The government that caused the problem was ours - by deciding that trading with communists was a suave move.
It isn’t. The only good communist is a dead communist.
So what’s the beef with retaliating against the ChiCom’s? The number of supposed “conservatives” who are sticking up for the ability of the communists to flood our markets with their crap to finance their military expansion is rather ironic.
I agree with your view on communism. Trading, with them subsidizing their own industries, will lead them to collapse because it adds inefficiency (any time a middle man is involved) to the system. That is unless we’re dumber than they are with our own finances.
Any country could have taken the place of china in this scenario. All it takes is a country looking further ahead and willing to subsidize industry while lending money to their host. The key part here is to not take the debt. It is a low intensity war that we are going to lose if we keep on the path we’re on. We gotta stop signing the convenience checks. Debt is a control device. Why else would government taking over all the lending in the country?