Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big, encroaching government apostasy.
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Just as the U.S. economy collapsed when panicky politicians decided to fight a virus with lockdowns, so did China’s where abject stupidity was allowed to last even longer. The answer in China is the same as anywhere when it comes to growth. China’s critics are overcomplicating what isn’t.
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As poets write China’s economic obituary, actual U.S. businesses are rapidly expanding in China. Whom are you going to trust?
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Critics of so-called “isolationism” claim a desire to stay out of conflicts like Ukraine are rooted in veneration for Donald Trump and/or Tucker Carlson, partisan disdain for Joe Biden, fear that the U.S. is too weak for global involvement, too broke, or that non-interventionists want to save money, bombs and bullets for the supposedly inevitable war with China over Taiwan.
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Napoleon “did not realize until it was too late that the only closed political economy is the world economy. Britain could not be starved into submission by blockade unless she were totally cut off from the world. As long as Britain could trade with any nation outside France, it was thus trading indirectly with France.”—Jude
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For every excited or optimistic buyer in any market to express the excitement or optimism, there must be a seller willing to transact. This has seemingly been forgotten by China’s Xi Jinping
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Paraphrasing George Orwell, some things are so ridiculous that only an economist could believe them. Take the front-page drama related to China’s alleged “deflation.”
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The commentary about Henry Kissinger included some of the warts, but gave him major credit for opening up China. That’s hard to take seriously.
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U.S. businesses are expanding rapidly in China. Do you trust their instincts, or that of a political structure that was once so certain about the Soviet threat?
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American CEOs overseeing a large and growing China presence know exponentially more about the on-the-ground reality in the country than do their critics.
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