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To make more money. I already explained this....

But they do not rely on imports. In fact they rely on imports less than North Korea, apparently.  And the usa should not rely on imports either. The only resource north America seems to lack is...I guess...rare earth elements...

textile manufacturing is a whole can of worms in itself.  I should make a thread on how badly we **** over workers by not making our own clothes...

They don't need to export as much as they do. If we made underwear in the US, then they wouldn't have to make so much underwear...and they wouldn't have to import so much oil....

Because you export a lot more than you import.  They are just importing the stuff they need to produce all our underwear and crap. Even though we could easily do that here.  In fact...this long distance manufacturing crap must be terrible for your global warming  ...

And zero reliance on it.  They absolutely could return to isolationist China like they used to be and do fine. They have the resources they need.  Totally unlike a country like say the uk..which simply doesn't have enough food domestically grown to feed itself.  ...

Hmmmm. Looks like you lost your audience! Everyone HATES you!    ...

they import  oil which they covert to manufacturing goods...which allows them to export a lot more than they import. But this just makes them some extra money. No evidence they rely on it....

During the Cold War, China was our enemy.  They actually sent troops over the Yalu river to attack Americans during the Korean War.  We had no trade at that time with them, their trade partners were severely limited, yet it was during that time they grew and became a nuclear power.  ...

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