You know China is really not communist anymore - not in the classic sense anyway. They allow private property, encourage capitalism, mostly allow their people to travel if they can afford it, etc, etc.
If anything, China is more a fascist state. They are totalitarian politically, but not a true repressive marxist/leninist regime in that there is growing economic and even personal freedom as long as you don’t challenge the state in any way.
You post about China and manufacturing a lot. Ever been there? It may not be what you think it is. It’s also a giant house of cards that is nowhere near as strong as you might think. Remember in the late 80’s when we were all supposedly turning Japanese and the rising sun was going to take over all manufacturing - how’d that turn out? A lost decade or two later and we’ve moved on to the next economic boogeyman. China is nowhere near as strong as you imagine it is.
Our manufacturing problems are largely of our own making. Too much government interference and unions that became too strong and destroyed or made uncompetitive everything they touched. If it weren’t China, manufacturing would have just moved more heavily to India, Indonesia or somewhere else. The problem is mostly one of failed American policy. You’d be better off advocating less regulation, lower corporate taxes and less unionization. Those are things we can actually do to become competitive instead of knee jerk tariffs and starting idiotic trade wars.
Baloney.
Agreed.
Those are things we can actually do to become competitive instead of knee jerk tariffs and starting idiotic trade wars.
Why would we want to compete with the Chinese???
Oh, you mean like getting used to bathing in our drinking water and working for a dollar forty an hour...
And you forgot a couple...We'll need to develop a real likin' for rice and bicycles...