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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by riversflow on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:47AM (#21638656)
Look, I'm didn't say that the US is a beacon of morality, what I'm saying is that China is significantly less moral than the US, and I gave a direct apples to apples example. Pointing out that the US participated in the Iraq war is not really on topic at all, because the US is the sole flag-bearer of free trade on the high seas in our global economic system--no one else has the navy to do it and nobody else has to maintain that machine. The US hasn't kidnapped and tortured any consulate employees recently, which China just did.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/11/21/uk-govt-summons-china-...

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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:46PM (#21640649)
Saying the US "participated in the Iraq war" is putting it rather euphemistically. The US government lied and engineered the Iraq War, which was an illegal war of aggression. It led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. ISIS probably would never have come into existence without the Iraq war.

> The US hasn't kidnapped and tortured any consulate employees recently, which China just did.

Perhaps not (though it does have a recent history of kidnapping and torturing people on a global scale), but the US is busy blasting away pine nut farmers in Afghanistan.[1]

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones...

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