Especially after our new environmental laws took hold decades ago, U.S. corporations found ways to outsource our pollution to China and other environmentally lax nations, just so we can enjoy the cheap dime-store products from Walmart with no restraint.
Moving the operations of foundries, forges, metals mills, chemical plants and other highly polluting processes across the pond just moved the damage to human health to a different area of our planet.
Similar saving occurred by moving manufacturing jobs overseas, as that skirts our laws and regulations on workplace health and safety, and at a huge discount per hour.
So, China then made trillions of dollars off us from those products and we get pissed when they flex their economic muscle and buy guns and butter for themselves.
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