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No, this is straight up how China built what it has. And stealing technology from established players in Europe and the UK was how the US came to ascendancy in the late 1800's. Before that we were just a backwater.

Go back far enough and everyone will have done this with their nascent industries.

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> Go back far enough and everyone will have done this with their nascent industries.

And that’s arguably a core job of any elected government. It’s not to promote external commerce or industry. That’s just a positive side effect of equitable bilateral deals. The primary economic and security responsibility is to your own people.

> And that’s arguably a core job of any elected government. It’s not to promote external commerce or industry.

Is the "free trade" mask completely off now? Good.

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