This is a wild choice of metaphor.
“This is like restricting the other side to wear outdated swimwear in a swimming contest while you yourself (are) wearing a Speedo,” he added.
Maybe China should show some good will and stop banning American websites there, for example... just a thought.
The CCP wants a military that can win against the counterparties in a Taiwan takeover, but the US (and probably a few other countries too) don't want that because of the intellectual property that has been entrusted to TSMC.
The technological trade war is part of the military technology war. However, the US has been fighting military technology wars for over half a century now, so it at least has some practice.
EUV lithography is probably the most powerful military technology that can be stolen since the atomic bomb.
This should be crossposted to c/ChinaWarns ^^
“Definitely it’s not our hope to have a tit for tat,” Xie said. “We don’t want a trade war, technological war. We want to say goodbye to the Iron Curtain, as well as the Silicon Curtain.”
He reiterated that the “world is big enough” for both the U.S. and China to succeed, adding that China is “eager” to have a “stable, healthy relationship” with the U.S.
Very reasonable and mature response, sadly there is only one way for the United States to remain number 1: Sanctioning its opponents.
More sanctions will be on the way and we'll all suffer for the sake of the American elites.
Maybe if this was a completely isolated situation it makes more sense but it seems hypocritical to say something like this while their government is actively bolstering the great firewall to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing stuff the rest of the world has access to
How is this great firewall isolationist policy different from what other countries are doing with immigrants?
It's an isolationist policy, one that does not put Mexicans in concentration camps.
I'm not here to debate you on how the great firewall compares to what other countries do, I wasn't saying anything like that
The part I was pointing out is that it's hypocritical, in my opinion, for a government (China) to act like there's some injustice being done to them by countries like the USA putting sanctions on them when they are currently voluntarily cutting their population off from the world.
They're saying they want to collaborate while at the same time preventing their own citizens from accessing many western websites and services.
How many Chinese websites did you visit today?
Whataboutism
No, it isn't. I was using an example to explain my definition of China's firewall. It would have been whataboutism if I left the argument entirely solely to mention how the US is keeping Mexican immigrants in concentration camps.
Might want to look up whataboutism is.
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