A chain of fools. They squandered the victory in the cold war and strengthened both Russia and China by massively buying cheap without setting political requirements. The Germans were high on cheap Russian gas and we were high on cheap Chinese plastic. Now they are ready to skin us. Could have anyone predicted this development? Any reasonably educated person with sufficient knowledge of communist ideology and communist history should have done it. Putin was a communist as well. We will be choosing in November between the bad and the worse. The Europeans are even worse.
@ThirdPartyWillowRepublican2mos2MO
Chinese exports have accelerated dramatically to US trade partners Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Germany while the US has just as dramatically increased imports from these countries.
China’s mind-boggling heavy manufacturing output has increased by an astonishing 29.48% since 2019, according to Macrotrends. . China’s manufacturing economy has very substantial critical mass and is not slowing. Plus, their manufacturing engine is materially weighted towards war-fighting heavy industry. Environmental rules newly issued by the Biden Administration will collectively counteract Biden government subsidies and Trump tariffs by about five times.
@UnanimousJackDemocrat2mos2MO
They don’t have a strong enough economy to “skin us”. The whole reason they are exporting so much is because their domestic consumption is so weak. They have been trying for decades to rely less on exports and boost their domestic consumption to no avail.
