Proof the Chinese are winning

[DigitalDrifter]

While kids in China aspire to be astronauts, our little darlings would rather sit on their assess and become internet stars.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers​

• American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts when they grow up, according to a survey by The Harris Poll.
• In China, the trend is reversed — more kids are interested in going to space than becoming influencers.
• The most successful YouTubers have become celebrities, earning millions of dollars a year.

Going to the moon is no longer the ultimate dream for many American kids today.

They'd rather be vloggers or YouTubers instead, reported Eric Berger for Ars Technica, citing a new survey by The Harris Poll on behalf of Lego. The survey asked 3,000 kids in the US, UK, and China what they wanted to be when they grew up, presenting them with five options: vlogger/YouTuber, teacher, professional athlete, musician, and astronaut.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers

American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts, according to a survey by The Harris Poll. But in China, the trend is reversed.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Leo123]

While kids in China aspire to be astronauts, our little darlings would rather sit on their assess and become internet stars.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers​

• American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts when they grow up, according to a survey by The Harris Poll.
• In China, the trend is reversed — more kids are interested in going to space than becoming influencers.
• The most successful YouTubers have become celebrities, earning millions of dollars a year.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers

American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts, according to a survey by The Harris Poll. But in China, the trend is reversed.

www.businessinsider.com

Plenty of kids in the U.S. aspire to be astronauts unlike China that mandates EVERY kid to be an astronaut. That's unhealthy.

 

[candycorn]

While kids in China aspire to be astronauts, our little darlings would rather sit on their assess and become internet stars.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers​

• American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts when they grow up, according to a survey by The Harris Poll.
• In China, the trend is reversed — more kids are interested in going to space than becoming influencers.
• The most successful YouTubers have become celebrities, earning millions of dollars a year.

Kids in the US and China have starkly different goals, as revealed by a survey that asked them if they'd rather become astronauts or YouTubers

American kids would rather be YouTubers than astronauts, according to a survey by The Harris Poll. But in China, the trend is reversed.

www.businessinsider.com

So did you ever make it to Space? Yet here you are on the internet.

 

[fncceo]

Plenty of kids in the U.S. aspire to be astronauts unlike China that mandates EVERY kid to be an astronaut. That's unhealthy.

I'm pretty sure they couldn't launch a Billion kids into space ... even if it did clear up a LOT of space in China.

 

[Leo123]

I'm pretty sure they couldn't launch a Billion kids into space ... even if it did clear up a LOT of space in China.

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Naw, most of those ChiCom kids won't measure up and will be 'ghosted' to slave factories.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

So did you ever make it to Space? Yet here you are on the internet.

So you're ok then that we are raising little social media addicts, while China is raising the next generation of real achievers?

 

[MarathonMike]

China is winning because they have the Democratic Party working for them and covering up what they're doing to our country.

 

[fncceo]

I remember well the heady days of 1969, when EVERY kid in America wanted to be an astronaut. We knew all their names, we collected all the models of space ships, we could name the missions and their achievements.

Once America had landed on The Moon, American kids (and everyone else in America) got bored with space and got into Roller Disco.

 

[fncceo]

So you're ok then that we are raising little social media addicts

Hey! I can quit anytime I want!

 

[Leo123]

I remember well the heady days of 1969, when EVERY kid in America wanted to be an astronaut. We knew all their names, we collected all the models of space ships, we could name the missions and their achievements.

Once America had landed on The Moon, American kids (and everyone else in America) got bored with space and got into Roller Disco.

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The Beatles were popular too. Lots of kids wanted to be rock stars. Lots of kids want to do lots of things.

 

[Leo123]

Hey! I can quit anytime I want!

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Dated cartoon, wires are so yesterday.

 

[candycorn]

So you're ok then that we are raising little social media addicts,

How's your addiction going?

while China is raising the next generation of real achievers?

We have plenty of achievers in the US. I'm not sure what you think a "real" achiever is since you're doing this instead of prepping for deep space travel there commander.

