[Hfuffzehn]

I'll give you a small scale example for that.

A year ago, when discussing AI adoption in an European business, the idea of looking at Chinese providers or Mistral was not seriously considered. The obvious answer was Microsoft/Azure and OpenAI.

That has changed nowadays. As a direct consequence of the behavior of the American government towards its "allies".

You can extrapolate from that. This isn't about short term oil supply problems when the whole world (lead by China) is moving to renewables anyways. It is about long term strategic consequences.

[bamboozled]

I don't think it has just changed to "China is ok" though, it seems to be more like, Europe has decided to build more of it's own infrastructure and military capability.

I think the over-reliance mistake won't be made again for a long time.

I don't disagree that it's beneficial for China, likely in the short term, but I also don't think a lot of countries are just happy to go full Communist party either.

[raven12345]

I'm curious why countries do business with Communist will let them go full Communist party