China’s trajectory
Re “A great leap skyward,” Nov. 18
The article mentions a farmer observing the moon probe launch as probably earning less than $10 a month. This is exactly why our free-trade policies make no sense. We are shipping our middle-class jobs to countries that make almost no products for their citizens; instead, they export back to us.
Meanwhile, all we can sell them is our means of production. Farmers call what we have been doing “eating our seed corn.”
As our depleted middle class reaches a tipping point, we will no longer be able to support the trade imbalances. This will cause a worldwide depression. What usually results when that comes? Wars.
Larry Severson
Fountain Valley
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As China has now entered the club to launch rockets and plans to explore the moon, I’d like to welcome it to 1960.
Mark Bustamante
Alhambra
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