In addition, you have ignored the sentiment that economic pressures most assuredly can lead to war ... World War II in the Pacific is the perfect example. If we are not carefully, history may indeed repeat itself.
But that's Okay. I am glad for you to voice your feelings and concerns in this regard. It allows more people to read this thread and come to their own conclusions. I have faith that the more American citizens who understand how utterly dependent we are becoming, the more they will desirte and begin to do something about it.
You see, before the "lust" for bargains, trinkets and toys ... we had an even more instiable "lust" for indpendence and liberty. That second is much older and much deeper rooted. It will carry the day ultimately. acth and see if it doesn't ... don't bet gainst it.
Chances are, you and most other Americans have probably bought Chinese-made products at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, etc. Thus, it's you yourself and the millions of other Americans who have created the "problem" of China's becoming rich in the first place. But instead placing blame where it squarely belongs, on bargain-addicted US consumers' own shoulders, you ridiculously flail out and blame China for a problem you yourself created. Stop being intellectually dishonest. America itself is making China rich.
...and about the American public in general in thinking that such a situation either must or will continue.</
Economics and capitalism obey their own logic and follow their own course regardless of what Americans think. For the past 7 or so years, I've heard Americans call for boycotts of Chinese-made goods, but amazingly in those same 7 years, Wal-Mart has risen to the #1 spot in the Fortune 500 and is America's biggest private employer now as well.
In addition, you have ignored the sentiment that economic pressures most assuredly can lead to war ... World War II in the Pacific is the perfect example. If we are not carefully, history may indeed repeat itself.
Economic pressures in what areas exactly? America's going to start manufacturing toys big-time and compete with China on toys so they're going to start World War III over toys? This won't happen because, as I said before, Americans generally prefer not to work at sweatshops producing toys and other trinkets for 12 hours a day. You yourself haven't actually told me yet you want to work in a sweatshop and compete against Chinese workers. The economic relationship between China and America today is complementary and mutually beneficial in a classical sense: America gets the cheap goods it needs to maintain its world's-highest standard of living and China grows rich in the process. Americans may not like China but they certainly like saving money by bargain-shopping.
But that's Okay. I am glad for you to voice your feelings and concerns in this regard. It allows more people to read this thread and come to their own conclusions. I have faith that the more American citizens who understand how utterly dependent we are becoming, the more they will desirte and begin to do something about it.
America's economy right now is in bad shape. Cutting off trade with China now or in the future would only make America's economy considerably worse by causing higher prices for everything, which means higher inflation, further weakening of the dollar, and an even weaker US stock market. As I said before, having China around to produce cheap goods for Americans is the biggest "tax cut" Americans have these days and for decades to come.
You see, before the "lust" for bargains, trinkets and toys ... we had an even more instiable "lust" for indpendence and liberty. That second is much older and much deeper rooted. It will carry the day ultimately. acth and see if it doesn't ... don't bet gainst it.
The US Founders didn't just establish America's freedoms "for freedom's sake" but so that Americans could do something with that freedom, whatever it is that would promote their happiness. In America, "pursuit of happiness" is most often manifested as the pursuit of an improved economic well-being for oneself and one's family. A major way in which Americans' economic well-being is vastly improved is by their daily ability to purchase low-cost goods from China.
Freedom doesn't mean much unless one can actually utilize that freedom to improve one's economic well-being in a meaningful way. China's low-cost products today are what largely allow Americans to realize the blessings of their freedoms.