Posted on 12/19/2022 2:16:35 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
In a recent speech, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo suggested an incremental shift in how the United States approaches “competitiveness and the China challenge.” She recognized the serious threat from China, explaining that the United States “will continue to press China to address its nonmarket economic practices that result in an uneven playing field.” She noted, though, that “we are not seeking the decoupling of our economy from that of China’s.”
America’s China policy does need to change. The ruthless repression of its Covid-policy protesters is the latest proof of that, but the greater urgency is that the status quo has things moving to the disadvantages of the United States as well as to the benefit of China. An incremental shift is not enough.
In order to truly ensure that economic relations between the two countries continue to be beneficial to America, it is time to adopt an explicit policy of strategic decoupling of our economy from theirs — not a total decoupling, but one that should be done over time and in an organized way.
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A star of the Trump administration.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/IwL0p
China has 1.4 billion people.
Its rapidly modernizing its army
It has hypersonic missiles
It supports and sustains North Korea
It has grabbed the entire South China Sea as its own territory
It threatens Taiwan
It has taken millions of American jobs
It purposely sends its people to join companies and institutions, and steal American technology on a scale that no other country
It runs a sci-fi, dystopian social-credit and society-wide monitoring regime
Its is anti-Christian and non-western
Its still avowedly communist and anti-American
YET dumb-@ss neocons have chosen to wage proxy-war on Russia, drive Russia into alliance with China, destroy Europe’s economy, and promote BRICS and anti-US Dollar policies
They and their agents here are both hopelessly corrupt and strategically incredibly stupid.
I remember when Obama was insisting that China was the US’ partner and not a competitor.
You obviously have no clue that Russia and Red China are two sides of the same coin, just like Germany and Japan in the 1930s.
You obviously are wrong
Its only monday and you’ve won the dumbest comment of the week
Gee whillickers bu golly.... almost endorsing what Trump was trying to do. Better watch it NYT or someone may call you a MAGA traitor!
That’s one way to look at it. Domestic economic, tax and regulatory policy changes are needed to onshore strategic manufacturing, mining, pharmaceuticals and technology. That needs to be followed by non-strategic goods and services. Here are several brute force changes that would make this a reality.
- Scrape the entire tax code and replace it with a consumption tax paid by individuals on new products and services. That eliminates all business taxes and makes America the best place in the world to do business.
- Eliminate the EPA, OSHA, Labor, and other regulatory arms of government that make it expensive and nearly impossible to establish new manufacturing.
- Immediately cut government spending by 40%. That includes defense spending.
- Shutter the Department of Education. It goes without saying.
- Close the border to immigration and deport illegal aliens and anyone here on an education visa. Education is strategic. We don’t help socialists and commies to be successful. Building a border wall is inherent in this item.
- Implement an America First energy policy that insures our energy prices are lower than anywhere else in the world. This includes the elimination of all taxpayers dollars that subsidize green energy initiatives.
Bkmk
“YET dumb-@ss neocons have chosen to wage proxy-war on Russia, drive Russia into alliance with China, destroy Europe’s economy, and promote BRICS and anti-US Dollar policies”
Yea, but Putin-bad, so who cares if the US gets destroyed.
Too many in Congress are pay for play with China. Democrats AND Republicans.
Personally I would like to see Russia become China’s bitch. China at least has intelligent and hard working people, rather than filled with worthless drunks and prostitutes who would be nothing without oil.
You such a dumb RuZZian.
BRICS:
“Brazil GDP
2011: $2.6 trillion
2021: $1.6 trillion”
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1602709941097209857
1. How many jobs has Russia taken from U.S. workers?
2. How many factories & manufacturing plants have been taken from the U.S. & moved to Russia?
3. What is the trade imbalance between the U.S. & Russia?
4. How many intellectual property rights has Russia stolen from American companies?
5. How much of America's prescription needs are supplied by Russia?
6. How much illicit drugs are smuggle into the U.S. from Russia?
7. How many of the viruses that infect America's population come from Russia?
You can even use the internet to find your answers.
Putin is bad, as is Xi. You’re fooling yourself if you believe otherwise.
“Putin is bad”
Link please.
How the Hell does a thread about China devolve into a troll war over Russia?
Why don’t you all just stop it?
You are far too kind.
I’d vote for you!
Russia is basically a third world country with nukes that is drinking and smoking itself to death.
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