cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18256978

https://archive.is/nf7f6

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    If only their country wouldn't be so eager to enter in selfdestructive accords with its suzerain, right now half of cars on entire planet could be produced in Japan. Or maybe half of Japan would be bombed to rubble because that's how this surerain is when someone weaker don't obey.

      • anachronist@midwest.social
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        5 months ago

        I don't think that foreign power told them to focus on Hydrogen. Japan is still searching for an economic wunderwaffe. Like in the 90s when they tried to leapfrog the west on software by focusing their entire computer industry on Prolog.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          I'm referring more to US forcing Japan to abandon export of chips to their biggest customer https://www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/us-pushes-japan-netherlands-on-stricter-chip-controls-for-china-3f80bc97-3edc-4368-9482-6ea4b5cbc16a/preview/