The West was worried about China's adoption of technology in most sectors and outcompeting against the USA and Europe. Now they are terrified and raising another fear-mongering narrative about China's trade surplus every year as unsustainable and wants China to stop producing and allow the USA and the Europeans to catch up. What are they worrying about whether China's trade surplus is sustainable or not? Are they not hoping that China should collapse now, so that they can continue to lord over everyone else?
China's energy production from nuclear, hydropower, wind and solar is being compensated by cheap oil from Russia is the reason it is able to make things so much cheaper than the USA or Europe. China's energy production is now double the USA, which is suffering energy shortages due to mass setting up of AI and data centers competing with domestic users.
Running factories 24/7 works so well in China that they even mentioned 'dark factories' in China with robots working without lights on. Accusing China of paying slave wages to produce goods cheaply is barking up the wrong tree. Even in Xinjiang, agriculture is carried out using largely machineries hooked up to satellites that enables the machines to run automatically by itself, no such thing as slave labor as imagined by the West.
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What the WTO is probably saying is that China's export surge makes exports from USA and the West unsustainable, so China must be made to stop producing and let the West catch up. In other words, China needs to help the USA and the West by restraining its growth trajectory. Would the USA, let us say for example, even willing to cut its defense budget to allow China to catch up in its military upgrade?
The WTO wants China to shift its growth model from export led growth to practically just sitting down and twiddle its thumb waiting for others to take over. Only when China goes back to the stone age will the Anglo-Saxon Whites be satisfied.
Does the WTO even wants to talk about trade barriers already in full swing against China, so what other trade barriers are the WTO talking about? In fact, the USA had already set up massive trade barriers, not just against China, but the whole world, including the penguins.
Putting China's position aside, what is the reason for the USA putting up trade barriers against countries that are even suffering deficits vis a vis the USA. Fairness in argument must be applied to be seen as equitable and not just demonizing China for all the ills of the USA and the West. That they cannot compete is no fault of China and is up to them to work harder, innovate faster, do better and treat others fairly instead of just pushing the blame to others using world bodies like the WTO.
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