China should not be blamed for unemployment in America, Europe

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China should not be blamed for the unemployment in America and Europe, a geopolitical expert wrote in an article published on Eurasia Future on Monday.

"China's success is not the root cause of the failure of certain western economies to keep up with innovation, win-win employment models, education and long-term planning," Adam Garrie, director of an independent news platform Eurasia Future, wrote in the Monday's headline article of the website.

Garrie listed several internal factors which led to the west's unemployment and concluded that the US and Europe should find resolution at home other than looking to a foreign power or blaming China and the other countries.

He firstly focused on industrial workers unemployment in the US and underlined the primary factor leading to which is "lack of investment in the industrial sector".

"One must constantly re-invest in the industrial sector even when current production techniques and business models are still successful and profitable," he wrote.

"If the US did with General Motors and the electronics industry what it does with Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon, the US and China would be on-par when it comes to industrial production," he added.

He said, "all the US needs to do is adapt the techniques that have been successful in the defense industry and put them to use in the civilian industrial sector."

Secondly, Garrie noted "confrontational trade union/ labor union model" has become a burden on the US and European industry, though labor union was "once highly important and highly effective."

In western models, unions are "constantly holding back progress" and often create nothing more than "prolonged strikes or extortionate union dues required by workers" whose jobs are getting less and less safe in spite of unionization.

The west needs to end the "hostile atmosphere" of management vs. workforce to revive its failed model.

Thirdly, the director pointed out that in western models there is "no sustainable preparation for robotics and artificial intelligence(AI)."

Because the profits generated by AI in countries like the US can be "easily off-shored in foreign banks or hedge funds" rather than "be re-invested into the national economy and into people" as what has been done in the socialist market model.

"In the western model, those whose jobs are replaced by robots are left with virtually nothing."

In a system such as the current one in the US and most of EU, AI will devastate working class individuals," Garrie said.

Garrie also mentioned insufficient education systems and work ethic that does not encourage pride in work as other two reasons for unemployment problem existing in the western society.

"The next time a politician or celebrity tries to scapegoat China for the West's own inability to come to terms with its internal decline, instead of listening to such regressive rhetoric, tell them to look in the mirror and begin to work at problem-solving close to home," he concluded in his article.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency