[chvid]

We killed our own telecommunications industry by first throwing it into a massive bubble and then starving the shit out of it.

It wasn't killed by spying Chinese communist; if anything it was killed by the flipside of our capitalist system. The "madness of crowds" that drives "hot" industries through periods of massive over-investment followed by massive under-investment.

[treeman79]

Sounds like it was badly miss managmed. Better companies outsold it, causing it to file bankruptcy.

This is one of the points of capitalism, Bad / wasteful decisions lead to failure. Better managed companies rise. Consumers get better products cheaper.