On one level buying cheaper products is good for the consumer. However the entire quasi-myth of "free trade" falls apart when your trading partner is at a minimum heavily govt subsidized or worse using slave labor.
The long slow grind eviscerating the western middle-class has basically come to its a critical inflection point....service only jobs, no good paying entry jobs, AI taking lots of "paper pushing" jobs, etc.
Trump (for all his formidable flaws) is trying to jump start western production. This is precisely the type of thing that requires allies who share the vision to achieve. Its quite possible this opportunity doesn't come again.
Chinas state capitalism is more efficient at converting raw commodities into the processed refined and manufactured goods that the world wants and needs. Trump is trying belatedly to copy Chinas state capitalism model but he is too late and China has thelead on nearly all supply chains and technologies- where it doesn't it will do within the next ten years. For the next ten years the US military industrial combine is crippled due to the monopoly China has over refined rare earths and multiple other strategic supply chains essential to the manufacture of military hardwares. Chinas state capitalist mercantile development has beaten the neoliberal crony capitalism of the west. Countries like Canada rich in natural resources and commodity exports have more to gain via trade with China than with the declining USA. USA is increasingly seen for what it is- an empire in chronic and irreversible decline. Europe will follow Canadas example. USA will be left isolated and humiliated. Sad but true.
It seems to be ramping up. Especially if no real pipeline projects get built. This thread articulated it perfectly:
Canada doesn't have the port facilities to ship energy to China in any appreciable quantity. Canada isn't going to build those facilities in a timely fashion, not without walking all over the First Nations and the climate lunatics, both of whom Carney and his Liberal Party are enthusiastically beholden to. Even assuming we did build those facilities and start shipping oil to China in vast quantities, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the US Navy to interdict those tankers, and there would be precisely nothing the all but nonexistent Royal Canadian Navy could do about that but cry.
Well, that's a given. I'm thinking that the new nation of Albskatchewan could have its own ports if any one of the surrounding provinces or territories joined.
It's been a while but the US likes to admit states in politically offsetting pairs, so most likely it would come in as two states: BC and Alberta + Saskatchewan + territories.
There are several things going on simultaneously.
On one level buying cheaper products is good for the consumer. However the entire quasi-myth of "free trade" falls apart when your trading partner is at a minimum heavily govt subsidized or worse using slave labor.
The long slow grind eviscerating the western middle-class has basically come to its a critical inflection point....service only jobs, no good paying entry jobs, AI taking lots of "paper pushing" jobs, etc.
Trump (for all his formidable flaws) is trying to jump start western production. This is precisely the type of thing that requires allies who share the vision to achieve. Its quite possible this opportunity doesn't come again.
Chinas state capitalism is more efficient at converting raw commodities into the processed refined and manufactured goods that the world wants and needs.
Trump is trying belatedly to copy Chinas state capitalism model but he is too late and China has thelead on nearly all supply chains and technologies- where it doesn't it will do within the next ten years.
For the next ten years the US military industrial combine is crippled due to the monopoly China has over refined rare earths and multiple other strategic supply chains essential to the manufacture of military hardwares.
Chinas state capitalist mercantile development has beaten the neoliberal crony capitalism of the west.
Countries like Canada rich in natural resources and commodity exports have more to gain via trade with China than with the declining USA.
USA is increasingly seen for what it is- an empire in chronic and irreversible decline.
Europe will follow Canadas example.
USA will be left isolated and humiliated.
Sad but true.
How's the secession process going in Alberta? My dad was asking me about it recently.
It seems to be ramping up. Especially if no real pipeline projects get built. This thread articulated it perfectly:
Canada doesn't have the port facilities to ship energy to China in any appreciable quantity. Canada isn't going to build those facilities in a timely fashion, not without walking all over the First Nations and the climate lunatics, both of whom Carney and his Liberal Party are enthusiastically beholden to. Even assuming we did build those facilities and start shipping oil to China in vast quantities, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the US Navy to interdict those tankers, and there would be precisely nothing the all but nonexistent Royal Canadian Navy could do about that but cry.
My understanding is that Saskatchewan (I spelled that right on the first attempt!) would likely join Alberta.
What would the other provinces and territories likely do?
Cry and bitch about losing their honey pot of taxable production
Well, that's a given. I'm thinking that the new nation of Albskatchewan could have its own ports if any one of the surrounding provinces or territories joined.
The thing about BC is that the inland is more conservative leaning and has a lot of forestry, mining, farming etc.
The coast is mainly lib elites / indigenous so its tough to gain a port foothold.
Best option is honestly 51st state for western Canada imo. Make Vancouver capitulate
It's been a while but the US likes to admit states in politically offsetting pairs, so most likely it would come in as two states: BC and Alberta + Saskatchewan + territories.
one slave state and one free state
Missouri compromise or Kansas Nebraska act
I dont see you complaing about the Chinese having built the railroads. So let them built our EV's
Railroads aren’t surveillance spyware on wheels
https://twiiit.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2012225562010403112