Re: The Two-Faced USA Trumping Up Yet More False Accusations
I know there is the occasional hint of a fact in there, and the overall direction isn't explicitly wrong but the tone screams I live with my mother and believe in nessie. To take a few of the comments
RE using china as a factory - Japan (Honda) was doing this before the US. The scooter you ride on is likely powered by a GY6 engine which was allegedly derived from a Honda design. Companies aren't stupid, even Taiwanese companies making scooters have problems selling the pretty much the same product at the same price as Japanese companies. Chinese companies can't come close, whats the best effort from there? CFMoto? How well is the jetmax selling against burgmans? They might sell inside the country well due to import duties (ohh protectionism!!) but outside they have troubles getting close on quality which affects their pricing and they dont have the brand cachet which also keeps pricing down. Companies that use Chinese labour expect China to try and copy, they just aren't overly concerned about the threat.
Why should china pay attention to US sales restrictions, sure they don't have to, but if China gets cut off from the US who will buy their shiznit? China and the USA need each other right now. If China and Vietnam are so amazing why doesn't Iran buy their servers?
Who gave Israel fissionable material, not likely livermore, there was a question over the Apollo lab loosing material but given the French and British were supplying material \ supplies to Israel officially (albeit secretly in the British case) and Israel also had it's own source of Uranium and the technology to enrich it, why steal? Do you have any proof or even vaguely supported conjecture about Livermore?
Yes Vietnam has prospered ? You cite cisco, ciscos revenue for FY2012 would account for over a quarter of Vietnam's entire GDP and is larger that the governments entire tax revenue for FY2013. Cisco also made approx 5% \ $2bn (depending on gaap vs non gapp) profit so not entirely struggling there either. Apple made more profit in 2012 than the Vietnamese government collected in tax revenues in the same year.
To put it in a slightly fairer context, go look at what Korea (the sane half) has done GDP wise over the same timeframe as Vietnam. Vietnam may be improving compared to its history but looking at other countries it could do far more. Name me something in my house thats come from Vietnam?
Do companies lobby congress, sure, would I question that Cisco had done so in this case, it wouldn't surprise me much but do not underestimate how bonkers the right wing nuts are in America. Plenty of them do believe Iran is a threat to all of us, not just the pro Israel lobby.
So say China does refuse to build things for America, how many unemployed Chinese people would that create, what size dent in it's GDP? If it wasn't in both countries interests don't you think it would stop?
So you suggest that the US is unfairly persecuting Huawei and that there aren't backdoors in its products but that there are in American products? So China wouldn't ever try and spy on another country and wouldn't ever try and manipulate trade (theres no way it would ever suppress it's currency!)?
I think my biggest issue is that you don't see both sides are as guilty as each other and won't stop. It's not even that I disagree with some of your conclusions (your evidence is suspect at best however), it's the fact we have to spend 20 minutes wiping the spittle off ourselves after your diatribes. If you hate the western world why are you on a British website, running on American servers, running American software on an American network and likely using British \ American or Israeli designed cpu's in your own machine? Tone down the BS, check your facts and you might find more people agree with your conclusions.