That said, helping Iran shouldn't be a crime until they actually pose a tangible threat, and at my little level, I think the US is being way too strict on them, and I dont dislike Huawei trying to help them... as long as we're able to control the risk and focus them rather than have it blow up in our face "US in Afghanistan"-style.
What's incredible is how submissive Trudeau was.
The charges were completely made-up yet he couldn't secure their release for three years. That's weak.
It's like your daddy wants you to take the neighbourhood bully's toy, so you stole his toy, and now the bully came and took two of yours. What are you supposed to do?
I suspect it has been raging for some time now, online, by bots and so called shills in the form of information warfare.
For example:
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e2
This car looks like a decent entry level car, 190-250 Miles. starting at around ~16k. Even if it sells for 25k in the US, it seems like good value.
$16k is great though. The base Nissan Leaf is $27k for 150 miles. At the same time, I'm not sure how much importing it would raise that. If, like you said, it sells for $25k in the US, that's a decent value if it's other features are comparable to a base Leaf, but I don't think it would decimate the competition.
Surely they will then become national security threats?
The issue is that China is beginning to aggressively take out interest in Democracies in their sphere: first Hong Kong, and everyone knows that Taiwan is in their crosshairs now.
We didn't (and wouldn't) go to war over Hong Kong. Taiwan however... that's different and is truly a serious threat.
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If anything: additional trade and cultural exchanges are needed to foster a spirit of competition / cooperation even in the face of our nuclear weapons being trained upon each other. We don't really know if the Moscow Circus prevented a US / Soviet nuclear exchange... but maybe it did??
It's sad, but this is one of the only avenues I can imagine that will bring real benefits and change for a lot of Americans.
Post-WWII, the ownership class had to offer a good deal compared to the Soviets, lest they risk communism coming for them, too. They had to provide working people opportunity and had to help build a thriving middle class in order to stave off sympathy and collaboration with the USSR.
Today, if owners don't want Americans to be bribed by the CCP into spying for them and handing over the IP they own, they're going to have to offer Americans another good deal in comparison. That's my optimistic take, but I can also see jackboot tactics being implemented instead of raising Americans' standards of living.
Didn't Nortel go under because of accounting fraud?
Huawei only started releasing competing products years after Nortel went bankrupt.
Of course Chinese hegemony is no better. Any hegemony is no better than another...
You didn't explain that.
And please, stop using communists to refer to anything on earth. There is no such thing as communist nowadays. If you think there is a communist in China, that person probably will be shunned as one would be in USA...
So what system do you have to propose, and how is it better? Remember that your explanation must explain how International Democracy avoids interacts with conflict between nations, how it maintains the global economy, in particular the safety of the shipping lanes and banking systems / currency exchanges. You must be able to adjudicate border disputes and prevent large nations from claiming large swaths of sea as territory. You must be able to explain how your system avoids becoming a tyranny of the richest, strongest, or most cunning states, as well as how it remains stable and doesn't become anarchy.
Good luck.
As the first step, let's make sure everyone goes through UN for any cross national conflict. Like if US unilaterally invade Iraq, US should be sanctioned according to some agreed upon rules. Etc etc.
When you say UN works because of US support, that's a problem. UN needs to hold actual power, not at the mercy of a few super powers.
One step to allow UN actual power, is to grant UN the ability to draft financial resources from member nations, and let UN invest on the behalf of all people on earth.
Simple fact is that there's no Chinese hegemony now and there won't be one in foreseeable future because there's existing hegemon that won't just give up.
btw one man's whataboutism is another man's uncovering of hypocrisy.
They didn't say anything about the USA hegemony being bad just that they didn't want a Chinese one. How is that hypocrisy?
The alternative being Russian (or rather, USSR) bases.
Yeah, pretty sure citizens of the countries with bases would rather have the US as a partner rather than the alternative.
The reason the press focusses on it so much is that it is, thus far, the only real step that the west is taking against Chinese hegemony. It's expensive and it's real. The rest of Cold War 2.0 hasn't really started yet. A couple of Mikes, a couple of tariffs, sure, but realistically if we really snap into a true standoff with China it's going to absolutely devastate the world's total economic output and stability.