“We today confront a Chinese Communist dictatorship and superpower that seeks to displace America as first power on earth and to drive the U.S. military back across the Pacific.”
From a chinese perspective, why shouldn’t they? Why shouldn’t they want to put China first, like we want to put America first. It’s called competition.
“Result: China has run up $4 trillion in trade surpluses with the United States.”
So what? This trade imbalance talk is such malarky! I have a huge trade imbalance with my grocery store and it keeps on growing everytime I shop there. There is no trade imbalance. Don’t they get paid every time we buy something from them? We got tangible goods from them and they got pieces of papers from us. If anything that’s a better deal for us.
Most of the money your grocery gets is spent in your country. The analogy breaks down when you consider the world to be your supermarket.
China has only gotten where it is by (and I’m being generous about it) a system of soft slavery and stark spoliation.
Rewarding that reaps before God what it always does. We didn’t learn from getting kicked in the rear by the consequences of chattel slavery, apparently.
” I have a huge trade imbalance with my grocery store and it keeps on growing everytime I shop there. “
The analogy, while catchy is specious.
There is no common element to compare a local transaction to the macroeconomics of international trade.
How reasonable would your transactions be if the store owner put all other stores out of business, and then would only give you 75 cents for every dollar you spend there?
Now imagine you were an employee of that store and your hours or rate were reduced because a 17yr old kid was willing to do your job for less.
Those would be more accurate analogies than yours.
China enslaves the population to work in factories. Its like the confederacy having free labor and a higher standard of living (for whites) before the civil war. America is a cooked goose since labor unions, the eeoc, osha, the epa and the federalization of employment standards have made us noncompetitive.