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Justifications are meaningless. The US wants to curtail Chinese influence and power, so it finds some mumbo-jumbo to justify it.
by rapsey 6y ago
Justifications are meaningless. The US wants to curtail Chinese influence and power, so it finds some mumbo-jumbo to justify it.
- Sangama34 6y agoTomorrow this exact mumbo jumbo will be used against "California" companies and "New York" companies.
- rapsey 6y agoBy the Chinese? They have been strong arming western companies for decades. The price of doing business in China has always been severe.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoNo, the implication is that this would be done by Trump.
- rapsey 6y agoThat is an absurd notion entirely inconsistent with the history of US gov actions. It does everything to protect the corporations and nothing for the greater population.
- wonnage 6y agoJoke's on you, all companies are Delaware companies
- dumbfoundded 6y agoI think you mean Irish companies. They just have large Delaware based subsidiaries.
- chillacy 6y agoThis plays right into China's narrative. Now the arrest of Meng Wanzhou (Huawei CTO) starts to look a bit less principled and a bit more like a piece of realpolitik. I think it's definitely justified in the sense that it's understandable to strike back, but it's hard to take a moral high ground now.
- mlindner 6y agoBut only China believes China's narrative... Just ask any of China's neighbors. Philippines is reversing course of late even though they were trying to get closer to China, for example.
- logicchains 6y agoI'm in Singapore and most of my colleagues here view the US as the bad guy in all this.
- chillacy 6y agoOut of curiosity I dug up some of the research, at least as of 6 months ago (haven't found anything more recent) it's fair to say that overall APAC leans towards "unfavorable" in its attitude towards China. Favorability is down double digits from 2018 in APAC (though strangely up double digits in parts of europe). So "only china believes china's narrative" isn't super technically correct but I think the general sentiment is accurate. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/12/05/attitudes-toward-china-2019/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/12/05/attitudes-towa...
- bananaface 6y agoThe arrest of Meng Wanzhou was never meant to seem legitimate imo, the point was power projection. "Don't fuck with us." I don't think the moral high ground means much in geopolitics. Power is way more important. "Better not curtail us, it'll make you seem mean..." This is the US we're talking about, known around the world for turning half the middle east into a desert. That's really not their primary concern.
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