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Don't you think maybe your political bias, may be clouding your objectivity?

From an American perspective, he was the only one offering an alternative, the Democrats were offering nothing other than an escalation in arms sales.

Take Germany for example their car industry and manufacturing is collapsing, mainly due to poor productivity and excessively high energy costs, the U.S is Germanies car manufacturers major market and Trump has offered them a lifeline.

Obviously the majority of American voters thought that the route the U.S was going, they would end up the same as most other Western countries, completely at the mercy of China, and Trump was the only candidate that voiced their concerns.

As we keep saying, it ain't rocket science, if China keeps on its current trajectory, the first world will become the third world. 

You never know, it might encourage China to increase it workers conditions and pay similar to first world countries, on the condition tariffs are reduced, win/win. 

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The former president laid out his offer for every major foreign automaker if he finds himself back in the Oval Office:

“Here is the deal that I will be offering to every major company and manufacturer on Earth — I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden. And free access to the best and biggest market on the planet,” Trump said.

“But only if you make your product here in America. It all goes away if you don’t make your product here. And hire American workers for the job. If you don’t make your product here, then you will have to pay a tariff, a very substantial tariff,” he added.

Interestingly, the former president also expressed a willingness to welcome Chinese automakers into the U.S. market—on one condition: they build their vehicles locally. “We’re going to give incentives, and if China and other countries want to come here and sell the cars, they’re going to build plants here, and they’re going to hire our workers.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday invited global businesses to manufacture their products in the U.S. and promised them lower taxes but warned if they chose to produce their goods elsewhere, they would have to pay tariffs to export them to the United States.

"America is back and open for business," Trump, in a video linkup from Washington, told corporate leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth," Trump said. "But if you don't make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then, very simply, you will have to pay a tariff."

Trump said that in the global economy, the U.S. "just wants to be treated fairly by other countries."

He said the U.S. wants to have a "fair relationship" with China, the world's second-biggest economy.

"We don't want to take advantage," he said of Washington-Beijing relations. "We just want to have a level playing field."