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At what point will the US stop tolerating Chinese attacks on US companies?
by yincrash 12y ago
At what point will the US stop tolerating Chinese attacks on US companies?
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoWhat do you mean by "stop tolerating"? Declare war?
- yincrash 12y agoThere are other diplomatic avenues besides declaring war.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoWhat, sanctions? The US is totally reliant on China for manufacturing. You'd grind the West, and China, to a halt.
- shaftoe 12y agoSo we roll over to a bully?
- yincrash 12y agoWe can start with the US publicly blaming China for the attacks. Public consciousness does a lot by itself.
- yellowapple 12y agoOne can still use a hammer even if I break his kneecaps with it beforehand. China is just as reliant on the West as the West is reliant on China. The use of that as leverage doesn't have to be limited to one side of that equation.
- justaman 12y agoThings will become worse before they become better.
- SEJeff 12y agoI suspect at the time one or the other puts their foot in the sand, that it will escalate to a conventional war. Let us hope that day never ever happens. It would be awful for both sides no matter the "winner". As I learned from spending a year as a UAV Pilot in Iraq from 2003-2004, in war, as soon as a single person on either side is injured, both sides permanently lose. There is no real "winner". Just one side that loses less.
- ams6110 12y agoThat's quite clearly not literally true.
- ukigumo 12y agoUnless you can make the case that risking commercial relations with the current largest economy in the world over these attacks makes sense... I would say never.
- rmc 12y agoThe US has regularly attacked non-US companies and people, mostly by spying on them.
- camhenlin 12y agoI agree. It would be nice to see the president or some government official at least publicly acknowledge that a US-based company is currently under attack by the Chinese government.