Basically, the tariffs and all the trade deals add up to taking the pie (share of the US maret) away from communist China, and dividing it among everyone else - US included.
Mexico has also been a big winner, at China's expense.
China Trade Ping.
The tariffs should have been across the board.
We don’t want to stop dependency on China only to become dependent on India, or Vietnam, or Ghana.
I want names, dates and relocation data, anyone who does business without enemies are our enemy as well.
[Mexico has also been a big winner, at China’s expense. ]
good, china is asshoe
I'll have to think on it.
Just read over at The Washington Times that President is considering stopping payment of funding to the WHO organization.
It’s not easy, but whenever I can, I’m avoiding Chinese products.
No way to get away from it yet with respect to stuff in my cars/etc, but I figure every little bit helps.
Too bad for the Chinese people, but their ruling party manages to even out suck, out screw up, and out crime our Democrats.
“New Data Shows U.S. Companies Are Definitely Leaving China”
as well they should, and not just china ...
for example, the companies making hydroxychloroquine in India are U.S. companies that are not being allowed to export the products that they own from India, and relying on personal relationships is simply not good enough in the long run for the United States to be a secure nation.
We thus need a new superpower initiative in which the United States isn’t just the biggest energy producer in the world, and the biggest food producer and exporter in the world, but we also MUST become the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world (including full vertical integration of precursor supply), and thereby transform ourselves into the largest exporter of pharmaceuticals in the world as well.
It’s not good enough to just be self-sufficient in food and energy production and a world exporter of surpluses of those essential products, but the same HAS to be true with pharmaceuticals too: the United States of America MUST become the nation that all the other nations turn to for their pharmaceuticals, instead of us remaining the nation that turns to others for our medications.
Energy and food self-sufficiency are not sufficient to maintain national security as long as we remain a beggar nation when it comes to relying on other nations to supply our healthcare system.
True national security stands on four legs: military power, energy self-sufficiency, food self-sufficiency, and healthcare self-sufficiency.
Just last night I happened to notice that LL Bean has discontinued their long-time contract with the Chippewa boot company in Wisconsin, who made (past tense) their really cool Engineer’s Boots, and are now selling a cheap-assed imitation made in China.
Hoo-boy are they getting lit up on the reviews.
Their timing sucks, just like their loyalty.
There’s the silver lining for sure: a nation comprised more of makers and builders than servants and idle burdens.
The mask dropped with respect to pharmaceuticals and I don’t think that dependency will happen again at any price. The problem is that you can’t deal with Chinese manufacturers without dealing with The Party. And The Party has its own interests, some of them not even Chinese. The Party is about power. The Party is about globalism because globalism is about power. Both have overstepped themselves, both have taken a hard hit, and both will be back.
Ours moved to Taiwan.
When this is over I want to DESTROY China.
Give whatever tax incentive is necessary to bleed them of manufacturing
China is the go-to source for ibuprofen, hazmat suits, rubber gloves, surgical masks, ventilators. Probably toilet paper, for all we know. How this is not a national security issue is something being raised by senators including Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tom Cotton (R-AK).
The threat going forward of political anger toward China, not to mention future pandemics stemming from China (the first SARS came from there in 2002-03), means that companies will want to hedge their supply chain strategy by spreading their risks.
“New Data Shows U.S. Companies Are Definitely Leaving China..”
Almost as fast as they are leaving Illinois.
Moving from 1 shithole country to another! Commies control China and Cartels control Mexico. Hey here is a novel idea, why not make it in the US?