Frank wrote on Dec 13
th, 2024 at 1:38pm:
As President Biden says, American workers and businesses can outcompete anyone—as long as they have fair competition. But for too long, China’s government has used unfair, non-market practices. China’s forced technology transfers and intellectual property theft have contributed to its control of 70, 80, and even 90 percent of global production for the critical inputs necessary for our technologies, infrastructure, energy, and health care—creating unacceptable risks to America’s supply chains and economic security. Furthermore, these same non-market policies and practices contribute to China’s growing overcapacity and export surges that threaten to significantly harm American workers, businesses, and communities.
So not just solar panels, then.
The solar panels were your example, it's not my fault if you regret that now.
You claimed it was equivalent to what 45 is doing.
I’ve dismantled that absurd assertion.
45 is slapping indiscriminate blanket tariffs on three countries, with no forethought, no strategy, and absolutely no measures to shield his own people from the economic fallout. He lacks even the faintest idea of how to channel the inevitable pain into long-term benefit.
In stark contrast, Biden, using your example, has spent his term rebuilding and revitalising an entire manufacturing sector, using targeted tariffs as a deliberate strategy to bolster and sustain that industry. Biden’s approach also provides consumers with a tariff-free alternative, a nuance 45 couldn’t comprehend, let alone implement.
That’s the crux of it: the two approaches are not remotely the same.
You either refuse to acknowledge this, cling to the fig leaf of “principle reasons” to justify the indefensible, or resort to outright dishonesty to downplay the recklessness of 45’s actions.
You haven’t defended his proposals even once, because you can’t. Instead, you peddle lies about Biden’s accomplishments in a feeble attempt to obscure the sheer incompetence and destructiveness of 45’s approach.
Reality has never been on your side, and this is no exception.
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