Evo Morales responds to John Kerry: Never Again Will We Be Your Backyard

[Flatulo]

111. Wishful thinking, as in I would do a happy dance if the Chinese screwed Bolivia? No, I have

absolutely no axe to grind with Morales or his countrymen. I know exactly one Bolivian, and he's a pretty nice guy, but of Euro descent, not indigenous.

No, the Chinese practice their warfare on the factory floor, where they happily conduct industrial espionage and intellectual property theft on a daily basis. They steal American software to the tune of billions of dollars, and they form partnerships under which they illegally transfer knowledge and IP to themselves and then compete against their partner. You can read about what they did to General Motors with the Spark, when the state-owned auto enterprise Chery set up a factory across the street from GM, and on a nightly basis pirated the design, right down to the smallest detail, from GM. It was a staggering case of intellectual property theft. GM sued them for billions, they pretty much said Fuck You.

Or you can read about what they did to Evergreen Solar, a Massachusetts startup with an innovative process for growing silicon. They partnered with a Chinese state-owned entity under which Evergreen would provide the wafers, and the Chinese would assemble them into panels. The key to Evergreen's advantage was their silicon furnace design, which was the result of a fifteen year project started by MIT. I worked on Evergreens furnace, and it was a magnificent machine and cost tens of millions to design and perfect. It could produce wafers at 1/3 the cost of competitors' processes. We sent furnaces to China, where they were placed in a secure facility (to prevent theft of the design), and only the wafers were sent to the panel assembly plant. Well, the Chinese got access to the furnaces, copied the design and replicated them, then proceeded to produce silicon at an even lower cost and putting Evergreen out of business.

Just a few examples. I have others. If you enter into a business agreement with the Chinese, it is the kiss of death for your enterprise. I expect they'll pull similar stunts with LA enterprises. They may think they're avoiding dancing with the devil by eschewing trade with the US, but it's just a different devil.

Oh, and they're incredibly rascist. They sincerely believe that all other cultures, even other Asian cultures, are animals.