Death by China
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, bolstered by the unwavering support of both Democrats and Republicans in the United States government, America was promised a new wave of growth and prosperity for its own people. In the 15 years that have passed since, it's easy to see that this promise remains unfulfilled. Nearly 60,000 American factories have moved to China, millions of jobs have been lost, and the lives of working Americans have been irrevocably impacted in the process.
The popular feature-length documentary Death by China dissects this crisis in an intelligent and thought-provoking manner.
Narrated by acclaimed actor Martin Sheen, the film doesn't cast dispersions on the Chinese people, but rather their oppressive authoritarian government. According to the views expressed in the film, China's ulterior motives started to come into focus shortly after they gained entry into the WTO. They quickly flooded the American marketplace with illegally subsidized exports, wooed U.S.-based corporations with assurances of cheaper labor and operating costs, and hypnotized the average consumer with lower-priced goods. The cruel irony of it all is that American workers - many of whom have lost their jobs to China's predatory trade tactics - are ultimately rewarding these efforts by consistently purchasing their goods.
China isn't the only player in the demise of American manufacturing. The film casts an equally critical eye on companies like Apple, Boeing and General Electric, whose executives have moved their operations offshore to maximize profit potential. Meanwhile, the U.S. government becomes more slavish to China as their debt to the country continues to rise above $3 trillion. In effect, the film states, increasing pockets of America are being controlled and owned by Chinese interests. If this is allowed to continue, the U.S. will lose its identity altogether.
Featuring informed viewpoints from experts on China, global financial authorities, bereaved business owners, and ordinary citizens who have fallen victim to the crisis, Death by China calls for a unified outcry for change. The film urges political leaders to halt a "fair trade" policy that is anything but fair, and for consumers to take a stand by being more selective with their pocketbooks.
So USA decided to ship production to China. USA even sold their own debt to China. And now China is responsible for a corporate greed, and US shareholders? Fish stinks from a head NOT from a tail. Arrest every single CEO that shipped production to China.
USA should have immediately tariffed all chinese imports with an import tax.They didn't, and this is the result
WOW, I didn't realize what we the people and the likes of Walmart did to undermine the strength of America and to build China, by trying to save a few bucks here and there. ...At the very least, we should switch to a different country (away from China) if we still want to find the lowest short term prices. I like the made in America way, but many will still buy the cheapest item. ...If American government made rules against offshoring to Communist China, and opened the doors with alternative better countries, it would at least not be giving our country away to our enemies (or at least our biggest competitor - who is communist).
We did this to ourselves. Or, at least 'our' corporations did it to us and we went along.
This is the same, hackneyed refrain that those [few] PEOPLE WHO COULD READ and who KNEW A MODICUM OF HISTORY, have been crooning since the 11th of December, 2001 (remember those [towel] heady times?) -- summarily being drown out by the din of "Sinophobe" hysteria vomited up by the same brain-dead crowd who later lined up, like mindless cattle, to get maladministered with poisonous gene modifiers, which were pushed on the false premise of a disease that was spread by the very handing over of the economic world to China, on the aforementioned date -- a.k.a., "The Day of Occidental Infamy". Yet, fast-forward to mid-2022, and the West is STILL selling the CCP its irreplaceable resources (read: WAR MATERIEL), and to the same deathly dirge it was trumpeting over two decades ago...
