The best thing that the United States could do right now is completely cut China out of our business and supply chain over the next five years. 

But on the positive side, bringing China into the twentieth century also resulted in the biggest drop on worldwide poverty pretty much ever.

Yes, but at the end of the day it was just business. In certain cases, you couldn’t pass up how low your costs were going with China. That all changed with the supply chain crisis. The risk of having your supply chain cut off, versus the prices, have people reevaluating heavily.

“It’s just a matter of time until the world is just done with China.”

As a supply chain manager for over 10 years I have to add...nothing really...you’re both on the money I think.  The only thing forcing us back to the USA is freight costs.

I agree on what you said wholeheartedly seeing as how air pollution in all Chinese cities even on a good day is often worse than the air pollution we experienced here in California at the worst of the fire season. Every single day of the week air pollution there is awful. That said, the CCP knows its a problem. They…

All your points are true, but there is an additional detail that is often overlooked. A lot of the industry that was out-sourced to China is very dirty and damaging to the environment. Think of the Pennsylvania steel industry, and how it wreaked havoc on that region’s ecology for decades. That’s China’s problem now.…

Yeah, but the opposite is also true. China can talk tough, but doing anything to tank the western economy is going to hurt them just as badly as it hurts us.

The US made strategic as well as policy blunders invading both of those nations, invaded the latter on a lie, and left both nations without making either meaningfully better. Or even worse.

I’m against those wars but did those wars shut down the world economy? No.

It isn’t saber rattling if the current situation is all true. What true diplomats would do is keep a percentage of the current supply chains tied to foreign resources and make a big show of it, but mandate at least 40% be sourced in the US as a prudent plan B. This is in case of future virus pandemics or large…

Meanwhile, Panasonic is building the largest battery plant just down the road to the tune of 8 Billions dollars.

Fuck off China, how about that?

Saber-rattling racist Chinese proving what saber-rattlers they are...what else is new?

Well, Mr. Ambassador and those you represent, there’s that whole issue with the Chinese Communist Party being willing to shut down Earth’s economy over the chance to invade their neighbor.

The best time to get your flu shot is whenever it is offered to you. Countless thousands, perhaps millions of people, refuse a flu shot for no good reason when it is (almost certainly) free and effective. Especially considering kids are back in school in-person this year, these petri dishes of disease will proliferate…

I get what Oz is saying, but that’s still super-gross and, yeah, I’m OK with getting dragged for judging. Just because it’s biologically “fine” and not illegal doesn’t mean it’s any less icky. If I’m looking at my family tree on a monitor and I don’t need to scroll to see your name, we’re too close. There are…

Give he is the son of Turkish immigrants, I’d say even if he didn’t there is a good chance he’s related to some cousins that got married. It’s actually fairly common in the Middle East, as well as a lot of central and South East Asia. It goes along with arranged marriages.

And the bonus is, it cooks your food at the same time as you open the can!

This is the opener of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a dollar store opener; an elegant can opener for a more civilized age.