from the land-of-make-believe dept

Ideally, I think it makes sense to open up the U.S. market to Chinese goods (AI, EVs, robots), but have functional and well-funded regulators that police all labor, competition, environmental, privacy, national security, and consumer rights abuses. But big U.S. companies don’t much like that because it would boost competition and regulatory accountability, eroding quarterly revenues.

So instead we get corruption-fueled protectionism run by a bunch of racist, and incompetent clowns who gutted most of our federal regulators, then saddled them with an elaborate new policy ask that’s impossible to implement, even if the admin were competent .

Which it isn’t.

For example, I recommend this recent Verge piece about the Trump effort to ban Chinese drones , which notes how it has been trivial for Chinese companies to trick the administration and bypass the ban simply by renting a strip mall office, tweaking a few names, and pretending their equipment is produced domestically .…