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Re:China Raises Tariffs on US Goods to 84% as Rift Escalates by rayiner on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:07AM (#43631615)
People have been talking that talk my entire lifetime. Nobody has done shit, because nobody wants to hurt their next quarterly profits. We just had a pandemic that was likely caused by China for which we had to buy PPE from China because we can’t make it.

The best time for rebuilding our industrial capabilities in an orderly way was the 1990s. The second best time is now.

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Re:China Raises Tariffs on US Goods to 84% as Rift Escalates by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:43AM (#43631996)
I do not disagree with disentangling the hyper globalised world. We have evidence of how quickly things can go south (bronze age collapse, recent supply chain madness etc).

The entire theory is also based on inequality. We build nothing and we ship all the low paid / environmentally disastrous industries abroad.

What I disagree with is the methodology, which is simply idiotic.

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Re:China Raises Tariffs on US Goods to 84% as Rift Escalates by rayiner on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:49PM (#43639553)
People who share this viewpoint have talked about this for decades and the entire time public policy went in the opposite direction. We’ll never get another chance before it’s too late.
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Re:China Raises Tariffs on US Goods to 84% as Rift Escalates by 4gotunameagain on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:44AM (#43641016)
Would you defibrillate a functioning heart because of a perceived future fibrillation risk ?

I do not buy that the only answer to the recent incompetence of the US (and western in general) political system is to shock it with even more incompetence.

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