Buchanan: Trump Is Right on Trade - "Beijing has, over decades, looted and carted off the greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen." - As Trump has said, the fault is not in China, but in our own Open-Borders Overlords. --tma

Republican hawks are aflutter today over China’s installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea.

But do these Republicans, good free-traders all, realize their own indispensable role in converting an indigent China into the mighty and menacing power that seeks to push us out of Asia?

Last year, China ran up the largest trade surplus in history, at our expense, $365 billion. We exported $116 billion in goods to China. China exported $482 billion worth of goods to us.

Using Census Bureau statistics, Terry Jeffrey of CNSNEWS.com documents how Beijing has, over decades, looted and carted off the greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen. ...

http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-is-right-on-trade-124822