RE: WHO last update 3rd Aug?17 Aug 2021 12:00
MrClark, The businessmen of the west have been facilitating the growth in china by exploiting the incredibly low labour costs china has offered us. We've been doing this for decades. Anybody who is truly anti-china does not buy anything made in China or perhaps even asia but then its undoubtedly impossible to buy anything now that has not had a single part manugfactured outside china. China cornered the market of many products, even uncomplicated products long ago. PPE shortages during the pandemic illustrated this and cost thousands of lives. The greed of investors like us, has made China the second largest economy in the world and its set to become the strongest. Likewise, China invests heavily in US treasury bonds because they know they need western people to keep buying their products. So being anti-china is also being anti-western. We are all in this together. But we do need to take back control of our manufacturing. The current microchip war is the latest reason to manufacture our own microchips. The situation reminds me of the book The Time Machine where the Morlocks control the world and we, the people living in paradise, choose to ignore it with a selfish "I'm alright jack". Brexit will not change this, if anything it will make it worse as we pander to chinas, and indeed USA 's, every whim.