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Originally Posted by MUSICandCHARACTER If China wasn't a Communist government, maybe. They don't play on an open market fair playing field. And if they were not set on taking Taiwan at all costs (pride, not practicality) it might be OK. Or if their workers got paid a reasonable wage. But the horns are crappy, the communist system is capable of flooding a market, and they are taking our jobs, paying their people crap, and using some of the profits to build a large submarine fleet (to take on a US carrier battle groups). |
With all due respect, you're mixing political an economic terms so freely it's making my head spin. In case you've been out for an extended lunch, CHINA is rapidly becoming capitalist. Their middle class is growing at a phenominal rate. With a population over 1-billion, they have hundreds of millions that are desparately poor, but that true in the USA also, proportionally.
Is the USA the only world power to spend a big piece of their gnp on war machines??
You seem passionately anti-Chinese, but you don't seem to know much about what's really going on there. It looks to me as if you data is extremely old, from the pre-Nixon days.
You may be right to fear them, but your lack of respect demonstrates an dangerous attitude that the USA needs to avoid. We need to be supportive, but observant and quick to defend you rights, economic and human. I just think that we need to avoid demeaning a very powerful country that his making huge strides toward gaining its fair share of the world's wealth. They'll do it either with us or without us, so, I think, it's better to try to understand them and help them integrate into the capitalist world, rather to boycott their products.
Best regards,
Dave