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uh, which is why it would be worth knowing if the virus originated in a lab accident in China?
If there was a mysterious viral outbreak tearing through Maryland I agree that would be a question at least worth asking.
huh, they sound like some bad hombres, maybe we should rethink our trade relationships with them regardless
Can’t decide if I agree or not, did the trade relationships COME FROM A LAB?
Yeah, may be no need for the ‘air bridge’ then. Could start by knocking together some PPE without flying it in. TV’s next. Clothing, shoes. Medicine. ‘Made in USA’ not ‘Label affixed in USA’. MAGA.
Just to be clear, the main reason that if it escaped from a lab is important is because it makes the Chinese government response even more dishonest than it originally seemed (which was pretty dishonest to begin with). If it escaped from a lab they would have known that human to human transmission was possible very very early because they would have known that just one or a few people would have been exposed to it in the lab. That question very obviously has serious geopolitical implications.
Certainly a resurgence in American manufacturing would be very good. We used to make all that in the United States and certainly could again.
The manufacturing left town as Chinese manufacturing + shipping = cheaper than US manufacturing.
There in lies the problem.
US manufacturing would be nice but without slaves to run it Americans will still buy from abroad - cause it’s cheaper and most of US lives paycheck to paycheck - if they have a paycheck
It’s cheaper to dig coal in China and ship it to the US then it is for US to dig - apply that to anything else and the issue is obvious
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tarrifs are a thing.
Not if you need / want to export US manufacturing (China not yet ordering the grains it agreed to buy with tariffs)
China needs to export to USA#1 a hell of a lot more than we need to export to China.
PPE? Reagents for Covid tests?
China just goes with demand - they export worldwide so US is like 4% of the market per capita
You seem to think I’m talking about coming weeks and months. I’m talking about trade policy over years and decades.
I’m talking today and the future which is more relevant than a couple of decades ago.
The US’ ‘newest’ airport is 25yrs old whereas China’s is about 25 weeks. Things have changed Keeeeed
I’m not sure what this has to do with anything. It isn’t inevitable that the US allows its manufacturing base to be outsourced to other countries. Trade policy helped cause it to be offshored and trade policy can bring it back.
US share of GDP from manufacturing hasn’t changed in the last 50 years. Real value of manufacturing output has increased steadily. But the number of manufacturing jobs is about 1/3 of what it was 50 years ago. It’s really not failing US manufacturing or China; it’s automation.
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Except real GDP doubled from 2000 to 2020. So the manufacturing share of the US economy halved.