DallasTeleAg said:

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This is what we need to be encouraging. I don't think the market can support everything made in the US, but we need to stop investing in the far east and start building manufacturing in central and south america. Spend our time and effort stabilizing this hemisphere and re-enact the Monroe Doctrine.

We need to keep China away from this side of the world and fortify it with industry. Also, muscle our way back into controlling the Panama Canal. Giving that up was one of the stupidest ideas of the 20th century.

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Yeah, no.
We are much better off cultivating a more beneficial relationship with Panamanians, than trying to "muscle" back into control of the Canal.

Telling China to piss up a rope on their ideas to create a "canal" across Costa Rica or Nicaraugua or wherever they are proposing it will show more stand up friendship than peeing on Panama's leg and telling them it's raining.

Ask those Panamanians, who chose Texas A&M for their education, how they see a good relationship with the USA. I guarantee there are more than one or two... and they very well could be movers and shakers in Panama.

It won't be taking over the Canal, fer sure.

Sounds all Kumbaya until China does it first.

Supply chain decision. Save the shipping cost for fentanyl.

I'm all for incentivizing manufacturing away from china. Any that can go into our hemisphere is great. Giving the cartels a legitimate might make a little impact, but drugs and human labor/sex (trafficking) are commodities, so someone will fill the demand if we don't address the underlying issues.

I doubt our hemisphere can support the worlds manufacturing needs. The rest of Asia is a good source for this and it put's much greater pressure on the chinese communist govt. Maybe to great, as it may cause an invasion of one of the countries, when china is on the ropes.

china wants to dominate the world economically, but their military is specifically designed to dominate (southeast) Asia and the western pacific. A successful Vietnam/ Philippines/ Japan etc is a bad thing for china.

InfantryAg said:

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I'm all for incentivizing manufacturing away from china. Any that can go into our hemisphere is great. Giving the cartels a legitimate might make a little impact, but drugs and human labor/sex (trafficking) are commodities, so someone will fill the demand if we don't address the underlying issues.

I doubt our hemisphere can support the worlds manufacturing needs. The rest of Asia is a good source for this and it put's much greater pressure on the chinese communist govt. Maybe to great, as it may cause an invasion of one of the countries, when china is on the ropes.

china wants to dominate the world economically, but their military is specifically designed to dominate (southeast) Asia and the western pacific. A successful Vietnam/ Philippines/ Japan etc is a bad thing for china.

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Doesn't need to in my book but we could cover our own bases on this side of the world. Eastern Hemisphere can handle their own.

That doesn't really work for commodities. Global products are a global market. See oil for an example.

InfantryAg said:

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That doesn't really work for commodities. Global products are a global market. See oil for an example.

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True. Thinking about other stuff. Although I don't think we are going back to the way things were anyway. Chinas iteration pre-Covid kept prices low for decades.

More concerned about securing supply chains with countries that are closer to us and in our direct sphere of influence.