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向北京鞠躬？美國華爾街巨頭挨批
美國《華盛頓觀察家報》發表洛根（James Rogan）的評論說，美國金融業龍頭摩根大通（JP Morgan）的首席執行官、紐約聯邦儲備銀行前董事會成員戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）被公認為美國傑出的銀行家。他自2005年成為摩根大通行長以來，不僅將該行轉變為國家金融寶藏，而且成為全球金融市場的龐然大物。市場和政客們都傾聽他的講話，他擁有全球地位。
戴蒙（中）的媚中共行徑遭到痛批
但戴蒙上周為什麽去了中共國？中共是美國的頭號對手，針對美國的間諜活動無所不用其極，消耗了聯邦調查局大部分反間諜資源。例如，我們本周才了解到，中共間諜試圖滲透阿拉斯加的美國軍事基地，特工的車輛載有一架無人機。近日，一架中供軍機危險地騷擾一架在國際空域飛行的美國軍機。中共繼續挑戰南海國際水域的航行權。最重要的是，中國經常威脅要征服台灣，那裏是世界上最重要的半導體公司台積電的所在地。沒有台積電製造的半導體，人工智能經濟革命就會停止。
戴蒙公開承認自己有政治野心。他的一些同行建議他競選美國總統。這就引出了一個問題：戴蒙作為國家經濟精英的頂級成員和有抱負的國家政治人物，為什麽在中共國企圖取代美國成為最重要全球大國的戰略計劃中充當陪襯？
戴蒙作為全球金融精英的一員，訪華參加摩根大通金融市場會議，向非中共國公司和全球投資者發出了明確的信號，即中共國對投資具有吸引力。他的訪問將吸引外國資本和投資進入中共國。這正是北京迫切需要的，因為中共國的富人害怕最高統治者習近平，資本正在外逃。
中共國也處於經濟末日循環的早期階段，其經濟步履蹣跚。中共國的經濟雖然不會崩潰，但隨著人口減少，勞動力市場逐漸喪失全球競爭力。中國共產黨領導層將稀缺資本從充滿活力的私營部門轉移到垂死的國有部門，中共國經濟將慢慢萎縮。然而，戴蒙通過參加摩根大通在中共國主辦的會議，含蓄地暗示中共國是美國投資者投資的好去處。當然，這是錯誤的，中共國不可投資。戴蒙是否違反了他對摩根大通客戶和股東的信托義務？
總而言之，戴蒙正在充當中共國的經濟走狗。他這樣做是在損害美國的國家安全。戴蒙正在支持一個腐朽的政治和經濟政權，其主要目標是使美國屈從於中共國政權。戴蒙的動機可能源於他對其銀行和個人財富的貪婪，據說他的個人財富超過10億美元。
戴蒙無論動機如何，訪問中共國都是錯誤的。他的銀行吹捧中共國的投資產品是錯誤的。如果戴蒙確實有擔任高級政治職位的野心，他本人和摩根大通應該立即與這個美國的對手保持距離。
CEO of JP Morgan Chase and former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jamie Dimon is recognized as the nation’s preeminent banker. Since 2005, when he became head of JP Morgan, he has transformed the bank not only into a national financial treasure but also a behemoth in global financial markets. When Dimon speaks, markets and politicians listen. He possesses global gravitas.
But Dimon was in China last week. Why?
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China is the top adversary of the United States. Chinese espionage against the U.S. is relentless in its varied saturation, absorbing a vast proportion of the FBI's counterintelligence resources. We learned just this week, for example, that Chinese spies attempted to penetrate a U.S. military base in Alaska. The agents’ vehicle carried a drone . Recently, a Chinese military aircraft dangerously harassed a U.S. military aircraft that was flying in international airspace. China continues to challenge navigation rights in the international waters of the South China Sea. Most importantly, China routinely threatens to conquer Taiwan, home of the world’s most important semiconductor company, Taiwan Semiconductor. Without semiconductors fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor, the artificial intelligence economic revolution would stop .
Jamie Dimon has openly acknowledged that he has political ambitions. Some of his peers suggest that he should run for the White House. Which begs a question: as a top member of the national economic elite and as an aspiring national political figure, why is Jamie Dimon serving as a foil in China’s strategic plan to supplant the U.S. as the foremost global power?
As a member of the global financial elite, Dimon’s visit to China to attend a JP Morgan financial markets conference sends a clear signal to non-Chinese companies and to global investors that China is attractive for investment. His visit will draw foreign capital and investment into China. This is something that Beijing desperately needs because China is experiencing not only capital flight — wealthy Chinese are afraid of China’s supreme ruler, Xi Jinping.
China is also in the early stages of an economic doom loop. Its economy is faltering. China’s economy will not collapse but it will slowly atrophy as its population declines, as its labor market continues to slide toward global noncompetitiveness, and as the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party diverts scarce capital from the dynamic private sector to the moribund state sector. Yet, by attending a JP Morgan-sponsored conference in China, Dimon is implicitly suggesting that China is a good place for U.S. investors to put their money. Most certainly, that is false. China is not investable. Is Dimon violating his fiduciary duties to the customers and shareholders of JP Morgan?
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Put simply, Dimon is serving as an economic lackey of China. In doing so, Dimon is harming U.S. national security. Dimon is propping up a decaying political and economic regime whose principal goal is to make the U.S. subservient to the Chinese state. Dimon may be motivated by greed for his bank and for his personal wealth, which reputedly exceeds $1 billion.
Whatever the motivations, Dimon is wrong to visit China. His bank is wrong to tout investment products based in China. If Dimon does have ambitions for high political office, he should immediately distance himself and JP Morgan from this American adversary.
James Rogan is a former U.S. foreign service officer who later worked in finance and law for 30 years. He writes a daily note on finance and the economy, politics, sociology, and criminal justice.
Dimon calls for Washington-Beijing engagement in first China visit since 2021 controversy
- "You're not going to fix these things if you are just sitting across the Pacific yelling at each other, so I'm hoping we have real engagement," Dimon said, according to Reuters.
- In November 2021, Dimon expressed "regret" over remarks that JPMorgan would last longer than China's ruling party.
JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday called for “real engagement” between policymakers in Washington and Beijing, as Sino-U.S. relations continue to fray.
Speaking at the JPMorgan Global China Summit in Shanghai — in his first visit to China since his 2021 apology for joking that JPMorgan would outlast the Chinese Communist Party — Dimon said that security and trade disputes between the world’s two largest economies over are “resolvable.”
“You’re not going to fix these things if you are just sitting across the Pacific yelling at each other, so I’m hoping we have real engagement,” Dimon said, according to Reuters.
He advocated for a “de-risking” of the economic ties between the East and West rather than for a full-scale decoupling, as the Wall Street giant seeks to boost its presence in China.
In November 2021, Dimon expressed “regret” over remarks that JPMorgan would outlast China’s ruling party, seeking to limit damage to the bank’s growth ambitions in the country. The comments that invoked Beijing’s ire came shortly after JPMorgan won regulatory approval to become the first foreign company to establish full ownership of a securities brokerage in China.
Top U.S. and Chinese commerce officials met last week for “candid and substantive discussions” surrounding bilateral trade and commercial relations, in the first cabinet-level exchange between Washington and Beijing in months.
National security concerns also underpin a souring of relations between the two superpowers. The U.S. on Tuesday accused a Chinese fighter jet of engaging in an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” while intercepting a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the South China Sea.
