America's Future Update on China

Update on How China Nullified NAFTA's Promises

When NAFTA (North Amerian Free Trade Agreement) went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the "experts" who think they have the knowhow to plan our huge economy predicted a U.S. trade surplus with Mexico plus huge benefits for Mexico. We then had a trade surplus with Mexico, but we've had annual trade deficits with Mexico ever since. Communist China crashed the NAFTA party and turned out to be the big winner. China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001 and then undersold everyone with cheap products, grabbing all the NAFTA benefits that were supposed to accrue to the U.S. and to Mexico. NAFTA never achieved the promises of the economics gurus for jobs or fighting poverty.  USA Today, 12-31-13

China posted its largest increase in U.S. apparel and textile imports in November 2013, apparently because of strikes, protests and political instability in Bangladesh and Cambodia. Wages in low-wage China seem to have somewhat increased in the last couple of years, but worker unrest in other countries could shift more production back to China, which still has 41% of the U.S. apparel market. It didn't help Bangladesh when it had two immense factory tragedies that killed 1,240 workers.  Report from Kristi Ellis, 1-10-14

Update on U.S. Purchases Overseas Flouting U.S. Laws

The U.S. government is one of the world's biggest clothing buyers, spending more than $1.5 billion a year at factories overseas, including clothing worn by our military, forest rangers, and airport security workers. It's bad enough that our tax dollars are spent at factories that put U.S. citizens out of work, but it's another scandal that our dollars are spent for clothing made at foreign plants under sweatshop conditions that Americans would say are unacceptable. Foreign factories may have padlocked fire exits, no functioning fire alarm system, buildings at risk of collapse, and falsified wage records.  New York Times, 12-22-13

U.S. customers of Communist China's products should always consider the total price of "made in China." The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, is a case in point. It's North America's longest suspension bridge. Opened in 1964, it is today in urgent need of renova­tion. Unfortunately, cost-conscious Americans outsourced the $34 million job in steel production and fabrication to China. The safety record of Chinese products is scary, especially when it comes to bridges. Six bridges have collapsed in China since 2011 because of shoddy con­struction and inferior materials. Chinese steel to renovate the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge led to huge cost overruns and costly delays.  New York Times, 8-4-13

Update on China's Ability to Jam U.S. Communications

Communist China's military is using U.S. military secrets stolen by a convicted spy to defeat our U.S. high-technology communications system necessary for many wartime purposes and our missile defenses. We only found out about this from a military article published in a Chi­nese technical journal in July. The Chinese article revealed that the Chinese Army is studying this very closely and working now to defeat it. The article was titled "Anti-Jam­ming Performance of JTIDS-Type Waveform" and published July 10 in the Chinese journal Aerospace Elec­tronic Warfare. China's goal is to be able to disrupt or corrupt our sensi­tive U.S. military communications, so they pay spies to steal it from us. This ability is especially important for China's plan to disable our anti-missile defenses.  Reported by Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon, 9-23-13

Communist China has conduct­ed its second flight test of a new long-range missile. It is capable of hitting targets in the U.S. with a nuclear warhead. The flight test of the new Dong Feng-41, or DF-41 took place from the Wuzhai missile launch center to an impact range in western China. It was the second test of China's new road-mobile long-range ICBM that the U.S. military believes will carry up to 10 MIRVs (multiple independent­ly-targetable reentry vehicles).  Reported by Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon, 12-22-13