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How do you out-innovate a country which has less regulation, more intrusive surveillance, more factories ready to churn out whatever you invent, more workers (and Uighur slaves) ready to do the labour for less, and no qualms about stealing anything and everything you come up with and copying it at a scale you can't possibly match?

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Perhaps we could stop dismantling the domestic economy by implementing policies that reward domestic investment? Huge swaths [0] of the country are losing their livelihoods due to offshoring and monopolistic practices.

[0] https://policybynumbers.com/economic-stagnation-and-electora...

there are hard problems in the world. we need rational national strategy to give ourselves a chance.

One option is to enforce some standards for trade - no slave labor, limit number of hours worked, environment protections etc. Thus way we all are playing by the same rules. This won’t be easy to implement - most western democracies can be corrupted by money and influence and CCP can easily buy with money.

Are you actually being downvoted for suggesting this?!

One way is to make your country an attractive place to live for the top innovators from around the world. China can’t do that. This is a proven strategy for the US that is being sabotaged by the current US administration.

and yet we find ourselves in this situation despite this proven strategy. do you think this theft began in 2016?

the american manufacturing base and a great deal of its skilled labor pool has been gutted and hung out to dry for the last 40 years. we're only now waking up to the true cost.

Sabotage that the plans

Maybe try do the same thing? Less regulation, more factory, more monitoring doesn't always mean bad thing. Cheap worker can probably be replaced with advance automation. I disagree that its a "stealing", you still have the knowledge.

Escalation may not be an efficient tactic, especially in this case, it would also mean a downgrade for businesses and consumers who benefit from said regulation in many countries.

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