Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America

Re:Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North Am... by thc-27182 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:52AM (#36043006)

China is getting those resources regardless. It's just a negotiation on price, which Russia is having to sell lower than normal. Which hurts Russia more than it benefits China.

Not every trade has to be zerosum.

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Re:Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North Am... by dmpk2k on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:16AM (#36043219)

I was talking about American strategy. Russia was and is a largely-neutralized regional great power, no longer any real threat to Western hegemonic power. China is a different matter.

China manufactures more than America, EU and Japan combined, and (IIRC) produces more STEM graduates than all of them too. Add Russia's resources on top, and even with the major demographic problems China faces, America has a challenger on its hands that's much bigger than the Soviet Union could ever aspire to be.

Strongly shoving Russia into China's orbit was just plain stupid. It looks like they were gambling on regime change; a bad gamble if ever I saw one.

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