Why not? A culture which reveres tradition and ritual, upholds government by moral rather than physical force, affirms the Golden Rule, is Agrarian and Distributist, at least in the Chinese or Korean case has barely started an external war in five thousand years, and is especially open to completion by, in, through and as classical Christianity. Nor is China going to destroy her own economy by calling in American debt.
But we do not want East Asia's low-grade products, putting our high-quality producers out of business. Nor do East Asians want our low-grade products, putting their high-quality producers out of business. That way leads to the ill-feeling that grows, and escalates, and we all know where it ends up.
As we must also learn when dealing with many other places, civilisation is not capitalism, and it is the former that conservatives exist in order to conserve.
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But we do not want East Asia's low-grade products, putting our high-quality producers out of business.
ReplyDeleteObviously we do, assuming that by "we" you mean "the people of Britain" because we buy them. Lots of them. How do you plan to stop this?
By not letting them in. Like Obama with the Chinese tyres. Good for him.
ReplyDeleteThere are, for example, ongoing EU disputes with South Korea over their cars and our pork. But I don't want this sort of thing done by or through the EU. I want us to do them for ourselves.
Civilisation is not the same thing as capitalism. Nor is the national interest necessarily always the same thing as the public mood. What people "want" is by no means always that of which they are in want.