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Re:TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions by throwaway2048 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:15AM (#23218620)
China becoming more democratic has been a pipe dream getting sold by businesses making money off the fantasy for 3 decades and running.

The opposite is currently happening.

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Re:TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions by harpratap on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:25AM (#23218682)
People said the same thing about free markets in Soviet Union. Yet here we are with entrepreneurs and stock markets in Communist China.
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Re:TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions by throwaway2048 on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:16AM (#23220162)
Entrepreneurs and stock markets have nothing to do with democracy, its a conceit anyone ever thought they did.
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Re:TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions by bilbo0s on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:00AM (#23218880)
throwaway is right though, free markets are much easier than political systems. It could be argued that china is already free market, and even still, that political system has not budged.
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