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This is all about the trade war. The espionage pretext is just that: a pretext. US wants to keep everybody hostage to its military, its technology and its econo
by thefounder 7y ago
This is all about the trade war. The espionage pretext is just that: a pretext. US wants to keep everybody hostage to its military, its technology and its economy.
This is not something new. The only change is that now the US admin uses a kind of zero tolerance policy and I believe it will fire back.
The free trade is replaced by America First trade: we have the biggest military power and economy so you do it our way or you deal with the consequences.
Personally I believe the policy reflects Trump's personality.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoWhile I agree with you, I would also like to point out that to protect our economy President George W Bush’s administration came up with the ‘axis of evil’ to economically fight three oil producing countries who had announced willingness to trade oil for currencies other than the US dollar. I think this is close to the same thing, really. Using our military might and pressure on allies to maintain an advantage. I personally believe that we must spend less on our military and more on education, new technologies, more efficient industrial systems, have firm but fair laws governing corporations. Capitalism can work long term if we have laws that are guardrails on what corporations can do and fight hard to be competitive with other countries on merits, not coercion.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoNorth Korea produces oil? Iran and Iraq, I totally agree, but DPKR is a snub to China.