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The Berry Amendment (not agreement) applies to military spending with the focus on maintaining an industrial base. The Chinese list is much broader and you'd be
by Steltek 5y ago
The Berry Amendment (not agreement) applies to military spending with the focus on maintaining an industrial base. The Chinese list is much broader and you'd be crazy to argue that China needs to take steps to maintain its industrial base. The article has this (incomplete) list:
- medical equipment
- ground-based radar equipment
- testing machinery
- optical instruments
- items used for animal husbandry
- seismic instruments
- marine, geological and geophysical equipment
Free trade is a bit of a joke anyway when talking about China when so many businesses are owned, to varying degrees, by the state. Reciprocal restrictions against China should have been put in place a long time ago, especially around environmental sustainability.
- trasz 5y agoIndeed, the Berry Amendment applies to everything sponsored by the military, including things like research grants. In comparison, the Chinese regulations discussed here only apply to fraction of its spending. As for being state owned - there’s no real difference between state owned and “technically private, but entirely dependent on government funding”.
- eptcyka 5y agoDidn't the states try that at the start of Trumps presidency?