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Re:National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's... by roenxi on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:24AM (#26312429)
If we sort-of mush the Democrats and Republicans together; the US Economic Strategy for the last however many decades has been to import stuff from overseas and beef up on services. The result has been titans like Apple (best of breed at outsourcing manufacturing to China), Amazon (best of breed logistics, very strong at importing from China) and Google (amazing service).

Is there any reason to be surprised that the US no longer manufactures the world's most sophisticated chips? Is there any political will to change strategy?

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Re:National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's... by alert0 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:19AM (#26312695)
This arises naturally from the US having been the global reserve currency for so long. Other countries' debts are denominated is dollars, so they seek dollars via mercantilism. This has absolutely cannibalized our manufacturing base. There is a case for a weaker dollar and to rebuild our exports.
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