Message from @Sawyer42
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Undercut Huawei and retain your influence there
The only way to do that. Subsidies
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Exactly like the Chinese are doing.
You guys have to make your tech cheap too
No disagreement
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Economies of scale @beatless
It will get cheaper as they make more of it
Also the subsidies will allow the companies to sell them at a loss
To undercut China
The ONLY way you're going to beat China is by playing at their game.
Yes!
Your "competition" doesn't work when China is subsidising their tech.
You MUST compete and do the same.
At a massive loss too
Like solar, lots of cheap chinese tech in the market compared to expensive western tech
Well we do the R&D
And manufacture it cheaper
Sell it even cheaper with subsidies
Yep
Yeah, hence western corps should invest in other countries rather than china. India perhaps?
This is an area where I think exposing some of the CCPs excesses in Xinjiang would help
You've got some catching up to do.
Nobody likes concentration camps
And it’s one of the strongest cards we have to play against them
Cause we need to make the argument domestically why we need to subsidize and beat the Chinese
I hate to say it but we need something like Cold War 2
Yep, you do
Yeah a cold war 2...
Their an existential threat and we need to start treating them that way
That'll end well.
They’re
First one did @Sire Fagsalot
It ended poorly for the Soviet’s
The Chinese might win in 50-100 years
But we’ll lose if we allow status quo