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Game_Enderyesterday at 9:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

The government should find ways to strategically invest in developing major industries. The market for them is global and China has/will have a bigger internal market than the US, so without intentional development we'll get a continued industrial consolidation that is bad for the US and the world. I have robotic lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners made by Chinese companies partly because an intentional policy from China's government to grow these capabilities locally.


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dgellowyesterday at 9:54 PM

The current administration is literally cutting all those strategic investments

globalnodetoday at 3:13 AM

the way the us govt has behaved internationally i wouldnt be surprised if countries/people actively boycott made in america.. the market for us goods and services would definitely have shrunk.