[central_va]

China went from basket case to manufacturing power house in collusion with and help form the USA allowing companies to off shore knowing that the US would never erect trade tariffs. This was part of a cold war strategy that back fired on the USA. The whole thong is phony like the fake ghost cities they build.

Wait till the ChiComs switch form building benign fake cites (at the west's request ) to building a real blue water fleet to sustain their workforce.

[Zhang Fei]

China went from basket case to manufacturing power house in collusion with and help form the USA allowing companies to off shore knowing that the US would never erect trade tariffs. This was part of a cold war strategy that back fired on the USA. The whole thong is phony like the fake ghost cities they build. Wait till the ChiComs switch form building benign fake cites (at the west's request ) to building a real blue water fleet to sustain their workforce.

Once China ended its self-imposed economic isolation and let the market decide what and how much of it to make, it's not clear that anything could have stopped its progress. The capital and technology to catch up wasn't solely in US hands. China's neighbors and Europe invested huge sums in China in expectation that it would resume its place as a major economic power on the strength of its population size alone. Without US involvement, Chinese growth would have been slower, but it would likely have continued. Without manufacturing abroad in low-cost labor locales (in China or otherwise), US growth would also have been slower, and American companies would have had to compete on price with cheaper European Chinese-assembled products.