Todd, I just realized that jospehm20 is absolutely correct saying that US/China foreign trade dollars could in fact be used by the PROC to fund its military. Those BEA numbers showed that in 2015 Americans sold about $140B of goods'n'services over there and got paid in Chinese money. If we'd only used it to buy Chicom gov't bonds then it would've just about covered it. Didn't happen though, what we actually was to spend the $140B on Apple products.
jospehm20, I'd be grateful if you'd please tell us your thoughts on how China's bought $1,200B in U.S. gov't bonds, enough to completely fund the entire U.S. military budget for 2 or 3 years. Does that make you like US/China trade?
So you are asking me that because China lends us back a portion of the money it makes from us, does that make me like trade with them? No. I think the correct answer is to make more of the stuff we buy here and quit paying for China’s military buildup. We should quit giving them our technology and make our own stuff. We are the primary target of their military build up and I think it is stupid to help our enemies fight us
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-map-shows-countries-scaled-133900782.html
Enjoy! Happy Easter!
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