 

[Resnic]

You can thank the parents of the last 2 generations for that.

They raised their kids to be weak willed soft pussy ass bitches that are lazy and entitled little shits thinking they deserve everything just for showing up because they were taught they were special and unique and amazing and beautiful people raised inside an safe space feelings bubble.

They raised their kids on the internet. Even when they take small children out to eat they stick a phone in their hands so they be quiet at the table instead of making the kids live in the world, make them be social and engage others, to make kids look and listen and think and interact with the world instead of just sitting on mindlessly sucking up videos. They grow up thinking the world is social media and online videos because it's what they are raised on and they grow up constantly needing some kind of stimulus because they can't be quiet and think.

Shitty parenting has made a generations of useless shit stained kids that don't know shit about shit but think they know every damn thing and have no ambition beyond being an influencer.

 

[Donald H]

In the Chinese system the kids first priority isn't to make more money. It's about the good of their country first and then making big profits in the interest of aiding the economy.

This is why China's style of capitalism within the confines of socially responsible government, is so dangerous!

 

[Lord Long Rod]

I totally agree with OP. All of you people fucked up your kids by letting the internet be their babysitters while you were off tending to yourselves!! Having kids means putting THEIR interests and needs ahead of yours. If you do not understand this basic principle then you are going to fuck up your kids and, thereby, fuck up society.

 

[shockedcanadian]

In the Chinese system the kids first priority isn't to make more money. It's about the good of their country first and then making big profits in the interest of aiding the economy.

This is why China's style of capitalism within the confines of socially responsible government, is so dangerous!

If only Canadian agencies thought like the Chinese....

 

[Votto]

China is winning because they have the Democratic Party working for them and covering up what they're doing to our country.

China bought the GOP off as well, like McConnell.

Just like the drug cartels bought off both parties as well.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

China bought the GOP off as well, like McConnell.

Just like the drug cartels bought off both parties as well.

McConnell's wife's family is from Taiwan, dumbass! How many times do you have to be told?

Which drug cartels and where is your proof of this stupid accusation?

 

[Votto]

McConnell's wife's family is from Taiwan, dumbass! How many times do you have to be told?

Which drug cartels and where is your proof of this stupid accusation?

McConnell And Chao Spent Decades Getting 'Rich On China'

For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches them and grants status to the Chao shipping company.

thefederalist.com

For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family’s deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican’s problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent.

“Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate[?]” Trump asked in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”

It didn’t take long for the corporate media to mock Trump’s assertion, framing his legitimate criticism of McConnell and Chao as unfair and unjust. Some outlets such as Vanity Fair even hinted that Trump’s comments were revenge against Chao for resigning from the Trump administration following the 2021 Capitol riot and subsequently cooperating with the illegitimate Jan. 6 Committee.

Trump’s criticism of McConnell and Chao, however, is not something to be taken lightly. For years, the McConnell and Chao families have maintained a symbiotic relationship that grants opportunities to the Chaos’ shipping company, Foremost Group, which largely operates in and on behalf of communist China.

This reciprocity is well documented, but unlike with Hunter Biden, there is less scrutiny from observers, including those on the right, for this “corruption by proxy,” as author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer calls it.

Blood Runs Thicker than Water​

As Schweizer documented in his 2018 book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” McConnell took a strong stance against China before his marriage into the Chao family. According to Schweizer, it was a 1994 trip arranged by James Chao, McConnell’s father-in-law, and sponsored by China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSP), one of the CCP’s largest military contractors and reportedly an unofficial arm of the CCP navy, to meet the Chinese president that pushed McConnell to “increasingly avoid public criticism of China.”

That’s likely because Chao and her family are well-connected in communist China thanks to her father’s company. Foremost is technically based out of New York but largely operates out of China, where at least 70 percent of its freight, mostly industrial, is delivered. Not only are a majority of Foremost’s ships built in state-owned shipyards, but some are even financed by the Chinese Communist Party. They are then used to deliver cargo outlined in contracts with the communist government, which has clearly stated goals to rapidly expand its industries to compete with the U.S.

