I'm glad he wasn't hurt. Many others have been.

My take is that they wind up having to pick one country or the other. I'm surprised Google hasn't re-homed itself in China already; in fact I wonder if it isn't secretly controlled by China, since it is already a good way along in implementing a "social credit system" similar to China's in the US and Europe.

If I'd written it, all the Hollywood media would be included.

We buy mostly components used for off road led lighting Aluminum mounts made to our drawings, populated circuit boards to our design specs, leds and electronic parts, advanced robotic control products designed by the Chinese of very impressive quality, led strip lighting products of their design.

We use vendor qualification procedures and incoming inspection as we would apply to all vendors to catch quality issues that may arise as early as possible

Overall, supply from China has been excellent and the intense competition in China has worked to our benefit. Unfortunately, trumps tariffs are very damaging to us. We actually ship more finished goods internationally to Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Canada and Mexico
than we buy components from China by a large margin. If we didn’t buy from China we wouldn’t be able to secure international orders with attractive prices. This is a Milton Friedman thing in actual practice

We sell noting at all TO CHINA. We could not compete at all in their domestic market

Certainly not his jack stands or jacks. His are all USA made, either older solid stuff (like his US drill press) or new and quite expensive. Perhaps Union made, perhaps not. I’m dead sure the newer stuff is not made in union shops.

If you are referring to Chinese made stuff being all union, then yes, except it wasn’t his. It was a friends he was helping.

It sure what you mean. It was not my brothers jack. He does not buy foreign things unless they are not available US made in general. His hurdle is ~5x price difference.

The jack stand in question had a massive casting flaw. It failed because it was crap. He wasn’t really hurt. He is quite solid.

What happens to all the US companies now in and dependent upon China after decades of short-sighted 'investment' in China making themselves dependent on a fascist dictatorship?

Like your brother's Union Jack?

Either it was superior quality for a jack that knew additional functionality like how to drop things, or your brother carelessly used it beyond it's expected life expectancy of a week or so. I hope he wasn't hurt too badly.

They can include quality control when it is required. It usually isn't because the US companies don't require it in order to keep the cost cheap. The designs are also inferior quality.

"As good as USA products" doesn't mean what it used to. Much of the blame is consumers who in mass don't think and go for the cheapest price tag, driving quality to a lowest common denominator. The quality then sinks below even what consumers expect, and it becomes difficult or impossible for more discerning buyers to find quality even when willing to pay more. That then opens a pseudo market with higher prices for fancier-looking products only pretending to be higher quality.

What do your approved suppliers sell to you?

Sure, after 30-years of poor people investing in junk.

My brother had a Chinese jack stand break and drop a transmission in his lap.

This is one of the best examples of AS that exists.

My favorite irony in the world is a “Union First” bumper sticker in a Walmart parking lot. Buying ones way out of the future!

Need to include HBO in that. They have made numerous politically motivated documentaries. Very bad.

Excellent idea!

Absolutely. This was short term economically driven, not from any long term wisdom.

The first five of those, at least, are fake news sites.

Speaking of which: I recommend redpetition.com to anyone who is thinking of cutting the cord.

Now that China is openly hostile toward the US, Trump should take advantage of the "nothing to lose" situation by restoring diplomatic recognition to Taiwan, and hopefully a defense treaty too.

The worst case response by China would be to cut off trade with us, which they need more than we do.

You should try our approved suppliers there. Quality if as good as USA oroducts

Manufacturing in China costs less, in part because of the typically lower quality control. That is why so many US companies moved their manufacturing operations to China.

It wouldn’t be so cheap if we had a gold standard

And the "cheap labor" came with cheaper prices but even worse quality control.

Yes, when we refused to help Chiang Kai-shek battle Mao and the communists. And as a result 50-60 MILLION Chinese were butchered in the installation of the Chinese Communist tyranny.

China should never have been granted Most Favored Nation status as a trading partner. Bill Clinton pushed that through and it should have been revoked a long time ago.

We definitely did it. Clearly some with the foolish intent you describe. I think some were just opportunistic, hoping to exploit artificially cheap labor.

After destroying free China, the US helped the communist dictatorship economically with the claim that economic success would ideologically convert the country. That itself was a Marxist argument confusing cause and effect, as we have seen ever since. Those responsible along with most of the left still don't understand it.