There’s good and bad about this. Looking on the optimistic side, it’s far less energy demanding to ship goods from Mexico to America
Perhaps not Mexico specifically, but N+S American trade was bound to increase dramatically once China started making demands on the US. China’s play with Cuba will be met with even more push to stop buying Chinese goods. China is a manufacturing powerhouse, but S and Central American land and labor is cheaper.
We’ll just have to wait and see in about 15 years
what is the bad?
Two largest economies/militaries/second + third largest nuclear arsenals being heavily economically dependant on each other is good for stability.
So it’s not “trading more with Mexico is bad” and rather “not trading so much with China is bad”. That makes sense. Thanks
Basically nation states are like teenagers and we’ve decided to stop hanging out with one of the popular girls because we’ve decided Becky down the street is nicer, so what if she doesn’t have as much money. Meanwhile, Susan is prone to jealousy and lashing out and is probably going to make our lives really upsetting by spreading rumors about how we’ve got a pencil dick and we’ve been sleeping with that one kid who everyone bullies that smells funny
Please note: this would be because the loop hole in the altNAFTA of crap built in China being final assembled in Mexico.
Does that drop coincide with the high tech chip ban on China?
