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Not quite. They just don’t care what anybody else thinks outside of game theory analysis of how they will act. If the country was a person, we’d label their pe
by koolba 5y ago
Not quite. They just don’t care what anybody else thinks outside of game theory analysis of how they will act.
If the country was a person, we’d label their personality as a high functioning manipulative sociopath.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoAnd yet, we don’t do what is best practice for dealing with such an actor: disengage. We (the US primarily, but also the rest of the developed world) have a tremendous opportunity with a still productive labor force and cheap capital to boot up manufacturing capacity we offshored to China, and we won’t have the chance again when China decides to act against other countries (economically or militarily).
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoDisengaging takes a while. If there's a strong desire to avoid things going kinetic, it takes even longer. I feel as though the post-Obama era of US politics is oscillating around the best amount of caution WRT avoiding a hot war with China.