Reply #50: They hold our debt.

[riverdeep]

There's no way we're saying jack squat to them. The president of the toy company Mattel had to publicly apologize to China. They've got us over a barrel and they know it.

Americans really are partially to blame here, though. They wanted 'always low prices, always'. But they never considered what they were giving up long term for those low prices. The American way of life was leveraged so people could buy a pack of tube socks for 99 cents.