• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      They’re gonna ban access to the official service provided by a Chinese company. That’s what this is about. The biggest fear is that everybody starts using DeepSeek, and then it will muscle out US companies that fell behind. Once people start using their service, they’ll have little reason to switch to something else going forward. Banning it is a protectionist measure that allows US companies to catch up.

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    Interesting take. China better watch out, they may be getting some “nation building” and “democratizing” bombs soon.

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      The US has been gunning for that ever since Obama’s “pivot to Asia”.

      The terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and the subsequent “Uyghur genocide” narrative and Xinjiang cotton embargo didn’t come out of nowhere. The blueprint of regime change operations



      (n.b. the maps are a bit dated, as the US has since pulled out of Afghanistan.)

      Forward-defense ring: a perfectly normal and not at all Orwellian term or art.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      Not exactly an option against a nuclear superpower with a far bigger industry than Yankeestan. What’s most likely to happen is that the west will simply isolate itself from the rest of the world and will continue to fall further behind technologically. It’s going to be a hermit kingdom of the G7.

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        Especially when the majority of US weapons rely on chips from China (including Taiwan) to manufacture weapons. If the government decides to go to war with China head-on, China will absolutely wipe the walls with them.