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Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India (restofworld.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're strawmanning this thing so hard.

The reason the US is putting up barriers on China is due to them supporting Russia in Ukraine, running the worlds largest cyberwarfare program (2nd is Russia), supporting North Korea, having extreme anti-competitive laws, IP theft at a scale never seen before, and their countless human rights violations.

A simple example: TikTok is the most popular app in the US. Instagram, Facebook, and Google are all illegal in China.

China complains about the West not wanting to compete, but they have literally outlawed Western competition in every single area. Tesla in China is 51% owned by the Chinese. It's insanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here's the top upvoted story on HackerNews right now.

One of the greatest user interface disasters in history https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111490485825183949

Basically, US Navy ship had bad UX for a system and shot down an Iran Airliner that killed 290 people.

Here's the first comment. It's spot on.

Everything's possible, but there would be no debate about UI mistakes if it was Iran shooting down a US plane. They would've done because they are evil by nature, or at least perceived as such. In that case the media and the public buys into its own reality, but of course the UI discussion could be a distraction from the public maybe starting to question if that's actually the reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, but either that's true, or it's just the US showing that they are better at PR than their adversaries.

Either way, it doesn't have much to do with how the entire world should be putting up barriers for China to do trade. It's simply not fair that the worlds 2nd largest economy is closed off to foreign competition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's simply not fair that the worlds 2nd largest economy is closed off to foreign competition.

I just went to China. Countless foreign brands everywhere. Audi and BMW sell more cars in China than in Europe and the US. McDonalds everywhere. Starbucks everywhere.

Meanwhile, the US is doing everything possible to prevent Chinese companies from competing with American car makers, solar panel producers, 5G equipment makers, phone competitors, etc.