Condoleezza to China: 'The rules' mean cyber-spying isn't allowed

I can believe her

I mean, her Iraq evidence was beyond reproach.

This is the woman who came over to Europe to deny that the USA were torturing people, and gave a speech that was so ludicrously weasel-worded that it amounted to an open admission that the USA were torturing people.

Her speech doesn't even make sense.

"The Chinese are finding now that there's a trade-off between wanting to be a global economic player"

A trade off with what? Between wanting to be a global player and WHAT? Finish your god damn sentence woman.

Is this some sort of world hypocrisy record?

Garbage In, Garbage Out ....

Regarding the failure of the US education system, here is an enlightening article on the matter …… http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-09/student-debt-cancellations-begin-government-forgive-36-billion-after-corinthian-clos

And the problem which is always there for dodgy establishments, is to try and ensure that not enough folk learn too much about everything which is going on to be able to extraordinarily render them obsolete and redundant and globally recognised as pariahs worthy of extremely prejudicial action. That, however, is nowadays an impossibility with it increasingly simple to freely register information and intelligence for phishing and phorming.

Rolling out the Pacific Fleet

America says it can subdue China by rolling out the Pacific Fleet and thereby keep China out of international waters.

All China has to do to subdue America is block exports for 3-6 months. What are the americans going to do? Invade and _force_ them to be in international waters?

Of course Condee and the neocons all know this, but they're trying frantically to keep the illusion that "Amerika Rules the Waves" etc, in order to keep the great unwashed ignorant pliable and shouting "U-S-A!" instead of actually thinking for themselves.

A director at Dropbox...

... I wonder why?

Every once in a while..

“The Chinese are finding now that there's a trade-off between wanting to be a global economic player. So they've not made that mistake with Alibaba. They are delighted that Alibaba is in the markets and that the IPO was a stunning success. Once in a while they call [founder and chair] Jack Ma and remind him it's a Chinese company – the propaganda people do.”

....a chimpanzee wakes up with a tequila sunrise that needs a coke to stop blinding him, picks up the phone and calls the White House and tells the operator that Syria used to be a hewckuvva good place to sneak people on unmarked aircraft.

"Only 30 per cent of young Americans, she said, pass the US military's basic entrance tests. Failure can be due to medical problems including obesity, tattoos in the wrong places ..."

Really ? Tattoos blocking people from getting into the US army ? WTF ?

Seems to me what keeps both US and China at bay is the Mutually Assured Destruction of China having so much of its savings (and US debt) in dollars.

Sure Tim Worstall could put us straight on that...

On a completely unrelated (and not really serious) note...

...I wonder if her Rice's face has been permanently frozen into that scowl so nicely caught by the photo above the article. I think it has been quite a while since I last saw her with a different facial expression.

Re: "nobody trusts Huawei" - mosto of this has already been said by others so let me just add that hasn't there been an article on El Reg lately about Germany collaborating with Huawei to build a national cloud storage service?