China can go to hell. Why we do ANY business with them is beyond me, but just about all of the big American businesses are selling us out. Just try to find American made products in Walmart. Traitors ALL!
“China can go to hell. Why we do ANY business with them is beyond me”
The answer to that question is the most depressing part of all. We are a debtor nation.
I will after I find a real American in the WH.
WORTH REPEATING THANK YOU!
If all products from China and elsewhere were banned, prices for these products would rise very significantly, quite possibly doubling or more.
Which would be, of course, the equivalent of having your income cut by 50%. Is that something you are personally willing to face up to for the good of your country, or do you just like to flame American companies that follow the financial incentives we as a nation have set up in the tradition of the free market?
IOW, if a 100% American businessman started up a competitor to Walmart across the street selling only American products, but in which the products were on average 2x the price, would you shop there? If you would, how many other Americans do you think would? How long do you think he’d be in business? Why do you blame Walmart and other businesses for doing exactly what a company is supposed to do in a (somewhat) free-market system?
Actually, if you look at American history and America's relationship with China, you will find, that trade between America and China or rather, the West and China, has been present and expanding ever since the late 1700's. And driven mainly by the West.
The 1800s saw a series of "Open Door Policies" in which China was forced to accept Western trade. And continued well into the 20th century. Then, in 1949, the Communist took over and shut the doors to Western companies. It was at this junction, that the red menace was very strong. And that China was "lost to the communist".
Then, in 1973, Nixon went to China as relations between the China and the former USSR deteriorated. As trade resumed in 1978, it was the US and the West that pressed China to open her markets more and expand trade. All the way through the 80's and into the 90's. The Chinese, now are pressing for more trade as well as the Western companies.
So, the reality is, the history of trade between the Western world and China for the last 200 years, has been largely driven by the West.
Check your history and you'll see that I'm right. Global trade as we know it today, was driven first by the Europeans and then even further by the US.