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Our big advantage is our free and open markets. It's not a question about whether we blew it the question is what are we going to do about it. Letting China wi
by ThomPete 7y ago
Our big advantage is our free and open markets. It's not a question about whether we blew it the question is what are we going to do about it.
Letting China win this with their mafia-like government, where there is no rule of law only rule of the party, is simply not an option.
Right now the biggest challenge is the western politicians who hate Trump so much they don't care if they help the Chinese. Anything to get him down.
But yeah I agree that it's definitely late in the game. We can still win this though.
- pm90 7y ago> Right now the biggest challenge is the western politicians who hate Trump so much they don't care if they help the Chinese. Anything to get him down. Absolutely wrong. What do you think the TPP was meant to do? The only thing Trump does is short term bluster and outbursts with no long term plan at all. Tariffs are short term plays. Long term strategic thinking requires creation of alliances and allies. The fundamental difference always seems to be if you can persuade the world that your ideas and system is good, or you demand it by force. The latter is not a very effective long term strategy.
- ThomPete 7y agoIt wasn't meant to do anything but solidify chinas continued domination over western markets through our reliance on their cheap labor. Politics isn't debate club. It doesn't work that way especially not when you are dealing with a mafia organization like Chinas ruling party.