Following the freeze on trade talks last Friday, China's apparently moved into full-out attack mode.
Over these next few weeks of battle between both governments' communications departments, will China finally pull out a major hole card it has against the U.S. on the unfair trade issue? That is, will it raise the issue of corporate labor subsidies created by America's mass immigration system?
According to the U.S. Trade Representative's latest "Report to Congress on China's WTO Compliance," it is apparently "Of great concern" to the U.S. government that "China does not adhere to certain internationally recognized labor standards, including the freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively." Elsewhere, the Congressional Executive Commission on China states in its latest audit that China imposes "[r]estrictions on workers' rights to freely establish and join independent trade unions" and that Chinese workers' "Rights to collective bargaining remain limited in law and in practice."
Today, whole sectors of U.S. industry, including big exporters to China like the agricultural and meatpacking industries, have workforces which are close to half illegal immigrants, not just legal ones.
Instead, the industry was pushed to automate, focus on less labor-intensive, higher-margin synthetics, and move low-skilled production abroad. More broadly, with the exception of the Chinese in Hong Kong, China does not allow foreigners to obtain permanent residence or citizenship, and it vigorously cracks down on Vietnamese and North Korean illegal migrants entering its southern and northern provinces, respectively.
In the increasingly fraught trade situation, China has a legitimate claim to make on the immigration issue.
Until the legal and illegal immigrant labor pool in the U.S. stops expanding, the Chinese government has every right to call out the U.S. for what it is: a subsidy to American business.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/illegal_immigration_and_the_trade_war.html
Over these next few weeks of battle between both governments' communications departments, will China finally pull out a major hole card it has against the U.S. on the unfair trade issue? That is, will it raise the issue of corporate labor subsidies created by America's mass immigration system?
According to the U.S. Trade Representative's latest "Report to Congress on China's WTO Compliance," it is apparently "Of great concern" to the U.S. government that "China does not adhere to certain internationally recognized labor standards, including the freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively." Elsewhere, the Congressional Executive Commission on China states in its latest audit that China imposes "[r]estrictions on workers' rights to freely establish and join independent trade unions" and that Chinese workers' "Rights to collective bargaining remain limited in law and in practice."
Today, whole sectors of U.S. industry, including big exporters to China like the agricultural and meatpacking industries, have workforces which are close to half illegal immigrants, not just legal ones.
Instead, the industry was pushed to automate, focus on less labor-intensive, higher-margin synthetics, and move low-skilled production abroad. More broadly, with the exception of the Chinese in Hong Kong, China does not allow foreigners to obtain permanent residence or citizenship, and it vigorously cracks down on Vietnamese and North Korean illegal migrants entering its southern and northern provinces, respectively.
In the increasingly fraught trade situation, China has a legitimate claim to make on the immigration issue.
Until the legal and illegal immigrant labor pool in the U.S. stops expanding, the Chinese government has every right to call out the U.S. for what it is: a subsidy to American business.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/illegal_immigration_and_the_trade_war.html
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