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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by wbl on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:10AM (#18246520)
The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by eiaoa on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:37AM (#18249189)
> The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?

Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack of globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine.

Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by jarfil on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:29AM (#18246581)
Depends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by Tsubasachan on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:54AM (#18246931)
How many wars has China instigated in the last 30 years though? Seems to me the region is shifting to accommodate the new power balance quite nicely.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by tomohawk on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:35AM (#18246865)
Before WW I, France and Germany were each others largest trading partners. Trade and prosperity are orthogonal to war.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by notfromhere on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:58AM (#18248833)
Trade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by oblio on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:43AM (#18247259)
I'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by pkaye on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:21AM (#18246550)
I'm sure there are plenty of billionaires in China that can do more for them.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by baldfat on Thursday October 18, 2018 @07:55AM (#18247497)
> due to outsourcing to China

No it is the demand for better working conditions and wages. That helps the local Chinese and American workers. Oh that's right labor unions are evil????

Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by yostrovs on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:24AM (#18247661)
The demand existed long before the outsourcing. There aren't really labor unions in China.