China's government of thieves

 JP Conte:

For twenty years, the United States has been fighting an economic war with China with one hand tied behind our backs. From cheap labor and forgeries to deceptive tactics and blatantly violating trade and IP agreements, China has attempted to undercut American and European manufacturing and production at every turn. Look no further than recent headlines about how Chinese AI “prodigy” DeepSeek likely illegally obtained advanced computing chips and stole from American AI companies to see how our arch rival likes to compete. They play dirty, and now, President Trump has made clear they’re going to pay a price.

As a businessman, I have seen this firsthand – American companies try to do business in good faith, creating good jobs in China, only to watch our technology and products walk out the back door in Chinese operations for them to exploit their own market alone. Now, years of China’s abusive tactics are coming home to roost in the form of American tariffs that will finally level the playing field. The end result, of which China should truly fear, however, is not the financial impacts of the tariffs – but the will of its own people, who recognize they deserve better than the failed promises communism has made to them over the years.
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... On a visit touring factories in Guangdong in 2005, the local TV news was filled with images of the Chinese military in rural areas holding back peasants from emigrating to the urban areas using guns and force (American TV networks never show these images to our U.S. audience). This heavy emphasis on maintaining social stability, through well-worn tactics of censorship and surveillance, has thus far kept a lid on dissent. But these new tariffs are likely to put the Chinese populace to a breaking point. Poor rural workers, and those factory workers who end up out of a job as a result, will look for somewhere to blame. And their blame won’t be on Americans, it will stop at their government’s front door.
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When you have a government run by communist control freaks, it should not be surprising that they would use the military to hold people back.  I suspect that those impacted by a totalitarian government will try to find ways around the control freaks and the military.  The US should also be developing a response to the Chicom government thievery.

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