Considering the chinese goverment the trade war make sense. However, Risc-V decision makes equal sense. Staying neutral and moving
to place where they can avoid politcal pressure is good for an open foundation.
RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
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Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#42What exactly did people expect to happen with this bizarre trade war? Instead of pressuring 'bad actor' countries with more free trade and something like TPP, levying pointless tariffs was obviously going to drive any joint international groups overseas. Just brainless stuff.
That attitude certainly is encouraged by the DNC and mainstream media, but the reality is that China's economy is far more vulnerable to the trade war than ours and we have put ourselves in a great position of leverage over China as a result. What's truly brainless is thinking we can just bury our heads in the sand and ignore an ever expanding Totalitarian dictatorship bent on becoming the world's most powerful count…
> We must counter China now before it grows more powerful.
Wouldn't that line of thinking also justify sending in the nukes?
Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#43It is interesting to see Switzerland becoming a technology hub in the post blockchain era.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also domestic corruption, trading tariff waivers for corporate political support (or at least silence)
Do you consider it corruption to offer free money in exchange for votes (I.e. many of the contenders for the Democratic primary in the US)?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you consider it corruption to offer free money in exchange for votes (I.e. many of the contenders for the Democratic primary in the US)?
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” - Alexander Fraser Tytler
Switzerland has been around as a (relatively) small government democracy for quite a while. There are regular direct democracy polls on spending and taxes.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything is ok until your organs get taken out of you while you are still alive.
I guarantee you the drug dealers and smugglers in south east Asia and South American kills more people, and there must be an international organ smuggling business years ago. And we all know officials and local government is behind it. It’s a crime anyway why bother mentioning it over and over again? Is that not a crime in China?
It's not a crime, it's policy. China has special lines at airports for the speedy transportation of organs.
Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#47Great work. Let over politicized countries fight each other while the rest of the world moves ahead.
>“The Chinese Communist Party is trying to circumvent our export control system to support national security threats like Huawei - we cannot let it succeed,” Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin, told Reuters.
I mean, one cannot make this more obvious. The rest of the world really doesn't want to be subservient to US paranoia
Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#48Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
That attitude certainly is encouraged by the DNC and mainstream media, but the reality is that China's economy is far more vulnerable to the trade war than ours and we have put ourselves in a great position of leverage over China as a result. What's truly brainless is thinking we can just bury our heads in the sand and ignore an ever expanding Totalitarian dictatorship bent on becoming the world's most powerful count…
> We must counter China now before it grows more powerful. Wouldn't that line of thinking also justify sending in the nukes?
No, we should counter them through economic and political pressure. Most sane people try to avoid nuclear war.
Re: RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
#50What exactly did people expect to happen with this bizarre trade war? Instead of pressuring 'bad actor' countries with more free trade and something like TPP, levying pointless tariffs was obviously going to drive any joint international groups overseas. Just brainless stuff.
Corporations have only themselves to blame for the failure of the TPP. Instead of limiting the agreement to trade, it was filled to the brim with anti-consumer, anti-worker, and anti-environment clauses. Negotiated entirely by industry and kept secret from even senators, laundering legislation they could never get through any parliament. If there was any justice in the world, the TPP would not only have failed, but e…
The bigger criticism I heard about the TPP was extending America's Intellectual Property laws even further across the globe.
And the secrecy was annoying as well.
What anti-consumer, anti-worker and anti-environment clauses are you referring to?
Of course, from the standpoint of mainstream economic theory, trade agreements are moot for their stated purpose: everyone is better off just opening up to unilateral free trade. No need for an agreement.
(Trade agreements can still be useful in practice to organize political coalitions for trade.)