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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by bobthepanda on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:54PM (#23225905)
People have been going on about China in the US since their ascension to the WTO. Plenty of federal politicians have been elected on platforms for pushing hawkwish trade policy with China.

Obama and Romney both ran with the policy of designating China a currency manipulator in 2008: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/currency-manip...

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by three_seagrass on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:08PM (#23226132)
Which is fascinating because the TPP that got bi-partisaned slamming in 2016 was an anti-China trade agreement for the APAC region.

When the TPP fell through, China moved in with it's own version lock down the region called RCEP.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by remarkEon on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:05PM (#23226090)
I think that's a bit of a selective history though. In the 1990s there were plenty of politicians that fervently supported it, though the reasons they supported probably had something to do with this[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi...

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by bobthepanda on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:53PM (#23230537)
The parent comment implied that the US has done a very sudden turnaround of belief; that's a selective reading of history.

The US has always had undertones of economic nationalism, particularly around jobs getting outsourced to China. It just took a while for the pot to boil over.

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