Be American, Buy American - Do Chinese do the same with Chinese products?

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Stefan Braunstein

When I was a boy no one would by Japaanese so all the goods made here were stamped USA So the japanese named a city USA so all goods from there said made in USA very smart.

Frank Meloski

The economics of deciding if patriotic buying is beneficial is tricky, but something governments should always be assessing. Tracing economics is like tracing a sound wave. So the USA invests heavily into arms; this essentially diverts American’s general income(which is destined for Chinese non-technical goods at Walmart) toward domestic technology improvement(and toward domestic production). The transfer is not perfect; militarily technology is not a perfect match for useful consumer products, and the expensive reproduction process of making a tank or aircraft does nothing to push technology. The economic model therefore might be to have short runs of constantly evolving military items, focusing on emerging technologies. A better alternative(higher return on investment, and BTW less slaughter) to military spending is space spending. Also, the “every problem is a nail, if you’re a hammer” theory states that the conversation turns toward how you can use whatever you produce; so we see NASA is funded at 1/30 of defense(1/9th gdp compared to moon visit days, good engineers now diverted to defense results in two shuttles blown up and a stupid calculation destroyed a Mars rover, BTW Challenger decision to risk reentry with damage was economic) and we could’ve funded a manned Mars mission with less than one year defense spending, but in the meantime we’ve accomplished slaughtering plenty and everyone buys American weapons to keep up with everyone else, and we’ve even seen the system backwash at times into American culture with militarization of American police. Is there a fundamental problem with putting resources into creating a quality brand in China, because you don’t know if you are going to be taken over or driven out of business by a government connected entity? Kymco is actually Honda joint venture, which is probably partly why their scooters are so good quality.