Posted on 11/14/2022 6:59:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“I highly doubt most people at the time thought America would outsource much of its manufacturing capacity to Red China, but that’s hindsight for you.”
We, as a nation, should have tariff everything from everywhere that came to the US from cheap labor markets, slave labor, and NEVER allowed corporations to move manufacturing out of the US. That would have made the US a much more secure future.
However, how do you run factories when only 57% workforce participation rate. Lets face it, people don’t want to work and a little side job without declaring income and welfare check is better than working a factory job.
50 years later? The National Review was warning about the theft of intellectual property of companies that moved operations to China at least 25 years ago.
Nixon was treacherous to our ally Taiwan. His visit to communist China was not his finest hour.
The welfare situation as it is now is far more advanced than it was in the ‘70s.
Would have John Schmidtz in 1972. Nixon was a Globlaist.
Would voted for.
With Nixon, China was part of his Cold War strategy. He didn’t know that China would go into (sort of) capitalist industrialism in a big way. Maybe he should have known. Maybe not. I’m tempted to look up the books he wrote after leaving office to find out what he thought about the off-shoring trend.
“Richard M. Nixon was a man far before his time.”
Yup. He created the EPA.
History will show that one decision turned China into the world’s leading economy in the 2030s and beyond.
I voted for Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio) in the primary and John Schmitz in the general election. I also attended a Schmitz rally at the Hollywood Palladium in October, 1972.
Good man
There was too much pretense in wbat Nixon, Kissinger, and later Carter, Reagan the Bushes and Clinton thought about China.
Access to western capitalism was neither going to Liberalize China politically nor make it a truly free market capitalist soceity - NO MATTE WHAT “the west” thought or believed.
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