Quote (thesnipa @ Jan 16 2019 10:40am)
i run into this issue regularly on PARD when i try to provide a perspective that isn't mine or context of reality, it gets taken for support every time.
MAYBE Beto is a globalist hawk, or maybe he's simply looking at reality. We have a country that is in many ways arguably outside the scope of the constitution. we have skirted that by accepting property from countries and just applying our own constitution to the square block of w/e the embassy sits on. but that's far from a perfect system.
to close, as i know you're focused on Chinese intellectual property theft, out constitution gives us zero power to do anything directly with foreign trade partners like China. there are only 3 solutions, annex china, indirectly steer them in the right direction through trade levies, or both nations become partially subservient to a board like the UN that oversees such matters that can apply direct penalties.
i dont need evidence because im not making a biased claim based on 2 small phrases from a single part of a single interview in text form, fender.
you're just not a dog man, u can't hear the whistle.....
One only has to look at his compadres and tell how he will vote on the issues. The mainstream Democratic party is run by hawks, this is news to no one, so why would I expect a D frontrunner to have some other viewpoint? At some point, he will show his hand but I won't be petty and tell you I told you so.
As far as the China stuff the problem with WTO, UN & other international mechanisms is they take eons. Proving IP theft in an international court of law when the other party will send an army of lawyers, then there's the back and forth, it's honestly a colossal waste of time often yielding very little.
Tariffs have been used multiple times in our history and were the norm for many years. Even one of our most recent trade disputes with China in the 1990s was resolved because of the threat of tariffs vs China. To me, tariffs aren't the goal, they are a mean to achieve the goal. We can pretend China is not stealing IP, we can pretend they aren't manipulating their currency, we can take it to international mechanisms which are ineffective and slow or we can do what Trump is doing.