China is always the bad guy striving to make things cheaper for the rest of the world. Making cheaper things means the USA and the West can never compete against, so they keep demonizing China. Everything produced by Chinese manufacturers has been propagated as junk and inferior. If so, why are the rest of the world still buying them? China has never put a gun to the heads of those who refused to buy them, nor those who bought, so what is the hullabaloo all about?
In the past it was always about slave labor, so the rest of the world should not support buying goods from Chinese manufacturers paying slave wages. It was and is a human rights issue. If that was so, why was USA consumers buying iPhones made in China for decades without question about Apple then paying workers slave wages? Why was J. D. Vance caught buying eyeliners made in China with slave wages? Why was he supporting peasants making things cheaply that USA citizens could buy and then trying to raise the issue of China using those US$ earned by peasants to return to the USA by buying its treasuries. Now, China is not even in the mood to sell cheap things to the USA to earn US$ to buy USA treasuries. The USA is now begging China to buy its treasuries. Karma works in mysterious ways, and the mystery is not accrued to just God alone.
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What the USA does not even realize is that China is already deep into decoupling from the USA. China is selling less and less to the USA, and more and more to the Global South countries. In tandem with that, China is buying fewer goods from the USA, due to sanctions imposed by the USA. In fact, China has stopped buying USA treasuries and is ditching chips even from Nvidia.
More than that, which many probably may not have realized yet, China is building a future that relies less on fossil fuel and eventually dispelling the fear of blockade of energy to destroy China's manufacturing economy, that the USA had been putting in place for decades. We probably have not yet fathom how determined the Chinese are in migrating to renewables. China had already turned to electrification of its transportation system, with high-speed rails, adoption of EVs and phasing out Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) vehicles, the one big sector guzzling on fossil fuel. China is killing two birds with one stone - weaning the Chinese population away from fossil fuel and cutting down on air pollution resulting from the exhausts of ICE vehicles.
I do not have to talk about China's renewable energy generation from its expanding solar panel fields and wind turbines. Suffice to say that China is also killing two birds with one stone, rearing cattle feeding on grass under solar panel fields. There is practically no need to mow the grass under those solar panel fields, as the sheep and cows are doing the necessary. Think of the ingenuity.
What I need to talk about is China now making small nuclear power generators that are coming on-line to power smaller cities. China is also thinking of exporting them to countries that relies mostly on fossil fuel. Think of the consequence for those trying to use fossil fuel weaponization next by attempting to take control of all the oil production countries globally.
Sure, all these takes time, but China has all the time. The Chinese are masters of patience, as one Indian political commentator said.
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