[Buckeye McFrog]

This is what I figured would happen. It’s about Poker.

He flushed out the fact that the business model of a whole lot of American industry is solely dependent on cheap labor from China.

[Eleutheria5]

Of course. They protest too much. It’s a royal flush.

[Vigilanteman]

Lots of counties supply cheap labor. Vietnam, Bangladesh, India and El Salvador, just to name a few. China has held an advantage because back in the Bush administration it was given most favored nation status, putting it on par with the U.K., Japan and other, you know, actual allies.

The theory was that more trade = more world prosperity = more world peace. We know how that has worked out, don't we? Due to China's superior infrastructure, American manufacturer's flocked there.

Now, many are confronted with moving elsewhere. If not to actual allied countries, to at least neutral or friendly countries. China understands this well. They also understand that if they go, they might not so easily come back. Even if American voters are stupid enough to put a Lizzie Borden Warren type in office.