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mlamping t1_iy6dmcp wrote

When are we going to realize we need to treat china like North Korea?

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WendysFryCook OP t1_iy6etdh wrote

Probably never because China runs our entire economy unfortunately

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Hygro t1_iy7broy wrote

It doesn't, but our reliance and their pullback has resulted in the bulk of our inflation. We'd survive a total divestment, if you don't mind ripping some hairs with the bandaid.

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WendysFryCook OP t1_iy7c3us wrote

It would take years just to build the infrastructure to begin supporting ourselves. We'd be fucked

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captainmcfuckface t1_iy8dt94 wrote

not really. we turned up the industry to produce more than the world combined in under 2 years with fewer resources and way less capital during WW2.

We currently have thousands of vacant factories and hungry rust belt communities eager to jump on such a move. It’d be an easier transition than you think. A few years of annoyance and stagnation and what not, but considering we can get most anything from somewhere else, it’d for the largest part be a management scramble and doubling of costs until we are back on line.

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hyldemarv t1_iybw6lp wrote

Leaving crumbs on the table for workers is Heathen Communism and simply not The American Way.

One cannot easily change Culture! Even here and now people are not advocating for being independent of China, they want to dominate it.

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Chgralac73 t1_iy8uvxr wrote

US customer is unable to live frugally, and if they have to its a depression.

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DependentLow6749 t1_iy7dbsj wrote

I mean not really. The country is suffering financially at the moment and western institutional investors have largely divested. They still control a lot of production, which allows them to dictate certain terms, but not nearly as much as they used to.

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zer165 t1_iy97jmx wrote

Hmmmmmmm, there was this guy with orange skin and funny hair that talked about this all the time. People hated that he said this in the US, though. Reddit's cognitive dissonance is so powerful.

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Chgralac73 t1_iy8uduc wrote

because US could not defeat North Korea in a land war courtesy of neverending Chinese troops. neither could US defeat Vietnam courtesy of neverending Chinese troops.

Kissinger realized that and so he traded away US factories, to avoid confrontation with Chinese military, on the idiot idea that giving US manufacturing base to China is somehow gonna turn them democratic. well 50 years later, tough sht Sherlock

In a land war, man power is everything.

still China has become a paper dragon. their entire military is 1.3 mil. thats not that much and if they try to invade Taiwan with 300k-500k men, its gonna be the biggest fail since KamiKaze

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Diamond_HandedAntics t1_iy9s0x4 wrote

China’s military tops 2 million now. That’s the largest on the world. Don’t know why you think that isn’t much lol

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