| the-pi-guy said: The rise of China based on what? If we look at GDP, it basically tripled under Bush, and then doubled again under Obama. It definitely wasn't due to left leaning politicians, it was happening regardless. From what I understand a lot of China's growth is kind of manufactured. It was going to happen because of China's influences, not America's. I think the big difference is that right wingers complain about China, while having absolutely no real solutions to fix any of it. And left leaning politicians try to make it less of a deal, because they probably don't have any real solutions in this particular case either. |
If you ask me there is no solution for China because China has figured out a really basic concept about western society. Give them cheap goods, sell below cost enough to drive out competition and then corner the market. Its actually a very capitalist approach and as we have seen with Trumps tariffs, its very resilient against such tactics. The reason why Trump failed is not because the ideal was flawed which is hit China with Tarriffs, it was the fact that he thought the US alone could reign in China and did not want to cooperate with other western counties. He wanted all the credit which short sighted his attempt and failed. If he had allied with all the western countries and they all hit China with big tarriffs against China tactics, this would have been a much bigger impact on China economy and they would have needed to come to the table and make huge concessions. At least that is how I view the problem and solution to China in the marketplace today.
