China exploited free trade advantages by leveraging low-cost workers to dominate manufacturing over decades, becoming a dominant force in global production, which is the real basis for Trump's tariff argument against free trade.

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Tim Kollatz

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China really did exploit this for a long time and had really lowcost workers and American companies were happy to ship their production over there and bit by bit they just became this dominant Force

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Project 2025 had a tariff plan, but Trump has gone off scriptThe Globe and Mail
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:02:23 AM

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