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Re:China is winning the global tech race by coldtea on Monday June 18, 2018 @06:06PM (#17342003)
>Bluntly, this is BS. A bit of the US economy, yes. Half? Not even close.

I'm not talking directly -- like the arms industry and the oil industry and so on. I'm talking about the cascading effect that pumps up and propels the rest.

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Re:China is winning the global tech race by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 18, 2018 @06:13PM (#17342047)
And I still say it's BS. Or, to be more charitable, excessive hyperbole.
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Re:China is winning the global tech race by coldtea on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:21AM (#17344977)
Well, not if you live out in the rest of the world and have suffered the consequences for near a century...
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Re:China is winning the global tech race by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:06PM (#17348384)
How does where you live change what fraction of the US economy is based on the country's military might?

I suppose, though, that your claim might be true of the fraction of the US economy that happens where you are...

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