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It's no surprise. Even if Apple or Amazon wanted to resist this, they won't get any competent support from the current US administration. The strategy for the t

It's no surprise. Even if Apple or Amazon wanted to resist this, they won't get any competent support from the current US administration. The strategy for the time being seems to be "don't rock the boat" for US businesses right now.

rasz 9y ago
Strategy has always been dont rock the boat, just as during dismantling of US car industry, or TV industry. Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c
- adventured 9y ago
  > just as during dismantling of US car industry GM and Ford sales: $317 billion Dismantling, no. What actually happened, is the global market for automobiles drastically expanded from ~1960 forward with globalization and equally dramatic increases in the global median standard of living. Ford and GM didn't get dismantled, they gained a large number of new, competent international competitors that divided up a radically larger global pie. Further, see: automobile production within the US by Toyota et al. which is vast. That counts as part of the US car industry.
ams6110 9y ago
What? Why do they need support from the adminstration. Either they do business in China, and implicity endorse all the anti-freedom, or they do not. Sure it would cost them revenue and share price. Well right and wrong are not economic propositions.
- lstroud 9y ago
  Seems like we've had these Engagement vs Isolation conversations before in the US.
- radicaldreamer 9y ago
  Because even the largest companies (especially the largest companies) rely heavily on the organs of government to help negotiate and solve issues which are geopolitical in nature. A cursory reading of some leaked state department cables or any analysis of how statecraft works shows that business and government work together to pressure and negotiate over things which affect multinational companies.

rasz 9y ago

Strategy has always been dont rock the boat, just as during dismantling of US car industry, or TV industry. Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c

adventured 9y ago
> just as during dismantling of US car industry GM and Ford sales: $317 billion Dismantling, no. What actually happened, is the global market for automobiles drastically expanded from ~1960 forward with globalization and equally dramatic increases in the global median standard of living. Ford and GM didn't get dismantled, they gained a large number of new, competent international competitors that divided up a radically larger global pie. Further, see: automobile production within the US by Toyota et al. which is vast. That counts as part of the US car industry.

ams6110 9y ago

What? Why do they need support from the adminstration. Either they do business in China, and implicity endorse all the anti-freedom, or they do not. Sure it would cost them revenue and share price. Well right and wrong are not economic propositions.

lstroud 9y ago
Seems like we've had these Engagement vs Isolation conversations before in the US.
radicaldreamer 9y ago
Because even the largest companies (especially the largest companies) rely heavily on the organs of government to help negotiate and solve issues which are geopolitical in nature. A cursory reading of some leaked state department cables or any analysis of how statecraft works shows that business and government work together to pressure and negotiate over things which affect multinational companies.