What Voters Must Do

Although changing our individual consumer behavior is an essential part of solving our “Made in China” problems, we as voters have an equally important role to play. This is because any ultimate victory in The Coming China Wars depends on the swift adoption of the comprehensive government policy actions that I will describe in this chapter. However, none of the necessary prescriptive actions will ever be taken unless we as voters exert much stronger pressure on our political leaders than we have to date.

In this regard, I must be very candid: To date, we as voters have simply not done our job in making China a pivotal electoral issue. One major reason for voter apathy is the narcotic effect that cheap Chinese goods have had ...

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