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If it works out to impeding trade with China in anyway it just acts to slow our economy. We are not going to become more competitive with 1+ billion people who are willing to work without any labor protections by saying we won't do business with them. We're just sanctioning ourselves from essentially the world's manufacturing depot.


It could result in jobs for locals - however then investment needs to be made to support the manufacturing, educating skilled workers, etc.


In the sense that we would be doing to ourselves what we did to Cuba.


Suppose you're right, however the U.S. is in a much different situation than Cuba resource wise - education, networks, investment capital, etc.


And who exactly would be importing all these cheap Chinese goods then?


The rest of the world, whose citizens will see a net increase in buying power and thus wealth, because of the identical supply but reduced demand.

So they'll get richer overall and a part of them will lose their jobs.




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