So, why don’t we begin a boycott of Chinese goods? We can, at least, try to put a finger in the damn and who knows, it might take on a life of its own. To borrow a phrase from a Chinese, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. No more Chinese food, products and especially toothpaste.
If millions of Americans make a conscious decision to avoid Chinese products based upon the knowledge that China is an evil, oppressive slave state biding its time before it attacks us, then that vaunted trade surplus will vanish rather quickly...
You’d think poisoning people’s pets would be enough, wouldn’t you?
I personally don't buy anything from Red China that I can identify as such and can find a substitute for.
However, it is almost impossible to identify Chinese content in a product made elsewhere: who would ever have guessed that the U.S. and Canada, great wheat producing countries, would have ever needed to import wheat gluten from Red China? Certainly I would not have.
While more stringent Country-Of-Origin labelling might help, I think any large-scale boycott of Chinese goods will cause some real hi-jinks to be played on exactly what "Country-Of-Origin" means: what about the situation now where we ship chickens from the U.S. to be processed in China and then returned here? What standardized labelling system could be set up that would be able to encode that in a readable format on every package containing that processed chicken?
I think that the only solution is to simply cease normal trade with Red China. Informal boycotts are not generally strong enough, and strong enough formal ones can be too easily evaded as long as we have normal trade going on with Red China. Instead, scotch the problem at its source: normal trade with the PRC should simply be ceased.