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In reply to the discussion: If America Doesn't Implement the "Buy American" Vision Now, the 21st Century Will Be a Disaster [View all]Irish_Dem
(46,553 posts)16. Shanghai is totally unbelievable.
The bullet train and metros are unreal.
The airports are jaw dropping.
I ate my way across China and gained 10 lbs.
The only vacation where I have done that.
I was in heaven as well.
I had been there in 1999 and the difference could not be more dramatic.
If you could have seen the before picture you would understand why they will be
a superpower in a short period of time.
Yes they are a very proud, smart people. An ancient one, yes 3000 yrs old.
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If America Doesn't Implement the "Buy American" Vision Now, the 21st Century Will Be a Disaster [View all]
thomhartmann
Jan 2021
OP
China will become the sole world superpower, I will probably live to see it happen.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2021
#1
Are you kidding me? We have a quest to find soup dumplings like in Shanghai in Orlando!
GulfCoast66
Jan 2021
#33
Seems to me that is just setting us up for war -- bombs, cyber, economic, whatever.
Hoyt
Jan 2021
#4
I will argue that Americans are responsible for so much of our product being made overseas
Ferrets are Cool
Jan 2021
#7
Reaganite Republican policies have destroyed unions and enabled offshoring.
Hermit-The-Prog
Jan 2021
#13
Trump's tariffs are making it impossible to get necessary goods into the US too.
Initech
Jan 2021
#26