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04/07/18
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Originally posted by Forged
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The Chinese economy has had a persistent trade surplus with the U.S. and the rest of the world for about a quarter century; that means they sold more stuff to the rest of the world than they bought. The excess cash that was earned from selling stuff abroad, but not buying a like amount of foreign goods, wound up in the hands of the government (central bank intervention in the currency market to keep the Chinese currency from appreciating against the dollar and other foreign currencies).
If Australia want to follow this footstep, we need to have lots of products made in Australia that we can sell abroad. No we can’t. The best we can do is to keep on supplying China with raw materials & earn this commodity living. Because of this we avoided 2008 GFC.
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So we are too lazy to build stuff with our own raw materials
Thus We are happy to sell raw material to china, who then turn them into value added items,
We then borrow large amounts of money and buy the value added items as throw away items from our retailers.
that sounds like a great plan