The US "national security" position against PRC tech firms introduced under Trump hasn't gone away.

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        reminds me about the impetus for the first gun control law was to protect domestic industry from cheap copies and the secondary market after WW2

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Reagan increased tariffs on imported motorcycles from 4.4 to 49.4 percent to keep Harley Davidson from going out of business decades ago.

            • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              It was never, ever about free trade. “Free trade” is obscurantism and only rhetorical never in practice.

      • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        blue team is in charge, not that the rhetoric was ever substantive from the other guys