‘We have exported so many US jobs that I now go into (any) American shopping establishment and see nothing but Chinese made goods in any department.”
Worse than that. The US is import dependent for a lot of the basic industrial materials necessary for an advanced economy. China is a major source of these materials along with Korea and increasingly India. Basic chemicals such as the nitric acid family are no made to any degree in the US due to environmental regulations . Lead is in the same category, the last smelter in the US has announced it will soon close due to new EPA emissions regulations making it economically impossible to continue to operate and compete with foreign material. In order to conduct military operations the US is dependent on electronic parts from East Asia. I have personally heard a senior Army officer state ‘We are dependent on the air bridge to Asia to conduct operations’. Ponder these realities and think about how vital Japan, Korea and Taiwan are to basic US national interests.
“Ponder these realities and think about how vital Japan, Korea and Taiwan are to basic US national interests.”
In a lot of ways, China and the USA along with Japan, Taiwan, etc. are all interconnected.
The countries that are isolated from the modern world are mostly islamic that produce nothing of value except for the oil that comes underneath their sand.