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I am currently in China on holiday and saw a Windows 7 screen on one of the monitors in a train station which reminded me that the world's entire IT infrastruct
by dustinmoris 7y ago
I am currently in China on holiday and saw a Windows 7 screen on one of the monitors in a train station which reminded me that the world's entire IT infrastructure is mostly powered by Windows, Apple or Linux, which is all entirely in the hands of the US. Android and iOS are the most wide spread mobile operating systems, so basically the US being in control of the world's entire software in an ever growing digital world. This plus the revelations of the NSA spying on everyone in the world, trying to introduce secret backdoors in US vendors software and having a huge impact on which cryptographic algorithms are being NIST approved and therefore distributed and implemented across most programming languages makes the US a MUCH MUCH larger threat to any other country's national security. Particularly when the US is also known to fabricate news like countries having secret mass destruction weapons which somehow can never be found after a complete destruction of a country through unprovoked war. Yet the news headlines are somehow worried about Huawei?
I'm not saying it's unjustified, but I like to put things into perspective when observing geopolitical developments, their impact and what really is going on..
The truth is that China will inevitably overtake the US as the largest economy in the world soon and that pisses the Americas off.. so now they want to stall the Chinese economy as much as possible, but being in China right now and seeing how they are literally not dependent on anyone but themselves I can promise that all efforts are wasted. I'm not a huge fan of the totalitarian communist government in China, but so far I have not felt threatened by them, whereas I feel my personal freedom and privacy has been violated constantly by the US and US companies.
- elamje 7y agoChina is dependent on exports to keep the economy moving along.