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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:36:04 GMT, Vernon North <verno@oyama.bc.ca>
wrote:

>In article <dxhpd.7450$3U4.216120@news02.tsnz.net>, 
>grawillers@hotmail.com says...
>> 
>> "Sally" <esdemio@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> news:b8bcd929.0411221957.e0308b@posting.google.com...
>> .
>> >
>> > easy enough - buy Chinese!  That is where America buys!
>> 
>> So does NZ - not that we are a major economy or anything but since the US
>> threatened trade sanctions if we didn't let their nuclear ships back into NZ
>> ports the NZ government have drawn up a free trade agreement with China
>> instead.
>> **** 'em!
>> The only smart move the NZ government have made for a while IMO.
>> By the way - the Chinese textile industry will be supplying over half of the
>> US clothes market within 3 years at current growth rates. Shame for Mexico,
>> Cambodia and Bangladesh and suchlike countries but thats globalisation fer
>> yooz.
>> Lets hope for American's sakes that the central Asian banks continue to
>> bankroll the US military machine and rampant consumerism or the US really
>> *is* screwed this time.
>> Oil grabbing is just so expensive these days - especially when you **** it
>> up.
>
>Meanwhile US (and other) consumers are busily financing China's future 
>as a superpower.  Not too smart.
>
>Verno

"Smart" is not a word normally associated with US policy, except when
its knuckles are rapped, as in Iraq.

Michilín