With unlock I didn’t even know there was an arms race. Seamless performance the whole time!
It is government’s job to make sure international trade is done according to some basic rules, including labor and environment. Business’ only metric is profits.
China pollutes so much because George HW Bush and Bill Clinton pushed American jobs to China so CEOs could make bank on huge profits on cheap labor, unsafe work places, and near zero environmental regulation that was impossible in the United States. We built China by disregarding worker rights and the environment and we are paying for it dearly.
Most companies selling on Amazon are contractually prohibited to sell for less elsewhere, even from their own website.