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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by laputan_machine on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:37AM (#21200937)
Japan wasn't run by a dictator, didn't have tens of thousands of people from a particular religious group placed into concentration camps, or owned so much stock in particular US companies that they can get those very same US companies to bend over to their demands.

It's not the same, and you know that.

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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by yorwba on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:16AM (#21201125)
Japan has put almost as much money ($1B) into US treasuries as China ($1.1B) https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22331.pdf

Since China is "new money", Japan must have held more US debt at some point. It seems unlikely to me that this would not also extend to holding stakes in American companies.

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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by alasdair_ on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:25PM (#21207613)
I was talking about the economic threat. I completely agree that The Japan of twenty years ago was a much freer place than China today and that they are not the same thing in terms of authoritarianism.

Economically though, the two situations are similar.

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