There might be no fully free market capitalism as envisioned by Adam Smith but the economic philosophy of the USA is much closer to that original essence than China ever will be. Why you bother trying to hold a country that literally rebuilt itself on rampant censorship to the same standards as a country who touts itself as the world's shining beacon of freedom is beyond me. It's apples to oranges. Western countries literally carved China into spheres of influence during the imperialist era and even if the USA wasn't directly involved in pillaging China specifically, their alliance with European countries meant that they also reaped the benefits of forcing China to open its borders. The Western hemisphere spent centuries pillaging, razing and bullying the remainder of the world, I'm sorry if I feel 0 empathy that for once a country wouldn't let them have free reign over their consumers without also demanding some benefits in return. Your argument in favor of protectionism due to IP theft might have some merit if the USA didn't have also a history of employing the same tactics against Japan automakers when Toyota and co were first gaining a foothold. The USA doesn't like foreign competition, period. China's IP theft is only the cherry on top. As I said before, I am against IP theft in a perfect, meritocratic world. But this world is far from that and I quite frankly find it ironic to when the world's historical bully gets its shit stolen for once. And before you said anything, I'm American.

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The economies of scale that decades of central planning merged with capitalism, has reaped dividends for China. Im not sure how the U.S. can compete with a decades head start, vertical monopolies, and the co location of suppliers in centralized hubs. This is anathema to our culture and governmental philosophy. We need to take a page out of China's book and not compete in the same technologies but pivot to new ones like evtol or electric short distant aircraft.

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endgame for who? Trump and co? simple. they dont want certain files released and need to do as they are told

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Nobody: Probably: Next up on See ‘N Be Seen the season premier of Warsh On Warsh On Warsh On Warsh with special guest co-hosts Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee.

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If this happens, China and other American govt bag holders are going to liquidate their American debt so fast. Currency markets will start a trade off and the dollar will lose half it's current value.  When Obama and Co bailed the banks out the USA was still regarded largely as wise for doing so. There was some eye brows raised from the austerity crowd, but it could be calmed. Now? No. Trumps incompetence has them all spooked. It could get real bad.  On the plus side, I might actually get to find out what the rich taste like.

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they haven't fought a war in over 50y, it makes zero sense for them to believe they can take taiwan militarily. you can call china many things but stupid/short-sighted aint one of them. it's only a matter of time till trump and co. undermine taiwan on their chip production somehow, steal some fab plans or whatever the fuck. soon as taiwan loses that leverage they'll be told to pound sand by the west.

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Trump and co are buying heavy. Follow the trend guys.

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When u tell ur co workers you bought 10k worth of a flash drive makers stock and they look at you in disgut.

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AIslop co. need rate to refinance the debt they have no revenue to actually pay, first bills start coming due soon iirc

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They’ve favoured Wallstreet gang over Main Street. Inflation will eat everyone. All so Dario and co can continue to fake pump the economy and investors with a product that costs x10 what China costs. And its frontier model is maybe 10% better. Our efficient/flash models/forks are fat pigs compared to Chinese models. Only thing crashing this micky mouse 💩 is if China releases the knockout blow. Non subsidized compute that the everyday person like you or I use for $15 a month. Not some BS fairy tale AGI god complex entity or subsidized ai like we’re using now that losses OpenAI, anthropic, google, Microsoft money every time it’s used.

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