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The real number is probably a great deal higher due to (1) inflation, since the trade deficit's dollar value from 20-40 years ago may have been significantly smaller, but the value of those dollars was itself higher; and (2) the fact that you can't really put a price on technology. China went from rickshaws to rockets in 50 years.

In the process, we created a rival superpower. For what? "Cheap" goods. Well, cheap goods aren't so cheap when you don't have a job, and when you eventually have to pay for them with blood.

1 posted on 04/06/2019 1:46:53 PM PDT by Thalean
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Also true of India. We bought India with American jobs and dollars, because we need a friend in South Asia ... to offset the Chinese.


2 posted on 04/06/2019 2:11:33 PM PDT by IronJack
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And have you ever wondered why, when you order something on eBay that is shipped from China, “shipping is free”? Guess who’s paying for that?

(Us’uns.)


3 posted on 04/06/2019 2:25:39 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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Well, SOMEBODY had to replace the former Soviet Union after their almost total economic collapse, and the successors to Mao Ze-Dong filled the bill admirably. They seized the flag of “counterbalance to the US” and ran with it.

As for the rise of India, well, Japan was faltering badly, so a new place to exploit both cheap labor and technological innovation had to be found, as Japan had pretty much priced themselves out of the market on these counts.


5 posted on 04/06/2019 2:53:51 PM PDT by alloysteel (Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin)
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7 posted on 04/06/2019 2:59:04 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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This video is WRONG.

It was NOT America that built up China. It was ALL of the West. To deny that France had a role, that Germany had a role, that England had a role, that Canada had a role is just silly.

Everything that has happened over the last three decades are contributors to the way things are today. Youse guys need to take off your rose-colored glasses and recognize that the American leadership has NOT been working in the best interests for Americans. At least, not since Ronald Reagan.


8 posted on 04/06/2019 3:56:18 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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American CEOs are are not just losers but their stupidity is legendary.

They saw a billion new customers with China. Sell globally. Well when you trade with slaves masters, when you compete with slaves, you become a slave.

It is basic economics they skipped in college.

China demanded partial ownership of all their companies. When GM invested hard money in a new car line, China copied the car and simply produced their own exact copy.

China doesn’t need American companies. Only one company traitor, or by simple demand, China produces EXACT copies of American products. Congress takes a cut of the profit.

CEOs have been stripped of all respect. They are dupes.

CEOs are losers in modern America, while Chinese generals have become billionaires.


9 posted on 04/06/2019 5:15:24 PM PDT by TheNext (Democrats kill people with Gun Control)
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China was never economically great until they sold their slave labor factories to the U.S.


10 posted on 04/06/2019 11:19:45 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Globalists fed that dragon and they’re heavily invested in China being the sole superpower.

The US Can be a non-sovereign country in some conglomeration like the EU as far as DNC donors and RINO handlers are concerned, just as long as their investments in China can pan out.


11 posted on 04/13/2019 2:58:59 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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