That you interpret what I am saying as the above, speaks volumes. The idea of forcing China to do anything never entered my mind.
Are you willing to pay double and/or triple higher prices to assuage your ‘morality’? Oh, you changed your mind? I thought so!
As usual, I expect, you thought wrong.
Individual Americans are shackled with regard to engaging in capitalism. Go try to make a living catching and selling fish. Or by opening up a store and selling widgets. Or by growing vegetables in your yard and selling them at a farmer's market.
The "value" of Chinese crap would evaporate if the power and productivity of individual Americans was given the freedom to thrive. Instead, everything from unions to environmentalist horsecrap to labor laws prevent honest people from making an honest, creative, productive living.
Like our government forces us to subsidize with our labor on-demand abortion, it has forced our agricultural and manufacturing sectors into having to depend on the likes of China for our everyday goods.
And you think this is about telling China what to do?
“And you think this is about telling China what to do?”
Yes, because my original post was in response to post # 20 which is quoted below:
“The grand old unions of the US would, one thinks, at least be making a nominal stink about this.”
Of course it isn’t, beyond possibly telling China that if they keep this up, we’ll spend more on ourselves rather than subsidizing this in the name of all-excusing mammon.
To make a stink doesn’t imply just one thing, all you one track mind people (and I don’t mean necessarily you).