Good grief. Have you no brain? We no longer are set up to produce even a tiny amount of what we have outsourced to China. We don’t even produce the bulk of our medicine.
That phone or computer you use was probably made in China.
“Good grief. Have you no brain? We no longer are set up to produce even a tiny amount of what we have outsourced to China. We don’t even produce the bulk of our medicine.”
We USED TO manufacture practically everything we used. Then the Labor Unions took advantage of that, and Nixon gave the federal government HUGE POWERS to shut down US manufacturing.
...so we’re through as a major manufacturing country, and if we lose access to China’s factories without already having replacements (hopefully in Mexico, as it’s next to impossible to manufacture in the US - so Mexico is the best we can hope for), we will be TOAST.
Everything from clothes, shoes, electronics, tools, medicines, car parts, the vaunted N95 masks, rare earth mining, etc etc etc are made in China.
I wouldn’t even want to imagine how much of the value of Wall Street stock prices involves US global corporations factoring in their China investments. Then they hold a ton of our debt.
Sanctioning China is like shooting your assailant in the head, when your head is right beside theirs and in the path of the bullet.
That was something someone like Trump was smart enough to understand. But not this bunch of clowns.
True, we don’t produce anything here anymore. Might hurt the habitat of some fish, toad, bird or ant.