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It seems the parent is suggesting that we block Chinese companies from operating in the USA, basically tit-for-tat retribution. Based on "...while their own companies operate freely in those foreign countries" This might be applicable for hardware sales, but for service companies (including ecommerce, search, ride hailing, all the big USA tech company niches) it's kind of a moot point. None of the big Chinese compani…
Well it's a difficult problem, and tit-for-tat retribution could be the optimal action based on my little knowledge on game theory ( https://ncase.me/trust/ ). Yet if things would go badly and the global economy go into turmoil, I think it would be notably worse for both. Another problem I've noted is also the Chinese companies buying up Western companies and seemingly operating as Western, but actually being fully o…
On a related note, I find it frustrating how so much residential property in San Francisco is owned by Chinese investors/real estate moguls. I have no idea what the fallout would be to limiting the ability of international entities to own so much property here, but I imagine it would help with the sky-high rents. It's not a line of reasoning I've ever seen a good write-up on, so I would be curious to understand it better.