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Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration is looking to widen its trade war with China by restricting Chinese access to U.S. technology, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. "The Treasury Department is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in what the White House calls 'industrially significant technology,'" the Wall Street Journal says. A separate proposal would institute beefed-up export controls preventing Chinese companies from buying these technologies from U.S. firms. The policies could be announced as soon as this week, the Journal says. In the past, the Trump administration has blocked multiple attempts by Chinese companies to buy U.S. semiconductor firms and imposed a sweeping export ban on Chinese smartphone maker ZTE after ZTE was caught selling U.S. technology to Iran and North Korea -- though the administration recently lifted the ban.
that fast, right? These people lost ground for 8 years under Obama, 8 years under Bush and 8 years under Clinton. The older ones lost ground before that too. These trends have been going on for over 40 years. They've been ignored that long. There was a brief respite during the .com boom and an even briefer one during the housing boom.
It's kinda hard to shoot yourself in the foot when somebody else already cut you off at the knees.
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Jesus, when are ACs going to learn better than to challenge me? Here is the source, from 9 days ago:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
There you go again. This is from 4 days ago:
https://augustafreepress.com/f...
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm sick and tired of people like you not thinking through the role of a government.
The role of the government is to protect the commons. That means it is there job to protect all the "me"s not just you. You may be ok with the factory next door polluting the air and water. There however literarily millions of "me"s that aren't ok with it. Many of those millions don't have enough information, education or time to make an informed decision about the pollution.
For example the GPDR in the EU. It is clearly designed to give millions of "me" ownership over themselves regardless of what you personally want. If you are making statements like "I own me" and disparaging the GPDR then you are clearly someone who could use some protecting. i.e. You are ad an idiot who can't be trusted to make informed decisions.
You say that violence is not justified where there is no violence. When you move into a new neighborhood and are informed that you only have the choice of a single internet provider, is that not violence? If local businesses refuse you because you are gay or a minority, is that not violence? At the end of the daym you should have learned in civics class that the government( in theory) has a monopoly on violence and can use it to protect the commons as needed.
1) Chinese manufacturers take our designs, make extras, and sell counterfeits as if they were original(*)
2) Chinese manufacturers steal our IP and trade secrets for other products
3) The Chinese violate licensing agreements (ie - hacked copies of software) and the government does nothing about it.
4) Chinese working in the US commit industrial espionage and send the information back to China
How to trade tariffs fix any of that? At best they might make it harder to sell those products in the US, but not the rest of the world.
On the one hand, US companies want the cheapest possible manufacturing. On the other hand, they want extreme loyalty and security. And the solution to this predicament is apparently is apparently trade tariffs.
Seems like a bit of a non-sequitur.
How about Apple then? They make all their crap in China. It doesn't get counterfeited really - you get a few similar looking phones but none run iOS or have knock-off Apple CPUs in them or anything like that. And a lot of companies just resell OEM Chinese stuff anyway, and somehow do okay because people trust US brands to at least provide some support and warranty coverage.
Trade tariffs are the wrong tool.
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"Ironically, the biggest supporters of free trade were the Big Cotton slaveowners."
Right, the Democrats.
Correct, the right-wingers. Until the 20th century the Democratic Party was the right-wing conservative party. Left-wing liberals favoured the Republican Party.
On the whole, the US is easily one of the most diverse, least racist, and most welcoming countries on the planet.
Having lived abroad on three continents, I can unequivocally call bullshit on this. The US is one of the least welcoming developed nations. Now, if you want to compare us to Saudi Arabia, Israel, or Mozambique then sure, we look pretty good. Compare us to most European nations, and even a chunk of Asian nations, and we don't come out looking very good at all.
And this was before Trump smeared our reputation with feces and flushed it down the toilet for all the world to see.