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This is one view. Another view is that maintaining economic interdependence between countries — aside from making both countries richer via specialization and c
by javanissen 1mo ago
This is one view. Another view is that maintaining economic interdependence between countries — aside from making both countries richer via specialization and comparative advantage — is a great way to incentivize cooperation and prevent them from killing each other.
Examples here: https://www.hoover.org/research/when-trade-wars-become-shooting-wars https://www.hoover.org/research/when-trade-wars-become-shoot...
- inigyou 1mo agoNeeds to be two-way though. What if we rely on China, but they don't rely on us? Well then they can destroy us at any moment. It needs to be MAD to be a deterrent.
- senderista 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
- otterley 1mo agoOK, so someone wrote a book and was wrong at the time. Times change. It's like saying in 2003 that nobody should launch a social network because the first one, Six Degrees, failed to take off. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com)
- edgyquant 1mo agoRegardless the analogy of grocery shopping falls apart and shows a total lack of understanding the other sides worldview