Jim Demint who should have been in charge of the RNC on China and trade

[DCandtheUTBand]

I've Changed My Mind About China. America Should Too.

...Free trade, to me, never meant open borders or one-sided trade agreements. "Free trade" simply means expanding the benefits of free enterprise and free markets to nations and people who have too long been denied it. Free enterprise is why America is rich, strong and secure. Extending market freedoms and opportunities beyond our borders will expand prosperity in America and around the world...
I was right about free trade, but wrong about it being fair. And I was wrong about China.....

What he said

 

[DCandtheUTBand]

I think the scales have fallen off the eyes of a lot people. The hope for China to have a semblance of a free civil society is an unrequited one. I understand why DeMint (a person whose ideology I generally agree with) would have voted the way he did. At least he’s intellectually honest enough to admit he was wrong.

I have been b*itching about China since Tiananmen Square. I have gone back and said this screw up started with Nixon. China should have been treated like the USSR. I was against Clintons MFN. I have always said that their brand of "capitalism" would not bring about freedom. The have gone from "communist" to a one party oligarchy with a quasi-capitalsit m more fascist economy. Collectivism is just a vehicle for the intellectually intelligent but extremely lazy to gain power and enrich themselves via the treasury.