China has slowly expanded its influence since the 1990s, causing them to now be one of the leading world powers. Officially, the reason for this expanded global, Chinese influence is their uninterested economic cooperation with other countries, or their willingness to support the development of undeveloped nations. You can believe that if you want.

In reality, a large part of China's growth is because enemies of the West needed to balance the counterweight of NATO surrounding them. NATO moved and then NATO enemies would respond in kind. Moves and countermoves. These enemies are now well-positioned and working at almost 100%, thanks to incredibly lax Western policies that resulted in their gaining strength.

This preamble is meaningful because the chaos you see around you is not a result of bad government policy. It is a result of purposeful action to generate chaos. The pain you feel now is by design.

Let's look at the facts and see what conclusions we can draw.

The Chinese have had significant investments in Venezuela for many years now. Our textile and shoe industry was massive in the 1980s. Then the Chinese stepped in and tore those industries apart with their low prices, completely capturing both markets. They recently tried to do the same with our oil industry, but the results have been less than desirable.