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Why was the U.S. Trade imbalance with China so fast and growing in the last 3 years?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    Part of it has to due with their huge population. A lot of jobs have been outsourced to China because they can make it cheaper because they don't have things like a minimum wage like America. Therefore they can always "find someone else" to fill a job.

  • 2 decades ago

    Because China buys all of our bonds

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