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I used to think China needed us. Now I think they are using us up the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades.

by lr 12y ago

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
China sends the USA iPhones and T shirts, the USA sends them almonds and airplanes (for now). Isn't world trade great? At this point, I don't think either country is exploiting the other, though China could do well to enforce environmental regulations (which would definitely drive up export costs). China doesn't have enough water to grow almonds. Water shortages here make California's water shortages look insignificant.
iamcurious 12y ago
the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades They still have a long way to go before treating you that way.
Mikeb85 12y ago
Nah, first China would have to stage protests in our major cities, then bomb us claiming they're 'liberating us' from our oppressive despots, install Chinese-friendly dictators who give Chinese businesses a monopoly on almond production, then brutally suppress all anti-Chinese dissent claiming that those of us who don't want to succumb to our new Chinese overlords are terrorists. They'd also use us as cheap labour, and allow us to go thirsty while entire cities worth of water gets diverted by Chinese corporations for almond plantations, and then we'd slave away thirstily picking almonds for Chinese businesses to then whisk away back to China. Oh, and the whole while there'd be drones overhead bombing us every once in awhile, probably at family functions just to remind us who's in charge. This would be justified back in China by reminding the public that we're ignorant, violent Christian heathens in the face of their enlightened Taoist/Buddhist/Confucian philosophy, who are plotting to bomb Chinese almond corporations, rape Chinese women and eventually take over China itself (American people who immigrated to China will be 'proof' of this nefarious plot, what with our American cultural buildings that are disguised as unhealthy food outlets but are really terrorist hideouts). They'd also pay and arm our compatriots who succumb to the new order to hunt us down and kill us for objecting to our new almond-loving overlords (until they realise that they're also getting a raw deal, in which case they'd get drone'd and the cycle would repeat itself). Then we could say the Chinese are treating us the way the US has treated other nations.

I used to think China needed us. Now I think they are using us up the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades.

by lr 12y ago

I used to think China needed us. Now I think they are using us up the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades.

seanmcdirmid 12y ago

China sends the USA iPhones and T shirts, the USA sends them almonds and airplanes (for now). Isn't world trade great? At this point, I don't think either country is exploiting the other, though China could do well to enforce environmental regulations (which would definitely drive up export costs). China doesn't have enough water to grow almonds. Water shortages here make California's water shortages look insignificant.

iamcurious 12y ago

the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades They still have a long way to go before treating you that way.

Mikeb85 12y ago

Nah, first China would have to stage protests in our major cities, then bomb us claiming they're 'liberating us' from our oppressive despots, install Chinese-friendly dictators who give Chinese businesses a monopoly on almond production, then brutally suppress all anti-Chinese dissent claiming that those of us who don't want to succumb to our new Chinese overlords are terrorists. They'd also use us as cheap labour, and allow us to go thirsty while entire cities worth of water gets diverted by Chinese corporations for almond plantations, and then we'd slave away thirstily picking almonds for Chinese businesses to then whisk away back to China. Oh, and the whole while there'd be drones overhead bombing us every once in awhile, probably at family functions just to remind us who's in charge. This would be justified back in China by reminding the public that we're ignorant, violent Christian heathens in the face of their enlightened Taoist/Buddhist/Confucian philosophy, who are plotting to bomb Chinese almond corporations, rape Chinese women and eventually take over China itself (American people who immigrated to China will be 'proof' of this nefarious plot, what with our American cultural buildings that are disguised as unhealthy food outlets but are really terrorist hideouts). They'd also pay and arm our compatriots who succumb to the new order to hunt us down and kill us for objecting to our new almond-loving overlords (until they realise that they're also getting a raw deal, in which case they'd get drone'd and the cycle would repeat itself). Then we could say the Chinese are treating us the way the US has treated other nations.