The next time you run to the store to buy communist china made junk that floods our markets

[yaesu]

because we no longer make things in the US remember this:


China’s foreign minister has called the country’s relationship with Russia “iron clad” as Beijing continues to refuse to condemn the invasion of Ukraine despite growing pressure from the US and European Union to use its influence to rein in Moscow.

[WarGamer]

1. the computer or phone you're using right now...

is loaded with Chinese "junk"

Do you want to throw it away?

[WarGamer]

4. not that I know of...

Even the Korean made ones are loaded with Chinese parts.

[TexasTowelie]

12. Motorola phones are manufactured in the US,

but the company was sold to Lenovo which is a Chinese company.

You could purchase a Samsung phone, made in South Korea and the company is also based there.

[WarGamer]

21. not any more...

Motorola phones 100% "Made in China" or Brazil... with Chinese components since 2014.

100%

As of 2020, Samsung phones used 37-58% Chinese sourced components.

And very few Samsung phones made in SK

Mostly made in Vietnam, India, Brazil, Indonesia...

[Sherman A1]

6. Well, there is that, but the OP

Is on a roll………..

[yaesu]

9. Not saying you shouldn't buy their junk, just remember who you are supporting that's all

But I do miss my Timex computer made in Dundee, Scotland

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Here is a game to play . . . . .

Go into any room in your house and try to find something not old made in the US.

[WarGamer]

5. excellent point.

And even then... my 30 year old GE dryer in the garage... may have been made in the USA but if I looked at each component, I bet something is Chinese.

[Hoyt]

7. I hope manufacturing increases here. But I bet a comparable TV, phone,

etc., will be very expensive.

Squeezing China economically might be good for us, but any chance of reducing our military spending will be nil.

[JCMach1]

8. Not especially, it's more about corporate profits and how finance is secured

Make it here =1000% profit and no finance
Make it there =1200% profit and here's your secured finance...

Our whole economic system chases short term gain over long-term security and success.

[Hoyt]

10. I know what I paid for the last American TV and computer I bought, not

to mention American gas gusling autos before foreign products arrived here.

[Demsrule86]

15. Not providing China funds would help a great deal...we need to stop sending them money which

they will use against us...we need to make our own stuff. It is a national security issue.

[gab13by13]

11. I buy all my cars, all my appliances,

which are assembled in the United States.

When Walmart came to town I tried to tell my friends not to shop there. They didn't listen, they wanted those $20 blue jeans. I have never shopped at Walmart, and only fly an American flag made in America.

[MineralMan]

14. Yeah, OK, but your cars and appliances are assembled from

parts made all over the planet. Both of my cars were made in South Korea, an ally of ours. One bears the KIA brand. The other is a Chevy. Both were sold by a US-owned dealership that employs US workers. They were transported on US trucks.
They were financed by US lenders.

So, go look at your US-made cars, part by part.

[Demsrule86]

19. I usually agree with you but as an auto wife...Korea does not accept any of our vehicles and

trade is a one-way street. The loss of good auto jobs is one of the reasons we have a declining middle class. Japan does this also...they price low in our markets and make up what they lose in their home market which does not allow imports...they have all sorts of 'rules' to stop our vehicles from being sold there. And don't think Europe is our manufacturing friend either. Germany protects their manufacturing as do most countries with a brain honestly. It is and always was a national security issue. At one point Doraville GM Georgia ( another plant that closed some years ago) was making autos for Germany under a Trade agreement...they took only a few of the cars that had been manufactured and refused thousands and thousands of cars. GM had to scrap the already manufactured cars and parts which had been purposed for this effort as they were not suitable for our markets.

A complaint was filed but the WTO did nothing. And it was a clear violation. My husband has worked in auto plants his entire 30-year career...we moved often because of plant closings...every plant with no exception that he worked at has closed down. So you bought a car from a country that refuses to accept our vehicles and demands that American autos be built there while folks here literally go hungry in the rust-belt..and that is the truth. One of the reasons Trump won in the rust belt was because he promised to bring back manufacturing jobs... how many on outside have said...' the jobs are not coming back. Well, they need to come back imagine if we were at war with anyone... we don't manufacture enough to put up much of a fight. We were damned lucky we had American pharmaceutical companies in this country during the pandemic...imagine if they had been in China. American manufacturing needs to be supported. It really is a security issue.

[iemanja]

16. You act like there is a choice

Everything is made in China, including, as someone pointed out, your computer, or the parts within it.

[flying_wahini]

17. But the Big US companies won't get their tax breaks if they stop making shit in China.

Sarcasm.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. Free Trade helps peace, not hinders it

Our trade ties with China made them an adversary rather than an enemy, they're using Russia here for their own gain. More trade, not less is that answer IMO.

[Raine]

20. Like I want Chinese crap(???) Seems just about impossible

to find things that aren't from China!

[hunter]

22. I feel the same about U.S. made crap if that makes any difference.

Car culture needs to die. The factory farm meat and dairy industry needs to die. The fossil fuel industry needs to die.

Most jobs in the U.S.A. do not make the world a better place. Economic "productivity" as we now define it isn't productivity at all. It is, in fact, a direct measure of the damage we are doing to what remains of our planet's natural environment and our own human spirit.

Where your television is made matters a lot less than what you watch on television.