Because China looks at every relationship as an opportunity to help advance China. Currently, if I buy from a company that has a plant in Germany but is based in China, I have to assume that any technical info I send Germany will end up in China and there will be 6 competitors next month who now have access to my proprietary work. We benefit from China’s cheap labor but long term we are playing a game we cannot win. They have used our technical advances to make leaps and bounds. We’re spending billions in the US in R&D for China to use it for essentially free against ourselves.

So you obviously have no idea how economics works either...

Lol. You have no idea who I am. Stop it. I listen to NPR all the time, I don’t listen to Fox. NPR is unabashedly anti capitalist. To quote the story I was listening to a few days ago about inflation “companies have gotten addicted to sky high profits…” They have zero understanding of how economics work. If you think humans suffered less before capitalism, you’re delusional.

The world has grown to a population that should not even be possible. How do you think that happens if things are worse than ever. You need to study and stop listening to NPR. Like it or not, the human race has never had more abundance.