70% of the world's cigarette lighters are manufactured in a southeastern Chinese city named Wenzhou. In just this one region of China, National Geographic magazine reported, in 2007, that more than 25% of all shoes bought in China are made in the same city; and, Datang township in the province of Zhejiang manufacturers one-third of the world's socks! 150 years after the great industrial revolution in the west, China was coming of age in the 21st century. China's demand for oil skyrocketed as its citizens began buying more new automobiles per capita than any other nation on Earth, including the United States. With a thriving economy and a multi-million-man military, China was a force with which to be reckoned. Yet, in the late 1990's and on in to the new millenium, Democrats and Republicans alike ignored the vital signs of a slumbering giant about to awaken and cause global havoc. The Bush family, of course, had strong ties to the Chinese government dating back to the days of Preston Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather. George H.W. Bush, long before he became America's 41st President, was heavily involved in forming policy between the U.S. and China. No doubt George H.W. Bush also had something to do with establishing the U.S.A.'s credit line with China, which - thanks to hs son's insane 'war' in in Iraq - had now been desperately overextended, making the United States of America China's biggest debtor. By the time George W. Bush became America's 43rd President, China was exerting undue pressure on parts of the world to do things "it's way" (in similar fashion to how the U.S. pressured other nations to do things "it's way" throughout the 20th century). While America invested all its attentions on an insipid, immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional 'war' in Iraq, China sat back and watched the greatest nation on the planet hurl itself toward national bankruptcy. The U.S. now faced over $10 TRILLION in debt, owed mostly to Chinese and Japanese banks.

Now, the great United States lie in economic, political and social ruin, its 'credit cards' maxxed out. In the throes of the "Great Depression II", the U.S.A. could hardly afford a military conflict with anyone else, least not China. O.U.T.R.A.G.E. officials had been using every diplomatic tact possible to try and assuage the Chinese government's impatience. America's dependence on foreign lenders was almost as alarming as its dependence on cheap, easily-accessible foreign oil. Should foreign lenders choose not to loan the U.S. more money, higher interest rates would result because treasury bills are sold at auction. And, that means consumer interest rates would also rise. A modest increase wouldn't be so bad, most economists agreed; but substantially higher rates would cause economic catastrophe, which is - in effect - what happened just a few months ago. Adding more debt would be even more disasterous for the country in these perilous times. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of today's generation will already be saddled with a ten-trillion-dollar debt incurred by a bloodthirsty Bush administration. Further explosions of the national deficit would surely result in a macroeconomic meltdown. The U.S. had relied on the generosity of financial aid and physical assistance from its allies around the world, and even from some of its most feared enemies. But such goodwill could not go on forever. The U.S. had to begin rebuilding its economy as its continued to rebuild its cities and reform its government, which had become the most corrupt in western civilization. Talks with China were not going well; O.U.T.R.A.G.E. officials knew something had to be done to enlist China's help and not encourage China's wrath. The U.S. was vulnerable right now; if China so chose, it could simply send its million-man Army over here and take whatever it wanted: natural resources; water; real estate; weapons of mass destruction; banks; food; farms; military hardware - even our women, if there was a strong demand for western flesh on the international sex slave market. Although it wasn't discussed much, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. experts knew that the U.S. was in no position to deal with any kind of military - or economic - conflict with China.
One area where China needed assistance was agriculture, particularly in the technologies of modern animal husbandry. As China's cities encroached on rural communities, learning how to raise livestock on more limited land became crucial to the Chinese farmer. O.U.T.R.A.G.E. analysts suggested that the U.S. invite prominent Chinese agriculture officials to visit the Double B pig farm just outside of Story City, Iowa.