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The United States population "pays" China to produce all our stuff, this builds Chinas economy that China in turn uses to build it's military to threaten us with.
Is this over simple "knifemakers math"?
We are growing China by teaching them to do what we used to do ourselves.
If we export all our manufacturing jobs to China this causes some very long term problems for our security.
First, we get lazy and no longer want to "do the hard work" ourselves. OK, maybe we already got there...
We lose the tradition of being able to "make stuff'. Machinists, engineers, designers, mechanics, assembly line workers, etc. are losing tens of thousands of jobs because they have already been exported to China.
This ends the tradition of doing that kind of work here and if we need them tommorrow, they simply aren't there.
Real world example, What happens when we need to quickly increase manufacturing of something as relatively simple as armored Humvees?
Can't do it fast enough because we've lost the manufacturing capacity.
Any Ivory Tower boys who disagree need to spend some more time at dirt level to see what's going on.
If China knows it controls our economy by it's production of our goods, that is a serious exposure.
Much of the new industrial manufacturing technology provided to China by the United States can also be used to build a military.
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