[Sam the Sham]

The end result will be a weaker dollar, lower GDP in America, depressed wages, and the end of American dominance. We are not the New Rome. We are a new British Empire, except that we are already saddled with high debt.

Or maybe new Spanish Empire. Or new Polish Commonwealth of XVIIIc

Your analogy is well founded. On the map the Spanish empire was enormous right up to the mid 19th century but around 1650 it stopped being a European great power. And the Polish Commonwealth was huge but with a pitiful excuse for a central government. A great power can become a termite eaten palace that will just one day collapse to the ground. That is what these massive technology transfers are doing to this country.

What are the free trade fools waiting for ? The day when American carrier pilots are slaughtered in a one sided turkey shoot by superior Chinese planes ?

[GOP_1900AD]

Few Americans are aware of the Polish Empire. I am glad you mentioned it. It is a very instructive history. We in the US need to learn from it, which we obviously have not.