[MissouriForBush]

I find your outlook to be naive and simplistic. The intricate protectionist trade barriers the Chinese have in place are designed not to help American or other Western companies in the long run.

Unfair trade opens up China solely on Chinese terms, i.e. under the purview of the Chinese government and those with a vested interest in maintaining its power base and goals for world domination. As much as we all wish to see more democratic tendencies result there, be on the lookout down the road for a corrupt oligarchy (with "old-school" ties) flirting with fascism.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "naive and simplistic" view of the Chinese government

Your post is a great description of matters. "The Chinese government and those with a vested interest in maintaining its power base. . . ."

IMO it's Lenin's New Economic Plan (NEP) at work here, the Chi-com version. The 1920s Russia allowed individual Russians freedom to earn (nepmen). When they started to outperform the Communist system, within hours :>), they were stopped and executed, I believe.

Meanwhile Armand Hammer, et al. set up Bank of the Useful Idiots and Useful Idiots Shipping to accommodate American corporations' lust to transfer wealth to Russia and have a shot at Russia's emerging "middle class."

The Chi-coms did it right, they are the "capitalists."

Something new: the best of both worlds, personal wealth from capitalism and absolute power from Communism.

Something old: useful idiots.

[Fledermaus]

I find your outlook to be totall absent of fact and full of nothing by hyperbole.

Simplistic would be too generous.