Lol you are bringing up those issues as if you were born yesterday.
Are you really pretending to be that young,mentally or otherwise?
Do you still remember the battle of seattle? Geneva protests? Food safty, environmental protection, labor rights, all of them have been at forefront all along.
You woke up last week and found that first tranche of China trade deal in the news and wondered: Hmmm, would the food quality and price here change in a fashion that I couldn't approve? LoL
That's your first confusion.
Why would you all of a sudden show such concerns? Because you saw the name "China"?
Have you ever wondered what Monsanto is doing? For that matter, JBS or Smithfield ? Or Chipotle? or bovine growth hormone, or the sanitary processes in food plants that bring us drug resistant bectria.
Why is US a lone country in the whole world not a ratified signatory of MEA Biodiversity rule? Oh, maybe Monsanto has something to do with it? LoL. Tell me about your food safety concerns. LoL.
Have you ever wondered maybe some Green Box subsidies should be channeled to developing countries to help grow their food industry, instead of using it as a stick to buckle their feet?
How many food recalls do you remember within last month, supposed you are more than a month old,mentally or otherwise?
How many times have you read the food labels? What do they say and don't say? Are they accurate, or even true at all?
How about the Vietnamese prawns and Talapia? or Mexican tuna?
Have you ever wondered why US corporations keep prowling for places across the globe with cheap labor, lax labor rights and environmental regulations?
Or why do IMF, World Bank, WTO and big corporations sometimes sound like they are reading off the same script?
Why have China's air, water and soil pollution became so unbearable? Have you paid a full price for it when you shop around consumer goods made in China?
Now China has to foot the bill so that you can have your juicy steak or crunchy apple bought with ever more growing IOU's?
And yet you have the pretension to hope for a win win situation. Did you mean you want to win twice? That's your conflict: want to show a friendly face but have to win it all.
Face it: it is a mercantilist world view to the bone.
That's the internal rot that will inevitably take US of A down: wanting for more and more stuff, but related costs are optional, duty and self restraint be damned. Look at American domestic affairs and politics.
You may want to show yourself in the light of would-be helpless innocent victim of this in your view nefarious trade, but you actually are a wilful accomplice all along.
Your greed, your rot, your entitlement, your demand for abundance which is the basis of freedom, these are internal contradictions that look for ever urgent solutions in an ever wider circles beyond American borders because resources within American borders are not enough. Oil, cheap credit, cheap consumer products, the list is endless.
Look at the endless wars for resources and commercial profits since the 19th century.These are the outcomes of internal rot. So far you have outrun the rot, but for how long , as the whole world around you grow up and give you a run for your money? LoL.
American exceptionalism, LoL.
