[Zhang Fei]

I disagree. Bring back US jobs now. We have been exporting our very means of national support now for 2 (or 3 even) decades. We have now made China a bigger manufacturer, than America. China, with over a billion population, and a communist government, now has an unemployment rate which is what ours USED to be. China is now growing at 7%. China is taking over. While we complain. QUIT COMPLAINING. We need jobs.

I don't think there's any logical connection between our trade policies and rapid Chinese growth. Half the countries in the world have lower salaries than China. Why aren't they all growing at 7%? India's and Egypt's per capita GDP have been growing in the low single digits for decades, and they've had the same access to US markets for the past 30 years.

Ultimately, the Chinese economy is growing because the regime has abandoned the command economy in favor of private producers using the profit motive as the primary criterion for deciding what to produce and how much of it to produce. They are privatizing formerly wholly-state owned companies just about as quickly as they can. Government regulation of private business is almost wholly non-existent, sometimes to the detriment of an unlucky few until some major outrage hits the headlines.

We can't prevent China, or any country that wants to, from modernizing because they can buy the expertise by hiring current, laid off or retired employees from every corner of the earth. Because Japan is close by, they are putting up ads in Japan and hiring plenty of retired contractors and employees from the keiretsus who are either bored or looking for extra income. Sophisticated American or European machine tools are available for purchase complete with training personnel to familiarize the buyer with the full capabilities of the equipment.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Thanks for your detailed response.

I think it is time to be tougher with China.

We need an equal system. Right now we have one-way everything.

One-way American jobs sent to China. One-way Chinese exports flooding American stores.

That won’t work. We are running out of options.

Just my .02.

(The GOP is just as involved in this as the Democrats BTW)

We need someone who will look out for America.

[Lumper20]

Exactly. China has taken our capitalism market without all the left wing Regs and taxes plus Obamacare. Those who think this country is going to bring back jobs are delusional. Obamacare is going to cost many more jobs or hours lost. Many business owners will cut work to 28 hours and pay the $2000 fine.

[central_va]

I don't think there's any logical connection between our trade policies and rapid Chinese growth.

Do you write comedy for a living. LOL.