> Do you understand the difference between being a target of domination and falling behind? Replacing the words of others with your own straw men is a sign of a

> Do you understand the difference between being a target of domination and falling behind? Replacing the words of others with your own straw men is a sign of a mind poisoned by ideology. Please cite the specific words that I replaced. > The thought of looking at this as a "routine labor dispute" never even crossed my mind. That's strange, it should have been the first thing that crossed your mind with your extensive economics education. Some Samsung workers wanting more of the share of a company's profits isn't any different than some Teamsters strike or UAW. > I'm talking about efficiency of capital, that "dispute" is how you learn about the wasteful use of US capital, information that you can only get by reading between the lines. Sorry, I'm not educated in economics. Reading between the lines isn't something I can do so you'll have to spell it out point by point. > > China has always been behind the US, they've provided the US population with a lot of affordable goods and made some US corporations very rich. Guess what, they've never had a problem with it until they became a target of bullying and talk of domination. And even then, they are quite reasonable and even-handed. > The US would be better off and further ahead if China was a market participant and we didn't have to pay exorbitant prices for hardware. In other words, if we haven't started a trade war with China, but rather used them to gradually build the necessary generation and semiconductor capacity, we would be further ahead of them, and they wouldn't mind it. Unfortunately Taiwan stands in the way of all of that. Are you suggesting we should give up Taiwan to repair relations? While China has indeed made some US corporations wealthy and have provided Americans with cheap plastic goods, it has adverse effects such as draining the US of manufacturing capacity - this is because China maintains a closed market and has come under both American and European tariffs and trade restrictions because of the imbalance. You're being disingenuous, I hope, by pretending to not have an understanding of international and economic relations with China over time and how it has affected American and European economies.