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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by yushuf on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:21AM (#24082145)
Yes. Once US starts playing China’s game, China has won.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by arcturus17 on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:51AM (#24082469)
China has been playing free market economics despite being a communist dictatorship, so by that logic, liberalism has won?
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by almost_usual on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:40AM (#24083051)
Chinese investors care way more about money than nationalism.

Capitalism is brutally efficient, even in the guise of Communism.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by yushuf on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:19PM (#24083571)
Not unless the investor is the government itself
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by almost_usual on Friday August 07, 2020 @01:06PM (#24084167)
Who funds the government?

Will the Chinese government turn down an investor who will give them more wealth and power by investing overseas?

Their competition will use it to their advantage.

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