Name: China Is "Raping" the US, Says Donald Trump | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2016-10-12T20:19:23.000Z
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy,

whether it's making sexual innuendos about other politicians…

or saying China is raping the United States.

"We can't continue to allow China to rape our country,

I'm not angry with China… I'm angry at our leaders,

and they shouldn't have ever been elected to do this job.”

your reaction to this was probably the same as your reaction to,

there's no stopping this crazy, out-of-control ride.

So is Trump correct that China is "raping" the United States?

Well, some are pointing out that perhaps Trump is being

a tad insensitive in his use of descriptors.

But the United States does have a huge trade deficit with China.

In 2015, the US bought $480 billion worth of Chinese goods.

That's about one-fifth of all US imports.

But the US only sold about $115 billion of goods to China last year.

And that marked the biggest annual trade deficit with China ever.

According to a 2013 report by the American Economic Review,

one million American factory jobs have been lost to China.

So what could Donald Trump actually do about this if elected?

You can't impose tariffs on entire countries.

is to set out specific categories of imports

like the US did to Chinese tires in 2009.

Tires just got imported from Indonesia, Mexico, and Thailand.

And no, there were not suddenly more US jobs manufacturing tires.

because you'd have to prove specific violations of trade rules

They're the ones that regulate global commerce.

You see, when the WTO was set up in 1995,

the rules laid out didn't really take into consideration

has pretty murky ties to just about everything,

but the government is way more involved than in most countries.

If a president Trump decide to say "screw it"

and did impose a broad China tariff, well,

that would kind of mean global trade laws no longer matter.

going as far back as the end of World War II.

It was thought that increasing international trade

the US imposes some of the lowest tariff rates in the world.

And US manufacturing output right now is at an all-time high.

So it's not that China is stealing US manufacturing jobs,

it's that technology is stealing US jobs.

Because a lot of the jobs that used to be done by humans

And having a trade deficit is not in of itself a bad thing.

"Can he break his own record of 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes?

[Joey] Chestnut manages to do the impossible."

That also means China has a lot of US dollars floating around.

And though that's not going into buying US goods,

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis,

so not nearly as much as the trade deficit.

No, not that China is stealing our jobs directly.

But according to one expert I interviewed,

the US loses an estimated $5 trillion a year to China

are basically what prop up a cruel, tyrannical regime.

It's just that, when you put things like this…

"We can't continue to allow China to rape our country…"

though people will listen, they might not take it seriously.