[oct11]

When will these free traders realize that China is a mercantilist country that considers trade policy an extension of military policy?

The bottom line is the Chinese would gladly use trade policy to destabilize and collapse the economies of their perceived international enemies, specifically the U.S.

[meenie]

Carry this a little further and develop a depression in the US which is possible and our market dries up. The demand for Chinese goods go down and the Chinese plus our friends in Europe find our market is sour. We are going to see the development of small businesses replacing the international corporations and our import goods.

As workers lose their jobs, they will be forced to employ themselves in small manufacturing and services. This is not all bad. Our large corporations have been a larger drain on our resources than the welfare programs in dollar value.

[Blake#1]

Excuse me! Take off your blinders. I have personal contact with Entrepreneur-Capitalist in China. They are both American citizens. They live in China and sell all over the world. They are taxed at a more reasonable rate than in the USofA. Their products are those known to every American. They have freedom to sell or make deals that has not existed in the UsofA since the American Revolution. That is the time when the British government left the Colonies and there was no state or national governments.<>

The Good Ole-USofA is full of American haters that are out to destroy our "SYSTEM". The actor Tim Robbins was just on my TV saying he would never do anything to protect American Capitalism or American Businessmen. You don't have this in China. Which "SYSTEM" will survive?????

[Vigilanteman]

You've all got it right. We ought to have a tax on imports from hostile countries equal to their risk of using the wealth gained therefrom against the military or economic interests of this country minus whatever they buy from us.

China goods would be virtually unaffordable if the free traders had to pay for their free ride of taxpayer expenses to displaced workers (including our allies) and the need for greater militrary spending to counter growing Sino hegemonity.

[RLK]

When will these free traders realize that China is a mercantilist country that considers trade policy an extension of military policy?

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The mind of so-called free traders is the triumph of shallow ideology over rationality.