I agree but they are not just selling us junk, some of their products are great, iPhones among them. Granted it is Apple engineered but they make very good stuff even if stolen ideas are used.
I remember when the Hyundai (granted not Chinese)was introduced as the original disposable car, now they can offer a 200,000 mile warranty.
I believe the only thing that can save health care is Artificial Intelligence. Individual doctors can never store the knowledge of symptoms that a database can.
Manual labor will sooner than we think will become a rarity. Massive machines do farming now that used to require millions of cheap labor illegals. Machines like that require a big upfront investment that smaller farms can not come up with which will doom small farms, but it will happen.
Yes, when the Chinese are told exactly how to make something, they can mass produce the thing someone else designed. And they’re capable of mass producing a design handed to them to the letter. They often simply choose to cheap out on the materials and/or the workmanship because they’re cheats. And while they’re mass producing the design you gave them, they’re stealing every bit of technology they can to use in new products they can sell to compete with you. Because they’re thieves. And when you call them on it, they’ll say how dare you accuse them of such a thing, because they’re liars.
Nobody should be doing business with China. The people in Europe committing to China’s Belt and Road Initiative are committing economic suicide. The people in Africa signing contracts with China for rare Earth minerals are seeing their only available natural resources extracted for pennies by Chinese companies using Chinese labor, denying future generations a potential major source of economic expansion. And all the western nations that have farmed out their manufacturing to China, only to see their former factory workers unable to afford to buy the products they used to make are feeling it too. This was a major fault President Trump identified early on and used to beat Clinton in 2016.
China is waging all-out economic war on every part of the world. And they’ve convinced us to politely thank them for it.
“Machines like that require a big upfront investment that smaller farms can not come up with which will doom small farms, but it will happen. “
Sorry, but you’re mistaken. A big cotton harvester can pick an entire field clean in half a day, and simultaneously gin and bail it. But no small farmer in Georgia would ever need to own one, because a contractor goes from farm to farm, harvesting and trucking away the finished bails for a fee. Done and done. No labor problems, no delays, no big investments. Saw it with my own eyes while staying in Georgia. So, too, with other such machines.