'If one waits by the riverbank long enough, the bodies of their enemies will eventually float by.' (Chinese proverb)
Hey America STOP whinging cause you aint got your. Your country is the selfish slobber always wanting to own and dominate everything. Your country your goverment are the evil pests og the world. About time you started eating some of the crap you have dished out to the rest of the world with your intrusion. Good bye and good riddance USA
The Christian Crusades murdered the Americans and The American Flag in three wars that are The American Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, and The Mexican American War with Britain and Mexico representing The Holy Roman Empire of Rome which is what the Western Culture represents except the Americans who are a Government of isolationism verses The Holy Roman Empire that is expansionism with war crimes called "Christian Crusades," and The United States in the 20th Century surrendered The United States to Christian terrorists beginning with the devil and witching sorcery of Christianity over marijuana, and now the devil and witching sorcery of Christianity is over the energy that Nations need to function, and this becomes "The Christian '666' Petrodollar" that is the six letters in each word "Dollar United States" that is suppose to be nothing but gold and silver coin found on The Constitution of The United States; therefore, the agenda is to use the treason of The United States to be the capitol of The Holy Roman Empire with the investments to be invested in being the largest Christian Government Military and Prison industrial complex of the World; thus, the middle class in the United States has been sacrificed, and this is the result of Treason of allowing Christianity in the Government of the USA, and now The Constitution of The United States that protects the common wealth of the middle class has been sacrificed in order that the wealth now goes to Christianity and Christian Government and Christian Crusades warmongering machine and they rule as war racketeers of The Holy Roman Empire in "Christian Crusades" that is what also slaughtered the Americans, and in 2018 China created the "Petroyuan" to compete against the "666" that now leaves the treasonous USA to have to invade China with a "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" sign like that seen in Iraq in 2003 when Iraq was removed from the Euro and placed back on the "666" when Iraq chooses to "buy or sell" petroleum, and now the next target will be an invasion into Iran by the USA or most likely an invasion into China first for World War Three trying to enslave the World to The Holy Roman Empire using the "666" as now the World can begin to make sense of what The Bible has been saying will eventually happen towards the end of days of the system of man.
Blame it on whoever you please, but nothing can be worse for global economics than the neoliberalism started during the Reagan administration.
Besides, when the US manufactured, thus had a very good cash flow, made sure he imposed his products whenever landing a loan to other countries. Example: the Marshall plan to help rebuild a ruined post WWII Europe came with a deal that flooded markets with American-made stuff. It did not have to be good since sales were a done deal.
Let's not forget that it was American money that made possible the rearming of the Nazi Germany. It is a win-win situation.
China is not inventing anything new and is not more evil than any other big world economy. They just follow the rules of a game created by others, so well that they are winning. It would be like England suing Brazil or Germany for beating them at soccer, just cause they created it.
Only when US corporate greed tied to financial incentives to the corporate executives along with heavy palm slapping of $$$$ to politicians will disasters like the offshoring of MILLIONS OF JOBS be corrected.
What a sham. What a punch in the face, kick in the nuts to the US and other counties working class.
The real kicker is EVER purchase made of China-made products WE ARE ALL supporting A COMMUNIST REGIME!!!
So sell the jobs, create more wealth for the top 2%, AND lets just throw trillions to a country that HATES the Free Market / Free Speach / Western World.
Wow That is Bright. Clinton? Really.............Do you need to go through his history. Lying Mother Fu%$@.
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Censorship is everywhere. So much for free speech!
If you thought that was interesting, check out Freedom From Choice, in Conspiracy (factual), but perhaps first, The Power Principle, in Politics. The problem appears to be Fascism, as Mussolini defined it, 'The merger between State and Corporate Power'. If you want to live in a real democracy, as Noam Chomsky reflects, you need to live cooperatively and there's a surprise in store for we who live in liberal democracies.
Harvard University survey found Chinese government approved by 95% of its people, while the governments in the West like the US government will not get more than 35% approving rate from their people at any one time.
Calling popular Chinese government oppressive authoritarian government, what shall we classify the governments in the West? Are the governments in the West dictatorship governments, moron governments, slave owning governments, morally defunct evil governments, cult governments, bandit governments, ...?
China, what goes around will go around, but know this, in the end, it will go around, your neck, premiere
Amazing how right President Trump was! Where are the democrats now kissing China's ass.
Its American Capitalism and lobbyists representing big corporations that in turn force politicians to make new laws for the big corporations that are at fault here .America only had democracy for the big corporations while sold America out.
Wow! This is the most important documentary I've seen in my life!!... It ties everything up with what is REALLY happening on the planet right now and what Trump went up against! This should be taught both in schools and in businesses!!...
