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I wonder how many Chinese-manufactured goods the state of Montana bought yesterday while issuing this statement.
by woooooo 3y ago
I wonder how many Chinese-manufactured goods the state of Montana bought yesterday while issuing this statement.
- throwuwu 3y agoTrading with your adversaries is a good way to not start a war.
- jeswin 3y agoA $250b/year trade deficit will weaken you over time while you might just be kicking the can down the road. The generation having to fight the war will have lesser chances of winning it. Trade (especially massively imbalanced trade) with a communist dictatorship is not a good idea.
- drekk 3y ago“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
- dkarl 3y agoIt can cut both ways, though. If your primary source for a crucial resource is a country that could potentially benefit from harming you, that can be strategically intolerable and eventually lead to finding an excuse to start a war.
- 99_00 3y agoCan state how your wondering is relavant or what argument or point you are alluding to?
- xeromal 3y agoI've you've never had to do business with people you don't like, color me impressed
- jobs_throwaway 3y agoPeople you don't like =/= adversaries
- bioemerl 3y agoChinese subsidy and abuse of global trade systems is a big part of what makes them an adversary.
- oh_sigh 3y agoThe $5/dozen t-shirt has little possibility of collecting private data and sending it to the mother ship
- runarberg 3y agoHow does a hypothetical data collection warrant a ban, while a real illegal data collection associated with illegal voter manipulation and illegal campaign financing, like the Cambridge Analytica—a British company—scandal, doesn’t?
- stale2002 3y agoSounds like a problem. I guess we need more laws like this then to solve it, then.
- TrueGeek 3y ago"the People's Republic of China is an adversary of the United States" - sent from my iPhone
- bioemerl 3y agoThey threaten regularly to go to war with us over Taiwan. People before WW1 thought war was impossible thanks to how the economy was so interconnected. Russia invaded Ukraine despite how tied they were to Europe economically. To suggest China can't be an adversary just because we trade is a blunder made many times in history, and it fails, time and time again. Don't fall for it.
- px43 3y agoNo one is saying that China can't be an adversary. People are saying that maybe US politicians shouldn't be blatantly labeling them as an adversary just to score some sinophobic rageporn points with Fox News viewers.
- bioemerl 3y ago> No one is saying that China can't be an adversary. I think anyone who says they aren't is lying to themselves. This is a far bigger trend than just some fox News viewers. Opposition to China has become bilateral and is very well supported by most in America. You can only spend so long pretending to be a friend while also opposing the United States in basically every possible way until the United States wakes up and calls the quacking thing a duck. Seeing reality, we are burning bridges. TikTok is one of those bridges. The chip export bans are another. Expect them to continue until China's trade with America resembles our trade with the soviets in the 80s.
- woooooo 3y agoThey're mostly the same country they were 10 years ago. Compare the media coverage then and now -- they didn't change, we just ran out of war on terror and needed a new enemy.
- px43 3y agoI'd love to see what would happen if Walmart got banned in the same way.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoThings are changing. Today I went to buy a water bottle. Name brand, made in China: $8. Generic, made in USA: $4.