Foremost and the Chao family have benefitted from loans estimated to be between $350,000 and $1 million from the U.S. government and loans from Chinese banks known by the Trump administration as threats. Again, this is a company owned by the father-in-law of America’s top congressional Republican and the father of the former transportation secretary. Not only do Chao’s father and sister Angela Chao still share leadership over Foremost, but the pair also once sat on the board of an offshoot of the CSSP together.

This trend of the Chao family expanding their influence in China only continued as McConnell and his wife burrowed deeper into the American political system. When Trump named Chao head of the Department of Transportation in January of 2017, her family publicly rejoiced — likely at the opportunity to further their business interests. That same month, Chao’s sister Angela was named independent non-executive director of the CCP-affiliated Bank of China.

Even though the Trump administration took a hardline stance against China and its intent to compete with the U.S., the Chao family company proceeded with the purchase of 10 new ships from the Chinese government. That strategic buy expanded the Foremost fleet capacity by more than 40 percent, enabling the company to do even more business with the CCP. It also came shortly after Chao secured a spot in the Trump Cabinet overseeing an industry in steep decline thanks to competition with China.

While China sought to expand its maritime endeavors, it was under Chao’s leadership that the Department of Transportation proposed budget cuts for programs meant to stimulate American shipping and mariners.

How to ‘Get Rich on China’ 101​

McConnell still expresses some support for curbing China’s ascent, but whether his concern is sincere or political is difficult to say.

Not only do McConnell and Chao’s family members financially benefit from doing business with communist China, but so have McConnell and Chao. The political duo may not have a formal stake in the Chao shipping empire, but they have certainly amassed wealth from the business.

The biggest evidence for this came in 2008. Just one year after James Chao joined CSSC Holdings, in addition to running Foremost, McConnell received a “gift” of $5 to $25 million from his father-in-law. As Politico reported, that payment significantly bumped McConnell’s net worth, which was measured at around $3.1 million in 2004, to between $9.2 million and $36.5 million in 2014.

Several members of Chao’s family, including Angela and James, also contributed more than $1 million to McConnell’s re-election campaigns. In other words, the founder of an unofficial arm of our top adversary’s navy is helping keep McConnell in U.S. leadership. According to Schweizer, these kinds of payments could have been money designed to keep a favorable relationship between McConnell and the Chao family.

“Foreign governments and oligarchs like this form of corruption because it gives them private and unfettered gateways to the corridors of Washington power,” Schweizer wrote in his book “Empires.” “Foreign entities cannot legally make campaign contributions, so using this approach creates an alternative way to curry favor and influence America’s political leaders. Simply camouflaging these transactions as business agreements provides another shield of plausible deniability.”

Status and Power​

The Chao family has also amassed wealth by trading on their ties to McConnell.

While public officials — such as Chao from 2017-2021 — are barred from using their status to grant favors to friends and family, Chao publicly supported her family’s financial endeavors onscreen. Despite avoiding U.S. press appearances in her capacity as transportation secretary, Chao joined her father for dozens of appearances on Chinese and Chinese-American television where she regularly boosted Foremost and the work her family does out of China.

One interview was seemingly hosted at the DOT office with the agency’s flags displayed in the background.

“In at least one other interview appearance, the Transportation Department flag and the state flag of Kentucky, the state Chao’s husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) represents, both appear in the background,” the Hill reported.




Chao also granted her China-sympathetic family access to the president of the United States, a political connection that her father coveted and later boasted about in interviews, sometimes with communist state-owned media.

“The president spent several minutes with me,” James recounted in one interview after talking with Trump aboard Air Force One. “We were talking about business.”

That comes as no surprise considering that, ahead of her first scheduled visit to China as a member of the Trump administration, Chao requested that accommodations be made for at least one family member to join her trip. She also asked for her shipping industry relatives in China to be included in transportation-themed meetings with government officials. Her trip was quickly canceled once the press raised ethical concerns.

