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The world is going full steam-on to WWIII :-( — If gentlemen lose, they change the rules of the game. This is basically your average read-between-the-lines tr
by piskov 1y ago
The world is going full steam-on to WWIII :-(
— If gentlemen lose, they change the rules of the game.
This is basically your average read-between-the-lines translation, given the recent context of Nexperia, Huawei, Tiktok, Chinese car import tariffs, what have you:
If we were the ones who invented processors, iPhones, and all the rest — then you, oh the slant-eyed ones, are expected to fork over the cash.
We, the mighty Anglo-Saxons, labored and sowed, and we deserve our reward. As for you, the slovenly types — you may keep 10% of the price for assembly, another 20% for components, and the rest goes straight to the casino’s profits.
But if you come up with your own processors, stop buying ours, and even start making your own batteries, software, or cars — then you’re expected to hand over all the technology behind them. We’ll decide for ourselves what to make, in what quantities, and whether we’ll even pay you anything at all. Meanwhile, if you dare bring your goods to our markets — well then, you’ll pay us with your inventions.
- saubeidl 1y agoThe EU is not Anglo-Saxon. This is just a mirror of what has long been Chinese policy - and how they grew to the power they are in the first place.
- piskov 1y agoThat is why I mentioned tiktok or huawei: let’s call it the usual pax americana. As for the mirror angle, well, I am not saying it is wrong. Just amused by the hypocrisy of how easily notions of free market and what have you are thrown out of the window at the first whiff of burning.
- saubeidl 1y agoI think notions of free markets have been a grand failed experiment and I'm glad we're finally starting to move on.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoFree markets have been one for the most successful and positively transforming thing that has ever happened. There is no absolute and regulations are needed, and functioning markets not always exist, but overall the free market is a massive success. Just in the 20th century you can compare how countries that rejected free markets and market economy in general fared compared to those based on a market economy...
- saubeidl 1y agoCompare the trajectory of China to the trajectory of the US in the 21st century.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoChina failed, like others, when it rejected the market economy. It started to boom after it made reforms to embrace it. The free market is thriving in China. The US have done very well economically in the 21th century, too.
- redisbad 1y agoYou're talking to a russian dog who barks as kremlin orders