[MNJohnnie]

Always find it interesting that the loudest squealers about “Big Govt” turn right around and demand the biggest most intrusive useless Fed Govt directed program to micromanage trade just because they have a rabid irrational fear of other people competing with them.

[RightWhale]

How does one go about buying technology?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Get on Google Earth and take a look at Shanghai. Sobering.

[ex-snook]

Are they buying the plant or the product to clone?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Gov. John Garamendi hailed 27 contracts signed . . . .

It was so much simpler in the old days when there was just one contract needed to get the technology, with the DNC.

[FrankR]

Why don’t we just give them the f****** keys to the White Hose and be done with it? /sarcasm off

[MNJohnnie]

I am sorry but I really have utterly no interest in being economically enslaved to corrupt “American” Union bosses and incompetent business owners by Govt dictate just because a bunch of trailer trash are so economically ignorant they cannot figure out their bad life choices are NOT the fault of some evil foreign, or corporates, entity out to “get them”. Either you accept the burden, and well as the gift of Liberty, or you are nothing but hypocrites. You don’t get to selectively pick and choose which Liberties you embrace and which you will demand everyone give up in a desperate hope for some sort of illusionary “security”.

[PghBaldy]

IIRC< when this nation was founded, there were nop income taxes. There were tariffs though. Worked until 1913. I always tend to mouth the free trade thing cause it seems to make sense, but when I was a child, the USA was a better place. Moms were able to stay home with their kids, and we made the best stuff on the planet. NOW, we have to import everything - including high tech workers. Something is amiss, and China is just one in a long line. I don’t know what the answer is, but maybe a little bit of patriotism among our politicians and corporate leaders wouldn’t hurt. Less govt spending would help too. I can’t stand China, but is it their fault we don’t save?

[TheBattman]

So the Chi-Coms buy $4.6Billion, reverse engineer it, then masss produce and sell stuff made with that technology back to us at a profit of several times the initial investment... All the while driving the originator(s) of the technology out of business... yep, makes sense to me...

[varon]

A delegation of Chinese business leaders on Wednesday committed to buying $4.3 billion in U.S. technology, hoping to soften a political backlash to the massive trade imbalance dividing two of the world's economic powers.

Now, if only they would pay for all the technology they've stolen, that would really go a ways to evening up the trade imbalance!!!

[Sun]

Why don’t they buy our nontechnology products to close the trade gap?

Never mind.

[indthkr]

china bump

[airborne]

Much of the criticism over China's trade policies revolves around government restrictions that have helped keep the country's currency, the yuan, well below the U.S. dollar. The spread fuels the trade imbalance between the two countries by making China's exports to the United States cheaper while raising the prices of the U.S. exports to China.

Reps. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., already have introduced legislation that would enable U.S. companies to seek tariffs on Chinese goods in retaliation for its currency policies. Ryan and Hunter sponsored a similar bill in 2005 that made little progress.