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They should issue public statements condemn China's terrible rights violations now and promise they won't retract them. Establish integrity and refuse to give i

• robdachshund 8y ago
  Tell that to the people decrying tariffs and saying we can never bring back American manufacturing. The only reason for the state of things is that we've tolerated both utilizing industrial era labor standards and outsourcing all of our manufacturing. If China is forced to bring its labor standards to 1st world levels, there is no reason why we can't both purchase goods from them at a better rate, while improving our buying power by revitalizing dead industries within our nation. We can't keep buying dirt cheap goods from the east while also complaining about our economic woes. If we could get people to understand that moving to this quasi slave labor is the reason we are now having to depend on it maybe we could break this feedback loop. But as things are now, we are in a catch 22. We dont have a strong economy because we have outsourced our manufacturing, and now can only afford to keep relying on that labor. China is going to have to deal with actually developing their economy. They have become an economic superpower by essentially being allowed to cheat the system. It is now negatively impacting global economies and their business model is utterly unsustainable. We are seeing things improve with their labor standards due to public outcry, and now we are starting to rebuild by reintroducing stateside manufacturing and tariffs. We shouldn't need to rely on China for anything other than rare earth minerals and luxury goods that can't be produced in the west.