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Confluence said:
Disagree strongly.

Nixon and Kissinger got the Arabs.....all of them....to price oil in USD. That led to US dollar hegemony and petro dollar recycling, which is why, even today, inflation is greater in almost every country outside of the US. The average American is so much better off because of this, and has been since 71
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While what you say is true, my point was specifically about China.

Nixon wanted to create an atmosphere to pit China against Russia, with the US as the negotiator in the triangle. He took an isolated nation and brought them into the international family, setting the tone for their manufacturing dominance of today. It likely would have happened anyway, but he opened that door.
 
ZonaBurgh said:
While what you say is true, my point was specifically about China.

Nixon wanted to create an atmosphere to pit China against Russia, with the US as the negotiator in the triangle. He took an isolated nation and brought them into the international family, setting the tone for their manufacturing dominance of today. It likely would have happened anyway, but he opened that door.
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The Chinese leadership since Deng in the early 80s has been consistently pro China economically, centering the globally dominant economic power with the largest population base. They are growing stronger, faster than anyone else
 
Coach said:
I said offer the very low wages which they can refuse or depot them back to Mexico.
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Word baiting moron?

You said.....
We can mafucature goods cheap to compete with China with the wanna be illegal immigrants we have
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How does China "mafucature" their goods? By paying workers pennies a day. You are suggesting paying illegal immigrants "a very low wage" to compete with China, or they can refuse and be deported. Now I don't know about anyone else, but it sounds like you want to allow illegal immigrants to work in sweat shops for pennies a day or get sent back to Mexico. Kinda sounds like modern day slavery to me. Not only that, but what you are suggesting violates the laws of all 50 states and about 20 federal laws and is highly unethical and inhumane. You can paint it whatever color you like Coach, it's still an awful, illegal, inhumane idea.
 
“It [Citizens United] violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. … So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over.” - Jimmy Carter

Yes, and that oligarchy is called China, who certain Democrats are in bed with. The power and influence China had bought and controls ( Politics, USA companies, out debt, editing out of our movies, the news, and some technology ) is eating at the core of the USA. The influence on our politics is far reaching. I don't often agree with Jimmy Cater but in this case without mentioning China by name he right. Thankfully the brain washing Democrats are doing the Latinos and the Black community the source of the political power in the name of votes controlled by Democrats and in turn China is fading. I don't know who the next President will be but he has to get this problem under control. Think about it.
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China influences everything in this country. They took Hong Kong. They now control the Solomon Islands. They have control , through predatory loans, of many central and South American countries. The list goes on. Will anyone in America stop them? Trump was the only recent politician to stand up to them. So what did they do to counter Trump? Smear him. Influence the election. Provide money to any entity (J6 committee) that fights him.

Americans don't see what's happening?
 
xjx said:
China influences everything in this country. They took Hong Kong. They now control the Solomon Islands. They have control , through predatory loans, of many central and South American countries. The list goes on. Will anyone in America stop them? Trump was the only recent politician to stand up to them. So what did they do to counter Trump? Smear him. Influence the election. Provide money to any entity (J6 committee) that fights him.

Americans don't see what's happening?
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The Kung Flu wasn't an accident.
 
China state media suggests shooting down Pelosi's plane. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

 
I think that is bluster. But they would be more likely to escort that plane to land somewhere, like Vietnam, and detain her.
 
xjx said:
I think that is bluster. But they would be more likely to escort that plane to land somewhere, like Vietnam, and detain her.
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Steelworth said:
Since I was laid off, I've been getting back into cooking and updating some of my culinary instruments, and I wanted a good quality knife set. Saw this "Dalstrong" set that had a lifetime warranty and apparently excellent customer service and they made it sound like they were manufactured in Japan, when actually it's just another China-based company. No way.

If anyone knows of a good quality knife set made in the US or elsewhere but not China, let me know. Thanks.
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I have a set of Henkels, at least when I got them they were made in Europe.
 
That whole “one child per family” thing is gonna start hurting here in a few years
 
Steelr4evr said:
Really interesting analysis from this guy.

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Some of that is wishful thinking. For one thing, if China goes down we've lost the capacity to make a lot of what we import from them. And if we do have to replace some of it then stuff will cost a lot more than people are used to. Not just Barbie dolls but medicine, vitamins, clothes, etc. And if they have to attack and invade the whole Pacific Rim they'll do it and there isn't a damn thing we'll do about it.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Some of that is wishful thinking. For one thing, if China goes down we've lost the capacity to make a lot of what we import from them. And if we do have to replace some of it then stuff will cost a lot more than people are used to. Not just Barbie dolls but medicine, vitamins, clothes, etc. And if they have to attack and invade the whole Pacific Rim they'll do it and there isn't a damn thing we'll do about it.
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And we can change that anytime we want as soon as we remove traitors from our government.

The dumbest thing we ever did was allow a communist country to marry us.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Some of that is wishful thinking. For one thing, if China goes down we've lost the capacity to make a lot of what we import from them. And if we do have to replace some of it then stuff will cost a lot more than people are used to. Not just Barbie dolls but medicine, vitamins, clothes, etc. And if they have to attack and invade the whole Pacific Rim they'll do it and there isn't a damn thing we'll do about it.
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We have to have a country of citizens who want to work as well. A lot of people within our country can be lazy. The title welfare queen is very real and a lot of people do game the system
 
MTC said:
We have to have a country of citizens who want to work as well. A lot of people within our country can be lazy. The title welfare queen is very real and a lot of people do game the system
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Especially after the Covid shutdowns. People either made more on unemployment than they did working (my daughter did) and/or they figured out that getting by on $25,000 or so on govt bennies beats working for $37,000. F it, I can sit home and not spend $60 a week in gas to get to work.
 
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If an Asian man shoots a bunch of other Asians at a dance studio, is it rayciss?
Asking for a friend.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
If an Asian man shoots a bunch of other Asians at a dance studio, is it rayciss?
Asking for a friend.
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Burgundy, you know that cannot be answered without understanding if the dance studio was LGBT&*!%SS++ or not.
 
SteelChip said:
Our stuff ain't our stuff no more...

The American Companies That Aren’t Actually American Anymore​


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Chip, many of the companies they cite, like GM, are still owned and publicly traded as they have been for 100 years. They have a JV with a Chinese company, but the article actually says that GM was purchased by the Chinese. This is false. Similar with GE.

Fake news, or worse, mostly fake news.
 
The ccp and their agents are intertwined throughout supply chains etc. They have influence.
 
Confluence said:
Chip, many of the companies they cite, like GM, are still owned and publicly traded as they have been for 100 years. They have a JV with a Chinese company, but the article actually says that GM was purchased by the Chinese. This is false. Similar with GE.

Fake news, or worse, mostly fake news.
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Thanks for the clarification Con....but was that just two exaggerations to fluff the article or is the whole article BS. There are a lot of companies in that piece.

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