"This year we can buy German things, and American things, and Japanese things, and things from other places all over the world, but we cannot buy things from China," I tell him.

今年我们可以买德国的、美国的、日本的、甚至全世界的东西，但就是不能买中国的。

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Philippine people can buy salmon on Norway. Norway people can sell things to Argentina. Argentina can buy and sell to China.

菲律宾人可以买到挪威的鲑鱼，挪威人可以将产品卖到阿根廷，阿根廷人可以买中国的产品，也可以将产品卖到中国。

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While China is going to continue to buy things, it doesn't mean they're going to buy them from us necessarily even though the dollar has gone down a great deal Student: Thank you. This is my last question.

虽然中国还将会继续购买原产品,但那并不意味着他们必须得从我们这买,即使美元已经,大幅度地贬值了,学生：谢谢，这是我最后一个问题。

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No developed world government can afford to claim this because the west simply cannot make its own goods anymore and borrows much of its money from China just to buy the things it needs from China.

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At the time China was so poor, could people afford to buy things?

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