End, Don't Simply Relocate, Perilous Globalization
U.S. government and business leaders have long promoted the glories of “globalization.” With its reliance on low-cost foreign producers, notably in Communist China, to supply critical materials, components, and equipment, the integration of markets and national interests seemed not only desirable economically but strategically sound.
In fact, this model resulted in the wholesale destruction of America’s industrial base and a dangerous dependence on a hostile power for everything from medicine to advanced electronic products. An alarming webinar on Friday documented that even the U.S. military now is critically reliant on our enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that many businesses are finally moving en masse to production facilities outside of China. Unfortunately, so are the Chinese. We must actually decouple from the CCP, not simply transfer our fraught dependencies to its companies doing business in new locations.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Domestic production is what saved us in WWII. If our production facilities reside within the country we are at war with, it is very difficult to use those production facilities for a wartime footing. Further, we have been horribly destructive in our efforts to meddle in foreign governments. The puppet dictators we have forcefully installed (i.e. Castro, Noriega, Sadaam, etc) have cost us huge amounts of money and lives when we tried to unseat them. Foreign policy should only be for trade and defense. George Washington had it right: take care of the home front and let the foreign entities fight it out without us. When we are threatened (like WWII), we may need to take care of business, but we do not have to stay forever after. So, quit the spending of defense money for power mongering and imperialism. If we stopped products from China, their economy would tank overnight. We better start making things better for "we the people" instead of for lobbyists working for entities bent on personal gain.
How do we get rid of them inside our country? DOGE