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Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China by pjc50 on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:28AM (#20495743)
The alternative might have been trying to "contain" China like Iran. Not cooperating with China does not make China go away.
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Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China by toxik on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:20AM (#20496175)
Little trading with China would have slowed their development down enough that it would have been more difficult to control the population. The Tiananmen protests and subsequent government-approved slaughter in 1989 would have been a lot harder to ignore if things weren’t going so well.
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Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China by skunkpocalypse on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:15AM (#20496385)
Not enabling Russian IP theft didn't make Russia go away either.

What it did was make them lose the Cold War, since they couldn't cheat anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vetrov

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Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China by pjc50 on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:50AM (#20497931)
Sure, and then what? The US still has bad relations with Russia, a dictatorial petrostate which has shot down a civilian airliner and sent its agents to murder people on British soil.

That's what I mean by "doesn't make China go away". Collapsing the CCP raises the question of what next. Going through a period of shortened life expectancy and government by organised crime but with a nuclear arsenal?

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