Consequences?​

It wasn’t until 2017, decades after McConnell and Chao began to benefit from their family’s ties to China, that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to Chao demanding that she explain her public elevation of her family’s maritime company.




In 2021, months after she resigned from the Trump administration, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Transportation released a report confirming that Chao “used her official position and taxpayer resources for the benefit of herself and her family.”

Evidence of wrongdoing in the OIG report was communicated in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ Public Integrity Section, but none of the agencies decided to open an investigation.

Chao may no longer hold an official place in the federal government, but she remains a large player in Washington, D.C., through her new role as a board member for the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center. McConnell, on the other hand, is still the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, who could reassume leadership if the GOP takes back the Senate. Whether voters like it or not, McConnell will likely determine the steps Congress takes to keep communist China’s hands out of the U.S. government.

Given this track record, the likelihood that McConnell will support policies that curb his family’s fortunes is questionable at best. That’s why Trump’s criticism of the McConnells’ close personal and professional relationship with China is long overdue. At a time when Republicans are questioning McConnell’s ability to advance the new GOP’s agenda, raising these connections is nothing short of necessary.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

McConnell And Chao Spent Decades Getting 'Rich On China'

For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches them and grants status to the Chao shipping company.

thefederalist.com

For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family’s deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican’s problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent.

“Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate[?]” Trump asked in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”

It didn’t take long for the corporate media to mock Trump’s assertion, framing his legitimate criticism of McConnell and Chao as unfair and unjust. Some outlets such as Vanity Fair even hinted that Trump’s comments were revenge against Chao for resigning from the Trump administration following the 2021 Capitol riot and subsequently cooperating with the illegitimate Jan. 6 Committee.

Trump’s criticism of McConnell and Chao, however, is not something to be taken lightly. For years, the McConnell and Chao families have maintained a symbiotic relationship that grants opportunities to the Chaos’ shipping company, Foremost Group, which largely operates in and on behalf of communist China.

This reciprocity is well documented, but unlike with Hunter Biden, there is less scrutiny from observers, including those on the right, for this “corruption by proxy,” as author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer calls it.

Blood Runs Thicker than Water​

As Schweizer documented in his 2018 book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” McConnell took a strong stance against China before his marriage into the Chao family. According to Schweizer, it was a 1994 trip arranged by James Chao, McConnell’s father-in-law, and sponsored by China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSP), one of the CCP’s largest military contractors and reportedly an unofficial arm of the CCP navy, to meet the Chinese president that pushed McConnell to “increasingly avoid public criticism of China.”

That’s likely because Chao and her family are well-connected in communist China thanks to her father’s company. Foremost is technically based out of New York but largely operates out of China, where at least 70 percent of its freight, mostly industrial, is delivered. Not only are a majority of Foremost’s ships built in state-owned shipyards, but some are even financed by the Chinese Communist Party. They are then used to deliver cargo outlined in contracts with the communist government, which has clearly stated goals to rapidly expand its industries to compete with the U.S.

Foremost and the Chao family have benefitted from loans estimated to be between $350,000 and $1 million from the U.S. government and loans from Chinese banks known by the Trump administration as threats. Again, this is a company owned by the father-in-law of America’s top congressional Republican and the father of the former transportation secretary. Not only do Chao’s father and sister Angela Chao still share leadership over Foremost, but the pair also once sat on the board of an offshoot of the CSSP together.

This trend of the Chao family expanding their influence in China only continued as McConnell and his wife burrowed deeper into the American political system. When Trump named Chao head of the Department of Transportation in January of 2017, her family publicly rejoiced — likely at the opportunity to further their business interests. That same month, Chao’s sister Angela was named independent non-executive director of the CCP-affiliated Bank of China.

Even though the Trump administration took a hardline stance against China and its intent to compete with the U.S., the Chao family company proceeded with the purchase of 10 new ships from the Chinese government. That strategic buy expanded the Foremost fleet capacity by more than 40 percent, enabling the company to do even more business with the CCP. It also came shortly after Chao secured a spot in the Trump Cabinet overseeing an industry in steep decline thanks to competition with China.

