They don't care as long as people still do business with them. That's all that matters to them. And besides, not everybody is alienating them. Middle East, Africa, pretty much all of the countries on the route of the "future" silk road are all close pals with China. It's just the West that is starting to become a little wary of them but business is still going on as usual.
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They don't care as long as people still do business with them. That's all that matters to them. And besides, not everybody is alienating them. Middle East, Africa, pretty much all of the countries on the route of the "future" silk road are all close pals with China. It's just the West that is starting to become a little wary of them but business is still going on as usual.
Which is one of many massive foreign policy failures of this administration. If we spent a fraction of the effort at supporting those countries as we have with repeated rounds of tariffs and subsidies to support farmers hurt by the tariffs we'd be way ahead on this. Instead Biden will be playing catch-up from 4 years behind on our relationships with these countries (not to mention the our actual allies Trump has needlessly antagonized). It's incredible to contemplate the damage Trump has done to the U.S. on the world stage with his toxic combination of gross ignorance and belligerence.
If Biden is smart, he will continue what Trump started but improve upon it. Continue to rebuild sustainable local manufacturing instead of over-reliance on foreign production especially for essential items. It was absolutely ridiculous that healthcare workers in Italy and the West were dying and we had to rely on China for mission-critical PPE during this coronavirus pandemic and be subject to their unreliable standards of quality. Trump was right on the ball on this one. We need to be self-reliant at least on war-critical essential items. Imagine if one of our enemy countries launched biological warfare on us, we wouldn't even have enough PPE's to protect our doctors. All of our bullets, components for the CPU for our fighter jets are all manufactured in China. Imagine one day if we ever go to war, all China has to do is shut down their production of bullets and the CPU for our fighter jets and they would've won the war. Our fighter pilots, Top Gun's wouldn't even be able to fly their planes. This is very scary and unacceptable.
What Trump went overboard is alienating everyone else. Biden would need to work on this one. He would need to rebuild our relationship with our allies and not screwing them but make sure they are on the same page as us and not snuggle up to China or other countries that don't have the same agenda as us behind our back.
You have already written Trump's obituary and assumed a post Trump administration after November?
IF Biden gets elected. I guess I should've added that in my previous post. Thanks for reminding me. But even if Trump does not get re-elected, he can still influence politics and even more effectively while not in presidency. This is what Clinton said. He is able to accomplish a lot more after his presidency finished because he is lot more freer to do whatever he feels fit. While he was a president, he had to answer to so many special interest groups aka lobby groups that were really tieing him down and restricting him in so many ways. But once he's out of the White House, no more lobby groups to answer to and he does whatever he wants! So don't be surprised that Trump changes America and the world outside of his presidency!
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Neither has the US since Trump is president. The US actually lost a lot of friends.
Nope, it means they got the virus under control unlike the big ol' USA.
Why not? It just means they don't worry about testing it for extended period of time. Lots of other labs have same stage vaccination, but they are more careful about releasing it to the masses before they know side effects, long term protection rate,etc.
how is it that we trust them enough to do business with them, to trust them with our money, to trust them enough to use their products? If you check everything that you have in your house, more than 50% are Made in China. How do you know they haven't installed trackers or surveillance chips in that pen that you just bought from the dollar store?
China's Huawei and ZTE officially designated 'national security threats' by the FCC
Published Tue, Jun 30 202011:53 PM EDT
Arjun Kharpal
Key Points
- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially designated Huawei and ZTE national security threats.
- U.S. carriers cannot use an $8.3 billion government subsidy program, known as the Universal Service Fund, to purchase, maintain or support any equipment or services from both vendors.
- Critics of Huawei and ZTE have claimed that their networking equipment could be used by China for espionage.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially designated Huawei and ZTE national security threats.
That means that companies cannot use an $8.3 billion government subsidy program, known as the Universal Service Fund, to purchase, maintain or support any equipment or services from the two Chinese telecommunications giants.
"With today's Orders, and based on the overwhelming weight of evidence, the (FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security) Bureau has designated Huawei and ZTE as national security risks to America's communications networks—and to our 5G future," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement.
Yeah but if everybody else uses it and if US communicates with them on the 5G network, wouldn't US still be subject to espionage efforts?