Captain Oblivious March 24, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in China, City Hall, Foreign Trade, St. Louis Local.trackback
I plan to spend most of today (and some of tomorrow) on an airplane [but not a slow boat -- ed.]. Along with a delegation of regional and state officials, I am traveling to China to suggest that the central geography, moderate climate, established transportation infrastructure, and lower costs of St. Louis make us the perfect choice of that country’s Ministry of Commerce for a new air freight hub.
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It is a simple economic reality that more and more US goods will be going to China over the next several decades. An airfreight hub in St. Louis makes perfect sense.
You actually think that the Chinese government wants an airline hub in the middle of America because they want to make it easier to sell American manufactured goods in China? Actually, it’s more like the other way around.
To assume that is to assume (just as obliviously) that America still manufactures anything. If there are going to be any goods transported from America to China via this airline hub, it will be raw materials to help China grow and sustain its own manufacturing base. The items manufactured in China will then go in the opposite direction, to razzle and dazzle the patrons at Big Box Mart.
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