Posted by
lge on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:36:53 PM
--- (Or, "If you can't help me, don't help the bear" part 2.) ---
So North Korea has the Bomb? So what? North Korea's a slum. They'll sink into oblivion just like the USSR.
But China -- that's a country with a population in the billions, which we're HELPING to take over our economy, our technology, and our place in the world.
First, we're building their economy at the expense of our own -- shipping our manufacturing infrastructure to them as fast as we reasonably can. This outsourcing, mislabeled "free trade" but actually the alienation of our productive capital, means we are in effect grooming them to take over the role of economic powerhouse in the world. We'll end up a country all of whose inhabitants "make a living by taking in one another's laundry," to use Walter Lippman's phrase.
We're giving them all our advanced technology, and educating their college students in our universities -- so much so that an American in an upper-level computer-science or nuclear-physics course nowadays feels like a foreigner in a strange land. And it's a hostile land -- the Chinese students are openly disdainful and hostile to us.
We won World War II because of our incredible manufacturing capacity -- the capacity we're so eager to give China (and other cheap-wage countries) right now. In any major future war, we'll have to go to the Chinese and ask them to make us some airplane wings -- because Boeing is giving them all the means to design and produce wings now. As the "Seattle Times" says,
The steady transfer of airplane manufacturing
from Seattle to countries like China shows little
sign of slowing. Lower labor costs are only part
of the reason.
In China, the heated competition between Boeing
and Airbus for nearly $200 billion in sales over the
next two decades hinges not just on prices and
politics. The more willing Boeing and Airbus are to
share technology and provide local jobs, the more
likely they are to win Chinese orders.
As Boeing itself so smugly says,
Boeing supports Chinese efforts to ensure a safe,
efficient, and profitable Chinese aviation system
to keep pace with the country's rapid economic
growth.
Commercial aviation is crucial to China's economic
growth, and Boeing provides the world's best airplanes
to China.
Boeing helps Chinese companies develop skills, achieve
certification, and join the world aviation and supplier
networks. China has an increasingly sophisticated and
expanding role in the commercial aviation industry. China
has a role on all of Boeing airplanes, the 737, 747, 767,
777 and 787. China has an important, highly visible role
on the 737 -- building horizontal stabilizers, vertical fins,
portions of the aft tail section, doors, wing-panels and
other parts. China builds all the trailing edge wing ribs for
every 747. China has an important role on the new 787
Dreamliner airplane, building the rudder, wing-to-body
fairing panels and leading edge of the vertical fin. China
is the first location for conversions for the new 747-400
Boeing Converted Freighter -- with many parts and
assemblies built in China and conversion, test, certification
in China and delivery from China.
Isn't that special! Boeing is so fatuously proud of selling out our national security and economy! Is that company run by retards?
My question is, do we want to resist the Chinese, or build their economy by sacrificing our own? Personally, I favor "protectionism" over "sacrificialism."