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Let's not forget that China has blocked access to its market for US Technology companies for the last 10 years.

This is not China playing the same card. This is China playing aggressively, as they have been.

It's a smart strategy, don't get me wrong, but let's not claim the US as the initiators of these market-distorting actions.

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For most normal people it doesn’t matter who initiated it. Neither of the 2 parties have much credibility. Between the NSA hacking revelations and the way China cracks down on its own people it doesn’t feel like anyone would take either side from a moral standpoint.

Oh, states will take sides out of interest: interest to make money, to get protection, to not become enemy via the “with me or against me ideology”. But not for any moral reason.

The US engages in market distortion all the time.

What do you think the invasion of Iraq was all about?

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