re: Why is the west melting over Chinese "overproduction"?

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Chinese overproduction is hurting their economy.

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Their plan was always unsustainable. Their empty buildings are worth more unfinished than finished.

Their wealth building scheme was awful, which you would suspect from central planners.

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Is state-run companies flooding the market with cheap unregulated shite the free market?

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Depends. Is the state run company using slave or forced labor to produce those goods? If they are, I’d say it’s not a free market and akin to stealing something from someone and reselling it to someone else. If the labor used to produce those goods is voluntary, it’s a free market.

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You are way too binary on this.

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Tariffs are simply crony capitalism, and hurt entrepreneurs, not woke corporations.

Traditionally they are union protection, which leads back to the worst economic decision makers in our universe. Leftists unions.

Good on you for taxing the consumer to support woke corporations though. The union baws will love you.

Like I said...

Tariffs are SOMETIMES necessary unfortunately not every nation plays by the same rules. In theory it sounds great to say that the market would ultimately correct any issues created by being flooded by cheap products but market corrections can take decades. Our issues with China didn’t begin with cheap steel and they predate idiotic trade deals negotiated by both parties over the last couple of decades. We no longer have the manufacturing infrastructure to compete with China or even India for certain goods like steel that we used to produce in great quantities. In theory we shouldn’t need tariffs and we wouldn’t had it not been for poor policies instituted by the US government but the US has to or US steel will be nonexistent.