[majia]

What you said about Huawei is more applicable to Boeing, which sells weapon systems instead of telecom gears. You may want to look at how US companies are involved in arm sales to Saudi.

It’s fair that US wants to contain China’s leverage in Africa and maintain its own, but this is a national security priority for US , not “everyone”.

[heisenbit]

But thankfully that Boing equipment is supported by advisors who‘s behavior is above board. Always!

[mrec]

Meh. How much damage can an unethically-supported trampoline do?

[scanny]

Well the difference here is that in a liberal democracy we can prevent that from happening if we wish.

Unless we don't have a majority that is https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vetoes-congres...

[Barrin92]

no in a liberal democracy you can pretend that you could prevent it so that everyone can feel better about themselves while it happens

[scanny]

You can feel pessimistic all you want, but the fact is that the framework of this government allows the population to cause change and punishes those who try to go around it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair#Aft...

[luckylion]

> Well the difference here is that in a liberal democracy we can prevent that from happening if we wish.

Since it's been going on for a long time, you either cannot, or you don't want to.

[scanny]

By you do you mean 'I', or you as in 327 million individuals that make up the population of the United States? Do you think it's easy to convince a nations population to push for change, if it was then issues like climate change could be tackled overnight.

Democracy is a messy and flawed process, but it is the best we have. The fact still remains that no matter how much you bemoan the current state of affairs that there is a framework for changing things.