Posted on 05/09/2025 11:24:47 AM PDT by appeal2
There’s a lie we’ve been telling ourselves for decades: That free trade with China would civilize them. Make them richer, freer, better. It didn’t. It made them bolder. Hungrier. More dangerous.
What the West called “economic engagement,” China saw as an opportunity for weaponization. And now, the bill is coming due—for everyone.
They’ve used the profits of global trade to fund: - Re-education camps - A high-tech surveillance state - Mass internment of minorities - And a military machine backed by the promise of global domination
All while selling us the cheap plastic they use to buy time.
And what did we get in return? Shuttered factories. Hollowed towns. Empty promises of “strategic partnership.” We didn’t uplift China. We subsidized its brutality.
But here’s the bitter truth: It won’t last.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnnydept.substack.com ...
Well said.
We paid for the Chinese military.
Free trade mean “you drop your and I’ll drop mine”...but that only works when the playing field is fair. As in NO government subsidies to screw the other folks dropping their. Not gonna show mine if you won’t show yours first.
You can’t have “free” trade with a country who pays $10 a week for labor. We can never compete. Thems the facts, as they say...
You can let them have certain cheap or low profit things we let them import free, but you will LOSE every time on “free” trade for critical industries because we can never compete with $10 a week or even $10 a day labor...
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