{"id":3046,"date":"2009-03-06T04:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T04:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2009-03-06T04:15:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T04:15:27","slug":"the-official-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"The Official Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Armed Forces Journal<\/em><\/strong> on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/2009\/03\/3922551\">economic decline of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author makes too many assumptions regarding China&#8217;s resiliency.\u00a0 The opacity of China&#8217;s hybrid, mercantilist-driven,\u00a0political economy makes estimates of it&#8217;s true strengths and weaknesses difficult. We know how many treasury bills China has bought from us but not the real extent of hidden debt, underemployment or inflation. China&#8217;s leadership did not vastly increase the size of it&#8217;s paramilitary forces in the past decade because they were confident that it would all be smooth sailing ahead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/radicalinstrument.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/05\/chinese-premier-takes-on-politics-20\/\">Chinese premier takes on politics\u00a02.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armed Forces Journal on the economic decline of America. The author makes too many assumptions regarding China&#8217;s resiliency.\u00a0 The opacity of China&#8217;s hybrid, mercantilist-driven,\u00a0political economy makes estimates of it&#8217;s true strengths and weaknesses difficult. We know how many treasury bills China has bought from us but not the real extent of hidden debt, underemployment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,144,304,332,178,78,39,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-china","category-defense","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-ideas","category-military","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}