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Old 05-22-2019, 07:00 PM
 
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Maybe good for both? The companies didn't go there to donate.

If there were no Chinese factories, you might spent $2000 on a cell phone. Moreover, a poor, isolated and hostile country is a bigger threat than a competitor.
You really need to watch one of Bannon's recent longer presentations on China. You have no idea what's going on in China.
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Old 05-22-2019, 07:24 PM
 
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You really need to watch one of Bannon's recent longer presentations on China. You have no idea what's going on in China.
I speak Mandarin fluently.
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Old 05-22-2019, 07:49 PM
 
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I speak Mandarin fluently.
If you are getting your news directly from China, it is censored.
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Old 05-22-2019, 07:54 PM
 
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Wow, China attacks Bannon and North Korea attacks Biden ... while Putin and Trump are blowing kisses, giggling and winking ...
This would of been good if the Trump/Putin conspiracy was even remotely true. A for creativity though
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:03 PM
 
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Hesychios hasn't got the updated Media Matters aka ShareBlue script yet so that's why he still thinks Russia is relevant.
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:23 PM
 
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If you are getting your news directly from China, it is censored.
If everything is censored, what you heard about China is a fairytale too.
Chinese language media are also found in the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong...

My parents live in China and I talk to them every week.
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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Maybe good for both? The companies didn't go there to donate.

If there were no Chinese factories, you might spent $2000 on a cell phone. Moreover, a poor, isolated and hostile country is a bigger threat than a competitor.
Cheap manufacturing destroyed America.

It made non-necessary utilities cheap making Americans materialistic (moreso) and destroy small towns across the country and local communities.

It enslaved Chinese people in factor and forced them off their land, now China's culture is being destroyed even worse than during the cultural revolution.

It was an unmitigated disaster.
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Cheap manufacturing destroyed America.

It made non-necessary utilities cheap making Americans materialistic (moreso) and destroy small towns across the country and local communities.

It enslaved Chinese people in factor and forced them off their land, now China's culture is being destroyed even worse than during the cultural revolution.

It was an unmitigated disaster.
Please, before there was the Chinese there was the Japanese. Milton Friedman wrote an article in Newsweek about trade and he countered every argument for tariffs against the Japanese. The same arguments apply to China today.

I’m old enough to remember when the protectionists were telling us Japan was going to pass us up
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:48 PM
 
Location: New Jersey and hating it
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Maybe good for both? The companies didn't go there to donate.

If there were no Chinese factories, you might spent $2000 on a cell phone. Moreover, a poor, isolated and hostile country is a bigger threat than a competitor.
By this statement, you obviously know nothing about free market. If there was no China to manufacture a cell phone, somebody else would have filled the void. No cell phones would ever cost $2000. If it did then cell phones would never have become popular. That's how the free market works.
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Old 05-22-2019, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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Please, before there was the Chinese there was the Japanese. Milton Friedman wrote an article in Newsweek about trade and he countered every argument for tariffs against the Japanese. The same arguments apply to China today.

I’m old enough to remember when the protectionists were telling us Japan was going to pass us up
Reagan's tariffs on Japan did stop their cheating, it caused them to boost exports and lead to the bubble in the late 80s.

Now Japan is a better more humble society.
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