Posted on 02/16/2020 6:22:45 PM PST by BeauBo
I don’t know,I think the Captain wouldn’t be such a bad President.
I think the tentacles may loosen, for better or for worse, because after the Hunan virus, China isn’t going to be what it used to be. Their internal production and supply chains are already breaking down.
In the future, we need to avoid single sourcing. Autarchies don’t work, so we can’t do it all here, but we should certainly do more and use more of our own resources so our industries at least stay alive
And we need to ramp up US production and actually develop a reputation for quality. Chinese goods are cheap, but so is Chinese quality...badly designed, weirdly made, and even things that are designed in other countries and only made in China are way inferior to things made just about anywhere else.
First, America.
Next, the Anglosphere.
Third, allies.
Fourth, any country that is not Red China. Pacific Rim allies are good. Help strengthen hem against China.
“I like cheap Chinese goods and I don’t care for protectionist opinion.”
That’s fine. I’ve bought it myself over the years; often because it was all I could find at the time.
A lot of it has fallen apart in my hands or in the washing machine. One bad thing about cheap Red Chinese goods is that it is not cheap.
If its electronic, then it has a high percentage of being compromised if its made in China
Once there, you aren’t paying any US tariff, but you will pay a lot of tariff for a US made good. But, since you favor cheap Chinese stuff, you won’t even have to pay those.
It’s a win-win.
We go direct to the source then.
I like cheap goods too but I would much prefer cheap goods that are not made in China, bolstering them as a global superpower. The point of this article is not anti-cheap goods, it is anti-dependency on China.
While that is true, we have always been the kind of nation that rises up when necessity rules the day.
There is lots of time to talk about the HUGELY destructive aspects of US-China trade, after this has been beaten down.
The conversation, and moves, are LONG overdue.
But China has more than enough on their hands now.
They are FAR and away the country most impacted. By far.
Time to work WITH China right now, to bring this under control.
There will be plenty of time, to worry about other things later.
Very good post.
Well said.
Bought a ballcock for my toilet at WalMart last week. Looking it over before installation I was caught by surprise when I saw these words molded into it...
MADE IN USA!!!!!
I wish Colgate-Palmolive would make toothpaste in the USA, instead of Mexico. I was at the boat show a few months back and on the Bayliner, it said Made in Mexico.
97 percent of our antibiotics are made in chine, most of our medical supplies are filtered in someway thru china. Its like entrusting our military hardware manufacturing to china. What could go wrong?
If Trump could build a left and right consensu on this, that’d be huge.
His trip to India next week is probably not coincidental.
Until we get rid of wage, regulatory and environmental mandated costs here in the US, we should have a parity tariff equal to those costs, otherwise its not protectionists opinion, simply suicide.
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