A great deal of the Biden economic policy is focused on decoupling from China and moving outsourced corporate slave labor practices to US allies in India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
But the rub is that these countries are just importing cheap manufactured surplus from China, rebranding it, and shipping it to the US after collecting a transfer fee.
So a lot of this isn’t hypocrisy as much as it is the nationalist geopolitics of DC running into the greed and deceptive practices of international business interests.
The “slave labor” thing about china is 40 years too late. China now has wildly better working conditions than India or Phillipines or Indonesia or Malaysia.
Aren’t you concerned with the cold-war-like escalation that we’re seeing the US adopt against china?
Right, but it’s Lemmy. Talking about the universal housing, elimination of poverty, age 60 retirement policy, no chronic student debts or medical debts, blah blah blah makes you a far left anti-Taiwan tankie.
Aren’t you concerned with the cold-war-like escalation
Terrified. But more for American East Asians, at the end of the day. They’re already getting the Arab-American treatment by degrees. If we continue to escalate, it won’t be long before they’re full 2nd class citizens.
No, I mean that it’s hypocritical criticising the other administration for following the same trend
A great deal of the Biden economic policy is focused on decoupling from China and moving outsourced corporate slave labor practices to US allies in India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
But the rub is that these countries are just importing cheap manufactured surplus from China, rebranding it, and shipping it to the US after collecting a transfer fee.
So a lot of this isn’t hypocrisy as much as it is the nationalist geopolitics of DC running into the greed and deceptive practices of international business interests.
The “slave labor” thing about china is 40 years too late. China now has wildly better working conditions than India or Phillipines or Indonesia or Malaysia.
Aren’t you concerned with the cold-war-like escalation that we’re seeing the US adopt against china?
Right, but it’s Lemmy. Talking about the universal housing, elimination of poverty, age 60 retirement policy, no chronic student debts or medical debts, blah blah blah makes you a far left anti-Taiwan tankie.
Terrified. But more for American East Asians, at the end of the day. They’re already getting the Arab-American treatment by degrees. If we continue to escalate, it won’t be long before they’re full 2nd class citizens.