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Originally Posted by 2Face
To me the Chinese issue is extremely important at the moment. No disrespect at all to regular Chinese people, but China (the govt) is absolutely rogue. I'm afraid Biden Admin will be weak and will not pursue a strong retaliatory stance against China, first for its handling and hiding of COVID-19 related shit, secondly on how quickly China is expanding and trying to gobble up land, especially from smaller south asian countries and increasingly looking to assert control in the South China Sea..japanese islands..africa..you name it. I'm not an expert, I don't know what Joey's stance on all these will be but he better shape up and be tough on China if he wins. U.S. is currently building up strong presence in the South China sea in response to all this, Biden should continue that and not back away!
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The best thing to deal with China is to build supply chains in the US, or move supply chains to South America / South of the US border. That way the countries South of the US won't be sending up drugs and people in economic hardship. You kinda can kill two birds in one stone. Most manufacturing isn't what it used to be, it'll be automated and there won't be that many jobs because people will be watching and maintaining the machines. They'll also need to be skilled and require training. Tim Cook said he'd love to bring manufacturing to the US but the amount of manufacture engineer techs in the US is a hand full while China has football fields of them.
There's a reason why China is making everything. It's because it's the cheapest for the quality you get. This is capitalism, it finds the optimal value per dollar and it's the most efficient. To move things back to the US or move supply chains elsewhere, there will be subsidies because it'll cost more. Those subsidies are socialist in nature if it happens. So ironically, the US wants less capitalism and more socialism. Both Trump and Biden support bringing manufacturing to the US. Politics is kinda funny that way.