The vast bulk of products on store shelves int he United States are from China. The only way that you can stop “buying cr@p from China” is to stop buying anything.
We all know about iphones, but did you know that the vast bulk of Japanese, German, Korean, and English products are also made in China. Betya didn’t know that.
It reminds me of a friend who vowed that he would never use Google because of their data collection, and then he showed me how he bypasses it using Instagram... owned by Google. LOL
The genie is out of the bottle, and it’s a fools errand to try to reverse it. The solution is one of capitalism. Ya make better, higher quality products at a lower price than China. That is the American way.
It’s not hard. You just do it.
The lazy way is to force people to buy what is available. That is the Obama method of governance. Like healthcare. A tariff protects sloth. It’s good temporarily, but in the long run it is counter-productive.
Thanks for the view, from China.
:D
(sort of smiling there. Sort of.)
“the vast bulk of Japanese, German, Korean, and English products are also made in China.”
The trade deals with all those countries, as well as Mexico and Canada, were all reworked last year. Not only is that going to start closing the back door to such trans-shipment of Chinese products into the USA, but significant agreement has developed among these countries about tightening the overly favorable trade conditions that China enjoyed from the time it was more of a third world economy more globally. A once in a generation adjustment of terms.
As they say in China lately (until it is quickly taken down by their army of censors), 2018 may be the worst year in a decade (since 1990 actually, according to official numbers), but it will be the best year for the next decade.
The party is coming to an end. Nothing lasts forever.
In the 1970s, the oil rich Arabs seemed to be buying up the world. In the 1980s, it was Japan. In the 1990s they said it would be a new American century. For the last decade or two, China seemed to be taking over the world. When you look at the financial fundamentals however, China is in a worse condition than any of those others, before their bubbles burst.
Instagram is owned by Facebook not google. And no, most French etc are not majority made in China. If they are, then their barcodes are different. No, China is not the cheapest for making everything. More textiles are cheaper to makr in Bangladesh and India. More high engineering tools are cheaper to make in Germany
Where are the 25% tariffs Trump promised us?
We need to erect high tariffs while the USA re industrializes.