Molson Hart

"Cutting out the middlemen" -- America, since 1776 Bummer.

I think this should be allowed, to the extent that they compete fairly and our system allows for fair competition. 1. They don't 2. It doesn't

European companies used to complain that American & Japanese competition was similarly unfair. From an Old World perspective it’s interesting to see US companies struggling with Chinese state capitalism (National Socialism).

Our system is fucked though. If they beat us fair and square so be it.

The whole "if we trade with China, they'll eventually become freer naturally" hypothesis of the last half-century has to be one of the largest unforced errors in history.

It did work up to a point, though. Most young Chinese in 2020 prefer American style entertainment & individualism to Commie self sacrifice.

China was smart about how it did trade though. They’ve been very careful to avoid American Indoctrination, stole a ton of tech, and set things up in such a way that they got they got the tech and jobs and we got cheap stuff.

At least Europe & America avoided deadly industrial pollution & toxic smog. The Commies literally paid in dead & disabled babies for China’s economic development.