U.S. President Joe Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping following his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “be careful” because Beijing relies on Western investment.

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    Xi to Biden: “Be careful, your citizens’ purchasing power relies on us exploiting our poor rural population”

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      I’ve avoided buying anything made in China and items made in South Korea and Taiwan are just as cheap and of a better quality.

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        The components in those Taiwanese and South Korean products come from China. You can’t avoid the world’s second largest economy in a globalized world.

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          TSMC Is literally in Taiwan, Samsung is in Korea, and both make there own chips. What are you talking about?

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      There’s always more poor counties to exploit. There’s only so many rich ones to sell to.