Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
The old books in your school classroom are there because a retired teacher, now living on a lake in Tennessee, has a payment every month to make on his new pontoon boat. Too bad for you…
Similarly, the high school kids here have to eat lunches brought over from the grade school for the same reason.