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Originally Posted by Sliver
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It goes far beyond luxury goods. Not sure if you know anybody in manufacturing right now, but we're dependent on China to compete. Before I started having China do some of my manufacturing, I was bleeding customers to the USA at an insane rate. Shipping something from Texas to Calgary is nothing anymore. It's easy. If people can't find something cheap here, they beep-boop a couple words into Google and have the cheaper item sent to their door. Canadian manufacturers need the lower prices of Chinese goods.
Principled stands are all well and good, but there's no way it's worth nuking a segment of our economy by cutting out China when it won't help our cause. So long as we keep Wanzhoug, they will keep the Michaels. What else can they do? Plus, they've actually gone light on us with that. She's a way bigger player than those guys are. China has the power to inflict much more damage on us as retaliation than they have. Let's count our blessings on this one.
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Ideally we'd work on expanding our influence in central America to help get their economies going, and have them expand manufacturing. I'd feel much better about dollars going south than to China. It would have the added benefit of reducing their need to escape poor conditions through illegal immigration. I'm not sure why we lack any direction in working with countries that would be mutually beneficial like this.