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The US is following the strategy of having less friends and more enemies. China loves these kinds of US moves
It's not even about being cheaper, stopping forgeries is basically a hydra situation. You kill one, there are two new factories to take the place. You can't really kill the demand for items most people can't easily afford otherwise.
What they are doing now is ensuring their supply chain is clean, preventing the forgeries from ending up in higher profile/traffic areas or stores (online included, which is why they routinely hit ebay and Ali Internationally, Taobao/Tmall, JD for China domestically)
Plus it isn't going to be reputable factories doing these anyway. No one wants to do business with a factory they can't trust, whether it is an international brand and now domestic brands/multinational Chinese companies (i.e. Anta owns ArcTeryx and Salomon). Real companies know you can't do real business without respecting at least basic IP.
These tech companies were the ones to introduce these bills to try to kill TikTok. Now they can watch their entire industry go up in flames and government overreach.
chances are its going to be the factories set up in Vietnam, Bangladesh or India that would be doing these forgeries. Countries with lax oversight and high corruption.
so I have a theory that the 70+ boomer leadership of the US have nostalgia for their red scares and actually feel most at home doing these kinds of witch hunts. War on terror they felt a bit lost and it was more of a money grab and attempt to steal the heartland but a new Cold War with good and evil, lines drawn up? That’s simple enough for the boomer oligarchs to understand, even those who sit on stable sinecures, refusing to retire. The Anglo elites current leadership can best be summed up as “apres mois, la deluge”.
Those countries are where China use proxy to evade sanctions.
fighter radar has that weight and performance constraints which not apply that much to systems with larger space.
Korea has been making upto 5 million automobiles a year but they have yet to match even Nissan large BOF let alone Toyota when it comes to reliability and life span of large engines. Korea can produce more of the same but with substantial outside input but its not Japan for independent development.
I know, but this also means that China ties up these countries to its chariot on solar panel exports to the US.
While before, the US just had to think about Chinese reaction, they now also have to think about China + Cambodia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam.
Not impossible, but it raises diplomatic costs on the US
You are assuming that everything Israel did and has been doing so far is due to Israel being invincible. It is not, it is actually the US enabling. You are also assuming that US empire will last forever, and there is never a day when US is too weak to bother what happens to Israel.
The Israelis are far less confident than you. Therefor Israel has been trying to find backups since its establishment, be it EU or China or even Russia. Just tell you one thing about Israel. Israel recognized PRC on January 9th 1950 being the first country in the region, well before US and many European countries. Funny enough, ROC recognized Israel on March 1st 1949, but Israel turned that down even though PRC is not established yet. That explains how much security guarantee that Israel want, or how much trust they have on US (far from enough).
It would be stupid for any Israeli politician not preparing a place and compromise for the post-US world order in exchange for Arab's compromise and a new guarantor. The only able guarantor after US is China and China disagree with Israel's occupation of west bank. So China isn't going to stop Arabs in fighting for west bank or Syrians to fight for Golan height at the least.
I have twice asked Jewish people (Israeli and ethnic Jew) the questions "do you think US will be there for Israel forever? why not make a good deal when you still have the upper hand?". There was no answer but the expression of "what can we do?"
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There still a lot of time until China becomes a superpower equal to the US. Until that happens, Israel has plenty of time to slice up Palestine.
Israel indeed invested early on China, but that's just an investment, it hasn't switched sides (yet).
From my point of view Israel has at least until 2040 to free ride on Western influence. After that, it can make a deal with Palestine which would be massively more in Israel's favour than if it had done the deal 10 years ago, or today.