Why are we NOT Smacking CHINA with a Sledgehammer

[rdean]

American firms lost nearly $48 billion in 2009 due to Chinese violations of U.S. intellectual property, new data show. Improving IP rights protection in China could have a sizable effect on the U.S. economy and jobs.

In June 2010, several government agencies unveiled the Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement, a comprehensive outline for protecting the IP rights of U.S. businesses and individuals. In June, the Obama (Republicans want him to fail) administration released an update on the results one year after the initiative's roll-out, including major counterfeit-goods seizures, convictions on trade secret cases and coordinated partnerships.

What Chinese IP Violations Cost the U.S. : IMT Industry Market Trends

China | U.S. Chamber of Commerce

http://www.usmessageboard.com/econo...o-outsource-us-jobs-to-china.html#post2869770

The chamber’s increasingly aggressive role — including record spending in the midterm elections that supports Republicans more than 90 percent of the time — has made it a target of critics, including a few local chamber affiliates who fear it has become too partisan and hard-nosed in its fund-raising.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce - The New York Times

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When will Republicans start speaking Chinese? China already owns their leaders.

 

[Moonglow]

Easy answer:

CHEAP LABOR

Rather cheap politicians who line their pockets with Chinese gold! Clinton and Gore were the first ones. Clinton, the worst President in US history, is the man who dropped the barriers China had to our markets and helped them get into the WTO. Now they are going to takeover our economy in the next decade! Good job Slick Willy!

Actually Reagan started the whole process of trying to make China a most favored nation for trade puposes. Nixon was the instigator of normalized realtions and bush I started the free trade treaty with China, it finally passed during Clinton when their was a republican controlled congress.

 

[KissMy]

Easy answer:

CHEAP LABOR

Rather cheap politicians who line their pockets with Chinese gold! Clinton and Gore were the first ones. Clinton, the worst President in US history, is the man who dropped the barriers China had to our markets and helped them get into the WTO. Now they are going to takeover our economy in the next decade! Good job Slick Willy!

Actually Reagan started the whole process of trying to make China a most favored nation for trade puposes. Nixon was the instigator of normalized realtions and bush I started the free trade treaty with China, it finally passed during Clinton when their was a republican controlled congress.

Clinton pushed hard for free trade with Mexico & China. It made the economy boom until all of our jobs left.

 

[GHook93]

Easy answer:

CHEAP LABOR

Rather cheap politicians who line their pockets with Chinese gold! Clinton and Gore were the first ones. Clinton, the worst President in US history, is the man who dropped the barriers China had to our markets and helped them get into the WTO. Now they are going to takeover our economy in the next decade! Good job Slick Willy!

Actually Reagan started the whole process of trying to make China a most favored nation for trade puposes. Nixon was the instigator of normalized realtions and bush I started the free trade treaty with China, it finally passed during Clinton when their was a republican controlled congress.

Can you every not be a dishonest partisan homo!

 

[HenryBHough]

Why?

Because China bought all the existing sledgehammers.
Because China is the only manufacturer of new sledgehammers.
Because China is not known for abusing its' own property.

Need more reasons?

 

[Avatar4321]

Perhaps we don't have one anymore.

 

[rhodescholar]

There is but one solution that consumers can successfully apply to compel the corporate whores robbing their fellow americans and bury the political dogs seeking to curry favor with the mass murderers of china: BOYCOTT CHINA.

Buy nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that is made in China, and send letters to Wal Mart and every other retailer that they need to start offering products manufactured elsewhere, anywhere. I don't care if they are made in Viet Nam, Indonesia, Africa, or any other similar slave-wage shithole so long as it is not made in china.

Once corporate america sees that china is no longer a viable option as americans will no longer buy product from there - they will recognize that the US public has given them a reasonable, acceptable solution that they can apply by moving factories to other low-wage countries.

This may not bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, but it will strong undermine china's growth and threat to the national security of the US and Europe.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I mostly agree with the op except for number 7. We did that to ourselves with over regulation, taxes and unions.

 

[shintao]

Easy answer:

CHEAP LABOR

Rather cheap politicians who line their pockets with Chinese gold! Clinton and Gore were the first ones. Clinton, the worst President in US history, is the man who dropped the barriers China had to our markets and helped them get into the WTO. Now they are going to takeover our economy in the next decade! Good job Slick Willy!

Hmmm, nice re-write of history storky. Bush Sr. was the first one, and Bush jr. ran on a plank of dropping trade barriers to China and brought them into the WTO.

 

[uscitizen]

Easy answer:


CHEAP LABOR

Well that and American companies are making big money dealing with China.

 

[shintao]

Easy answer:


CHEAP LABOR

Well that and American companies are making big money dealing with China.

You get an A+ in economics. And when we apply the hammer, China will take those American businesses hostage & we will have a melt down.

 

[uscitizen]

Easy answer:


CHEAP LABOR

Well that and American companies are making big money dealing with China.

You get an A+ in economics. And when we apply the hammer, China will take those American businesses hostage & we will have a melt down.

Ohh they may take their China assest, but they get the big bucks for taking risks in a quasi communistic country.
They could have kept their businesses here.
No sympathy from me for the greedy bastiches.

 

[Old Rocks]

They have a bigger hammer than we do. They have enough of our T Bills to damage us severely. Suez, 1956.

