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Oh I dunno to simultaneously give Chinese tech companies a huge boost while more or less ending one of the US’s most valuable companies? They could easily argu

• mastercheif 3y ago
  They haven’t done it because it would trigger the equivalent of an economic nuclear war. Mutually assured economic destruction. It would also cause every tech company in the western (and western aligned) world to leave China for good.
  • pupppet 3y ago
    But where will they move to? We’ve put all our eggs in one basket, it’ll be a very long time before India can take China’s place. I find it very strange there aren’t more people ringing the alarm bells about how we’ve positioned China to have the west by the short hairs.
    • salad-tycoon 3y ago
      I’ve brought it up in regards to the many generic drugs that huge swaths of the population rely on. People just look at me like I’m wearing a tin foil hat.
• audunw 3y ago
  > Oh I dunno to simultaneously give Chinese tech companies a huge boost USA could end Chinese chip production as a retaliation, since they are still dependent on US and European manufacturing machines that they can’t operate on their own. It’d take a decade to catch up and make their own manufacturing equipment. In the meantime they’d make themselves essentially irrelevant to the world if they can’t be relied upon for doing contract manufacturing. There are many such areas where China would be more hurt be economic decoupling than USA.