why does china have such a big problem with the united states over trading?
470033
Wait....what? They have a problem with us?
461784
Greed. Again.\n\nOf course the internet and software gaints wouldn't call it greed; they have a responsibility to their share holders. But after all it is Greed, how ever they want to justify it. I am sure they tell themselves, it is a small price to pay considering that technology like theirs will likely contribute to the down fall of the current Chinese regime.\n\nThe real irony is that China (a "communist" country) is using capitalism to fight its dissidence; Meaning china uses McGoohoo's Greed you reinforce its anti-dissidence program! I don't find that very Communist. But then again is China truly communist?\n\nThe real question is, what do we do about it?\n\nDo you suggest a boycott?\n\nI don't remember the last time I wrote Google or Yahoo a check. And sure Microsoft got some of my dough, but I try to keep that to a minimum.\n\nThe bigger problem is China. They are a giant America has worked hard to keep at bay. Trade packs during the cold war for example. But every time we try to appease them, we give them more power, money, etc.\n\nI am disgusted that we have sent all our factories over there. I can't find anything any more that isn't made in China. We read articles about prisoners being harvested for body parts, mass pollution due to lack of regulations, their tech spies dissecting "our" technology so they can build knockoffs for cents on the dollar. They suppress human rights and democracy, and continue to fix their currency with ours.\n\nChina needs regime change.\n\nBut how do we support this without starting WW3?\n\nPersonally I think we need to start having some expectations from our number one trading partner. If they want our money they are going to need to play by our rules.\n\nBut another problem is, what are our rules? We seem to be the dirtiest bastards on the planet these days (and the days before these days).\n\nMy favorite is: Regime change starts at home.
626476
China is already threatening North America. They are buying as much iron, steel and oil that they can get and creating shortages which is driving the prices up. They are flooding the World Market with their cheap products and we stupid Americans are helping them by moving a lot of our plants over seas to help them make the cheap products which they are selling back to us.
584574
Its all about money. China products are so cheap. And I mean cheap!!! For every $1 toy that is made in America, I can buy the same toy made in China for 3 cents, and that includes shipping. I know, I hate it too. I wish it werent so, but its all about money.
649738
Mr. Rogers (jrogers) obviously doesn't understand economics. The US economy has very serious structural problems that the Fed nor the American people can fix easily. If they do without some kind of crash, it will be a long and financially painful process for all Americans. Some of the problems are - National debt, government debt, dependence on oil that has limited supply, negative savings rate in 2005 (first time since the Depression) = weak dollar, inflation...the list goes on. \n\nChina will have economic struggles when the US starts falling apart as the US is China's largest buyer. But in the long-term, China has a much stronger base and will still be able to maintain growth throughout US decline as their local consumer market matures. \n\nThis is something that could have been predicted 10-15 years ago. We are now in the middle of it. Wait 20-25 years and you will see the US struggling to hang onto the last vestiges of it's once great and formerly the world's largest economy. Large strong economy + military/political might = Superpower.
526779
I think your talking about trade deficit.  It grows higher each year because outside countries can sell cheaper here and the other countries economy, like China, have a fixed value for their currency which is undervalued like 40%.\n\nThe USA doesn't force fairness for the cheaper products.  And don't forget - America is for sale.  We are selling ourselves to outside countries.
340992
It's got nothing to do with communism, but with international trade barriers. China has got lots of people who are willing to work for $2 a month, compare that to the US! And in Europe the FORMER communist states like Poland have very cheap labor service too. So it's not amazing that the USA who is CAPITALIST moves out their business to places that have CHEAP labor.
328451
China is too big and powerful.
33567
I hate to break it to you, but Ford and GM have been operating in a vacuum for too long.  The layoffs are tragic (I'm from Lansing, Michigan, so I'm speaking as someone whose seen the effects first hand).  But you can't run a company that loses billions of dollars every year forever.  As for China, President Bush doesn't have the legal authority to really do anything about trade with China.  Most of our trade agreements have been set through international treaties and other arangements, ratifed by the Senate, and most of them predate his term in office. He would have a hard time altering them.  Besides, the American government's attempts as 'helping' the economy are someone notorious.  I think you should invest in reading up on the issue before posting questions out of sheer emotional responce.
394389
I think our relationship with China is on even keel....but bordering on adversarial unfortunately.\n\nTheir military build up is on going and for what?  Who are they getting ready to fight?  Probably no one....but we are in debt to the Chinese in the billions of dollars.  Eventually we will have to concede that they are on our tier of dominance.\n\nI agree with a previous poster's analysis in that they will be the superpower on one....it may not be real soon, but it will be one day.\n\nThis is the thing.  Small thing.  All they have do is....drumroll please.........convert to some form of democracy.  That's all.  Nothing major.  They can do that in a few weeks.  \n\nSeriously.....Communism does not work.  And look at what America is trying to do.  Bush was over there wanting China is ease up on religious tolerance....along with a few other things.  But see....we don't really want them to have a democratic system....we want them to have widespread, capitalistic tendency.....democracy-styled freedoms.  There is a massive difference.\n\nWe don't want a mega copy of us.....we are Miller, or Budweiser.  We want them to be Zima.
82504
A certain quality and safety standard has to be maintained for goods to be imported in the US.  Other countries are probably nor meeting that criteria yet.  There are large quantity of goods being imported from China, so your statement is not entirely true either.
662602
Yeah, but that doesn't mean we're supporting one economy OVER the other.  Trade between countries helps both parties to the trade.  Otherwise, we wouldn't make the trade.  I mean, if it's cheaper to produce something in China, why would I want to pay more to produce it in the U.S.?  There are other things that are cheaper to produce here, and we can make those instead, and support our economy MUCH BETTER than if we're producing things where we have no comparative advantage.
681658
The U.S. (so the politicians believe) cannot afford NOT to be friendly to China - a huge emerging market, producers of low-cost consumer products, etc.  So even though the Chinese are just as anti-democratic as the Cubans, even though the Chinese undoubtedly have a more horrific human rights record than Castro's Cuba, even though they meddle and interfere with Bush's interests in Central Asia, we give them a pass because we need China as much as China needs us.\n\nCuba, on the other hand, has very little to offer economically.  So we can afford to play the bully, to assert our Monroe Doctrine dominance over the hemisphere and freeze out the Cubans in the hopes that Castro (or, more likely, the guy who comes after him) will fall from power and we can go back to making Cuba the pro-U.S. cheap-sugar-and-smokes satellite that it was for decades.
909430
China is getting heavy play on China on the economic side.  China just does not have the power to weld much conventional military power beyond its border.  Generally and military involvement deal with the legal and illegal weapon shipments.\nhttp://www.afpc.org/china-africa.shtml\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165695,00.html\nhttp://www.workers.org/2006/editorials/africa-china-0511/
429388
who cares about the mexicans, the chinese are holding more U.S. currency than any other country in the history of the world, i'd be more worried about them deciding we're not chinese enough (since they pretty much own the U.S.)
543180
Of course not, I don't even know what's the problem between Taiwan and the Usa. But hell no, first of all look at all the items in American, most of them say\n"made in china".\n;l\nAmerica needs china economically, so no way.\nAnyways it has much lethal problems such as the middle east, illegal immigrant problems, and the war against terrorism.
635809
American newspapers only print a small part of the truth. They do not print the truth about China because China is a large trading partner. They do not print the truth about Cuba, because it would embarrass the United States. There are a zillion examples of newspapers withholding unpopular news.