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Both the US and China are working to decouple their economies long term, starting with the most critical sectors first. Both sides are aware that there are short term consequences and some of their businesses may suffer but that in the long run decoupling will be better for their respective countries.

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>> in the long run decoupling will be better for their respective countries

Globalization and collaboration making a huge difference in pace of the progress. Segregation and compartmentalization are very bad for everyone in a long run.

probably yes. although that's a bit of an article of faith. in analogy, I wonder how much progress and innovation, and general world progress, has resulted from opening the internet to include Russia, for example. Sometimes including actors that do not conform to certain ethical standards and trust worthy behaviors, leads to spreading infection and danger to the world.

Another analogy: Incorporating cancer cells into the body rather than sanctioning their growth, is a sure path to death.

this is not a directly equate China to cancer, especially the Chinese people to cancer. That's clearly incorrect. however, I do think it is correct to expect our trading partners to eventually establish trust with each other, on the geopolitical sphere, and if that fails to appear, it makes sense to diversify our strategic resources and partnerships

> Sometimes including actors that do not conform to certain ethical standards and trust worthy behaviors, leads to spreading infection and danger to the world.

The Chinese people are fine. You can see some great projects on GitHub for example. I hear Shenzen is something special.

The CCP is the problem, not the Chinese generally

I have no way to make that distinction. By virtual of living under the CCP, the Chinese people are also implicated as unethical and untrustworthy.

You don't find classifying and treating a whole group of people the same... bigatory?

You don't think there are Chinese that want a different governance model for their country?

I don't have a choice. I never deal with individuals in China, only the country as a whole.

I know many Chinese are not happy with their government. However I cannot do anything to help them.

How do you not have a choice in how you view and treat others?

Generally inappropriate broad over generalization.

Like most people not in China, I never deal with individual people, just the country. I see nothing inappropriate about my generalization, please go into more detail so I can figure out what you are talking about.

You just painted 1B+ people with the same broad brush, on account of something that they likely had very little choice in. Unacceptable, really.

The Chinese are a great people. I want them to succeed. I know many tremendous individuals from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Its the CCP that is the problem. I will say this plainly: Freedom for Hong Kong. Freedom for Taiwan.

I think I said that clearly, but apologies if it came out that way.

> I will say this plainly: Freedom for Hong Kong. Freedom for Taiwan.

Freedom for China would be nice too.

"I wonder how much progress and innovation, and general world progress, has resulted from opening the internet to include Russia, for example."

Off the top of my head -- nginx which is by some metrics the most popular web server[0]. Or Kotlin -- the programming language that Google recommends for writing Android apps[1].

"Sometimes including actors that do not conform to certain ethical standards and trust worthy behaviors, leads to spreading infection and danger to the world."

Could you tell how have you come to this way of thinking about a whole nation?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

[1] https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first

And are a preliminary to war.

yes we are already amidst Cold War II.

> in the long run decoupling will be better for their respective countries.

That's populism seeping into the mind. Globle trade and collaboration have raised many people from poverty. It's how China and the US got to where they are today.

Decoupling increases the likelihood of confrontation. The US did similar to this with Japan just before WW2

True, but what can you do. China is not showing signs today of being a good long term partner, so the US feels forced to escalate, and in return China does more. 15 years ago I thought that China would improve, but with Xi in power I no longer do. Only time will tell, but things are not looking: in the worst cases coupling would be even worse.

Coupling means the cost of war is much hirer, especially for the people's daily lives

Coupling has a big impact on deterrence and not going to war in the first place. If you want war, then advocate for the regressive isolationist polices. If you don't want war, then look for places where we can collaborate, like climate change and trade

Yes. But also the U.S. sees no way to influence the faction of China to the ways of the U.S. influence traditionally worked in China (unlike how China can influence the U.S. politics). So the cooperation game quickly becomes a game of one benefactor. It is a bad situation we are in but the U.S. cannot solely determines the outcome. China must have some structural changes to convince otherwise influence is possible.

US and USSR were decoupled in the Cold War; US and China will probably be decoupled in Cold War II.

Decoupling economies is step 1 to war.

Perhaps still 30 years away... but I think it will happen, and a war between two nuclear nations won't be pretty (although I doubt it'll actually be a nuclear war)

Demographically I'm not sure China will be in a position to fight a war with the US in 30 years?

The minorites who will be the majority will not be committed to imperialism and empire building like the current Caucasians who are in charge of the US.

I don't think a 2050 war between developed economies will involve many people... It'll be drove vs drone mostly.

It'll be a test of the economies of the nations to see who can build most high tech drones quickest and who can do R&D fastest to outclass the enemies inventions. Drone aircraft, ships, missiles, bombs.

I hope that as soon as one side has clearly better and more drones, the other will surrender, ideally before substantial loss of life.

Starting from a population 3x higher, it may not matter...

Cold War II has already started

The decoupling is vastly overblown and likely impossible.

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