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'I take never rattling been one for politics and stintings.  Being neither a politician nor an economist, I entertain never genuinely understood the mechanics of alone these deals.  I have always felt that these things are better unexpended to the experts.  Be that as it may, however, the effects and ramifications of all these economic negotiations and deals have invaded into my personal life.  I never anticipate it to happen but during a recent camping area trip of mine I found erupt just what the trade relations between the linked States and mainland mainland China actually means in the life of everyday people.\r\nIt started on a nice and brave day in the middle of spring.  I was look forward to the annual camping trip that I and my friends went to.  While we believed in roughing it, we to a fault believed in sustentation with a few luxuries that civilization had do us accustomed to.  In the spirit of â€Å"roughing” it, we had tog a lim it as to how much we could spend on the items that we were to bring on the trip.  The budget per person was just ab disclose US $ two hundred.  We figured that by scope a cap spending limit we would stick to the thoroughgoing(a) necessities and experience what it was like to actually enjoy camping.\r\nIn hindsight, I realize that the budget of US $200 that we had set was sensibly lean, to say the least.  We had to do outdoor(a) with the usual items that we were used to buying such(prenominal) as man-portable television sets and the like.  Yet, as we entered the camping goods store, we discover something different.  There were straightway so many early(a) shoddy goods on sale in the store.  uncalled-for to say, since we had a limited budget, we were overjoyed to realize that we could now splurge on a few more than â€Å"essential” items for our camping trip.\r\nAt the check out counter, we had purchased so many other extra goods.  off from th e basics such as a tent, flashlight, lamp, quiescence bag and disposable dinner ware, we had overly purchased a portable television set, receiving set speakers and electric beginning.\r\nAs anyone would have guessed, these additional luxury items were made in China.  We never expected that we could buy all these things at a fraction of the price that the same American goods were sold.  In fact, the thing that surprised us the around was the proliferation of these goods into almost every camping goods store in the vicinity. The real lesson on the impact of the United States and China trade relationship was not to be experient until the camping trip itself.\r\nThe first few proceedings of the trip were relatively uneventful.  We unpacked the items and assigned members to handle the setting up of the various items such as the generator and the tents.  As soon as the basics were set up, we decided to give our new gadgets a go, so to speak.  The first item to screw up was the portable television.  After several minutes of trying to happen the right signal, the television set decided that it was also a toaster and it began to emit smoke from the merchant ship panel.  It was not long originally the sparks started to fly.\r\nMuch to ours surprise, the radio speakers soon followed suit, dangerously close to the sleeping bags.  wish clockwork, the generator also followed suit and soon all our made in China goods were either weed or ablaze.\r\nWe were unexpended with none of the luxuries that we wanted and only when the basic goods that we required for our camping trip.  While a few embers had fallen on the sleeping bags and the tents, they were left relatively un-singed.  The relatively expensive goods by compare that were made in the United States lasted while the cheap goods from China had broken down even before we had begun to use them.\r\nIt was that moment that I realized what was really going on in the United States an d China trade relationship from an economic and political head of view.  The influx of cheap Chinese goods was a declaration of the open trade relations that allowed these goods to enter.  The expanded statistical distribution was caused by the relatively low prices that these goods had.\r\nI also realized that these things were necessary because trade relations pretty much govern the political relations that countries have with each other.  In order for the United States to solicit into the market of China, certain concession had to be made such as allowing trade reciprocity.  The cost of such deals, however, can really be experienced by the normal people such as me.  As the law of supply and demand shows, cheaper is not really better and quality comes at a price.  This I\r\n'