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"Threat" Lol, did you even read the article? He used it during your typical anodyne corporate speech at some event in Australia. This sentiment is as old as tr
by stephancoral 10y ago
"Threat"
Lol, did you even read the article? He used it during your typical anodyne corporate speech at some event in Australia. This sentiment is as old as trade itself - "If goods don't cross borders, armies do." Ma was speaking to the unifying power of globalization and trade, not some ultimatum he was giving the Trump administration.
- dougmwne 10y agoMy careful reading of the situation tells me that Jack Ma was speaking a message of peace because it is in his current economic interest. The other side of the quote is that war is also an economic interest. I find it troubling that the Chinese power-elite are thinking and talking in these terms.[1] [1]http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-reality-chinese-army-official-says.html http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-r...
- fspeech 10y agoWhat about the senior adviser to POTUS?: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon...
- baq 10y ago"si vis pacem, para bellum" if it comes to real armed conflict, everybody lost, except perhaps a few elite types.