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>my guess is it originated with people that weren't thinking at all about politics How is everything you just described not "politics"? In fact it is the epito
by PKop 5y ago
>my guess is it originated with people that weren't thinking at all about politics
How is everything you just described not "politics"? In fact it is the epitome of political action, and this doesn't make it of lower quality thinking. China has been identified as geopolitical adversary, and all decisions flow from that distinction.
"The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy." - Carl Schmitt
They took what had been viewed as simply a free market, or technology, or economic competition and applied "politics" to it.
- parsimo2010 5y agoI’m pretty sure GP meant that whoever in the USA started the push to eliminate Huawei equipment wasn’t thinking in terms of American party politics- as in, this didn’t arise during the Trump administration because Trump wanted to look tough on China, it arose because some American government researcher discovered some backdoors when Trump happened to be president. The whistle was blown not to give one party an edge out talking point, but because the researcher wanted to help their country. So political in the USA vs. China sense, but not political in the commonly used Republicans vs Democrats sense.