It's always the same story. You take a short shower and buy that expensive LED bulb or low water washing machine, but industry can blow through electricity and water like there's no tomorrow. That is, until the govt wants to destroy certain industry to take power.
Our politicians and corporations were the ones that fucked us. China was just an opportunist that liked the deals they were being offered. Fast forward 40 years, they went from building industrial capacity to meet our import demand to having an Intellectual Property theft ring branch office in every university in America and having John Cena beg them for forgiveness in fluent Chinese on national television for some lame insignificant media gaff.
Only way to bargain with China is hardline now. They're fucking ruthless.
Weak (or willfully destructive) administrations really took us here. If we had kept tariffs on imports for at minimum important goods (tech, plastics, metals, medicine, etc.) we would have had a stronger manufacturing base.
History would have gone a completely different direction, and America would have the reins still.
Instead, we allowed manufacturers to endlessly outsource, leading to a flood of consumable products that destroy the ocean (NOT climate change!) and are ultimately worse deals for the consumers.
We also allowed a weak, small region with the name of "Taiwan", firmly within a hostile nation's grasp, have essentially about 90% of the world's silicon fabrication.
So now, not only is China going to be stealing all of those processes and trade secrets, they'll be profiting off of them and strategically withholding them, essentially putting us into a world crisis that could lead to war with them.
In a war, what's important? Medications. Antibiotics.
Who manufactures most of the U.S.'s medication and antibiotics?
China.
It's pretty fucking bleak on that front and could have been avoided under a nimble navigator or two.
It's always the same story. You take a short shower and buy that expensive LED bulb or low water washing machine, but industry can blow through electricity and water like there's no tomorrow. That is, until the govt wants to destroy certain industry to take power.
The only way shipping a wooden cup from fucking china is cheaper than buying one made by your next door neighbor is if our entire system is bullshit,
Yep, I was thinking the same thing. We've been screwed by China for years. This shit must come to a full stop.
Our politicians and corporations were the ones that fucked us. China was just an opportunist that liked the deals they were being offered. Fast forward 40 years, they went from building industrial capacity to meet our import demand to having an Intellectual Property theft ring branch office in every university in America and having John Cena beg them for forgiveness in fluent Chinese on national television for some lame insignificant media gaff.
Only way to bargain with China is hardline now. They're fucking ruthless.
Weak (or willfully destructive) administrations really took us here. If we had kept tariffs on imports for at minimum important goods (tech, plastics, metals, medicine, etc.) we would have had a stronger manufacturing base.
History would have gone a completely different direction, and America would have the reins still.
Instead, we allowed manufacturers to endlessly outsource, leading to a flood of consumable products that destroy the ocean (NOT climate change!) and are ultimately worse deals for the consumers.
We also allowed a weak, small region with the name of "Taiwan", firmly within a hostile nation's grasp, have essentially about 90% of the world's silicon fabrication.
So now, not only is China going to be stealing all of those processes and trade secrets, they'll be profiting off of them and strategically withholding them, essentially putting us into a world crisis that could lead to war with them.
In a war, what's important? Medications. Antibiotics.
Who manufactures most of the U.S.'s medication and antibiotics?
China.
It's pretty fucking bleak on that front and could have been avoided under a nimble navigator or two.
China is paying the price with pollution, if I thought oceans were spared the pollution I would not mind buying China garbage .
I live in a lumber town -- and there's no fucking way we can make that product for that cheap.
I bet your town doesn't have rampant lead in its products though.
Checkmate 78 cent Chinese lead cups make water taste sweeter, obviously they win
Bingo