Not only that, but what happens when China stops with the pretending of being our “friend”, and decides to go to war. What then?
Should we have had “Free Trade” with the Japs in the 1930s when they were waltzing into Manchuria and Nanking?
Exactly... And not just Japan. How about the deals with Nazi Germany. Free traders pretend to have occupy some moral high ground, but ultimately have all the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper.
Consider the IBM punchcards used by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, or Union Banking Corp (owned by Prescott Bush) funding the Nazis.
Bill Clinton’s free trade with China a few years after Tienman Square... tolerance for technology transfers to China, like Loral Aerospace.
“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains” - Thomas Jefferson.
“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.” - Joseph Stalin
Also, China and several other trading “partners” are essentially mercantilists.
You know what you call someone who attempts “free trade” with a mercantilist? A sucker.
In China, due to foreign influence, they had a Boxer Rebellion. Too many of their corrupt elites were profiting from the Unequal Treaties (trade deals) made with Japan and the West.
Being more democratic then China was, we are seeing nationalist support for Trump and Sanders, instead of a Boxer Rebellion.
If neither Trump nor Sanders gets elected and we elect someone else to continue the status quo, the lid will eventually get blown off.
I read that book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. Essentially they commit suicide. If they topple by an invasion, it is usually because the elites were clueless about the internal rot.
Because in most societies, the elite are insulated from the effects of their policies. When a society is beginning to fail, the people at the bottom feel it first, then the people in the middle. By the time the elites feel the pain, it is too late for the society to prevent collapse.
That is why so many lower class people are supporting Trump. They are feeling the pain that the clueless elites like Hillary (or any other globalist) are not feeling. All big economic decisions result in political ramifications.
We keep going down that road we’ve been going down, and we’re going to find out what happens when millions of Americas who posses significant firepower get really pissed that the ballot box doesn’t work and resort to the cartridge box.
If a “Boxer Rebellion” gets started in this country, its going to make what happened in Yugoslavia and what is happening in Syria look like Birthday celebrations, because once started, its not going to be limited to economic issues.