| Relax, that's just words. Free speech is great and all but a lot of Americans seem to have internalized the idea of just saying whatever you like with no regard for feelings of or impact upon others. War starts with weapons. Please read more history. And I would disagree that the US started the trade war. China has been much more aggressive than any other country when it comes to trade policy [...] This too is historically illiterate. The US happily ripped off others to build its own industrial base, and arguably still does so, with AI companies training on vast archives of unlicensed content and data brokers laundering personal information with zero regard to consumer privacy. Historically the US forced open markets at gunpoint, most famously by sailing naval vessels into Tokyo harbor to demand the Japanese Shogunate engage in trade relations. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88... https://ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/05/americas-industrial-revolu... https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/05/yes-us-industrial-revolu... It's not that China doesn't leverage its own economic power in one-sided ways, but this comment reeks of 'it's different when we do it'. |