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| Big Stack |
Or the jobs would be moved to where the cheap workers are (see "manufacturing".)
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| Big Stack |
Or automate everything. I'm saying this sarcastically, but it may be a better option than leaving the manufacturing in China
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I'm with you on the rest, but not this. The US should not move its dependency for medical products and drugs from one foreign country to another. That manufacturing needs to be brought back into this country by whatever means necessary. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Immediately close all the “Confucius Institutes” scattered across North America. Immediately ban all “Mandarin (and Cantonese) bilingual programs” in public schools. If the chicoms want to educate their offspring in their languages, let this be done with THEIR money, in private schools. Unleash the CIA, the NSA, CSIS and CSEC to expose anyone receiving money from or abetting the enemy. Make Sen. McCarthy look like a schoolgirl in that task. Etc etc etc | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
The Confucius institutes are no different than the various recruiting stations for the NAZIs and Soviets. I get despising those - and I think no foreign nation should be permitted to fund think tanks, or universities or university chairs... But outlawing the teaching of a language, especially Cantonese (definitely not the same folks as the Han), seems a bit illogical. | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
Corsair, I will say there is a flip side to getting “some” of the immigrants to attend school here - aside from that they are paying their way - at schools with strong cultures - Texas A&M, Alabama, probably USC, Penn and Ohio State - we could be very corrupting*. They should not be let into any sensitive grad programs, nor majors. *For the corruption to work, students should be vetted for susceptibility - are they actually comfortable with English, rather than able to puzzle out a text book, can they socially interact, etc | |||
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The Gordon Chang article is on Breitbart now- Seize China's U.S. Treasury Holdings If it is coordinated, it will not destroy confidence in the dollar. It would be stupid for us to do it unilaterally. There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless. - Mark Twain The Gilded Age #CNNblackmail #CNNmemewar | |||
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I don’t see any discussion in the above article about unintended consequences. Might want to consider at what point China may start a hot war in an attempt to save face. What would the world do if, for example, one week after the Treasury holdings were seized, Chinese troops blockaded and invaded Taiwan? You’d have to either let them have it or start shooting. Neither choice is a good one. Blockading Japan’s access to oil triggered their initial attacks on the West which ratcheted WW2 up a notch. Another big conflict now is likely to involve radioactive clouds which don’t respect national borders any more than the virus does. Be very careful in how you make them “pay” so the virus’ death toll doesn’t end up being inconsequential by comparison! | |||
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There's a quote by a Chinese General from the 1990's (?) where he said the USA pushed china around in the 1950's because they couldn't defend themselves. Now they have nuclear weapons and America won't be able to do that again. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Yep. After 7 decades you begin to realize that real life isn't as ordered and predictable as those video games you spent time playing in your mother's basement! And before you head off on a course of action that can't be undone, you'd better analyze all the possible outcomes and permutations to the maximum extent possible if you want to minimize the probability of an unfavorable result (and even then, you're likely to have missed something). | |||
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It might be very difficult if V-Tail's "millennial female" is representative of our population.  | |||
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Really good ideas here. I’m concerned by both China & Russia’s observations of the U.S.response to this pandemic. They were provided a real good look into our systematic weaknesses in all avenues of response. Biological warefare just got a lot easier..
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| Banned |
I am glad that we are friends. We are still friends, right? | |||
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www.teampython.com ...Irony? | |||
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Best start with Congress ... | |||
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I have never been one to play video games, and I am not expecting anything we do to not have consequences. Ideally, I'd like to see the Chinese people throw the CCP out of power peacefully. I actually like aspects of China, studied the language in university, but stopped in 1989. I think they are at war with us already. Are we able to sail the Taiwan Straight without confrontation? Things have to change one way or another. The US needs to become a producer, not just a mix of agriculture and services. We need self sufficiency as a matter of security. There is the Great Firewall of China- maybe we need to find a way to block them from us. We are too open to them stealing our intellectual property. I know there are ways around anything and everything, but why make it easy? There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless. - Mark Twain The Gilded Age #CNNblackmail #CNNmemewar | |||
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I never defended outlawing the teaching of the languages, just the *public funding* thereof. | |||
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Every major state and private university has courted and has a sizable number Chinese foreign students. Their willingness to pay full-ride tuition is much too tempting for admissions. Our culture can be very corrupting, as kids returning are often accused of 'becoming too American', where I'm getting at is that pipeline needs to be shrunk. If anything, reduce the China student pipeline and increase the Latin America & SE Asian student pipeline. Considering factory start-up costs are enormous, to include domestic labor overhead, the first step in removing manufacturing and raw goods sourcing out of China, maybe to encourage it's development in select Latin American countries. Colombia being a US ally, having received tons of aide over the last 20-years, would be a good start to develop it's manufacturing capacity. Same for select other countries, as evolving their economies away from the narco sector, to a more sustainable and healthier manufacturing sector. Las Vegas pushed-out the mob because the casinos became big business operations, the same can be applied to these 3rd world counties that have been ravaged by the narcos and gangs. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
Our intelligence services rely language experts. Google translate just isn't the same. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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These can safely be recruited amongst people who were privately educated in a foreign language. We don’t need a public school system catering to all minorities, and offering instruction in Mandarin. My city alone has 15 such schools. By the way, I’m a certified translator, and I know the supply side of my industry; trust me, we don’t need to burn public money just so little Chan can talk to grandpa when he visits. | |||
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