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Kissinger, a former Secretary of State, was alongside Stephen Orlins, president of the U.S. National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and two Chinese officials, as Orlins rang the market bell and declared that the 45 Chinese companies with a market capitalization of $802 billion that are listed on the NYSE were “emblematic of the economic integration of the two countries.”The opening bell event, which is seen by 100 million viewers on CNBC and other media outlets around the world, illustrates a point in Bill Gertz’s new book, The Failure Factory, that: “Beijing’s influence on the U.S. Government is so pervasive that most Americans remain entirely ignorant of the danger.”  …Indeed, Obama was captured on tape saying that Chinese infrastructure was superior to that of the U.S.While telling CNBC that he expected Obama to build a New World Order, Kissinger praised Obama’s “extraordinary” appointments in the “international and financial fields.”Besides talking to CNBC, Kissinger gave an exclusive interview to the official Chinese news agency on the occasion of his visit to the New York Stock Exchange and said that the U.S. and Chinese governments will have to work together to rebuild the global economic system.Kissinger spoke with “emotion” as he described the achievements of the Chinese people under communism and is regarded as “an old friend of the Chinese people,” Xinhua said.Indeed, China seems to be in the driver’s seat as a result of the financial and economic crisis and Kissinger’s policies.At the recent official Strategic Economic Dialogue between the U.S. and China, a Chinese official, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, told Washington to “take the necessary measures to stabilize the economy and financial markets, as well as to guarantee the safety of China’s assets and investments in the United States.”Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was in the audience to hear these remarks, has been trying to do so, having fashioned federal bailouts of U.S. financial institutions that have benefited China’s investments in the U.S. Paulson was the keynote speaker at the annual gala of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations on October 21 in New York.

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