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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:08:00 EST
- From: <ZQH@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93010.230800ZQH@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Parasites of U.S. economy
- References: <1993Jan01.103831.6531@deeptht.armory.com>
- <1993Jan4.201248.4828@island.COM> <C0Cz4r.2yM@world.std.com>
- <4146@randvax.rand.org>
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- In <4146@randvax.rand.org>
- edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
- >Personally, I'm more worried about China, whose economy is growing so
- >explosively that it could well overtake Japan's in the next two decades.
- >The Japanese might wind up looking positively genteel in comparison.
- >
- > -Ed Hall
- > edhall@rand.org
- >
-
- I hope this is just your personal viewpoints since your company is
- quite respectable in making recommendations to U.S. government.
-
- The uniqueness of imports from Mainland China is that most of them
- are labor-intensive product which is competing with other 3rd-world
- countries, while imports from Japan are taking high-pay U.S. jobs
- out of America and wiping out entire U.S. industries on by one.
-
- (I'd like to buy U.S.-made TV and VCR, where are they???)
-
- Moreover, in the process of economic reform toward the free-market
- capitalist economy, Mainland China are buying technology-intensive
- products from U.S., generating a lot of high-pay jobs for U.S.
- workers (e.g. Mainland China is the top customer of Boeing Aircraft Co.
- with US$4.6 billions in outstanding order, and still increasing
- --- a US$800-million contract for 6 Boeing-777 was signed last month).
- As Mainland China's economy develops, more and more U.S. products
- will be bought for her huge infrastructures.
-
- One of FUNDAMENTAL difference of Mainland China from other countries
- such as Japan is that China has the resources while others have to
- import almost everything --- that's why once those countries become
- industrialized, they will have to suck blood from U.S. economy in
- order to import raw material and energy to sustain their lifestyles.
- For example, Japan has to import about 5 million barrels of oil a day,
- at US$20 per barrel, that is US$36 billions a year --- this is the
- amount Japan has to suck from U.S. for importing oil alone, not counting
- other essential raw materials.
-
- (A sidenote: Mainland China is #3 energy producer in the world
- and exporting oil to Japan at about 200 million barrels a year).
-
- I wish I have more time to write about this: once Mainland China
- becomes fully industrialized, it'll be truely the world's largest
- consumer market without having to suck blood from others' economies
- (just like U.S. --- both U.S. and China have all natural resources
- needed for industries).
-
- Another point: once a country without natural resources becomes
- industrialized, it will become a parasite, sucking blood from
- U.S. economy and taking high-pay jobs out of U.S.
-
- James Huang
-