• Steve ( Steve@communick.news ) 
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    5 months ago

    Not all subsidies are the same. US car subsidies are only about making the companies as happy and profitable as possible.

    China doesn’t care about profits. Their subsides are explicitly about making the vehicles super cheep to undercut everyone else. Two entirely different motivations and results.

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        5 months ago

        To gain global leverage on other nations. They’re looking to replace the US as THE next dominant nation in the world. They want power.

        You seem to want me to say money. No. Money is nothing but a number in a spreadsheet to a nation with its own fiat currency. They don’t care about money. China isn’t a capitalist nation in the way we know it. They recognize that money is inherently meaningless. Resources are what matter. Control of resources is Real power.