https://www.wired.com/story/china-conquers-mexican-automotive-market-and-the-us-is-worried/

deng-salute

State department hand wringing that China is going to use the US trade agreements as they were designed is chefs-kiss

I fully expect them to redo these with "except china" clauses.

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      If this reaches some arbitrary threshold of manufacturing above that which US capital is comfortable with they will begin restricting and rewriting what “free trade” means

      • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        Altering NAFTA and telling Mexico to "pray we don't alter it further"? Wouldn't put it past them.

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        All the free trade propaganda stems from a time when imperialist powers depended on it to steamroll native industries in the periphery. Of course, it was associated with all the liberty freedom democracy propaganda, so once it no longer became preferable and even enabled the possibility of the reverse happening, they have to materially oppose it, but still wax poetic about it to please their bootlickers and sycophants.

    • carpoftruth [any, any]M
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      16 days ago

      I forsee a renegotiation of nafta that has "China bad" clauses, also more discipline of labour, as a treat