While China sought to expand its maritime endeavors, it was under Chao’s leadership that the Department of Transportation proposed budget cuts for programs meant to stimulate American shipping and mariners.

How to ‘Get Rich on China’ 101​

McConnell still expresses some support for curbing China’s ascent, but whether his concern is sincere or political is difficult to say.

Not only do McConnell and Chao’s family members financially benefit from doing business with communist China, but so have McConnell and Chao. The political duo may not have a formal stake in the Chao shipping empire, but they have certainly amassed wealth from the business.

The biggest evidence for this came in 2008. Just one year after James Chao joined CSSC Holdings, in addition to running Foremost, McConnell received a “gift” of $5 to $25 million from his father-in-law. As Politico reported, that payment significantly bumped McConnell’s net worth, which was measured at around $3.1 million in 2004, to between $9.2 million and $36.5 million in 2014.

Several members of Chao’s family, including Angela and James, also contributed more than $1 million to McConnell’s re-election campaigns. In other words, the founder of an unofficial arm of our top adversary’s navy is helping keep McConnell in U.S. leadership. According to Schweizer, these kinds of payments could have been money designed to keep a favorable relationship between McConnell and the Chao family.

“Foreign governments and oligarchs like this form of corruption because it gives them private and unfettered gateways to the corridors of Washington power,” Schweizer wrote in his book “Empires.” “Foreign entities cannot legally make campaign contributions, so using this approach creates an alternative way to curry favor and influence America’s political leaders. Simply camouflaging these transactions as business agreements provides another shield of plausible deniability.”

Status and Power​

The Chao family has also amassed wealth by trading on their ties to McConnell.

While public officials — such as Chao from 2017-2021 — are barred from using their status to grant favors to friends and family, Chao publicly supported her family’s financial endeavors onscreen. Despite avoiding U.S. press appearances in her capacity as transportation secretary, Chao joined her father for dozens of appearances on Chinese and Chinese-American television where she regularly boosted Foremost and the work her family does out of China.

One interview was seemingly hosted at the DOT office with the agency’s flags displayed in the background.

“In at least one other interview appearance, the Transportation Department flag and the state flag of Kentucky, the state Chao’s husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) represents, both appear in the background,” the Hill reported.




Chao also granted her China-sympathetic family access to the president of the United States, a political connection that her father coveted and later boasted about in interviews, sometimes with communist state-owned media.

“The president spent several minutes with me,” James recounted in one interview after talking with Trump aboard Air Force One. “We were talking about business.”

That comes as no surprise considering that, ahead of her first scheduled visit to China as a member of the Trump administration, Chao requested that accommodations be made for at least one family member to join her trip. She also asked for her shipping industry relatives in China to be included in transportation-themed meetings with government officials. Her trip was quickly canceled once the press raised ethical concerns.

Consequences?​

It wasn’t until 2017, decades after McConnell and Chao began to benefit from their family’s ties to China, that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to Chao demanding that she explain her public elevation of her family’s maritime company.




In 2021, months after she resigned from the Trump administration, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Transportation released a report confirming that Chao “used her official position and taxpayer resources for the benefit of herself and her family.”

Evidence of wrongdoing in the OIG report was communicated in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ Public Integrity Section, but none of the agencies decided to open an investigation.

Chao may no longer hold an official place in the federal government, but she remains a large player in Washington, D.C., through her new role as a board member for the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center. McConnell, on the other hand, is still the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, who could reassume leadership if the GOP takes back the Senate. Whether voters like it or not, McConnell will likely determine the steps Congress takes to keep communist China’s hands out of the U.S. government.

Given this track record, the likelihood that McConnell will support policies that curb his family’s fortunes is questionable at best. That’s why Trump’s criticism of the McConnells’ close personal and professional relationship with China is long overdue. At a time when Republicans are questioning McConnell’s ability to advance the new GOP’s agenda, raising these connections is nothing short of necessary.

Nice hit piece! Trump is a hypocrite criticizing McConnell for his family doing business with China when he did the exact same thing.