Trump’s trade war points the finger in the wrong direction. China behaved normally; corporate CEOs betrayed us.
China is not “stealing” American jobs.
President Trump loves to blame China for the job losses that have devastated American workers under globalization. But the truth is that Trump is blaming the wrong party. Trump’s reckless trade war against China is misguided and amounts to a colossal charade that will not solve the actual problem.
Yes, it is true that numerous American manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas to China, thereby leaving American workers jobless and suffering. But China did not steal these jobs.
View the complete May 27 article by Cody Cain from Salon on the AlterNet website here.