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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by 486sx33 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @05:20PM (#43698532)
Actually I think it’s variation of this. Tariffs can protect high skill jobs with high value product output. They can also force the Chinese to make cheap stuff even cheaper ( back down below $1 goods plus tariffs ).

We don’t want the Chinese making high value goods at slightly lower prices. We want Americans making high value goods and we want to push cheap stuff as cheap as possible. Next step is enforcing environmental rules on Chinese goods and requiring escrow of the funds to pay the Chinese in American accounts until the goods are inspected and pass.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by vixen99 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:31AM (#43704032)
Yes, they could make more use of the Uyghurs. https://www.state.gov/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region... not to mention other slaves. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by Kbelicius on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:24AM (#43704498)
Your second links puts the number of slaves in China at 4 per 1000. The USA is at 3.3 per 1000. Why not mention that the USA could make more use of their slaves?
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by ninetyninenine on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:00AM (#43704946)
Because patriotism demands that we never look at ourselves in the mirror.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:02AM (#43704974)
America already makes high value goods in China and takes most of the value from them since they did the IP and the software for those products. China desperately wants in on that, they are no longer happy making the product while America takes most of the profit! They would swap places with America in a heartbeat if that’s what Trump is offering.
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