Letters: Importing needs a dialback

Back in the 1960s, China was a Third World country, but today it’s a superpower. We, through trade agreements and importation, have turned the tables, making them strong.

What do China, Russia and North Korea have in common? They’re all led by autocrats. Defined by Webster’s dictionary as a “supreme rule of unrestricted power. An arrogant, dictatorial person, self ruling, independent.”

Sounds a lot like our former president, and he loves and respects them all and even claimed he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “fell in love.”

Now, as we Americans see Putin invading Ukraine, killing innocent babies and citizens of this country, China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping may send amorment to Russia to aid this violent takeover.

As the Oak Ridge Boys song goes, “I’ve got a Nikon camera, a Sony color TV.” Gone are the days of Zenith, RCA and Magnavox TVs, Polaroid or Kodak cameras, but “My baby is American made.”

I sit at railroad crossings and most trains are filled with Chinese containers, as most retail stores are loaded with goods made in China.

In this writer’s opinion, if China decides to come to the aid of Russia, it’s time we stop receiving their containers of cheaply made goods. We made them what they are and we should have the ability through not importing Chinese goods to send the message: “Don’t tread on America” or you’ll go back to a Third World country. Enough is enough.

Tim Kaspari, Wrenshall