In the summer of 1992, I hear the Chief Operating Officer of Motorola speak at a Motorola function. He was asked about Bill Clinton and his proposed trade policies. He was looking forward to Clinton being elected.
Specifically, the Motorola executives saw China as a massive customer base for low cost beepers (this was 1992), then cell phones, then computer products.
Yes, Motorola closed a ton of US plants and moved a lot of operations to China.
Clinton and the Baby Boomer members of the US Chamber of Commerce saw tons of sales and a massive customer base, not a competitor.
Yep. Every President since Nixon, till Obama, enabled our enemy, China. Trump is only one who seems to see what China is.
The grand majority of the money we spend on a lot of worthless “made in China” stamped items goes into the pockets of the Peoples Army of China. We, the United States of America are supporting the weapons build up of Red China. We do it every time we purchase a made in China item. I read a detailed article about this some years ago. Yup, we are building up Red China’s new nuke navy and its new submarine force, their new missiles and nukes. We, the people, are doing a great job of supporting not only our military, but theirs as well.