They own US debt

to force severals small nation into debt trap and rob them off their land

Poor politicians get rich helping them

you can count it as an accomplisment

Donald stays rich by opposing them

Hopefully he brings them down harder than he has

man, I can't wait for some good news from the Slav summit

Owning debt really doesn't mean what people think it means

It's not like there's an international repo man

Exactly

Tell them to fuck off

it serves as an initiation for some good extortions

In anycase the twin towers had the records allegedly so...

USD is gold to them

It's what keeps their country above water pretty much

If they don't buy our debt they will have massive unemployment because their export business will crash

It's not like a car where if you owe money and don't pay it, they come take your car

It also keeps them dependent on a strong US economy. If we fail, they fail.

so it become a poison to them yet they have to to chug down to their thoats to live on

If they were to cash in, there probably isn't enough money to pay it.

They would get back less than what they paid, in other words, because the price would plummet

oh yeah I forgot

last month the Chinese red army veterans were protesting in several provinces

So pretty much China needs US as much as US needs them

they didn't even have money to pay their army

@Mf1399 pretty much. It's like they bought a shitload of stock and are living off the dividends

They believe the US is powerful enough and stable enough to invest in

It's not the only country that does it, just the biggest

An individual person could do it too

Another way of looking at it, is like a rattlesnake and gopher tortoise. The rattlesnake is extremely deadly and dangerous, and it lives in the same hole as a tortoise

their stock have been crashing constanly ever since the trade tariff in effect

They don't fight each other. The snake knows it can't kill the tortoise, and the tortoise knows it too.

@Archer the protests aren't exactly about pay. Because prior to reforms, enlisted soldiers actually didn't get paid

Even saying enlisted doesn't make sense for the period though because they didn't even have ranks

Only the leaders got paid

Basically the veterans are wanting something like what we have in the US

most of those veterans were from the 79 border conflict

Even now PLA don't get college benefits unless you're selected for officer training

Yeah, with Vietnam. My father in law fought there.

the gov promised to gave them benefits yet there were none for years

The government policy at the time was sorta like "national defense is your duty, so why should you get paid for it?"