It occurs to me that EVERY American wants the same things.
We ALL want a secure future. We all want to preserve our liberties. We all want fairness and equality in our system of justice. We all want a clean, sustainable environment. And we all want our lives back free from the shadow of the pandemic.
It's all in how we get there. Do we want an open, non-corrupt government, or do we want the whims and impulses of one man to lead us in the direction he thinks is best?
My bet is on freedom and equality for EVERY American.
Communist China owns Joe and you want it to own you.
So keep freedom and equality out of the debate,
In reality it's been more of a partnership with the top .1 % (including Trumpyvbear.)
. In 1994, it devalued China's currency, from roughly 5 to 8 yuan to the dollar, further fueling the country's explosive development.
China, suddenly the cheapest workshop in Asia, attracted vast capital investment. Millions of migrant workers flooded industrial centers. World-savvy entrepreneurs migrated from Hong Kong and Taiwan, eager for a piece of the action. Many shut down their plants at home in the rush to set up new factories and hire mainland Chinese workers.
Shenzhen boomed. Growing at 20 percent a year, it became known as China's "Miracle City." In two decades, a fishing village mushroomed into a city of 7 million people, with high rises, miles of factories, and modern electronics headquarters. Here too, Wal-Mart sited its global sourcing headquarters.
Wal-Mart had caught the China bug. In a speech to business schools in the early '90s, David Glass, who succeeded Sam Walton as CEO, advised students to learn Mandarin Chinese. In regional meetings, Glass told Wal-Mart execs that if they didn't think internationally, they were working for the wrong company. "The only reason [manufacturing] moved from Taiwan was China's low level of wages," said one early Wal-Mart Hong Kong buyer. "We didn't have any trouble in China, because the Taiwanese went into China and built up the factories. We were dealing with the same people."