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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by pembrook on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:15PM (#29493761)
Small companies don’t have loyalty to any specific nation either. Nor should they. Companies should serve customer needs and wants (profits are a measure of this), not become soldiers in political battles.

I’m confused as to why people think this is an $insightfulComment.

Would you rather have countries wall off their economic activity from each other so governments have to bomb each other to acquire resources by force?

Any economic intertwining of Chinese and American interests is a good thing, no matter how evil you think the Chinese are. Because the inevitable alternative is war (re: all of human history).

Historically, the only thing that prevents tribes of human animals from blowing each other up is mutually beneficial economic cooperation.

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by mperdemata on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:24AM (#29495396)
> Historically, the only thing that prevents tribes of human animals from blowing each other up is mutually beneficial economic cooperation.

That's correct, until someone thinks that he is being screwed and does not see mutual benefit. Mostly what Lenin explained in "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"