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Originally Posted by JohnnyDestroyer";p="
but nobody cares..
I've been righting articles about COSCO and their underselling of american markets through reversed trade restriction for years...
Guess everyone wants to work for china, or halliburton...
Your barking up the wrong tree...all the people I've encountered here are Culture Warriors...not politically minded people...
There worried about trivial things, voyeristic things, like gay marriage, and bashing "Neo-cons".....
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I suppose you have ideas then?
The issues get brought up from time to time. A lot of people don't have much to say. Why? It's a big problem but not many of us have much of an idea what to do about it. The good thing about the hot-button issues is that they pretty much are solved through argument.
This is an issue that cannot be solved through argument. Every choice you can make has costs- and those costs are not good. Engagement with China made sense from the neoliberal perspective. Getting China into the global economy would give us leverage to change it. Our reluctance to threaten China with sanctions and make use of this leverage is allowing China to get away with murder... without even treating its people decently.
But we're not likely to see a use of that leverage. The same lobbying groups that fought for engagement are fighting to make sure that they can have access to cheap labor and manufactured goods. And the Unions are the only big lobby fighting against, a lobby that is getting weaker every day. Meanwhile China's military is growing.
It's not good. But it isn't an issue that can be solved by argument. It requires finding a large enough, motivated enough, and economically powerful enough lobby to fight the big business interest and then getting American consumers to accept the sacrifices that would come if we had to follow through with sanctions. I hate to say it, but I'm not optimistic about either of those.