Tariffs on China were upgraded 50% today by President Trump for a total of 104% on Chinese imports to the United States. It seems harsh yet it is a logical response to the Chinese policy of matching U.S. tariffs in order to continue its vast trade surplus with the U.S.A.
Chinese is a growing economic tiger flexing its muscles internationally. With a little foresight one can understand that in 5 or 10 years if the neo-liberal economic policies of the United States continued China would likely dominate the globes' manufacturing, vastly increase its military power and downgrade the United States in the international service sector that is the next area for the Chinese economy to take over. Since it was American policy that brought China in to the world market economy beginning with the open door policy of President Nixon and Kissinger the change in U.S. policy to make an adjustment in the relationship may create some friction. Yet like raising a pet alligator or guerrilla at home, China as a young padawan learning the ways of the free market economic force was one thing, yet as a mature player it presents some dangers.
The United States needs to be great again in the sense of enriching all of its citizens, constructing bold new infrastructure using every modern concept including ecological economic and design that can be found, building a great safety net economically that will be able to meet the challenges ongoing presented by Artificial Intelligence and robots with AI in their skull brain housing units, in mass transportation that travels coast to coast in an hour on land and so forth. It need be able to manufacture whatever it needs with print on demand structure, make all of its waste disposal waterless and leave zero carbon emissions in the atmosphere because not only is it harmful to global surface temperature, it wastes a resource.
The United States needs to be able to have an armed neutrality with advanced military infrastructure and renew its manufacturing infrastructure. Inventors should be able to get patents for virtually nothing and swiftly bring products to locally be manufactured without delay. Reducing the period of patent exclusivity in order to expedite the dissemination of new articles for manufacture at lower costs, while compensating the inventor after patent exclusivity expires in five from after it being granted with a 5% royalty from anyone manufacturing it is a needed step for making the U.S.A. great in a planetary atmosphere with strong Chinese competition economically and socially. China is likely to exploit its manufacturing dominance to bring global socialism forward with a mixed market economy.
China is now a successful economic rival in the free market. Its economy has grown because it was catching up swiftly and had domestic state and foreign investment. Yet as a mature economy its growth rate will eventually slow down to reach parity with the west; that’s just the way those matters go historically. Waiting for that natural balance to be reached without reforming the American economy would assure the downward standard of living for poorer and middle class Americans they should not have to go through; poverty is hard to escape once it is socially oppressively structured to perpetuate it. Many Americans do not believe the nation needs economic reform, yet it does. It actually needs comparatively radical economic reform, and spiritual renewal. Mr. Trump’s MAGA term is just the first of what should be a succession of reformist administrations bringing in the newest, ecologically kosher infrastructure and development possible to the nation.
The United States will need to compete for the allegiance of the masses globally by showing that a non-socialist economy does work better to improve the lives of even the most poor citizens of a nation- that no one is left to wither away in a backwater current of poverty. With vast economic power China may be able to entirely end its domestic poverty and lend its expertise in economics and government to the masses of Eurasia, Africa and Latin America. The U.S.A. will need to restore its domestic economic circumstance, end the war in Ukraine, eliminate public debt and go about rebuilding a nation with no physical infrastructure from coast to coast leaving in its wake vast channels for a healthy ecosphere and for wildlife include reintroduced engineered species rescued from extinction like the Dire wolf.
The United States needs to be able to walk and chew gum politically though it has been challenged to in recent decades. Democrats simply hate Republicans and an America that doesn't give away its wealth through disadvantages left by uncorrected neo-liberalism economic policy. Democrats may have foreign allegiance to a Europe that thrives in paranoia and refuses to make happy days including Russia. Democrat politicians seek primarily to enrich themselves while Republican leadership drops the ball on ecological economics and a robust economic safety net for all citizens as if it were a porcupine. Failing to act comprehensively to make America great will reduce the MAGA legacy more to something like Make America Mediocre Again.
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