Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

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The answer to that question could fill several books. Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia, and the mass addition of malware/spyware to chips meant for foreign markets. Rather than take my word for it, though, I encourage you to do some research on your own - preferably not entirely through Internet so…

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Post by upupandup » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:07 PM UTC

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SE Asia has plenty.

SE Asian workers, outside of Phillippines, are too expensive for large scale, low end manufacturing. Malaysia and Thailand are already middle income countries and Indonesia is getting there as well.

Post by trasz » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:09 PM UTC

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Others missed a few great US examples. U2/SR71 spyplanes overflying other countries. This alone is considered "an act of war". what would the US do if someone flew over their country on spy missions? Then there is the absolute rampant lying about things. U2 is shot down, US president is told that should this happen the pilot wont survive. Surprise, Gary Powers is alive and the USSR exposes the US lies to the world. "…

You wrote: > True, 20+ years ago. Today: Spy satellites that can hide and re-position on-command. "Spy planes" are mostly Tom Clancy'esque fiction these days, at least from the perspective of over-head visual light photography. (Radio signals monitoring is a different segment.) Then you wrote: > False. There is no single, absolute defintion. In my experience, the Internet is "full of" posts like this one. Words and d…

Post by andsoitis » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

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The answer to that question could fill several books. Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia, and the mass addition of malware/spyware to chips meant for foreign markets. Rather than take my word for it, though, I encourage you to do some research on your own - preferably not entirely through Internet so…

> Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia that's not hostility towards the west, that's simply China defending their interests, which is their prerogative. Taiwan is still formally and technically part of greater China, human rights violations are not rare in (an by) the US military and non military perso…

Post by andsoitis » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:19 PM UTC

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Nice deflection, friend. Yes, the USA is an aggressive and imperialist power with more than a few atrocities to its name. However, this is not "how bad is China relative to the United States," but rather "how bad is China on an absolute scale."

> how bad is China on an absolute scale that's a very odd metric, because in absolute the entire human civilization is bad right now. for itself and other living beings on the planet.