re: Farage Warns: Chinese Interests Lining up for ‘Fire Sale’ of U.K. Businesses - US next?

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Smithfield Foods

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No wonder they just had a recall, that Chinese interest already working, cutting corners and using shittier products.

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Once again, Trump doing so much good work that never sees the light of day.

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The problem is that we know what happens to all of this good work once a Dem gets back into the White House. POOF! Back to the Clinton-Bush-Obama paradigm of US - China policy and trade relations.

Why don’t we just seize chinese Assets?

Dare them to do something. China is the global enemy

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It would be foolish to deny the US economy of their investments or for that matter the investments of any foreign country.

There was a lot of BS talk about the Japanese "buying America" in eighties.

What is strange is no one whines when the Arabs and Europeans invest here. They have invested far more than have the Chinese.

One very good thing Trump did was to lower the corporate tax rate so that it is not as profitable as it once was for foreign companies to own US businesses.

One thing to remember is they have the dollars and if we want the dollars back to the US we should not stand in their way.

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The difference is that the fascist/communist (its really both) country of China is the real owner of all Chinese companies. So Chinese investments, and purchases of nuclear companies etc are allowing a foreign country whom has hostile aspirations of world dominance to purchase, own, and control your own countries infrastructure countries. Which means they can use that to cripple another country in a form of war.

I'm sorry you are a bought and paid for commie shill.

European investment is from companies. Not their governments. Arabs pose no real threat as far as war, and neither do European countries. China does.

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Let me get this straight---a Trumpkin here on PT is advocating for nationalizing companies to keep the Chinese from buying them??

You people are nuts.

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My allegiance to capitalism is strictly outcome based. I have no ideological affinity for it or for any other economic system.

If capitalism has become a system that cannot function adequately without cheap third world labor and insists on trade with geopolitical foes who are poisoning our citizens, then let's scrap it and give national socialism a try.

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The US taxes didn't go away if a US company was foreign owned. Another US company could hide from taxes through a subsidiary just as easily. In fact, the territorial tax system makes it more profitable to park earnings overseas.

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True. I will say this. Here in Trinidad the govt has embraced the chinese railroad construction company (one of the most corrupt in the world) building roads, hospitals, etc. With them came 1000s of chinese who bought up every friggin small grocery in the country. How can they buy a grocery and pay so much for it, and run it the same way?

Its graft money from govt jobs in chini and they want to get the money out, if they get 1 US dollar for 8 yuan instead of 7 they dont care they are still up cause it was all gravy anyway.

Im certain when chini was throwing money out of helicopters in 2008 and 2016 thats why you saw so much investment in the US. Same thing, on a grander scale.

We provided them the gun over the last 30-40 years and this virus has provided them with the ammunition.