Doesn't make it less true.
The race to the bottom hurts us all.,
And yes, most of my stuff is Blue Sea...
I get it. I didn't like the racial reference to the product source. I don't care about being PC, it's just the kind of short-sighted and dumb comment that got American industry in trouble in the '70s. The fact is that globalization means global competition, and competition results in better everything most of the time. In my Silicon Valley days, we embraced diversity because it made us money by building a more perceptive, stronger organization.
Instead of protecting the herd from foreign competition with, say, a 25% chicken tax applied to light trucks, we should be developing as many multinational trading partnerships as we can. Security is built upon mutual dependency (and superior firepower).
Another way to say it is, the best way to keep someone from attacking you is to make them need you.
The problem comes when leaders use disinformation to deny their citizens' free will and choice. This upsets the normal economic laws on competition. So LBJ offering Ho Chi Minh a TVA for the Mekong Delta isn't what I mean, nor do I think we can free trade our way around Kim Jong-Un because HE is the state, and the people have no sight, ears or voice.
But, as GML and I point out, there are many high quality products sourced in Asia. Ranking quality by race is like measuring the output of toasters in metric tons -- totally irrelevant to the goal of producing more and better toasters.
BTW mohammad, please excuse my tone. I am sure you are a righteous dude or dudette or whatever, and I truly mean nothing personal to you. Saying "cheap Chinese" is not a racial slur in my book as it is often factual. It's just unnecessary and a distraction to what we should be looking for. And
when I've got something to say sir, I'm going to say it now.
