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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by giggles_giggles on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:40PM (#19722749)
>Countries who can consume and produce within themselves are going to succeed more than those who primarily import / export

Citation heavily needed for that claim.

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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by scarmig on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:59PM (#19722929)
Take the natural experiment of the Korean peninsula. Who would prefer to live in the (relatively) free-trading, cosmopolitan hellhole of South Korea when they could live in the utopian autarky of North Korea?
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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by notfromhere on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:47AM (#19729746)
He wasn't arguing for autarky, but having an industrial base.
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