Posted on 05/31/2019 8:51:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Chinese make up 20% of the Vancouver metro area, at least.
They just apparently threatened us will literal war.
It’s hard to avoid doing business with the Chinese.
Our manufacturers have sold out...
China is flat nasty. I pity their neighboring countries. They will be bullied mercilessly in the future. China does not care about international law. The want everything their way. The USA would be wise to support manufacturing here, even if it requires long term protection for US companies. Depending on China for anything is not acceptable.
Justin is a natural groveler, a bend over boy drama teacher who was serendipitously elected by the women and queers of Canada because of his curly locks and dimples.
Huge electoral mistake.
His whole tenure comprises a good reason to argue that granting electoral suffrage to Canadian women was a vast mistake.We are ruled by a vast system of kooky politics who base their choices on photos and gossip from rags like McLeans magazine and other rags who refuse to be critical of a cute, socilaly privileged political elitist who hasn’t the slightest skill at governance.
For Justin Trudeau, the whole world is his “stage” of a burgeonong , draconian political correctness,and he the prime actor in it.he has nearly ruined the Canadian economy
and created huge divisions between Canadian provinces on economic development.
Trudeau is a hollow shell, a grovelling idiot.
And Canada can hardly wait to rid themselves of him while the same idiotic , cooing women who elected the idiot make the same noises in the back ground.
RE CHina:
They’re communist assh*les, and have been for many decades now.
They should be treated as such.
They might want to watch themselves. Battle of kapyong (my uncle was there) they had 10,000 screaming morons coming at my old unit. We had 224 men. We lost 11, they suffered greatly, and 2PPCLI never gave up the hill. They want to come over and try that, then it will be worse.
Fear and desperation make you do foolish things.
Thanks Free Traitors™
I am looking for a decently priced drill press made the USA. All the USA made ones are industrial strength and not many of them to choose from either.
Yeah, go ahead and attack a country for honoring its international committments.
And in the year that’s the 30th Anniversary of Tienamin Square ... yup, that should do wonders for China’s image and reputation abroad - reminding us all what Commie China is really like at its core
It’s impossible to avoid doing business with the Chinese - at least right now. Likewise, China cannot afford to stop selling to us. Our nations are locked in a semi-permanent embrace that would take many years to disentangle.
Our manufacturers were driven out by progressive policies more than they were attracted to China by lower costs. No attempt is being made to mitigate the job-killing effects of these policies. They remain firmly in place, enriching union bosses and Democratic campaign coffers and impoverishing everyone else.
Now in many fields, the art is lost - there are barely any Americans left who even know how to do the work. We are suffering a huge shortage of skilled labor. We have a lot of Millennials who are fully qualified to be Social Media Influencers, but have no hope of successfully operating a lathe - and no interest in learning.
China is not an especially cheap place to manufacture right now, as wages have risen sharply, but domestic industry usually offers only expensive and lower-quality alternatives. To put it bluntly - work not done in China could possibly be done in the USA, but it won't be done by Americans. The GOPe realized this a long time ago, but rather than doing the hard work of training or re-training American citizens they have simply opened the borders as a shortcut.
When you see your "Made in the USA" garments being assembled in a Los Angeles sweatshop at sewing machines manned by middle-aged, Mexican Mafia-looking men of dubious legal-status and hear the Middle Eastern factory owner on the phone swearing in Farsi at his brother-in-law in Guangzhou who can't get the fabric shipped out of China on time, you will begin to understand the magnitude of the problem. It's American manufacturing, all right, and carefully protected by the existing tariff structures - but without a single US citizen involved.
Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other Asian nations could eventually emerge as viable competitors to China, but they are much smaller and it will take time for them to ramp up their infrastructure and offer goods at the same quality and quantity levels China does.
No matter how high the tariffs get, the USA will still be buying Chinese goods. They will just cost a little more. Some of the cheapest items at WalMart may be sourced immediately from other countries - but the more complex and expensive items are going to remain Chinese for some time to come. Any renaissance in American manufacturing is going to take years to happen - and simply can't happen at all with the current collection of Democrats and GOPe occupying our legislatures.
“Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other Asian nations could eventually emerge as viable competitors to China.”
At least that appears to be the US strategy. However if the downturn in trade for China leads to unemployment what do you think the Chicoms will do with restless and potentially rebellious workers? Cry uncle and beg the US for a trade deal hoping that their economy will turn around in a couple of years and reduce unemployment? Or do you think that the Chicoms will whip up anti US hysteria and immediately shift the unemployed to the army defense plants?
China sits on top of Vietnam and even though they are not friends, a big stick goes a long way. Philippines and Taiwan are also within reach. Even if these countries do not behave perfectly for the Chinese, instability will make trade with the US difficult to say the least.
Sure, Trump is trying to right decades of corrupt trade practices. But, by taking on China, Mexico, Iran simultaneously, he is making it more likely that these and other nations will unite against the US.
Not entirely true that no attempt is being made; after all, what US manufacturing remains has been on the increase. However, as you point out, the Uniparty (Dems and GOP-e) continue to stand in the way of the only one making the attempt.
I’m not dependent upon China for what I need to buy. It’s not impossible to avoid funding the Chi-coms.
> “They just apparently threatened us will literal war.”
No, they didn’t.
Why would they want a shooting war with us when they know we are superior to them in every aspect of conventional warfare? Just because they are not happy we won’t allow them to continue to make hundreds of billions every year off of us? Really?
Their military is untested with rampant corruption throughout the ranks. They also have enough internal problems that starting a war now would only hasten the collapse of the regime.
Besides, how can they start a war with us when the Party elites have a lot of their assets in the US, not to mention their children and grandchildren are actually US citizens or green-card holders.
But they have been very defiant in their state-owned media portraying the US as a big bully trying to stop China’s ascent, and that they are not afraid and ready to take on the enemy. Such rhetoric should be rightly considered as domestic propaganda rather than anything based in reality.
Remember the majority of their populace is largely ignorant of what is really going on because of the information blockade, and propaganda is a necessary tool of the communists because they have no legitimate claim to power and are very afraid of the people rising up against them. Hence the CCP needs to spin every failure as a victory, always trying to paint the picture that China is strong and highly regarded in the world stage under the CCP. Incidentally, this is what gave rise to the erroneous perception that the Chinese are culturally obsessed with saving face.
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