Lot of people especially Think Tank crowd are prisoners of their own ideas. The idea ‘Two countries that have McDonald’s will not go to war with each other’ has run its course. Simply because no one factored what happens if supplies to all McDonalds are controlled by one country
The Think Tank crowd does not understand that free market economy is a wonderful thing ( I am all for it) but what do you do when one thug communist regime uses free market principles to control all supply chains without opening their own country.
Suddenly countries are waking up to the fact that they have lost the ability to manufacture masks in bulk or PPE’s in bulk. Should they wait to be further strangulated or work on what they have lost? Mocking #selfreliance as oh so outdated ‘economic nationalism’ is passé
You sold us the junk that let thug communist regime be part of WTO, they will change. Did they change? No. Instead they used your liberal free market principles to further their agenda. So I think there needs to be some humility in accepting you erred.
