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> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ban fish and the man gets into farming and animal husbandry a
by tivert 2y ago
> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ban fish and the man gets into farming and animal husbandry and doesn't need you anymore.
Eh, you're misusing the saying in an inappropriate way. It's about fostering self-sufficiency in people you want to help. It's not really applicable to rivals and enemies.
In this case, the hubris of the 1990s cause the US to get into this relationship with China, and now that's going to have to unwind somehow (and doing that in a 5-D chess way is unrealistic). And anyway, it's not like China's goal was to remain dependent on Western tech forever, it's plan is to become self-sufficient on its own terms on its own timetable, and the best the US can hope to achieve is cause some disruption and mess that timetable up.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoYou're framing this as if China growing economically were a bad thing for the US. The US engaged in trade with China because from an economic perspective, that was mutually beneficial. This helped China to grow economically, which is only a "problem" if your view is that the US should politically dominate the globe indefinitely. Unwinding the economic relationship between China and the US would be immensely damaging to both, but American politicians bent on maintaining American hegemony might attempt such a thing.