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China depends on global trade not to bleed the West dry but to supply the West with the cheap goods that we wanted. If the US or Canada wanted to stop the bleeding they'd stop buying their goods. And remember, it isn't China who destroyed local economic capabilities, it's huge corporations in North America who focused on increasing their profits without thought to the drying up of industries in their own countries.
I can use American companies like cotton mills, as an example, and all the products that were produced in the US. Most of those mills were originally in the Northwest in the early 1900s (remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?) but moved their mills to southern states to access employees willing to work for lower wages. It was happening in our own countries and we didn't care because we were getting what we wanted. Then manufacturing moved to China and we were still happy because the prices were good.
North America loved the cheap goods until lightbulbs starting going off when our own industries closed shop and collected dust. No one strong-armed Canada and the US to buy cheap goods. If you didn't live in area that had industries shutter forever it never even crossed our minds. I remember buying my linens in the early to mid 90s from a huge outlet called Georgia Mills in Toronto where you could buy towels and sheets and drapes and all sorts of other cotton-based goods, all made in the state of Georgia. Now when I buy sheets they are made in Pakistan and India. I couldn't buy an American made towel if I tried. So is China to blame for that?
Using his logic then, doesn't Russia have claim to the part of Alaska that is in the eastern hemisphere?
