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<\/p>\nAbout twenty years ago, my lifelong friend sent me from Harare, a suitcase full of our daughter Mariana’s “Barbie\u201d dolls, which could not fit in our luggage when we moved out of Zimbabwe. Beautiful, slender dolls with blond long hair, dressed in bright clothes for all occasions, from the beach to the weddings, have been the dream of girls all over the world for decades. A dream produced in China, first for the richest market in the world, USA, and then for millions of girls around the world, who practiced hairstyles on that doll, changed her dresses, shoes, prepared her kitchen, rooms… all living with the doll, a vision of life in pink.<\/p>\n
The global American-Chinese \u201cBarbie dream\u201d lasted for decades. In our case, Marijana’s \u201cBarbie\u201d dolls are still played with by our granddaughter Mia: they two sometimes bathe them neatly together, dry their hair, talking about how beautiful everything is when you are as beautiful as a doll.<\/p>\n
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In the meantime, \u201cBarbie\u201d\u2014era was accompanied by a carefully encouraged desire to own as many and as many different dolls as possible, as well as the other, much newer and “modern models” of children’s toys in original, or copy-versions.<\/p>\n
This is how it turned out that that America by far the largest and the most lucrative market in the world, along the way became also the largest global debtor. The national debt of the USA amounted to 36,211,469 million US dollars in June this year.<\/p>\n
Of course, not only because of \u201cBarbie craze\u201d, but because of the setting of the world order in which American consumer has grown into a seemingly fickle buyer of goods from all over the world, often regardless of price. Among other things, thanks to His Majesty “credit”.<\/p>\n
That phase of the history of the modern world, nurtured since the end of the Second World War, seems to be ending right at this time. And, it is by decision of the US President Donald Trump, who not so long ago explained the radical turn in the trade relationship of the US with China and the rest of the world, precisely on the example of children’s dolls.<\/p>\n
“All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls…I don’t think a beautiful girl – who’s 11 – needs 30 dolls. I think she can have three or four dolls because what we did with China was just unbelievable .” the 47th President of the USA said this spring.<\/p>\n
On the path of America\u2014China\u2019s likely dramatic confrontation, US leader started the customs revolution in April, which from August 7th becomes a new reality, not only for 69 countries of the world, but also in an unprecedented way, for American consumers.<\/p>\n
Namely, American importers will now be forced to allocate more money for the purchase of foreign goods (depending of content an origin), which millions of consumers in the USA until yesterday considered an integral part of their everyday life. Will one be able to do without the other?<\/p>\n
Perhaps it could be said that US President Donald Trump thinks it’s time for “Barbie\u2014America” to grow up. As well as her numerous supporters of decades-long consumer frenzy.<\/p>\n
It could be, really, a moment when a whole New World is in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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