Comment by coupdejarnac
2 years ago
The West would lose? How? China cannot project force aside from ICBMs.
So, it's to our advantage to give away IP instead of making them discover and invent things on their own? This is some r/latestagecapitalism level of nonsense.
Allowing the chinese to buy foreign goods is not giving away our IP it's selling goods which is what you normally do with goods. And yes it selling them goods would slow down their tech advancement for the reasons I listed - it's an ironic emergent behavior but it is one that repeats all the time so people should know about it. Nassim Taleb calls it antifragile but it has occurred throughout history. You make an enemy stronger by attacking them, which is not to say don't attack your enemies, just be more careful about it.
I said I think we'll lose and even if we win the result will still be calamitous. I think people have rose tinted glasses of the 1950s and think that a war time economy and a military victory will bring that back. It wont.