Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
Americans forget that they have a population of 330 million and other countries have much lower populations like France's 65 million. I'm in Canada which has a population of 37.5 million.
Think of what would happen to the video businesses in France, if the Disney Plus service was free to dump all its content on its channel--those businesses would collapse. Pretty soon all the content in France would be coming from the United States. That's a cultural invasion.
Countries with a much smaller population can't compete against the influx of American products, without some kind of protection for their homegrown businnesses. If they don't have some barriers to American competition, they will have no businesses or cultures of their own. A free marektplace over the whole world would have forced a global American sameness on the world long ago.
Of course, Americans perceive these boundaries as unfair and impose penalties--and that's how you get a trade war. Economies of scale being what they are, with a population of over 1.4 billion people, China could soon overwhelm the United States with its products--unless the USA has its own protections against foreign competition.