Are we heading for war ?

[zapatos]

22 minutes ago, Dune said:

There was a conscious decision to move capital out of this country. 

Everything that has happened since has worked to that effect. 

The government has been complicit from beginning to end.

How many factories did Mitt Romney buy and shutter and move to China?

Not out of need, but out of greed and that is just one man eliminating hundreds of thousands/ millions of jobs.

To stop it would have required the desire to stop it, rather than encourage it.

Since GovCo allows it's legislators to not just own stocks but trade inside as well, legally, unlike all other humans, how could they be expected to refrain from passing laws favorable to companies they own? Have you ever heard of the revolving door between Government and industry?

Can you please be specific? Who, when, how many, how much? Some examples would be great. Evidence as well.

[swansont]

9 hours ago, Dune said:

 Since GovCo allows it's legislators to not just own stocks but trade inside as well, legally, unlike all other humans, how could they be expected to refrain from passing laws favorable to companies they own? Have you ever heard of the revolving door between Government and industry?

And that was caused by opening trade with China?

[CharonY]

17 hours ago, Dune said:

How many factories did Mitt Romney buy and shutter and move to China?

Do you think that manufacturing  has declined in the USA as a consequence?

[Moreno]

On 3/25/2019 at 3:48 PM, Ten oz said:

The modern world hasn't dealt with a non-European global super power.

Now China produces 1/3 of total manufacturing production in the  World. https://knoema.com/atlas/topics/Economy/Short-term-indicators/Industrial-production

I think when this number will start to get close to 50%, World start to face a new reality. Total China's population is 1.5 times larger than population of all modern developed countries combined (US, Canada, Australia, Western Europe and Japan). 

I think somewhere after 2050 China will start to have serious opportunity to extend nearly total economic and political control on depopulating Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Mongolia and several other medium or large countries in Asia and throughout the World. So, the New World is looming...

[dimreepr]

We are, as always, on the cusp of a brave new world...

And, as always, it depends on whose in control.