Indeed. Diplomacy involves, among others, convincing necessary domestic political constituencies that your actions are necessary and desirable. That even exporting US corporates which will move heaven and earth with litigation and lobbying to stop even small regulations, but won’t even lift a finger to stop their entire businesses in China from getting vaporized just shows that the U.S. has been able to placate or silence constituencies that would otherwise lobby for improved relations, meaning that the entirety of U.S.-China relations are managed entirely from DC, due to excellent political engineering and public diplomacy. Even doubly so for foreign audiences who are incredibly deferential to the U.S. and will often copy the U.S. word for word (like Canada this morning and the EVs) regardless of the harm they may be causing to their domestic political constituencies.
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Allowing 1000 top tier researchers that were basically given further training at IBM's expense, for IBM salaries, producing nothing of value to China since all the IP went back to the US, to now contribute their knowledge to China, is truly a devastating move.
How will China ever recover?
years ago.
Western finance has a profoundly warped concept of how the world works. They think divesting makes the human and industrial capital their investment produced instamagically disappear. The part where Chinese companies pick up these assets eludes them.
They are not really. Americans like themselves for the same reason nazi Germans liked themselves. Because they're scared of retribution once the evil government is deposed, so they close ranks around their government, in full knowledge of how evil they really are.
If you just bother to pressure them a little more on their views, you'll quickly see that they are completely anti human rights and anti freedom, only using it as thinnest loincloth to not make themselves look too monstrous... Or for some, to mock the victims.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
You've confused diplomacy with the waning final hours of hard power dominance. America's terrible at diplomacy; the things they say are stupid and not believable but simply adds to it that," You better believe it or you can believe these sanctions." That works with some mentally caged weaker countries (Western Europeans, Japan, Korea, etc...) but the times when it doesn't work are many as well, whether it be because the US tried to intimidate a country with nerves of steel (North Korea, Cuba, Venzuela, etc...) or that the power dynamic is not enough (China, Russia). Everything collapses on America's "diplomacy" when its power dominance is overrun by China.
Here's an example of how stupid it is when America tries to convince someone: in 2011-2014, when American athletes were caught competing after positive doping tests, USADA's excuse to WADA is that it let these athletes go undercover to catch other doping athletes. It's become the joke of the sporting world for retarded excuses but WADA had to accept it because of the power dynamic. The power dynamic has changed in a decade apparently so WADA blew USADA's cover.
supercat
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The Telegram was loved by France/the West before it's hated by the same Western regimes.
If America's "China experts" are so ignorant that they believe what Chinese dissidents say, then the US regime has no hope in its competition with China.
If America's "China experts" are so ignorant that they believe what Chinese dissidents say, then the US regime has no hope in its competition with China.
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I have non Chinese speaking friends who do just that lmfao.
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