Comment by gedy

6 hours ago

I think it's more the taking (or at least not growing) skills, jobs, know-how from the US and giving to China, irrespective of if they would have developed on their own in any case. It's not about keeping China down, etc. People like to compare this with Japan in the 1980s, but Japan was indisputably an ally of the US, whereas China has never been.

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zdp7  1 hour ago

> Japan was indisputably an ally of the US, whereas China has never been.

Except for the time we were indisputably not allies with Japan and were with China.

  • gedy  1 hour ago

    Correct, I mean PRC, not China per se. Japan as ally meaning post war we have military bases there.