[bostik]

> Their sole purpose is to learn, take as much as they can possibly get away, turn around and create entire industries overnight by creating a domestic bubble shielding it from foreign competition.

Which, according to Bad Samaritans, is the rational choice of any still developing country.[0]

This of course doesn't absolve China (or the US for that matter) of their abhorrent actions in any other realm.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_Fr...

[pwaai]

> In 2008, Ministry of National Defense of South Korea release a list of 23 'seditious' books including "Bad Samaritans". The books on the list cannot be read or kept on bases under military regulations. The ministry argued it may cause misunderstanding among the readers about the free market economy. The army argued that the books contains some information that related to antigovernment and anti-Americanism.[2]

HAHA! Now I must read this book.

Any book banned by a government that doesn't incite terrorism outright is worth a read imho.

It's hard to argue with the results though. South Korea was pretty much a third world country but state directed infrastructure building in key productions like steel, shipyard building, all had roots of building up a deterrent against North Korea.