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No mapping, no access to our markets for anything mapping related. Fair's fair!
by gaius 9y ago
No 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)