WELL, WELL, WELL, USA AND EUROPE ARE STARTING TO COMPLAIN TO THE WTO ABOUT CHINA
Get off the grass America and Europe. Running, whining and complaining to the WTO about China is like piddling into the wind. A blog or two back I suggested that the quicker the United States exits all these global gaggles of dysfunctional “dis-organizations”, the better. And that starts with pulling out of the United Nations and also kicking them out of New York. I think a better home for that worthless outfit should be Lagos maybe Mumbai or even perhaps Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga. Look at all the money that would be saved on those expensive Manhattan restaurants. In Tonga, they could learn to live of taro and we all know how a good Indian curry can cleanse the system. No need for expensive palaces, limousines or maids. In Nuku’alofa, every emissary could live in a tent and walk to work each day.
The latest deal is China is dumping the prices of its natural resources/raw materials such as coking cole to local manufacturers while placing an export tariff on the same items to ensure no outside country can benefit from those ridiculously low prices. It is another ploy that added to their undervalued currency makes it impossible for any other country to compete. The simple answer to counter China’s flagrant disregard for openness and fairness is to slap import tariffs on all their manufactured/recycled junk. It should be extended to foodstuffs as well. Not only is poor quality so much of an issue, but every time I visit the supermarket and see a Made in China label on “American-looking” packaging I want to throw up. Mind you, there would be that risk if I disregarded the label and did buy and consume any of their foodstuffs. If it isn’t laced with melamine, as sure as eggs there would be some other poison added to improve the flavor.
The only way for a fair balance to take place in global trade is if America takes leadership and stops the pussy footing nonsense. Who cares about the U.S. bonds China holds? No-one, except of course China. Don’t tell me we should be scared of a bunch of ignorant Communist thugs, who practice literally all things abhorrent to western civilization. Not only should we cut them loose as a trading partner, we should apply all the muscle necessary to oversee changes in their approach and handling of human rights, copyright and their foreign policy. Over the last fifty years we’ve been pretty darned good at letting the CIA loose undermining and creating upheaval inside tiny rogue regimes that really have little effect upon our security or the global balance of power, but today we can never summons the courage to speak the truth and tell any enemy, large or small (with the exclusion of Bush and Iraq), to put up or shut up. This is what has to be done with China. Either they make a huge effort to immediately change their ways, or we start treating them the same way their great leader, the late Chairman Mao Tse-Tung tackled the outside world for over twenty-five years.
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