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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by guax on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:53AM (#49023659)
Might wanna reflect on who’s threatening hot war lately.
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by dghlsakjg on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:04PM (#49023865)
It's not a threat anymore if you actually start a war!

/s

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by GlickWick on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:55AM (#49023708)
The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China, and by proxy, Russia. The Ukraine war is absolutely and transparently enabled by China, who is also trying to actively destabilize the EU and the US in order to make its conquest of Taiwan more likely.

Yes, the US has an idiot in charge who is threatening these things in response, too. However, unlike China, the electorate does not support him. His election is also almost certainly due to aggressive campaigns to destabilize the US internally for this exact purpose.

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by dgellow on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:04PM (#49023868)
The US isn’t just _threatening_, it is in an open war right now, invaded Venezuela, started trade war with US allies
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by encom on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:31PM (#49024334)
>invaded Venezuela

Didn't happen. An intervention happened. An invasion lasts more than two hours.

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by stanleykm on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:58AM (#49023766)
Sorry who is China threatening a hot war with? As far as I can tell the US is doing most of the warring these days…
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by GlickWick on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:01PM (#49023821)
Taiwan, while simultaneously preparing an invasion fleet trained to stop US and EU attempts at a rescue.
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:44PM (#49024565)
I think you have a typo, did you mean to write Cuba?

I think this Chinese invasion fleet is lost and it accidentally blockaded tiny country of Cuba instead of Taiwan, they are blocking EU attempts at a rescue and children die in hospitals because there is no fuel and no power.

Terrible navigational error

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:34PM (#49024388)
> The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China

China is actually the adult in the room.

Since 1979, 45 years ago, China has not dropped a single bomb on foreign land. That’s two generations peace.

In that timeframe, USA has attacked 37 countries, France 22, Britain 10, and Italy has attacked 6.

What determines if a country is a threat? Simple test - would they arrest Eipstein and execute him?

More politically correct phrasing - “do they respect American economic elites.” ?

If the answer is no, the country is ‘a threat to the west’

You don’t believe me? Name 2 countries that don’t fit this model.

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by FpUser on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:40PM (#49024486)
Count wars, invasions and simply messing with other countries by the US starting since the end of WWII and then come back. Your post is a pile of BS
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by hax0ron3 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#49028014)
>However, unlike China, the electorate does not support him. His election is also almost certainly due to aggressive campaigns to destabilize the US internally for this exact purpose.

What are you claiming here?

That China hacked the voting systems enough to swing the election? I know of no good evidence of this.

That China changed voters' minds enough to swing the election? But then "the electorate does not support him" does not follow. If I change your voting choice using some kind of non-coercive persuasion such as by making an argument, your support for your new choice is still genuine support. It doesn't matter if my argument was good quality or not, what my country of origin is, or even whether I lied about my motives in making the argument.