On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:09:54 -0400, NOYB wrote:


I see China benefitting from our trade relationship, but I don't see the
U.S. benefitting...particularly in the long run. Sure, in the short term
we have cheap toasters and microwaves available at Wal-Mart...but we've
lost tens of thousand of manufacturing jobs in the process. The advocates
of free trade with China claim that it will open up a huge market (1.6
billion Chinese) for U.S. products...but does anybody really believe that
the Chinese will completely open their markets to foreign
products...particularly once they start building commercial airplanes,
etc.? I don't.

Hey, I didn't say I agreed with the Global Market theories. It seems to
me we are giving it away, but closing the door now is a little late and it
isn't just China. This has been going on for several decades. Look, I'm
an American and I believe in the Red, White and Blue. Multinationals with
free flowing capital only fly the $green$ flag.

The Chinese have waged economic warfare on the U.S. for the past decade,
and we haven't even started to fight back.

Fight back? Hell, we are the reason China is an economic powerhouse.
Before Nixon's visit, China was a Third World country. We opened the
door. We encouraged capital to go to China. Perhaps, we were a little
too successful.