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Just that two ships are departing from a location does not mean they heading in the same direction. It is true that both the EU and China are swiftly heading a
by ATsch 5y ago
Just that two ships are departing from a location does not mean they heading in the same direction.
It is true that both the EU and China are swiftly heading away from this unprecedented era of technology companies being able to act as they please abroad without impunity. It is an era that the US, which benefits from this arrangement greatly, understandably does not want to leave.
But what matters is why they are doing this, not that they are doing it. And in that regard it is much harder to find similarities.
- nickpp 5y ago
- ATsch 5y ago"protectionism" is morally neutral to anyone except a hegemon. A nation can decide to protect itself from free expression and abolition of slavery just as it can protect itself from unsafe food imports and price dumping. It all depends on who is being protected from what.
- nickpp 5y agoYou know exactly what kind of protectionism we are talking about here: economic protectionism. The kind that has to be employed by a decaying empire whose populist, anti-entrepreneurial, anti-business and anti-innovation policies led to it losing the high-tech race and now instead of working together for progress is walling itself off to dream of the memory of its lost glory.
- kergonath 5y agoYou will have a very hard time arguing that the EU is more protectionist than the US.