Bring it back.
Why no, dear, the Bush family told us Fwee Twade with China would be GOOD for us.
Think of all those new customers we were told (see for example one of the last Movietone newsreels made in 1980 which made this claim...although it was made in the 90s too when we gave the ChiCom filth Most Favored Nation status).
What new customers? They might buy a few things from us and then copy them and sell them right back at a 50% discount.
Which of course lotsa people on this board think is just fine. Cuz, Remember, prosperity will moderate their behavior and bring on Democracy.
They got the first and will never have the second.
Meanwhile, the PLA will take the money and technology and build the weapons to rule the Pacific. And us.
As if they don't now. Who owns the bonds, you know?
Bump.
Folks I know something of this topic.
We need to manufacture things ourselves.
Even China, protects their own markets.