[TBP]

It's still one of the worst tyrannies in the world. It's a police stae and one of the world's worst violators of human rights.

Red China has nuclear warheads aimed at our country. That's reason enough to go after them.

It's an imperialist power that wants to take over a sovereign country, the Republic of China.

China made an agreement that it would not send its slave-labor products to this country, but they continue to do so -- at sub-market prices.

The economic weapon is the main one that we have -- it is time to use it.

[Destro]

I just questions how "red" China was these days - you need not be red and opressive.

[IonImplantGuru]

China's exports and where they go...

...less than 10% goes to the US. ~40% of PRC exports go to Hong Kong; interestingly, about the same % of Hong Kong exports go to the PRC. Would taking away 10% of PRC exports collapse their economy? I don't think so.

Additionally, assuming the PRC played tit for tat and snuffed our exports to them, it would make a 4% dent in US exports. Not that big a deal one could say, but it'd still be a $28.4B (that's what we did with them in 2003, latest data I could find; probably more now) hit on US exporters.

The graph data for PRC exports I found at a China Biz site. The numbers for US import/export I got here.