a) Stop bombing Islamic countries (President Obama dropped 26,000 bombs on seven Muslim countries in one year).
b). Try to help the Chinese de-radicalize and modernize the Uyghurs in China.
E. What about Chinese threats to American labor?
1. It's true that China's low wages, lack of labor protections, and absence of labor rights is attractive to American producers.
2. However, it is a mistake to blame China for the loss of jobs.
3. After all, China did not force U.S. manufacturers to move.
4. China joined the WTO at the invitation of the United States.
5. We must also remember that the relatively recent and sudden introduction of 200 million new workers into the system of globalized capitalism is only the latest expression of the "creative destruction" endemic to and celebrated by that system.
6. Sweden and Germany saw the creative destruction coming. To prepare for it, they invested heavily in the retraining of their workforces to equip them for participation in the new economy. The U.S. did not.
F. What the U.S. should do:
1. Distinguish between defending America's primacy and defending the American people; the two are quite different.
2. Stop fighting wars in the Middle East and focus on the welfare of its own people.
3. Remember that it is no paragon of respect for human rights. For instance, it is the 1st modern country to reintroduce torture.
4. Keep in mind the figure "Six billion" - i.e. of the number of people who live outside both the United States & China. They're much more sophisticated, well-informed, and nuanced in their understandings than previously. They don't buy the American good guys/bad guys dichotomy.
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