Are we going to continue to let China stab us in the back?

Question

Especially when NAFTA is paying for Iranian nuclear technology, and the arming of Iran?

Or our patents being stolen because we ship our industries there just the get our ideas stolen by spies and China's countless loopholes?

Or China inviting Iran into their makeshift EU?

Or China's endless abuse to civil rights?

China's threats to the US and other nations that any sanction against Iran will be highly frowned upon?

Answer 1

Well who let China in in the first place?

Were not the decision makers thinking of these consequences ...No they were doing as they are doing now bowing to the will of their sponsors, BIG BUSINESSES, who found it cheaper to get their products made overseas, or their customer service handled overseas. Make it cheaper there, sell it at the same price here, fill your coffers even more. So why cry over copy right infringment when u're self decided to send your patents over there?  Mind you... this is a great mistake of the of ourswhen we  think that the rest of the world also follows US law.

It is the US citizens money that has made China the super power it has become in these few year. We are in debt of 500 billion dollars to China, do you think we are in any position to say anything...?? No my friend we are just going to be bystanders looking at this global shift in the balance of power, and who is to blame for it? The band of thugs called the Republicans, whose only interest is  themselves. All policies persued are those that will help the big businesses.  No regulation on the export of jobs and manufacturing abroad, no control or regulation over oil and gas prices, B

No fiscal regulation of the monetary systemc.etc,etc.

We even opened unecessary war fronts to get hold of the bigest oil reserves in the world,not for the US citizens mind u. What do u think will happen?  Those reserves will be held hijacked  by the big oil companies to hike up gas prices even more and suck out the last penny out of the working joe's pocket. Yet they are so powerfull that no one in the govt. dare raise a voice, not republicans and now i am sure not even the democrats. This recession in our economy is the direct result of that. That same f***y May and Freddie Mac (which are now trading at their lowest ever)were allowed to overlend to the banks, who overlent indiscriminately to the general populace anyway they could in order to snare the people into debt which they could not repay. Now the ratio of bad loans over good ones is so high that the big lenders have fallen head over feet in it. The Housing Market, the Job Market, the Stock Market, u name it and we are on thin ice on it.

So tell me under these circumstances with this type of leadership what can u expect them to do? Well regardless of what u expect, the reality on the ground is this...we are no longer in the position to say anything to China at the moment. Perhaps it will change(i hope) but i dont see it in the near future.

Answer 2

Since so much of our money is reinvested here by the Chinese, I don't see any choice but to let them rule us. The interest payment on the debt alone are going to cause great economic problems here.Now they are buying our bankrupted banking industry. I think we are going to make nice to China.

Answer 3

Yes...we are pretty much in China's pocket.

If China cashed in on the debt we owe them, that alone would destroy our economy to the point of no return...

China gets their oil from the Sudan, thereby in a roundabout way, funding the militants committing ethnic genocide. China is one of our strongest trading partners--we don't want to lose that relationship. That's the ugly truth.

It's the reason we aren't protesting the Olympics, or imposing trade sanctions--we won't get involved with Tibet either--we have too much at stake.

Answer 4

NAFTA is a free trade agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the U.S..  It stands for the North American Free Trade Agreement.  It has absolutely nothing to do with trade with China.  The government of China isn't necessarily the problem.  Their corporations are running the show just like our corporations are here.  I think it is fair to say that corporations will do anything to make money.  They don't care about people or the problems they cause between the citizens of any country.  

An example of this is the oil and automotive industry.  The technology already exists to ease our energy problems quite a bit but over the years this technology has been stifled.  Why are they using corn for fuel?  Because it adds wealth to a segment of our economy.  The sensible answers to our energy problems must satisfy some way for the government and corporate America to make huge amounts of money even though there are other, easier ways to address it.

Answer 5

Don't borrow money from them.

Don't buy their products.

Don't do business with businesses that do business in China.

Don't allow unions to ramp up wages in this nation that force the jobs over to the Pacific Rim.

Don't pay bottom dollar for your clothes and toys and cars.

Don't offer China one trade concession until it revalues its currency.

Don't allow US participants in the Beijing Olympics.

Don't be afraid to bring charges up in the Hague to attack China's ignorance and imposed blindness on the child trafficking in that country.

Or......just let it be.  Which is America willing to do?

Answer 6

The US is run by corporations and corporations see a lot of money to be made in China.  So we will continue to look the other way.