[Dem Guard]

Seems that the world can live without cheap plastic sh*t imported from China.

Well we used to buy everything from Japan. We have already moved on to buying clothes from other cheaper places, why not the bulk of the other stuff we need IF we must import it and not make it here? As a nation we should spread our imports around more for national security it nothing else.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

As a nation we should spread our imports around more for national security it nothing else.

How do you do that without the Federal Government dictating to the free market what it can and cannot buy, or do - essentially becoming a 100% fascist State?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

That would require a commanded economy...

[allmendream]

I agree that it is not that smart to feed the Tiger that is running lose in Asia, but it is all, like water, finding the path of least resistance. We buy the majority of our goods from China because they make it and ship it cheaper. As soon as someplace else makes it cheaper, then we will probably import most of it from there instead.

I remember well when ‘the Yellow Peril’ was Japan, and they were going to eat our lunch and buy our companies and suddenly it was supposed to be us learning from them and copying their business models. Turns out they were killing themselves (quite literally in some cases) trying to make us cheaper and better electronic goods. We don't hear much about the threat of Japan taking us over any more.