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As unpopular as this may be, not all Chinese goods are bad. Millions of types of items (not the individual ones) are imported from there. By no means are all of them inferior, cheap, bad, or whatever slur you want to hurl at them.
Were I to be able to channel roachboy and convince him/us to travel in my Wayback machine with Mr. Peabody and his Boy Sherman to the 1950's, this conversation would be about the Japanese. Were I to turn it back another 50 years, the 3.4 of us (Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the melded roachboy/The_Jazz) would be able to listen to the folks talking about the dangerous and substand goods coming out of the good ol' US of A.
Upton Sinclair used factual evidence, as disgusting as that may be.
The Chinese businessmen don't hate us any more than our businessmen hate them. They want our money. We want theirs. China is no more of a Communist country than France is today.
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