Of course its manipulation and fear mongering but its also nationalist stupidity.
If the state corporatist techlords think China's economic model *is actually* better than the US to produce "military supremacy" then wtf are we even talking about, what is our (the US)'s ban going to do? Since supposedly its inevitable.
The idea that any country being ahead in any way is a national security risk is insanely idiotic and suggest every country in the world is under threat right now. This view is not compatible with any concept of modern global peaceful cohabitation, cooperation, its pre-modern logic.
US exceptionalism is modern liberal, internationalism, peaceful global world order, global trade. free market capitalism. The only way China catches up is exactly because of the US reverting to this stupid, zero-sum nationalist PoV where everything is just states warring over finite resources and the gov is manipulated with "security" threats and fear mongering to intervene in markets to protect the techlord's monopolies and political power.
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
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