U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
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Re: U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
#2The art of caption…
> [..] some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities [..]
> The decision, which drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, targets 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight companies including video surveillance firm Hikvision, as well as leaders in facial recognition technology SenseTime Group Ltd and Megvii Technology Ltd.
So Chinese palantirs get blacklisted, boo-f-hoo.
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#3One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China.
Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phenonemon or had there been a sea change and the dems are now on board too ?
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#4One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China. Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phenonemon or had there been a sea change and the dems are now on board too ?
I agree. Obama was way too buddy-buddy with Xi.
I hope the next president is even more hardline against China than Trump.
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#5Have any other candidates expressed support for hardline Chinese policies? Trump easily has 4 more years, but I'm not sure who can successfully keep this going after that. I haven't paid much attention to the field, but I haven't seen any news on anyone else making statements on the topic.
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#6Legitimate question: at what point does censorship become something more benign such as blacklist or sanctions? If we do it?
Re: U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
#7One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China. Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phenonemon or had there been a sea change and the dems are now on board too ?
Obama was manufacturing the pivot to Asia. The TTP would have given a lot of power to corporations to combat China. This presents its own set of problems though.
Clinton was adamant that her grandchildren would not be speaking Chinese.
China has been acknowledged as a threat since 2008 really, by everyone really, just, sometimes people need a very visual and visceral demonstration of action (no matter how less-optimal it actually is). Surely some business people in here can relate to that sentiment?
Re: U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
#8One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China. Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phenonemon or had there been a sea change and the dems are now on board too ?
It's a continuation of the pivot to Asia strategy dating back to Clinton. The Middle East was a sandbox for testing new weapons for the next cold war century. Remember in American foreign policy the two parties are indistinguishable.
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#9Have any other candidates expressed support for hardline Chinese policies? Trump easily has 4 more years, but I'm not sure who can successfully keep this going after that. I haven't paid much attention to the field, but I haven't seen any news on anyone else making statements on the topic.
> Easily 4 more years.
What planet do you live on?
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#10The US claims that this blacklisting is unrelated to trade negotiations, but one has to wonder -- why did we wait until now?
And if this is just a way to create leverage during trade negotiations, how would the administration gracefully reverse these blacklisting actions in exchange for something unrelated without it being patently clear that this was never about human rights?