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Thinks that China is an enemy government when the USA and China do 500 billion dollars worth of trade each year.
by ludston 2y ago
Thinks that China is an enemy government when the USA and China do 500 billion dollars worth of trade each year.
- curt15 2y agoWhich friendly governments steal secrets about premier weapon systems like F-22, F-35, etc?
- snapcaster 2y agoevery single one. please examine where you got the idea that everything china does is bad and if it's a useful belief for you to hold (and if not, who is it useful for?)
- mrguyorama 2y agoAirbus famously has stolen reams of Boeing secrets.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoLiterally all of them. That's what happens when you build the best weapons.
- coldtea 2y agoAlmost all? Of course one has to differentiate between "friendly" and subordinate semi-protectorates.
- hnfong 2y agoThis friendly government? https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-spy-agency-tapped-german-chancellery-for-decades-wikileaks-idUSKCN0PI2AD/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-spy-agency-tapped-g...
- pas 2y agoUkraine and Russia also continues to trade gas. Countries pay Gazprom and Ukraine charges Gazprom for transit. Life is not black and white. See also https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now/ https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now/
- ludston 2y agoYeah it's the lack of black and whiteness that makes me so confused as to why you would brand the government of a 1 billion person nation as an enemy rather than say, a competitor or even an ally that behaves in occasionally intolerable ways. Kind of like how a lot of nations continue to be allies with a nation that goes around invading other nations and deposing legitimately elected governments in the interest of ore and fossil fuel companies.
- pas 2y agoI think the useful model for this is that currently there's a competition between the naval powers and the land powers, which is rapidly heating up. (Due to the last decades of very high rate of economic growth of China.) https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=7765 https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=7765 Maritime order (basically a trade alliance, if you join you have more chance to influence it, win-win) and the continental order (buffer zone, extractive/authoritarian, negative-sum). Of course as the competition is getting fierce one seems to borrow from the other. (Russia is funding itself and its war from trade. And China sold market access in exchange for technology.) And the US is now transitioning from soft-power to pay up or you are out. (Balance of trade, NATO contributions, etc.)
- ltbarcly3 2y agoName one single other country that we trade with that has an official policy that it owns another country we trade with, and insists that if we say out loud the other country is a country it means immediate war?
- tw1984 2y ago> has an official policy that it owns another country we trade with, and insists that if we say out loud the other country is a country it means immediate war? there is a cost for maintaining the US hegemony, Taiwan is being used as an excuse to maximize such cost for the US - China gets to choose when and how to increase tensions, the US has to react accordingly and spend more and more borrowed resources as responses. that is the official policy, a smart one.