{"id":2584,"date":"2012-03-02T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-03-02T01:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:02:11","slug":"the-manchurian-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-manchurian-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manchurian Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Briefly, I&#8217;ll note that the Obama Presidency is the best thing to happen for China since, well, the Clinton Presidency.<br \/>\nUnder President Obama:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan has accepted Chinese promises of protection against America while we have bases in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>Brazil has rejected a paid-for &#8220;agreement&#8221; to develop oil resources off the coast of South America&#8211;they let the new leases to China.<\/li>\n<li>Canada (fricking Canada!) has announced that they will build a mountain pipeline to get oil to Chinese ships in British Columbia because America will not build a pipeline over flat ground to the world&#8217;s foremost cluster of refineries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This compares favorably (if you&#8217;re Chinese) to the Clinton administration&#8217;s mere missile guidance technology transfer to the Reds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2584\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2584\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briefly, I&#8217;ll note that the Obama Presidency is the best thing to happen for China since, well, the Clinton Presidency.<br \/> Under President Obama:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan has accepted Chinese promises of protection against America while we have bases in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>Brazil has rejected a paid-for &#8220;agreement&#8221; to develop oil resources off the coast of South America&#8211;they let the new leases to China.<\/li>\n<li>Canada (fricking Canada!) has announced that they will build a mountain pipeline to get oil to Chinese ships in British Columbia because America will not build a pipeline over flat ground to the world&#8217;s foremost cluster of refineries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This compares favorably (if you&#8217;re Chinese) to the Clinton administration&#8217;s mere missile guidance technology transfer to the Reds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2584\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-manchurian-incompetence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}