Based Biden, the guy never lies. US-China relations haven't taken a big hit because, simply enough, there were no relations to begin with.
How can you have non-zero relations with your enemy? Biden is on point once again
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How can you have non-zero relations with your enemy? Biden is on point once again
The difference proper medication can make.
There have been plenty of warnings. Not bombastic nationalist rhetoric which is useless, but actions..
Shijian-21 hauling a GEO satellite out of orbit should be a warning that even their high orbit satellites, including GPS and early warning, aren't safe.
All the successful midcourse interceptor tests should be a warning that not everything they launch will get through.
100+ ballistic missiles test firings per year should be warning them that China doesn't run out of missiles and delivery vehicles aren't the bottleneck.
Orbital launches with solid fueled rockets launched from TELs like Kuaizhou-1A should be warning them that ICBMs are abundant to the degree where they can be burned on regular commercial launches.
Revealing higher HEU refining capability than the US should alert them that fissile material isn't a limiting factor either.
The problem is the other side isn't taking the warnings seriously or is too stupid to understand the significance. Show 24 DF-41 on parade as a warning and they take it as a sign of submission- HA, they only have 24 DF-41s! yet bombastic nationalist rhetoric is likely to be seen as a joke or belligerence.
So what do when opponent is too stupid or incompetent to understand warning signals through action and doesn't take you seriously enough where rhetoric works? Well, we found out once: 1962 India.
Biden just opened the floodgates on Xi-bashing. If the president can say something like that about Xi, then what can the everyday US congressman get away with?
We're going to see upped vitriol and personal attacks. Every juvenile, racial insult these bullies have used since elementary school.
Although I am a rightist, I believe the way the Marxists looks at it is probably more correct.
It is not about innovation, or technologies, it is all about means of production.
In today's globalized world, where only the best products survive, meaning that a company will need to be innovative and be technologically competent to survive, it just becomes a game of who can do it better.
The answer to that, is in trade data.
When the West talks about their technology and innovation, they got to make it real, in that they got to make something out of their high tech knowledge.
As of today, the world probably does not need the West and their technology. There are alternatives.
plawolf
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Laugh in economics?
The idiocy behind such a suggestion is frankly staggering, but entirely in keeping with the relentlessly self-centred, baselessly egotistical sense of entitlement that current western politicians seems to pride themselves on.
It’s basically stupid spoilt rich brat syndrome, where people who did nothing to earn the wealth and power they inherited from their betters only thinks to flaunt that wealth and power by pissing it away like it’s going out of fashion while treating arrogance and ignorance as virtues to be proud of. But not only are these stupid spoilt rich brat western politicians behaving like stupid spoilt rich brats themselves, they are making their respective countries behave like stupid spoilt rich brats as well.
Investment isn’t charity. American companies are not lining up to invest in China out of the goodness of their hearts. They invest in China because they see those Chinese companies as winners, and they make massive profits on those investments.
This is why it’s extra hard for anyone to catch up to America, because it isn’t a fair race. As the up and coming challenger, not only do you have to run faster than the Americans, you have to do so while half carrying your American competitor. Because as Chinese companies grow, the American companies that invested in their also see their profits grow off of the hard work of the Chinese companies they invest in.
The Chinese companies who are worth investing in will find investors who like profits. It’s American companies who will be fucked the most by such bans since they will not be allowed to invest in the best companies with the best returns. Indeed, they might have to invest in direct competitors to the Chinese winners they would have chosen if given the choice, and those Chinese winners will probably end up eating the lunch of the non-Chinese companies the Americans invested in, so not only no profits, but potentially capital losses.
So the Chinese response will be to not interrupt their opponents when they are making mistakes. China might even complain real hard like they are scared of such a ban just to help it over the line if needed.
I know the evidence is thin... but let's not kid ourselves, that balloon was most likely not a mere weather balloon.
Like I said, there's no shame in spying, everybody does it. But try not to get caught, unless getting caught is the intent.
Capitol Hill be needing some moderators? Anyone wanna volunteer?
It should have combined China (1st) and Hong Kong SAR (2nd), because almost all of tech exports from Hong Kong actually come from mainland China.