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China is a revisionist power whose values are antithetical to the US. Its rise almost assures instability.

And more generally, no incumbent superpower is going to make it easy for another to challenge it.

Made in China 2025 is an explicit blueprint for how China will supplant America in high technology. Why would you expect America to aid and abet them in this undertaking?

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That's what this is though. It's forcing their hand to develop their own alternatives and making sure the Americans have no place at the table.

It accelerates the process.

It's the latest brilliant policy by the same people who outsourced everything there and gave them the ball to begin with.

This is essentially the US automakers play of the 80s. It only accelerated the sunsetting of the American car industry. The policy doesn't work when a bunch of other places can replace you

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