if China really wanted to wreck the US all it would have to do is say two words... "Sell Dollars". The Chinese are holding the second largest amount of dollar reserve assets of any foreign country. If they dumped all of those on the world market, the dollar would tank, interest rates would soar, inflation would return to double digits, and the standard of living of every joe shmoe in the US would go down the pooper.
If you want people to buy less from china, tell them to stop producing high quality, low cost goods. Or tell americans to get up off their obese buns, turn off the 60" LCD plasma screen TV's (made in china), get out there and learn, innovate, and produce. And tell politicians to massively downsize the government that taxes the productivity of every American. Americans don't get to rest on their laurels forever, you know?
One of the United States' biggest problems with China is their thumbing our noses at patents, copyrights and intellectual property rights.
And when america was in it's industrial revolution what did we do? We stole so bad from the french and english. Factory designs, product ideas, books, we copied it all!
Perhaps like America, china will embrace IP once it realizes the advantages from stealing foreign ideas, no longer is worth the discouragement of innovation that lax IP promotes.
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