You must be kidding. America was the primary catalyst for China's rise. It is now the world's greatest manufacturer and every year the gap between it and the rest of the world increases. Having ships there does not change this underlying truth. America WILL lose influence over there, that is a matter of physical reality and having ships over there won't do a damn thing to slow or stop it in any way.
SO TRUE, Americans have been brainwashed to compartmentalize different issues so they can fit in their nice safe space boxes not realizing how many of those actual issues influence and affect what they want to believe are not related
The Chinese used the perverted "Profit only Matters". mentality that so many (that both liberal and conservative executives subscribe to as gospel) to build up their country while we destroy ours for the benefit of the one percent,
and thanks to corporate greed that blinded otherwise intelligent people to the fact that China played them using their own greed against them to move the technology and know how to their country willingly,
in exchange for letting them exploit workers that had none of the American labor, safety, and environmental regulations that these same executives told their short sighted shareholders were getting in the way of profits while indirectly helping build up the Chinese military.
http://qz.com/771727/chinas-factori...ime-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/
Your brilliant Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before you’ve even finished funding it
Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, drew criticism when he
told investors in June (paywall) that fake goods “are of better quality and of better price than the real names”
and come from “exactly the same factories” as authentic goods. But there’s some truth to his comments.
Gee Wiz, how did this happen, don't tell me those greedy overpaid CEO's didn't see this coming
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