China has long put severe limits on Western companies doing business in China for strategic purposes, to grow domestic equivalents, and to aid industrial espionage. As China continues to grow but does not open up, should Europe not look out for its own security interests? After all, Europe ignoring the US’s warnings about relying too much on cheap Russian energy is part of the reason that Europe is in dire straits now.
And yes, all the western companies find that doing business in China is worth it despite the restrictions and requirements for technology transfer. This is something companies doing business in China explicitly agree to.
Yes, it’s a large market that is hard to ignore. But countries may find themselves increasingly
Why does China have to open anything up.
They don’t. But if the West has an economy that allows for increasing Chinese ownership of vital industries, but China does not allow the opposite then it is in the West’s interests to start regulating those relationships. If China wants to be an ascendant superpower, it should not expect to be hyperprotectionist forever.
No, what put Europe in dire straights was going along with US sanctions against Russia. You have an uncanny talent for turning black into white my friend.
The response to the Russian invasion is not just driven by the US, despite what the prevailing opinion on Lemmy seems to be. It is driven both by Ukrainians, who heavily support resistance to Russian aggression, and Europeans who do not want a creeping return of war to Europe by appeasing another dictator.
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China has long put severe limits on Western companies doing business in China for strategic purposes, to grow domestic equivalents, and to aid industrial espionage. As China continues to grow but does not open up, should Europe not look out for its own security interests? After all, Europe ignoring the US’s warnings about relying too much on cheap Russian energy is part of the reason that Europe is in dire straits now.
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Yes, it’s a large market that is hard to ignore. But countries may find themselves increasingly
They don’t. But if the West has an economy that allows for increasing Chinese ownership of vital industries, but China does not allow the opposite then it is in the West’s interests to start regulating those relationships. If China wants to be an ascendant superpower, it should not expect to be hyperprotectionist forever.
The response to the Russian invasion is not just driven by the US, despite what the prevailing opinion on Lemmy seems to be. It is driven both by Ukrainians, who heavily support resistance to Russian aggression, and Europeans who do not want a creeping return of war to Europe by appeasing another dictator.
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