if your people were not buying them, they would not be selling them...
that sounds like a culture problem...
the capitalist culture.
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They outsourced the manufacturing and now china is outsourced the consumption.
Seems like a fair trade
I just wanna say, as a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's when everything that wasn't nailed down was moving to China, we saw this day coming.
I told you so.
China played the world like a fiddle.
China played the world like a fiddle.
More like companies chasing the short term profits and damn the consequences
Just because Americans are stupid and shot themselves in the face by electing Trump isn't a reason to also impose unilateral tariffs (versus reciprocal tariffs). While measures should be taken to discourage China from funding the Russian invasion of Ukraine via their opportunistic purchase of cheap Russian energy, other competitive advantages of the Chinese economy, such as comparatively low labor costs, are a sign that Europe should play to its own competitive advantages rather than adopting protectionist measures.
Probably. But tariffs are also valid in one market or another, if you make them while thinking. They are way to manipulate the comparative advantages.
(And no, international trade is not a competition. It's not "competitive advantages" that you are looking for. It's much more complicated and much less threatening than that.)
You're in a very similar boat. Starmer, AfD, Orban, that idiot from Italy who's name isn't worth looking up. Fascism is on the rise and ruins trade every time.
They are not yet in a similar boat.
True, a boat caught in the SS USA's wake would be a better metaphor.
Well, that's been Chinese industrial policy for decades. The main issue right now is that there isn't enough demand for the total international manufacturing capacity and China's over investment is causing major economic and political issues for other developed countries.
Not to mention their own country. What little news sneaks out is always bad for the people.
Gotta have something for those Uighur slaves to make all day
You are getting these downvotes because the uyghurs are not topic. Do you call for slavery everytime someone talks about western economy? No? So its bad if the chinese do this but ok when the west does this?