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EU is really the innovator at investigations and regulations. With the number of laws they have to protect their customers and prevent monopolies, I am surprised how they only have one big software company and four major car companies. Or maybe those rules are only aimed to help their monopolies.

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Or maybe there is more to life than tech and car companies, who knows ??

The Chinese have done stuff like this for years.

If your immediate reaction to that is "no but actually they just want to substitute American propaganda for their own" then youre closer to understanding the EU motives than you realize.

Agreed. But in the western media they are not depicted as similar to the CCP. Maybe because compared to CCP they are terrible at it. At least the Chinese policies gave rise to homegrown giants like Baidu, Alibaba and more recently Bytedance.

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