I thought it was accurate. The trick is keeping American companies American, regulating them to behave not only in the interest of their investors but of the American people. Unfortunately that will take lobby reform because that is what the politicians hear and act on. Consumers if educated, willing and able can make purchasing choices if there are some but in so many cases there aren't any (like the microwave example in the film). People who have limited funds will buy the cheapest goods. Its up to regulators to make sure it doesn't kill people and its not made by people who hate us. If we don't get some manufacturing back, we are doomed and we all need to stop buying everything. How many will actually take action to contact their representatives.
cia/fbi propaganda, the deep state/military industrial complex that eisenhower warned us about/whacked jfk is trying to start ww3 and nuclear holocaust
had to switch it off after 30 minutes. it's like a powerpoint presentation of china bad.
The new scapegoats...China. But let's talk about American politicians and policies that allowed this to happen. Why get angry and hostile at China? They saw a great deal for themselves and American multinational corporations saw a great deal for themselves. China brought 250million of their people out of poverty, whereas in America there was/is a steep decline into poverty - literally eliminating an entire middle class. Thanks President Clinton. Thanks Republican and Democratic establishment rober-barrons.
The greed of the independent (accepting no connection to country or community) and the entrepreneurial "efficient to the bottom line only" class is what's destroying America. Not China. China has no power of authority here unless we give/gave it to them.
In desire for obscene riches our multinational corporations have given away the "kitchen-sink."
With regards to manufacturing jobs here they were unequally assigned to favor blue-collar, white workers. The lack of opportunity have always eating away opportunities for Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans. And they had no resources to make a documentary about that. And those with resources to do so didn't care to.
White American men who've been stealing wealth from Americans for decades are now sniveling because someone (China) cheated them, when they've been cheating others and now each-other.
If the best price and best products are "Made In China" I'm buying Chinese until American politicians and multinational corporations get their acts together to protect ALL working America and stop gourging on everything and then to relieve your conscious decide to donate money you stole in the first place creating the crisis in America that your policies instigated!
And now thanks to you we have literally imported the coronavirus here to America. Greedy-evil business men and Greedy-evil politicians are in the final phase of destroying America. Thanks.
In the late 'eighties there was a whole raft of negative images of Japanese in movies and "documentaries" explaining that the Japanese are racist, sexist, exploitative, threatening to the West.
As soon as it was obvious the 21st century was not going to be the Japanese century, that is Japan was not a threat to US/Western world hegemony, the negative movie images and documentaries dried up virtually overnight (as did the previously powerhouse Japanese economy.)
Now it's China's turn for the same treatment because now China is the perceived threat to universal US / Western hegemony.
Make no mistake - if the day ever comes that India is seen as a threat to US / Western hegemony there'll be an endless series of "documentaries" denouncing the Indian caste system and systematic sexism.
Is the Chinese government despotic? Sure. Was there anywhere near as much concern about that BEFORE China started to appear as a potential threat to US / Western power? Nuh. (Or at least very, very little.)
It's not that the facts as presented are wrong, but the motivation is patently propagandistic.
I wonder if the Chinese make documentaries about Western countries like the United States (Yes - and other Western countries too) about say, how grossly disproportionately racial minorities are put into prison, or executed, or massive drug and violence issues etcetera
We can all make each other look bad, but let's be honest: the real fear here is not of Chinese lack of democracy, the fear is of Chinese threat to five hundred years of Western world domination.
Glad to know the film doesn't cast dispersions.
India and China equally share one destinct advantage over ALOT of other countries and its served them extremely well in there growth. If you think either country whos eceonomy's are both growing leaps and bounds gives ONE IOTA about dumping plant waste into there eco systems your sadly mistaken..LMAO... They dont even remotely play by the same set of rules as most countrys..LOL.. India calls the Gange River "mother" ..and I personally know of one section of the river where 12 tannerys dump its entire waste load directly into her..and these tannerys ALL are within a 17 mile radius of each other...its absolutely criminal..sad.. and if it wasnt so pathetic it would be funny... Everytime both countrys go on about how proud they are of there growth I just want to break out in an absolute CACKLE... You stay beholden to a system with no direct set of rules nor remotely consider the impact you place on the area around you and companys will come in DROVES if the government allows it..and in these places thats exactly what is taking place... So before people begin the soap box declarations of just how much harder they work.. or how much smarter they are...you might want to stop and get a better understanding of the complete picture... and of course decide for yourself wether you think this is a true accomplishment... America has done MORE in the past 20 years as far as working with regulations than ANY other country..,. and we have suffered as massive price for it.. but when you consider us and those cheating this system... its like dealing with a bunch of children who think shitting in the pool while you swim is perfectly normal and acceptable... Sorry for the curse words... but true... Fine... your getting the plants to move there... just dont kid yourself in believing its because of ANY other reason that the ones I just described... you would be fooling yourselves...
