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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by mk89 on Monday October 13, 2025 @05:22PM (#45573472)
It's not a myth - China wouldn't be in this situation without Nike/etc. going there in the 80's to "reduce" costs (to actually increase their profits). That triggered the whole chain. They thought they could just jump ship when the prices would increase, but what they didn't expect was that they had a guy that instead of getting just fatter and fatter (like many leaders in the world who finally become corrupt etc) actually had a vision for his country, and it's working out. It's the best implementation of the boiling frog metaphor.

About the rest of the post - I would say it's a bit more complicated than just black or white.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by RealityVoid on Monday October 13, 2025 @05:43PM (#45573665)
> About the rest of the post - I would say it's a bit more complicated than just black or white.

Yes, I think that was his point as well. Policy is a set of tools, and depending on the current state of the system there is a right tool for the the job,with, of course, a set of tradeoffs. Discarding tools "of the right" or "of the left" is foolish.

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