information flow in from many sources; young educated chinese scientists, and, according to the united states government, from america, illegally.

The chinese are attempting to become more competitive in various global industries and technologies, hoping to exploit its vast national resources to lead the way into future space exploration, environmental improvement, and medical science. For china, its all aobut catching up to speed, after years of floundering stagnation during the communist era of conformity and intellectual oppression.

President Obama had his california oceanside meeting with the top dogs from china, amid cocktails, laid back chit chat, and various forms of high level, jet set recreation. All well and good, but what will it accomplish? Superficailly, it will  gain a rhetorical promise from the chinese government to develop its industries with integrity, without stealing secrets from american corporations and government agencies, to play by the rules, and such blather.\

The americans promise to render all possible assistance to chinese entities seeking to propel chinese innovation into the twenty first century, in cooperation with the global community, commited to an ever rising standard of living for the world's people. IN other words, enough hollow high sounding verbal garbage to  sicken a saint bernard outside a szechuan delicatessin trash bin.

All over america, chinese guest scientists will continue to inquire of their co workers at the water cooler: what you wocking on tolay? Then, back in their cubicles, they will continue to punch numbers on cell phones, and report in, to someone in another office in the pearl river delta. Visiting chinese scientists are generally very charming, charming enough to charm the socks off almost any gullible, vainity ridden american with inside information.

Ironcially, that all this is headquartered in the pearl river delta in southern china. For this was the very region whereat americans and europeans first sailed their warships into china in the late nineteenth century, demanding favorable trade agreements, insisting on permanent spheres of influence in china, backed up by gunboats and war mongering tyrannts like teddy roosevelt and queen victoria.

And the pearl river delta is the place where english and american opium dealers made fortune in illegally addicting millions of chinese in the late nineteenth century, sucking the chinese economy and spirit dry, and bringing home enough wealth to keep the far flung british empire afloat, and build rows of palaces vith a view in the hamptons for american "entrepeneurs."

Now its the pearl river delta which is sucking the wealth of technological innovation out of america, and bringing it back to china, regardless of a hundred million promises to the contrary. Then too, queen victoria's drug dealers and american millionaire robber barons made the same sort of promises to the chinese, all those years ago.