the fat lazy american idols watching american, blames the hard working thin chinees
This supposed "documentary" is another of those political pieces for scapegoating. All of its points (with a whole lot of finger-pointing at China) reeks of self-serving hypocrisy and pushing convenient labels on others for our own failings.
Look... I get it, I lost my job to competition from China too, but I don't blame some far off foreign country, when it is my own political leadership and our corporate management that has failed our workers.
Why blame China when the basis of our capitalism is "free markets" and global competition? China "crime" just happens to be a country that has adopted our American free enterprise model with an enthusiasm and energy that few others can match.
Why didn't we blame the Japanese, when they "flooded" our markets with cheap consumer electronic products back in the 80s?
Likewise, why didn't we blame the India for taking over all our software jobs too?
India does not have a whole lot of worker's rights nor do they have proper environmental protection laws.
Come on...aren't this a little too selective in pushing the blame?
There are many other Asian countries that have atrocious working conditions and equally bad, if not worst, environmental pollution as they are all trying to industrialize, and give their own people a leg up the economic ladder.
Consider this too..the UK during her industrial revolution in the 1800s had terrible pollution and near zero worker's rights, not to mention extensive use of child labor too.
But of course, that was UK then, but who are we to fault China for trying to rapidly walk through the same path to development now?
In fact, moving a Billion people from abject poverty to a modicum of middle-class wealth within 20 years, without a severe social revolution of some sorts, is a testament to their governmental efforts.
Any other Western nation going through the major and rapid changes that China has, would probably not do as well as she did.
Western industrial nations are the ones who welcomed China into WTO, and now when she has done well within the system, we punish her for being a better capitalistic competitor? What hypocrisy?!
Would you rather China, NOT join WTO and be like another North Korea, that is isolated and a constant destabilizing threat to the rest of the world?
So make up your mind Navarro, what do you want?
Ok, lets say you want China to "play by the rules" of "fair trade" (whatever the heck that means), so do we expect Chinese companies to pay their workers the salaries that American workers get even after factoring for the exchange rate? Come on folks!
What constitutes "fair trade" and does it have any meaning for a capitalistic dog-eat-dog system that America is (and long before China even joined the WTO).
You'd think Wall Streeters and American bankers and corporate CEOs are not themselves as harsh as or even more brutal when it comes to the bottom line?
Point is, the Chinese are merely learning the rules of our capitalism game and happen to be better than us at it. That is the only reason why fear China, more than other countries doing the same (but are not as successful).
During the Cold War, we feared the Soviet Union as a military competitor, but they were no match for our capitalist /consumer system.
Now, we've met our match with China as both a worthy military and economic competitor, and thats why America is shaking in her boots.
I don't know about you, but I relish a good fight with someone my size and matching my capability. China is worthy competitor and can be a friend too, if our political leadership handles it well. Remember, we were sworn enemies with the Japanese during WWII but it now Japan has largely adopted the American way of life and has become a steadfast ally too. Who is to say China is not on the same path towards a safer world?
I'll admit there are no easy answers to this conundrum and plenty of mis-steps could lead to war and conflict, just as with the Japanese. So I suggest Navarro tread carefully with his rhetoric and work with the Chinese as "frenemy" rather than paint them over with overly broad strokes.
It is the same with American companies competing in capitalistic markets today. No two companies is BFF (best friends forever) nor is it unheard of for competitors to join hands or efforts to conquer new markets. I mean Apple was once the arch-enemy of Microsoft, and Microsoft even saved Apple from bankruptcy once....and now they too actively compete with each other.
The same applies between countries except with more layers of complexity.
So, keep a level head and not over-simplify our relationship with China, nor should we be overtly antagonistic towards them.
Hey, as we often like to say: its not personal, its just business.