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Except that isn't happening in Brazil, let alone every other country. Instead we will have more hot air and stoking of jingoism from politicians. At the end of
by pekk 13y ago
Except that isn't happening in Brazil, let alone every other country. Instead we will have more hot air and stoking of jingoism from politicians. At the end of the day everyone including the US is always buying huge piles of electronics from China, which is also big and scary - and yet their industry does not magically go belly up. Usually meeting requirements at a decent price is a higher priority than whatever elicits extreme angst from Hacker News.
- jeltz 13y ago> Usually meeting requirements at a decent price is a higher priority than whatever elicits extreme angst from Hacker News. Your comment would have been stronger without the quip against people at HN. As you can see from all the hot air from politicians this is not localized to HN.
- outworlder 13y agoExcept that, while China is "big and scary", it's not proven to have launched a spy campaign on the same scale. Sure, they have tried to hack the US on multiple occasions, but that's geopolitics, and very different from selling bugged devices.
- pekk 13y agoChina has been documented engaging in state-sponsored industrial espionage on a number of occasions. To write off everything they do as "geopolitics" and not to do the same with the US is a non sequitur.