Re:TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App
by tivert on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:41PM
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> A big reason that the US trades so much with China is because they are an adversary. It's a similar concept to nuclear MAD doctrine. Mutual Assured Economic destruction for both of the countries if there is a war.
No, that's wrong. It sounds like a regurgitated libertarian talking point/post-hoc justification, not actual history.
The reason the US trades so much with China is that, during its over-confident post Cold War high, it convinced itself that economic liberalization would inevitably bring political liberalization. That theory has been proven wrong, and China has shown you can have capitalism without democracy.
No, that's wrong. It sounds like a regurgitated libertarian talking point/post-hoc justification, not actual history.
The reason the US trades so much with China is that, during its over-confident post Cold War high, it convinced itself that economic liberalization would inevitably bring political liberalization. That theory has been proven wrong, and China has shown you can have capitalism without democracy.