The effects of a decision taken 16 years ago may not only helped sink Hillary, but forms the cornerstone of Trump’s strategy. As Steve Bannon told Bill Maher in a recent interview, Trump’s tariffs, renegotiation of trade agreements and tax policy are all aimed at reshaping the supply chain and reducing American dependence on China. The strategy articulated in Pence’s speech, which Victor Davis Hanson described as a declaration of Cold War II, can also be thought of as an attempt to roll back Bill Clinton’s “last great legislative victory.”
Update via Steakman — The Pence speech.
Here is Vice Pres Spences most excellent speech..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeVrMniBjSc&feature=youtu.be
“The effects of a decision taken 16 years ago may not only helped sink Hillary …”
Where are the editors?
They seem to be a vanishing breed.
The number of typos and grammatical mistakes in the public press has increased exponentially in recent years.
Spot on!
It started about 20 years ago when they dropped phonics and old school grammar from the curricula of elementary and high schools. Then the demise of the English language and the elegance of a well-written, well-thought out sentence disappeared with the onset of the phenomenon known as texting.
Yes, they called them “phonicators’ as opposed to being whole language illiterates, as we have today.
“Reshaping the supply chain” spoken like a true socialist.
It’s called war.
During the last one the Allies didn’t outsource their military production to Imperial Japan. The Allies destroyed Japan’s entire industrial capital stock, and made clear their intention to use the atomic bomb to exterminate the Japanese people outright if that’s what it took to end the war.
Get back to me when Old Glory is flying over the shattered ruins of Beijing and the leadership of the Chinese Communist party are dead or in the custody of the armed forces of the United States. Then we can talk about re-integrating China into the global supply chain.
In the meantime, that electronic piece of crap you don’t need will be more expensive to replace when it breaks down in 18 months. I can live with that. So can you.
No spoken like a true American. If you had learned anything from the history of the late Soviet empire, you’d recognize this is a replay of the US export control regime and embargo on Soviet goods used so effectively against the Soviet union.
China is an aggressive one party dictatorship and has clearly announced they wish to dominate the world. It is high time for the US to thwart and confront China everywhere they pose a threat to Western security and economic strength.
Only the US has the will and the strength to lead this effort. All the other Western nations just want to be the last one eaten by the tiger. And delusional western companies like BMW are pouring tens of billions of dollars down a Chinese rabbit hole which will never earn the profit they expect it will.
‘Only the US has the will and the strength to lead this effort. …”
And I’m not sure they still have either the will and the strength. Just hope so.
“… delusional western companies … pouring tens of billions of dollars down a Chinese rabbit hole which will never earn the profit they expect it will. ”
I expect some profits will be earned, but they’ll never get them out.
I haven’t had time to watch the speech, but look forward to doing so. It has occurred to me when you are someone’s best customer you have the option of taking your business elsewhere. This is similar to negotiations between Mexico -Canada – U.S. There are many countries that are anxious to access the U.S. Market that may have competitive advantages over China. India and Veitnam immediately come to mind. I don’t think China is in as favourable a position as they would like everyone to believe and time may not be their friend. The U.S. buys nearly 4 times as much as they sell to China .
America’s factory towns were decimated not by China, but by a regulatory and taxation apparatus that made it all but impossible for entrepreneurs to produce many goods profitably. So production was outsourced to jurisdictions which had greater economic freedom. Otherwise, free trade between consenting individuals is not the equivalent of a war in which armies compete for territory by killing each other. The analogy is utterly inappropriate. As for tariffs, they are nothing more than self-imposed sanctions. And if Trump’s target is China, why levy tariffs on Canadian and European products? Are we at war with the United States? Last time I checked, we were not.
The Chinese government subsidizes the construction of high-tech factories, that’s why so much high technology in electronics manufacturing has gone to China. Because of this, in China, the return on investment is higher, the greater the capital concentration in the industry; that’s exactly the opposite it is in market economies in Western Europe in the United States. That was the determining factor that caused so many manufacturers to move their operations to China or abandon their operations in the United States.
Perhaps it’s time to check on whether we are an unwitting tool of a nation or other entity that is at war with the United States.
Yeah …
Some fifty years ago in country run by communists one of the doctrines was that there is, and increasingly will be distribution of production.
What that meant was that the countries run by communists in the economic pack for cooperation the COMECON as opposed to ComiCon, would decide which country would make what products so there would be no competition. And everybody would be happy in socialist/communist paradise.
As many know, not that many though, that did not work out.
Then you have the Clintonistas that independently of communists, though the female of the duo have studied the communist stuff, came to the same conclusion although in a different sort of fasion.
The Clintonistas decided that they will let communist China make everything, to hell with American worker, heh sounds like some kind of communist newspaper. The idea was that the history books, as if anybody reads history, will show that Clintonistas nudged in a new era, a new dawn you may say, a new world order. Sounds familiar? A brave new world where everybody lived happily ever after, as long as the ruling class and the plebeians understood their places in the scheme.
As it is, somebody found out and decided to stop it. The media cartel is doing their damnest best to discredit the somebody.
The house of cards called globalism that the Democrats with the help of certain Bushists stacked up seems to be coming apart crashing down.
This is not going to end well, though if you look past that there is something akin to hope that after the coming apart, things will have nowhere to go but up.
Could be that things are going the right direction now, this though is uncertain.
As the high priest of the communists, Lenin, said that revolution has a price, a terrible price.
That part works both ways though.