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> I don’t understand how American startups can take money from China, or how Google and others can work with them. They’re in a soft war with us, have a 100 yea
by president 8y ago
> I don’t understand how American startups can take money from China, or how Google and others can work with them. They’re in a soft war with us, have a 100 year plan yet we’re all so naive.
This is what happens when people stop caring about their country and only about themselves.
- disinfo_chk 8y agoI might even expand beyond "country"-- we have worldwide a loose set of alliances between lots of liberal-democratic, often Western (but also including Japan, South Korea, South Africa Ukraine Poland to some extent) countries, that have a long and/or stable history of democratic governance. "This is what happens when people stop caring about democratic governance and society, and care only about themselves."
- khuey 8y agoThis is largely ancillary to your point but I don't think that Washington, London, Paris, etc consider South Africa and Ukraine to be members of that club.
- sanxiyn 8y agoI was born in South Korea under dictatorship. (South Korea democratized in 1987.) It makes me so happy that South Korea now "has a long and/or stable history of democratic governance".