• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The point is not for people to be angry at china. The point is advertising that you’re gonna blow up the world economy if something happens to you, therefore the world has a huge incentive to defend them against china, before they blow up their fabs.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      That was the underlying implication of my comment. Of course nobody wants any of these threats to be carried out. But they’re useless as geopolitical constraints unless the threat is credible.