How exactly would keeping China out of the trade organization that the rest of the world belongs to (Reply #10)

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Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:50 AM

pampango (24,691 posts)

10. How exactly would keeping China out of the trade organization that the rest of the world belongs to

have helped? Would keeping it out have kept it a poor, agrarian country isolated from the rest of the world? Apparently the Chinese army and 'hardliners' thought so and thought such a country would be easier for them to control.

Maybe instead of allowing China to join the WTO we should have gone really 'liberal' on them and imposed a Cuba-style trade embargo on those 'lousy communists'. Maybe republicans were right all these years about the value of trade embargoes. I think not.

And are we to believe that the same WTO that we mistakenly allowed China to join was going to 'protect' us from those dreaded poor Mexican workers if only we had not enacted NAFTA?

And the 'international trade as the cause of all our problems' boogeyman has to explain the fact that our level of trade is 1/2 that of Sweden and 1/3 that of Germany. The problems in Sweden and Germany should be 2 to 3 times worse than they are here if international trade is to blame. They are not. Why not?

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
Bill Clinton’s True Legacy: Outsourcer-in-Chief [View all]	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	OP
Actually, consumers "outsourced" most of those jobs by choosing cheaper and better cars, etc., from	Hoyt	Apr 2016	#1
Of course you are correct. But folks with intent to continue to smear the Clintons will not	Jitter65	Apr 2016	#3
+1	oasis	Apr 2016	#15
Cherry Picking the facts - blaming the Consumer - So Very Wall St	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#5
Corporate inversions will be taken care of, and they don't move jobs.	Hoyt	Apr 2016	#8
Single Issue won't solve Outsourcing	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#11
As long as consumers want cheaper foreign products, the only way to stop that	Hoyt	Apr 2016	#16
Perhaps increase in wages inline with increased productivity would help.	NCjack	Apr 2016	#17
Bingo - Fordism worked well for everyone.	CanadaexPat	Apr 2016	#18
I agree. But, how do you handle increases in productivity	Hoyt	Apr 2016	#20
Your going off the deep end here	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#23
As long as you believe jobs going overseas is primarily because domestic corporations sent	Hoyt	Apr 2016	#24
Denial must be comfortable for you	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#27
+1000	stonecutter357	Apr 2016	#9
this is a neo-liberal "interpretation" of job-killing & manufacturing sector-killing FTAs	amborin	Apr 2016	#30
A kind of second tier	KT2000	Apr 2016	#31
Not only outsourcer in chief and not only repeal of Glass Steagall, for which he and Greenspan	merrily	Apr 2016	#2
Notice Hillary doesn't attack High-Tech outsourcing - just Corp Inversions	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#4
She also pushes the story that tech companies cannot find qualified Americans to	merrily	Apr 2016	#6
Hillary supports increasing H1B visas to astronomical levels	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#7
How exactly would keeping China out of the trade organization that the rest of the world belongs to	pampango	Apr 2016	#10
How exactly does China burning so much coal the ash lands in Canda and the US benefit the world	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#12
I agree that high environmental standards should be part of trade agreements and	pampango	Apr 2016	#14
I just checked ... Hillary will still be the nominee. (Your post changes nothing.)	NurseJackie	Apr 2016	#13
The Clintons have nothing to do with any of that while in power!	Kokonoe	Apr 2016	#19
And his wife continued that legacy along with insourcing. Why do you think Trump is touting America	Skwmom	Apr 2016	#21
Clinton polling down to +8 now	FreakinDJ	Apr 2016	#22
If people are fighting for the few jobs left...	Octafish	Apr 2016	#25
Yep. Lost my Job during Nafta	Phlem	Apr 2016	#26
knr	snagglepuss	Apr 2016	#28
K&R	amborin	Apr 2016	#29

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