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This isnt about free will, its a clear indication that the US is not the worlds most important economy anymore.
by ProAm 7y ago
This isnt about free will, its a clear indication that the US is not the worlds most important economy anymore.
- Ensorceled 7y agoNo, this is companies betting that the few percent of the American market they are losing by behaving this way will be outweighed by getting access to the Chinese market. If this was a straight-up choice between only the US market or only the Chinese market, they would be picking the US. Protestors have to change that calculus.
- jorvi 7y agoDepending on the year either the EU or the USA are the biggest economy with China being either second or third. So long as 'the west' sticks together (which we haven't for the past few years) there is nothing that can break that hegemony. Whether that's a good thing depends largely on where you live.
- 0xffff2 7y agoSo far no one has had to choose. If the US started sanctioning US companies that took these kinds of actions, then we'd find out as companies either reversed their decisions or fled the US.
- SubiculumCode 7y agoApple is a U.S. entity. It would cease to exist if the U.S. government chose.
- 0xffff2 7y agoAnd so far the U.S. government hasn't even chosen to take much less drastic measures, which was my point.