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.
Ha! Blaming online for the closure of stores in Springfield. Springfield, like the rest of Illinois outside of handful of pockets, is kind of a dump. There’s no growth, incomes are flat, population is declining. Some smaller metro areas in the country can’t build fast enough to accommodate the growth. Here, not so much.