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The fact it went on this long is the confusing part to me. Why didn't anybody come and say "Hey! This is weird. Let's stop this" before 2016?

• Scoundreller 7y ago
  A certain someone has a real hate-on for China?
  • dev_dull 7y ago
    It really isn’t a personal issue. I believe the issue is non-partisan (and no brainer). Or maybe I’m being naive in today’s world in thinking that.
  • newfriend 7y ago
    Or certain others were much too friendly with China?
• mjevans 7y ago
  Probably a combination of Politics, not-rocking-the-boat (generally), and a question like yours. With globalization increasing as it has in the past few decades a lot of the old shipping and carriage agreements become counter productive.
  • joe_the_user 7y ago
    I think the way this happened certainly looked like (petty)"Politics" and "not-rocking-the-boat (generally)". I'm sure most would expect "Globalization" as an idea that was generally in the air would have influenced those who took the actions here as well as the people allowed those actions to happen (which had to include quite a number of US officials). The thing is that definitely involved a huge amount of money flowing in various directions and so I tend to believe a portion of people making this and allowing this to happen were considering the interests involved also. Especially, some people (small US operations) were screaming about this from the start, why it was hard for them to be heard is worth considering.
• will4274 7y ago
  Honestly? Probably because partisan politics has wrecked my country. China as a trade manipulator has been a Republican talking point my entire lifetime. So Dems wouldn't touch it, regardless of the merits. And before that? Well, it wasn't a big problem in 2006.