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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by credit_guy on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#22829012)
Most people think WW1 was so bad because people kept killing each other (with machine guns, artillery and poison gasses). Less so because they severed their commercial ties.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by int_19h on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:50AM (#22839865)
Today, yes. But in that era? The notion of declaring a war to profit from the plunder (or reparations, or whatever you call it) was not yet dead back then.
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