How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding

The amount of corruption I’ve heard against US Senators is staggering. I had no idea stuff like this was done except maybe in some cartoon version of the 1870’s Gilded Age.

Good example, Max Baucus shorted various financial companies for petty/risky wins as he was helping construct the 2008 bailout. He then later became the ambassador to China :(

> Financial markets were experiencing the greatest volatility on record. Trillions of dollars in stock profits were being washed away. But for Bachus it was different. According to his financial disclosure statements, Bachus netted as much as $50,000 in capital gains by aggressively playing the market during this volatile period. And he netted tens of thousands more in early 2009, when financial reforms were put in place. What makes these results impressive is the fact that options trading is extremely risky. There is a rule of thumb in the financial industry that 75% of options are worthless when it comes time to redeem them, and that 80% of options traders lose money.

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/excerpt-peter-schweizers-bo...

> First, Chinese government has no human rights abuse in Tibet

Hah!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/china...

Congress specifically excluded themselves from insider trading laws. It's outrageous but that makes it pretty much a free for all for US congress folks to do insider trading.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-insiders-above-the-law...

Foreign influence in congress may not be the biggest threat to Democracy, but it is one of my biggest pet peeves. A country has vastly greater resources that any other individual, business or entitity. A foreign country's intentions are also potentially far more nefarious than a company lobbying to make more profit in a capatilistic system or an individual wanting government policies to be shaped more according to his needs.

A foreign country should not be allowed so much access. This kind of reminds me how in one of the Wikileak emails, Clinton removed a country from a list of human rights violators for a mere donation. China is far far worse than a small country and this is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. I sincerely don't understand why no one can publically reprimand China for turning into a dystopian dictatorship before our eyes. Xi orders complete video and cellphone surveillance, black bagging without trial, abolishes term limits, makes disappear any rival billionaire or elite, and no one says a darn thing. Instead, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerburg are in the front row clapping. Literally. Xi announces all this and they congratulate him and clap in the front row.

We take a lot of tech freedoms for granted.

You are going to have massive downvotes and its actually well deserved for once because you are exactly are type of people who needs to be stopped spreading Chinese government propaganda on Tibet.

It is pretty well documented what China is doing to Tibet, its people, its natural resources and its culture. Building roads and trains are NOT for Tibetan people. They are there to enable mass migration, putting out massive military infrastructures and shuttle the natural resources out of Tibet. Britain also built such infrastructure in its colonies for exact same reasons.

China has completely swamped Tibet with overflow of Chinese people who look down on native Tibetans, take away all well paying jobs and positions of power and force native populations to lose their own culture and adopt Chinese culture instead. There is virtually no differences between British colonization and Chinese occupation of Tibet. Thanks to toothless world leadership, Chinese economy and little importance of Tibet as country, all these is being ignored and accepted. This is all documented in tremendous details. How can you deny this? Are you in China and unable to access all these material?

Did you knew that China does not allow foreigners to go to Tibet unless they get "special permit"? And you know who would never get "special permit"? Journalists! They don't even want others to know how bad things are anymore like in North Korea. Just munch on that fact for a second.