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Re:Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd by FooBarWidget on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:18PM (#27336904)
This is one of the best HN comments I've read on the China issue. Finally a fair comment.
Re:Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd by dalbasal on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:00PM (#27337280)
Cheers.

This topic actually really depresses me. The whole "crisis" is unnecessary. The US and China can easily, and probably should renegotiate trade terms amicably. It just seems to be politically impossible to say "we got what we wanted then, but now we have different priorities." It doesn't seem possible to actually spell out priorities, or admit that in a negotiation, the other party has priorities too.

Geopolitics, or humans rights issues are a different matter. There are real dangers at play, now that the two countries are equal rivals. China's way of disciplining companies (eg Nike when they made a Xinjiang, or John Cena's little speech) is directly at odds with the US' MO. It's quite zero sum. I don't see how that gets resolved, in a way that doesn't (for example) have the potential knock a whole $trn off Apple's market cap.