Proposal Would Ban Items Made in China in Military Exchanges
According to the article half of the items in the exchanges are from China. I am actually surprised that number is that low. I try to buy things not manufactured in China and often time every brand of the product I am looking for is made in China. It would be interesting to see what the exchanges would look like without made in China products:
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Some military resale experts are warning that a proposal to ban the sale of Chinese-made products in military exchanges and commissaries would be “devastating,” especially to exchanges.
The proposal, an amendment introduced by Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., was approved by the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.
“We cannot in good conscience fill post exchanges with products created with slave labor and sponsored by and benefiting financially the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party,” Green said during the markup of fiscal 2023 defense policy bill. In addition, he said, “The Chinese Communist Party believes they can steal our military technology without consequence. We need to show them that isn’t the case.
“The last thing we want to do is financially contribute to their tyranny. They’re laughing at the idea of American soldiers funding their schemes by filling the shelves of our PXs and BXs with their products.”
Army Times
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While symbolic in nature, this doesn’t really get to the root of the problem. American companies are outsourcing the labor and manufacturing to China, rather than producing domestically. So while it may score Rep Green some political points, he should instead focus on proposals to help domestic manufacturing and small businesses here in the U.S.
Ban everything made by white supremacists/extremists. Oh wait, that’s most everyone; even black conservatives.
So they’re going to ban iPhone’s and iMac’s too?
“So they’re going to ban iPhone’s and iMac’s too?”
Korea Man has asked possibly the most intelligent question he has ever asked in his life.
But to answer it…
No.
There is an exception if it is made with slave labor.
Let us all be reminded on how we arrived to this point.
As you are all aware the People’s Republic of China was once a backwater and a place to be avoided.
That was until Henry Kissinger decided that it was in the national interests of the United States to befriend the PRC and counter the USSR.
Which led to Nixon’s famous visit to the PRC.
After that doors opened for US investments in the PRC and knowing the greed of US companies and their lust for the billion person market, it was a matter of time before investments poured in, factories were set up, and the PRC got richer.
At the end, we have a powerful PRC that manufacturers many of the products the world depends on that is itching to project power in Asia and challenge the country that made this all possible, the United States.
So had Kissinger and Nixon minded their own business, no doubt the PRC would still be a backwater that no one would care about.
The United States is very good at funding and creating its own enemies.
Take Iran for example.
So put it simply it has only itself to blame for its China troubles.
And not wanting to face the trouble it created alone, it is pulling other Western countries into the mess.
Wow!
Korea Man and Korea Person are on rolling out the unpleasant Truths today!
+1s for both of them.
Keep up the good work, boys!