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Re:To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Tech... by sitkack on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:17PM (#36551709)
> cheap industrial labour generally available was a “soft power”

Of course it is. But US and Global Capitalism fought tooth and nail to get into China. The manufacturing base in the US was dismantled (literally) on purpose by American billionaires and the politicians they owned.

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Re:To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Tech... by ren_engineer on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:28PM (#36551832)
the initial plan made sense as a way to weaken the Soviets, but after the USSR collapsed in the 90s the US should have pulled out and also not let China into the World Trade Organization unless they played fair. Going to be seen as an all time historical blunder.

Tiananmen square made it clear China wasn't going to change and the idea that "improving economy leads to democracy" has literally never happened unless that nation was occupied by the US military like Germany and Japan

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Re:To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Tech... by sitkack on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:13AM (#36582482)
The US never cared about Democracy, we don't defend it, or support it. The only thing the the US cares about is markets.
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