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.