It's punishment for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP, illegally subsidizing businesses to steal market share, and general national security by not outsourcing knowledge and infrastructure critical to national security to save a few bucks.
It's easy to let someone push you back inch by inch instead of fighting back, but eventually you're on the edge of a cliff and have nowhere else to go.
I'd take short term pain over one day waking up and realizing that China has total control over manufacturing for everything essential for modern life and in exchange we got cheap consumer goods for a few years.
It's easy to let someone push you back inch by inch instead of fighting back, but eventually you're on the edge of a cliff and have nowhere else to go.
I'd take short term pain over one day waking up and realizing that China has total control over manufacturing for everything essential for modern life and in exchange we got cheap consumer goods for a few years.