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What kind of response would you like to see from the West?
by SteveGregory 9y ago
What kind of response would you like to see from the West?
- Retric 9y agoTit for tat tends to work really well. The west is in a vastly better position to exploit a trade war with China than China is. Thus, China is more likely to back down when pushed. Remember, a little give and take keeps players honest. Without that their is not reason for China not to try and bend the rules as much as possible.
- it_learnses 9y agoYep. We just need to unite major players such as USA, Canada, Japan, India, Australia who are being threatened by Chinese practices and declare a trade war. Sanction the hell out of them to make them realize that their govt can't bully the rest of the world population.
- wavefunction 9y agoMaybe something like the TPP without all the corporatist nonsense included.
- gaius 9y agoNo mapping, no access to our markets for anything mapping related. Fair's fair!
- Eridrus 9y agoAre there enough Chinese companies doing mapping related things for this to be relevant? There are legitimate security reasons to restrict maps, so this seems unlikely to be something easy to mobilise a larger trade war over.
- gaius 9y agoWell, anything with a GPS in. The value of those devices in the West largely derives from there already being map data for them to use.
- Chaebixi 9y ago> Are there enough Chinese companies doing mapping related things for this to be relevant? The sanctions wouldn't have need to be in the exact same area, just ones that would cause equivalent pain.
- jstanley 9y agoStop seeing countries as single coherent actors. The best thing to do is for as many governments as possible to stay out of as many people's affairs as possible. Just because the Chinese government is stopping Alice from mapping Chinese roads doesn't mean your government should stop Bob from buying Chinese maps. Why should your government punish Bob just because the Chinese government punished Alice? Alice and Bob don't even know each other.
- gaius 9y agoLike it or not, countries do exist and are the framework on which commerce is built. Bob will need to shop elsewhere and Alice will need to confront her government over their policies costing her lost sales (if she is Chinese)
- petre 9y agoBlock Chinese companies from doing certain things, require licenses etc.