And that’s why Japan didn’t go whole hog after the Almighty Foreign Dollar like China did.
I’m actually feeling somewhat sad about China here, not just the USA. I think you’re intelligent enough to recognize, as most Christians do, that money worship leads to “all kinds of evil.” Japan wouldn’t embrace some of these evils, even at the cost of halting the money train. If it had, we probably would have seen the results of Japan abjectly sacrificing itself too.
The answer is to try harder to bring a Christian perspective to trade with China. If I may put it this way: Dear China, please stop worshiping our money. We aren’t God and certainly our money isn’t God, although our money does say In God We Trust. Let’s look to heaven and hammer out a better solution to our mutual situation, where you’re prosperous but you aren’t depending on our money for that to be the case. Where you will rise in a real sense, because God did it, rather than in a faux sense, because man willed it no matter what violence happens to God’s creation.
I don’t see these things in quite the terms you do. I’ll explain.
China to my way of thinking is doing what a nation trying to bring itself into the 21st Century should do.
It had a massive populace with a very sub-par standard of living. Marketing itself as a place to manufacture things for a lot less costs in wages, was a decent thing to do.
Over the years it’s business climate grew and paid for a complete overhaul of the nation. I don’t think it necessarily evil for the standard of living of it’s residents to be propelled forward four or five decades in a couple of decades.
One could make the case that China would have been evil not to implement policies that could improve the lives of it’s people.
My big beef with China, is that it offered too good a deal to our businesses, and they couldn’t resist.
It didn’t matter to our businesses if they were giving away our patent and knowledge base that gave us an edge. It didn’t matter if these contributed to China becoming more of a global threat. It didn’t matter if destroying families and lives in the U.S. resulted.
I see much more evil on the part of the U.S. players who willingly went along with it. IMO, the time will come when they stand before God, and they have to explain why it was a good idea to benefit themselves on the backs of their fellow man. Good luck with that.
I don’t see this as China seeking to sell itself for an almighty buck. I see it as China realizing that business would finance it’s needs. It did.
As long as business is not destructive, I have no problem with it. What we did to ourselves was destructive, and I think it was pure evil.
We have 95 able bodied people out of work in this nation. Some say that includes the retired, so I’ll stick with the 45 million figure that are of a working age and being unfulfilled because our businesses relocated overseas.
Once again, that is vile and evil IMO.
We need to take care of our own citizen/workers. It is evil not to.