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Re:Trade War Has Damaged U.S. Chip Industry by jjoonathan on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:44AM (#20303676)
Paying Oracle to use their database software makes Oracle stronger. Paying China to use their manufacturing makes China stronger. That's the meta-game.

China strongly discouraged their citizens and companies from buying US products and making the US stronger, but the US encouraged their citizens to buy from China, making China stronger.

This worked out well for China.

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Re:Trade War Has Damaged U.S. Chip Industry by adinobro on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:29AM (#20304632)
Only in the last 10+ years have large quantities of Chinese people started to earn enough to be able to buy US products.

In the past, virtually none of them had enough money to buy products made in the high end (The US generally makes high quality but expensive products)

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Re:Trade War Has Damaged U.S. Chip Industry by marcosdumay on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:04PM (#20305730)
Commerce is a two way game. Paying China to use their manufacturing makes the US stronger too.
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Re:Trade War Has Damaged U.S. Chip Industry by ThomPete on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:54PM (#20306326)
Tell that to the 4 million factory workers who lost their middle-class jobs.
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