If you’ve paid any attention, you’d know already that I’m one of the most persistent skeptics of “free trade” with the ChiCom’s on FR. From my perspective, the only good communist is a dead communist, and it is beyond my comprehension how giving the PRC a trade surplus with which they can fund a military expansion on our consumption is a good idea. The wholesale export of our productive economy to the PRC is suicide, both economic and military, IMO.
But hey, there’s a whole lot of Republicans who think that this is jolly good thinking, and they continue to cover up the obvious by sticking their fingers in their ears whilst chanting “Free Trade!” at the top of their lungs. To counter this, these same “conservatives” want to spend a trillion bucks on air platforms to counter a threat we never need have faced, if we’d only been content to beat the communists (which we did) and leave them beat.
Buuuut noooooooooo.... “conservatives” couldn’t seem to be content with beating the communists when we saw the USSR fall... so we had to plump up the next bunch of commies in China by allowing them permanent MFN status and then admitting them to the WTO.
If you’re directing your comments to me, you’re barking up the wrong tree! First, I’m NOT a repub; secondly, I’ve never trusted the red chinese on anything and thirdly, regardless of the naive “mistakes” our politicos have made with them, it would be suicide to concede military superiority (or even parity) to them, ever!!
I fail to see how denigrating the F-35 development effort actually helps anyone.....except the red chinese!
JC