The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race

Re:The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race by ausjke on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:24PM (#16541240)

it might be deeper than that, I won't be surprised if Chinese has some big hidden stake in the money involved for the merger, end of the day, money talks, politics follows. by the way this is not unique to any country, they all do this sort of things.

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Re:The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race by qiqing on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:38PM (#16541299)

> I won't be surprised if ...

Do you think you would be more surprised, less surprised, or about the same, if the situation were reversed? Let's try a thought experiment.

Hypothetically, say, a Singaporean company was trying to take over a Chinese company (both companies in this case have Chinese citizen executives), and the Chinese government was trying to block it. And let's say there's news coverage apropos of nothing, that American companies would be the indirect beneficiaries, so the US was (wink, wink) behind it all. What is your level of surprise then?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race by ausjke on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:24PM (#16541521)

no need to over-react, unlike in china, here we do have free speech so just get used to it, and the comment is actually neutral to all countries, as it stated.

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Re:The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race by qiqing on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:04PM (#16542197)

I grew up in the US. I'm accustomed to free speech, thanks. Not sure why you're offended by the thought experiment.

A thought experiment where you swap one variable and see how it sounds reversed is a very useful tool for detecting cognitive bias. Cognitive bias is a major source of racism. Racism is something I experienced growing up here, and one of my chief worries when reading articles like this.

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