 

[txlonghorn]

First think we would need to do is get a really big sledgehammer. And find a leader willing to swing it.

 

[SofiaY]

this has been a long time issue

 

[editec]

Why are we NOT Smacking CHINA with a Sledgehammer?

The Americans WHO ACTUALLY MATTER TO OUR GOVERNMENT are getting rich thanks to FREE TRADE, that's why.

This isn't obvious?

 

[GHook93]

While I have a great deal of sympathy with the OP's sentiments, there are no links to anything that he is referring to.

I'd like to read more into this subject, but cannot really find any stories online relating to "Fake Chinese Companies" or "Tariffs against the US".

Please, provide links. I'm genuinely interested. Thanks.

My bad. I thought I copied the link

News Headlines

 

[American_Jihad]

Flashback: Bill Clinton Gave China Missile Technology
Democrats intermittently talk tough about our enemies -- but only after aiding and comforting them.
December 21, 2016
Matthew Vadum

With all this talk of Russians allegedly interfering in U.S. elections, it is worth recalling that it wasn’t too long ago that the previous Democrat in the White House betrayed America by working hand in hand with our Communist enemies in mainland China.

As president, Bill Clinton essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to our enemy, the People’s Republic of China.

That “administration’s voluntary release of all the secrets of America’s nuclear tests, combined with the systematic theft of the secrets that were left as a result of its lax security controls, effectively wiped out America’s technological edge,” David Horowitz writes in the recently published, The Black Book of the American Left Volume 7: The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama.

Unlike the administrations that preceded it, the Clinton administration accepted millions of dollars from the military and intelligence services of at least one hostile foreign power. All of this was done in exchange for illegal campaign contributions from a massive totalitarian country determined to eclipse the U.S. as a world superpower.

President Clinton also lifted security controls, allowing thieves to access other vital military technologies, while disarming his own side and opposing needed defenses.

“One of the key technological breaks China received, without having to spy to get it, was the deliverance of supercomputers once banned from export for security reasons,” writes Horowitz.

“Supercomputers underpin the technology of nuclear and missile warfare, and not only for firing and controlling the missiles. A supercomputer can simulate a nuclear test and is thus crucial to the development of nuclear warheads. But, according to a Washington Post editorial: ‘In the first three quarters of 1998 nine times as many [supercomputers] were exported [to China] as during the previous seven years.’”

“This transfer,” he writes, “was authorized three years after the spy thefts were detected. What rationale—besides stupidity, greed, or some other equally indefensible motive—could justify this? What responsible president or administration official, at any relevant level in any government, would allow the massive transfer of national-security assets like these to a dictatorship they knew had stolen their country’s most highly guarded military secrets?”

Back in the 1990s, as longtime Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, now governor of Virginia, set records raising money for the Clintons. In that era congressional investigators unearthed an elaborate Communist Chinese money-laundering scheme.

Under it money was funneled to the Clinton organization through businesspeople, including Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie. In that case, 94 individuals either refused questioning, pled the Fifth Amendment, or fled the country. Trie accepted a plea bargain with federal prosecutors in 1999 in exchange for providing information about questionable campaign contributions from China.

McAuliffe helped a company called Loral Space get seats on official trade missions. He reportedly convinced the Clinton administration to overrule national security officials in order win approval for a Loral deal that gave Red China critical missile technology. Loral's chief executive officer became the Democratic National Committee’s largest donor and McAuliffe became DNC chairman.

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That doesn’t sound a whole lot different than Obama’s nuclear so-called nonproliferation pact with Iran, which in reality green-lights Iranian adventurism by helping the mullahs get their hands on nuclear weapons technology to use against Israel and the United States.

In the modern era Democrats have a long history of aiding America’s enemies, interrupted only by brief periods of tension.

After the brutal shellacking Democrats got at the polls Nov. 8, no wonder they’re doing so much saber-rattling against Russia.

They need an external villain to prevent their own grassroots from rising up against them.

Flashback: Bill Clinton Gave China Missile Technology

 

[BluesLegend]

Because the left are punks that's why, Obama in particular China laughs at him.

 

[TemplarKormac]

(1) They engage in unfair currency manipulation in direct violation of the WTO!
(2) They engage in subsidies that are bankrupting our commodies companies (like Steel, rare earth metals etc) which is in violation of the WTO!
(3) They artificially suppress wages!
(4) They set up protective tarriffs against US to protect their key industires!
(5) Intellectual property rights are a JOKE in China!
(6) The esponisage they engage against us is that of enemies at war!
(7) They have DECIMATED our manufacturing sector!
(8) They have CREATED by far the largest in history trade deficit between two countries
(9) They have made the WTO a JOKE!
(10) And now they are in our faces, stealing American Company's Goodwill and creating FAKE COMPANIES!!! This is a crime and we need to punish them for this! Trump is right toss a 20% tariff on all goods from China TODAY, until they changes these dishonest trade practices!

Check out the slideshow from CNBC! It's amazing our politicians let them get away with it.

The list of Fake Chinese Companies:
(1) Apple
(2) Disney Theme Parks
(3) IKEA
(4) Starbucks
(5) Wizard of Warcraft
(6) KFC
(7) Harry Potter
(8) Nike
(9) McDonald's
(10) Disney Store

Easy, because the sledgehammer's made in China.