But at what cost?
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But at what cost?
It is all about election. Biden administration can't appear to be weak on China but at the same time it doesn't want to rock the boat especially before the election. It wants China's help in a few global issues but the US is unlikely to compromise and might even escalate for the sake of election. Therefore, any detente is unlikely to hold.
I am very permissive in any detente due to the fact that the political environment in the US has deteriorated so much and hostility against China within the political establishment, the general population, the MSM and elites are at extremely high level. Moreover, there is a consensus within the US from both parties that it is now or never to defeat, weaken or break China.
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The political divisions are because the EU was not organically created but rather an artificial being cobbled together by bureaucratic laws and hopeful idealism. Germans, French, Italians, and Greeks are too historically, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally different to function as a cohesive entity. This is why they're better off separated into individual nation-states than chained together being dragged down by the weakest and slowest.
China works because it is able to sinacize other cultures for countless generations and is based upon a collective template with some leeway for regional variance. People have a general idea of what an average Chinese person is like but can you say what an average European is like? You can't just average out the difference between the differences between a Scandinavian and a Mediterranean person as if they're fact sheets instead of actual living breathing nations with unique societies.
Not sure. Look at the much hallooed TikTok ban which has suddenly seemingly completely dropped off the radar.
Banning tiktok would have killed off gen Z support so it was never really an option. Rather it was used to pressure Tiktok to sell their IP to US dinosaurs Oracle and Walmart.
China doesn't care if the US banned TikTok or not. China just doesn't want the US to take control of TikTok.
As for the US, it is more due to internal politics. Biden administration and Democrat senators and representatives don't want to agitate their constituents before election as many liberals and young Democrats are addicted to TikTok and TikTok has been more useful for Democrats to push their agendas than other platforms.
Libertarians and GOP fiscal wing don't want to cripple TikTok either as many American investors own a big chunk of TikTok shares that would make them a lot of money if TikTok went public. Senator Rand Paul and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both voiced against ban on TikTok.
To be completely honest, they are just being silly.
That, or they having one of those full blown panic attacks, like what Tony Soprano went through, had to go see a mob psychiatrist. Those were good scenes.
These guys and gals could not even defeat, weaken or break the Taliban, who did not wear shoes and lived in caves.
If the United States strategy was to allow or concede China had the momentum and actually some clear advantages, and some leading tech, with the strategy of to get it together and rally from behind, that can work. It may take a while, but it can work, that is a viable strategy.
However, the strategy we are seeing from the United States is to assume full spectrum dominance, when it does not exist anymore. This fight against reality, the United States owns, and it owns it alone. This position of strength thing, really just an albatross on their necks.
The United States seemed to have made this judgement that they cannot compete from behind, in this competition with China. That decision is theirs and theirs to make alone.
That is why I believe we see all these bans, that are continuous, and kind of ineffective. In their minds, the United States is still ahead of China, and will stay ahead with these bans, and then they will regroup and get their act together, and they will continue on with their dominance.
Yes, that is what these people in the beltway believe. The same people who gave the world Vietnam White Christmas, Taliban comes home, and Ukraine brutalized.
Read their Liberal media, and everything is happening according to plan.
Like Shakespeare said, fools and knaves.
I assumed Zuck was behind it for making Facebook something only used by boomers?
Chip companies, top US officials discuss China policy
Thanks 拜振华!
Charted: Biden's inflation-adjusted war chest
Imagine gutting up to 100 billion dollars in semiconductor revenue and still expect the silicon valley elites to donate to you.