Comment by groundzeros2015
3 days ago
Democrats and republicans are concerned about China because it has a massive impact on many issues that both parties care about. This includes Taiwan, Hong Kong, Us manufacturing, US ip, immigration, etc.
3 days ago
Democrats and republicans are concerned about China because it has a massive impact on many issues that both parties care about. This includes Taiwan, Hong Kong, Us manufacturing, US ip, immigration, etc.
Replying to your earlier comment: in terms of words spoken during the 2024 campaign, tariffs and immigration tied for first. I think MAGA heard “China” when tariffs was pronounced positively and “Hispanic” when immigration was pronounced negatively.
How did you conclude that democrats do not care about china?
> Hispanic” when immigration was pronounced negatively. reply
I think it means Chinese, Indian, and other ethnic groups too.
I was replying to the comment along the lines of, what does MAGA care about China?
The one part of this I will agree with is that US foreign policy is uniparty.
The disastrous War on Terror spanned 4 presidential administrations, 2 Democrat and 2 Republican. Middle East policy differences between the two parties are somewhere between superficial and nonexistent.
Even something like Ukraine where you might say Republicans and Democrats differ isn't true. Had Trump been in office when Russia invaded Ukraine, the two parties would simply be in each other's seats.
This is 100% the case when it comes to China too. Oh, and when it comes to Taiwan (and Hong Kong), official US policy is the so-called One China policy [1].
As for US manufacturing, it's dead. Because capitalists killed it by moving it to China to increase profits and (under Regan, in particular) to destroy unions and the labor movement [2].
As for China and IP, US companies did this to themselves knowingly to increase short-term profits and to break unions and suppress wages. At no point will I accept the framing that a Chinese person, a Mexican, an Indian or a person from [developing country of choice] stole someone's job. No, a capital owner made a choice to take your job and give it to someone else so he or she could become slightly richer.
I'm not sure how immigration factors into China concerns.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China
[2]: https://ourfuture.org/20140930/reagan-set-up-the-death-of-th...