An evil authoritarian regime that is committing human rights abuses and does not follow democratic norms ..... but we'll do billions of dollars worth of trade with them and base a lot of our industries around trading with them. But they're still evil.
Are you talking about China or the US?
yes
Yeah that tracks, same with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Being aware of America's abuses of power is good. Being contrarian and acting like everything they've ever said about China is a lie is bad.
Love how the exact same thing is now being said about the US lmao (the collapse part at least), I LOVE the media machine
hahahaha this one is hilarious
This was a couple of years ago but I think the numbers are still the same: sending a shipping container from Hong Kong to Newark cost about $3000 while sending the same container in the opposite direction cost about $500. This is because we badly want the shit China makes while they don't want anything we make (the same situation that led Great Britain to force China to accept opium at gunpoint almost two hundred years ago). Sending a container to China is so cheap that for a stretch we were actually filling them with our garbage because it was less expensive to dispose of it there.
Anyone who think this represents economic weakness on China's part is batshit crazy.
Not entirely true, they love our soy beans and alfalfa.... But Chinese junk and cattle feed are both horrible for this world. In fact, you can pack a freighter full of alfalfa and hardly add to its weight.
Containers as cheap home starting points in US is also a function of this dynamic. No need to ship empty ones back to Asia.
Open up for trade! Wait no you're not supposed to benefit, only us!
It is economy