If you are for "free trade" you are promoting global socialism. There! I said it!
I tend to agree.
There are some 800 million citizens outside of the Chi-coms' special economic zones. There are a reported 60,000+ cases of clashes between citizens and authorities every year.
There is a "floating" population of unemployed estimated at 100 million people. That's besides the normal official unemployment.
Chi-com banks' nonperforming "loans" finance worthless Mao-era "enterprises" lest millions more become unemployed and real trouble develops.
Now, you'd think that with that much work to do to "raise boats" they'd make it a priority rather than expanding worldwide and building a military to confront us.
But today -- and this gets back "free trade" with developing countries and socialism -- it seems that these "developing" countries refuse to build an economy to provide opportunities for all their citizens then go forth into the world once they've proved themselves.
I put India in that category also.
Instead the "plan" is to take from developed countries and give to the "developing countries."
The "free traders" of both the conservatives and the New Democrat Third Way "progressives" acknowledge that it takes away from American workers. Gotta break them eggs, ya know, if we're going make global "progress."
The conservatives say that no American has a right to a job, jobs is jobs, and there will be high-payin' jobs created for all -- just you wait and see.
The "progessives" agree but argue that government help should be available for Americans who lose their jobs.
As I have said many times, the Chi-coms' revolution and great leaps upon the backs of tens of millions of Chinese killing them were all contemporaneous events for me.
Where have they changed except to implement Deng's version of Lenin's New Economic Plan to sucker useful idiots in to finance and build "socialism with Chinese characters?"
Here the "free traders" plan runs amuck and could get many of us killed, certainly it makes our military's job a mite more difficult.
IMO BTW, there's a big difference between "free trade" and free trade with our normal Asian and European partners. Free trade is good. I don't know of anyone against it.