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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by wolverine876 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:45AM (#29494245)
Congress and the US government take many aggressive actions against China. Recently, members of Congress personally visited Taiwan to express support for them. A current bill imposes sanctions on China for Xinjing human rights abuses, and President Biden imposed a 'diplomatic boycott' of the upcoming Olympics for the same reason. The Pentagon is openly focusing its efforts on China, including providing nuclear submarine technology to Australia - a historic first besides the UK.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Aunche on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:30AM (#29494486)
A diplomatic boycott at the Olympics during a pandemic and sanction of a dozen or so people are meaningless virtue signals. The other actions align with American geopolitical interests. What is suggested upthread is that Apple ought to sacrifice interests in order to fight China.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by wolverine876 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:43PM (#29500477)
I was responding to this claim:

> Assuming you can convince Congress to do anything at all, they still wouldn't take any meaningful action against China because they aren't going to voluntarily widen our trade deficit.

Clearly Congress (and the Executive Branch, which is responsible for foreign policy) does plenty that is meaningful.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Aunche on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:58PM (#29501424)
By doing something meaningful, I mean doing good for the sake of doing good at the cost of something you care about. People are arguing that Apple should sacrifice their revenue just to uphold their principles. The government would never do the equivalent thing, e.g. sacrifice geopolitical leverage in exchange for advancing humanitarian causes.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by curt15 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:09AM (#29496457)
Have you noticed just how sensitive the CCP leadership is about its image? Every perceived slight is a black eye to them.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Aunche on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:26AM (#29499331)
That is just their own brand of virtue signaling. I doubt they actually care. China doesn't give up anything they don't particularly care about in the first place. They'll call for a boycott of Nike, which conveniently helps domestic companies. Manufacturers are still encouraged to offer their services to Nike though because they wouldn't want to their citizens to lose their jobs.
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