Donald Trump is the first President in my adult life to truly put America First.
Not just once, but repeatedly.
It is ironic that China bans importing US scrap steel as a trade war tactic, but the Japanese went to war in no small part because the US banned scrap metal and oil imports to Japan.
Some claim it was Roosevelt’s prodding in such trade wars that induced Japan into WWII against the US, which Churchill and Roosevelt wanted so they could fight Germany.
They only needed Germany to declare war on the US first, prodded by Japan and by the North Atlantic convoy schemes and provocations. Hitler fell for it.
I'm thinking it would have been nice to tell them no, unless there truly was no American investment first, or European investment 2nd.
“China, which had long been the world’s largest destination for paper, plastic and other recyclables, phased in import restrictions in January 2018.“
More like the ocean by way of China. US companies had actually been paying the Chinese to take this stuff so they wouldn’t have to pay more to actually recycle it.
WINNING
Nobody remembers Obama’s cash for clunkers, where the taxpayer paid $5000 for used vehicles, which were then rendered useless, then shipped to China where they then rolled out steel to build their war machine?
Lots of information missing here. For example:
Did the Chinese have a use for our trash (plus their trash), or were they being paid to take our trash (paper & plastic), and then ended up with more (theirs plus ours) than they could use?