In her mid-May commentary, “Americans react to the battle against COVID-19,” Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James wrote: “This pandemic has also opened many eyes as to America’s dependence on China for the production of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment, and other essentials, including food.”
Obviously, President James has not opened her eyes to the blatant fact that America, as a nation, does not depend on China for anything. American corporations, which abandoned our nation and their American workers, depend on China for cheap labor. As I have asked for nearly two decades in regional newspapers, have you ever seen “Ying Wong Chow” or “Yow Ming Chong” brand names on “made in China” products?
Who benefits from shipping raw materials to China, and finished goods back to America tariff free, but American corporations exploiting Chinese sweat-shops, while avoiding American worker safety and environmental regulations and U.S. taxation?
Has exploiting virtual slave labor in China led to “virtual,” impersonal communication here in America? Has exploiting lax if any workplace regulation and avoiding American taxation under the deceptive guise of “free trade” cost America our unparalleled right to freedom to live as we please? Who benefits from globalization, other than the globalists who exploit the world’s cheapest labor and world markets simultaneously?
In reality, what brought COVID -19 to America, other than free trade with a nation that has noting to trade but “virtual” slave labor for American jobs?
What do you think?
Robert C. Currie Jr.
Laurinburg