We are increasing our trade relationship with China at the same time that they increase their persecution of Christians. Trade is not morally neutral. Every economic alliance carries moral consequences.
Long ago, I heard someone being interviewed on a News program discussing trade with China and he said "We are funding our own destruction". He was reefing that our buying from China gives those Communist the funds to buy weapons and pay their military, which the Chinese admit that they are preparing for an eventually war with USA. As Sarah said, we are now dependent on China for cheap goods, and most American's are not willing to give up those good, they would rather get short term benefits of getting "stuff" than live without it.
It's worse than that as China (and many of its shadow companies) own a significant portion of our national debt. What do you think they are using our interest payments to pay for? But wait, there's more . . . they could weaponize the debt itself by having a massive sell-off thus forcing us to jack up interest rates which would crush our economy.
Yes, as a recovering Dismal Scientiest I have always said . . . free trade with free countries. China runs on a slave economy which will always undermine our own.
I have long mourned the radical change "free trade" has inflicted on our country. Practically nothing is manufactured in the U.S. like it was 50 years ago. At one time, the idea we would trade with any Communist country would not have been accepted. Thanks to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, NAFTA, George Bush and Bill Clinton the flood gates were opened and our manufacturing industries have been hollowed out and moved to where there are poor people that can used on the behalf of multinational companies that want cheat labor to exploit to boost their balance sheets. They are as bad as the Communists in my opinion. To me, Communism and Unrestricted Global Capitalism are just different sides of the same coin. Free Trade has not created jobs it has destroyed them. A country that can't make the things its population needs becomes dependent on others. We have been stripped of our wealth creating enterprises and now are at the mercy of Global Capitalists and their Communist friends.
Here in Michigan, we have a guy by the name of Tom Watkins who has been writing columns in the papers for years praising the rise of China and advocating for more trade and investment by the U.S. In one of his columns, he said the "leader" he most admired was Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was the one who instituted the "one-child" policy that resulted in millions and millions of forced abortions and sterilizations. Of course, Tom Watkins never mentioned that in his article. He claims Deng was great for leading China out of poverty and building its new economy. This isn't true. They were given our manufacturing economy. That is why they are such a power.
I have often wondered if he is some sort of paid lobbyist for China. I don't understand how he can be so possessed by his ideology that he is blind to the repression in China and the devastating loss of millions of manufacturing jobs in his own country caused by the policies he champions. I guess being a shill must pay quite well.
President Trump has reversed so many of his original policies. I am honestly baffled by his decisions these last couple years and I have lost interest.
The problem with your analysis is that it fails to acknowledge that we, the USA, is a country of murderous killers of the unborn child. The right to murder is enshrined in our laws. We have no moral high ground. Therefore, it is better to trade and promote China’s well being, transforming it out of famine, in the hope that one day the Gospel will reach the hearts of both nations.
Long ago, I heard someone being interviewed on a News program discussing trade with China and he said "We are funding our own destruction". He was reefing that our buying from China gives those Communist the funds to buy weapons and pay their military, which the Chinese admit that they are preparing for an eventually war with USA. As Sarah said, we are now dependent on China for cheap goods, and most American's are not willing to give up those good, they would rather get short term benefits of getting "stuff" than live without it.
It's worse than that as China (and many of its shadow companies) own a significant portion of our national debt. What do you think they are using our interest payments to pay for? But wait, there's more . . . they could weaponize the debt itself by having a massive sell-off thus forcing us to jack up interest rates which would crush our economy.
Yes, as a recovering Dismal Scientiest I have always said . . . free trade with free countries. China runs on a slave economy which will always undermine our own.
I have long mourned the radical change "free trade" has inflicted on our country. Practically nothing is manufactured in the U.S. like it was 50 years ago. At one time, the idea we would trade with any Communist country would not have been accepted. Thanks to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, NAFTA, George Bush and Bill Clinton the flood gates were opened and our manufacturing industries have been hollowed out and moved to where there are poor people that can used on the behalf of multinational companies that want cheat labor to exploit to boost their balance sheets. They are as bad as the Communists in my opinion. To me, Communism and Unrestricted Global Capitalism are just different sides of the same coin. Free Trade has not created jobs it has destroyed them. A country that can't make the things its population needs becomes dependent on others. We have been stripped of our wealth creating enterprises and now are at the mercy of Global Capitalists and their Communist friends.
Here in Michigan, we have a guy by the name of Tom Watkins who has been writing columns in the papers for years praising the rise of China and advocating for more trade and investment by the U.S. In one of his columns, he said the "leader" he most admired was Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was the one who instituted the "one-child" policy that resulted in millions and millions of forced abortions and sterilizations. Of course, Tom Watkins never mentioned that in his article. He claims Deng was great for leading China out of poverty and building its new economy. This isn't true. They were given our manufacturing economy. That is why they are such a power.
I have often wondered if he is some sort of paid lobbyist for China. I don't understand how he can be so possessed by his ideology that he is blind to the repression in China and the devastating loss of millions of manufacturing jobs in his own country caused by the policies he champions. I guess being a shill must pay quite well.
President Trump has reversed so many of his original policies. I am honestly baffled by his decisions these last couple years and I have lost interest.
The problem with your analysis is that it fails to acknowledge that we, the USA, is a country of murderous killers of the unborn child. The right to murder is enshrined in our laws. We have no moral high ground. Therefore, it is better to trade and promote China’s well being, transforming it out of famine, in the hope that one day the Gospel will reach the hearts of both nations.