I watched the video of Trump at the Mexico news conference. He was talking about how the Western Hemisphere countries should stick together in building their economies. Part of the reason that we are getting so many people from Central America, and also the Caribbean, is because Chinese imports have taken their jobs. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I know this was a point. I don't know where the youtube video---I think it was the Inter-American Development Bank or something. It was even more authoritative than World Bank reports). And that's what they said.

Of course all of this trade in favor of China has emboldened them, now, into military adventurism. OTOH, if their economy takes a dive, there would be tens of millions of unemployed Chinese fleeing. Enclaves of Chinese have already taken over various territories, and muscled out the locals. I saw a TV report of a town in Italy where Chinese moved in, built import-export businesses and overwhelmed the local businesses. Plus they are buying up natural resources.

All of this incredibly dangerous. And will be repeated ad nauseum in the coming years. But it's either cave in and be displaced by the globalist elites. Or build a fortress America. It's a classic Marxian tragedy----too many products for too few consumers. The only way out for the world that I know of is through owner built housing, and then cottage industries and businesses. I raised this at the UN State of the World Forum in NYC, 2000. The main points made there were: the information technology of other countries would surpass the US. and create new middle classes. These middle classes would look for new global markets. They often used the term of 'leapfrogging' how other countries could surpass the US middle class.

Thankfully Asian countries like Japan and Vietnam are stepping up to try to contain China. Should be interesting.