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Maybe sports teams are a horrible way to think about it.

• deogeo 7y ago
  Sports teams is putting things lightly. It's a bad idea to let your industries fail, while your rival's grow at your expense. You can already see what happens to those over whom China gains influence - economic power is a large part of that.
  • yourbandsucks 7y ago
    If a Chinese family goes from a 3rd-world life to a modern one, is that a relative loss for America? In sports, it would be. Yes, we should be firm about our interests. No, we shouldn't be obsessed with some 'score' -- or if we are, maybe channel it towards fixing our own house.
    • deogeo 7y ago
      And if a Chinese airplane manufacturer out-competes a US one, causing it to fail, its workers go unemployed, weakening the US economy, and making it more dependent on China? How long does an average company last, if it gives away all its IP and know-how? Why should the result differ on the scale of countries? I assumed these dynamics are obvious to everyone.
      • yourbandsucks 7y ago
        A wise company with secret sauce wouldn't give it away. If our corporate culture is pathologically short-term-obsessed, that's on us. It's not on the 'bad guys' who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.
        • deogeo 7y ago
          Being the victim of espionage isn't 'giving it away' - but I see you're being deliberately obtuse.
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      • nicoburns 7y ago
        > And if a Chinese airplane manufacturer out-competes a US one, causing it to fail, its workers go unemployed, weakening the US economy, and making it more dependent on China? This won't happen, because despite the US's public insistence that free markets should be enforced everywhere, it is in fact quite protectionist over several of its industries, aerospace being one of them.