NightFox
Wildling
Yes, it's a "simple" question which is appropriate considering the source.I guess I forgot to remove the "I was born yesterday" sticker from my forehead, don't play stupid, you asked a leading question as if it was a valid conclusion to what I posted, it's an old deflection trick that people that just had their assertions invalidated by reason attempt to use.That's not the case when both you and your business partner are subject to draconian terms of trade imposed upon your voluntary transactions with each other by the state.
Chinese businesses and American businesses don't have issues with each other, if they did they wouldn't do business with each other; the issues are with the idiotic rules and fees imposed upon their transactions with one another by the Chinese and American governments.
So we aren't free market capitalists?
Spare me your ham handed attempts to put words into my mouth,
I did not say you said that. I asked you a question. That is how this works. You say something and I ask questions based upon what you said.
It's a simple question. You either know or you don't.
On the bright side, you earn 12 brownie points for your herculean efforts to deflect from the fact that you obviously didn't understand that the Sino-U.S. trade relationship was about as far from a "perfect example of the free market" as one can get without taking a trip to Mars.
They have something we want and we trade them money for that. Is that not how it is supposed to work?
Who is "we"? Who is "them"?
.. and no that's not how it is "supposed to work", International Trade is supposed to work based on comparative advantage so that each party to the transaction benefits from the lower opportunity cost afforded by trading for something from a producer than can produce at a lower cost than can be accomplished domestically; it's how trade ultimately produces wealth.
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