I didn't say that. I'm not Asia-phobic at all and while China is no postcard democracy, I admire how far they got their country (ravaged by the Sino-Japanese War and carved up by Western colonial powers) within 70 years or so. I'm not even a Dalai Lama fanboy: Anybody that decreased the infant death rate and increased the literacy rate in Tibet as much as the Chinese did, can close more than a few temples in my agnostic, deeply anti-esoteric book. Opium for the masses ... There I said it!
I even drive a Chinese car. Has Volvo gotten better since the Chinese bought them from Ford? No two ways about it. This is from someone who has been driving all sorts of Volvos for more than 25 years. My new one is vely state-of-the-alt, gleat cal!!!
Jumping to conclusions, counselor. I'm no apologist for the past administration, their position on Russia made no sense, so did most of its other policies, domestic and foreign. I was merely implying that substituting China for them as the new bogeyman makes even less sense. China didn't 'steal' US jobs, the US corporatocracy happily sent them there...the same one that's going to resist mightily any effort by Trump to pursue a trade war that affects their profits.
My comment was mainly aimed at Ari and he rose to the bait...with a link to the current administration's propaganda arm.
Now, can we consign politics to some other forum like the outpost cafe where it doesn't impinge on stuff that provides me a diversion from how screwed up the world is?