[Britwrench]

Very true, they are winning, but at the expense of most industrial countries. Every country is competing for oil and steel. It all comes back to what the comsumer thinks and does. I don't see that can be regulated without a nationalistic type of education and advertising campaign, which would have to include all countries that export to the US (and Europe) that are, in the end, not friends or have politic "issues". And there a lot of them.

Germany is part of the EU which holds a fairly substantial US debt.