John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE CBC NEWS
“Trump signs executive order clearing the way to ban Huawei from U.S. networks
“U.S. officials have previously labelled Chinese tech giant a 'threat'”
Just the crudest economic protectionism passed off as national security.
The United States can't compete, period, so it bans.
And while it's at it, it tries to insult the integrity of its competitor, hoping to influence others. In effect, it tries to poison the well.
Economic Neanderthal behavior adding to the growing instability of the world's economy and unsettling military and diplomatic tensions - that's Trump's impressive contribution to civilization.
Not only is America going to fall behind with this kind of behavior - there are just some amazing things that can be done with this technology, some of which China demonstrated, as with a real-time medical operation from a long distance - America really is becoming laughable and undependable, going on about boogeymen under its bed.
By the way, it is of course, precisely every American hi-tech company which builds traps doors into devices and passes streams of information about users to outfits like CIA and FBI.
Much of the rest of the world is going ahead, Asia and much of Europe, and they will steal further marches on the United States as they invent new applications around the technology while using it over time.
No need for anyone to defeat the United States in anything, just sit back and watch it defeat itself.
I just wait for our national brain trust, Trudeau and Freeland, to announce their inevitable and pathetic, "Me, too!"
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Response to a comment saying, "You have no idea how many patents and knowledge has been stolen from the west":
And you do? You did a study?
By the way, stealing technology is how America built itself up from the late 18th century through the 19th.
They regularly would obtain the latest gadgets from Britain, bring them home, and work to copy them.
They stole copyrights too.
Dickens was very angry at the way Boston publishers would obtain a copy of his latest work and then simply make their own new edition of it, never paying the author a cent of royalties.
America has its own shabby history in the matter of stealing intellectual property, and if there's any truth in their allegations about China stealing technology, well, it's just the pot calling the kettle black.
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Response to a comment saying, “Right now, China is graduating 8 times as many STEM students as the USA. The results of that are a foregone conclusion”:
Well said.
And then there's that old fact about Chinese being better historically in performing math tests than the average North America, by a significant margin.
Their day is coming, fast.
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Response to a comment about how Canada should ban Huawei technology:
You either use the latest and best, or you fall behind. Technology and its advance are unforgiving, ruthless. They respect no sentiments or prejudices or national loyalties. Or mythologies.
So, are you advocating Canada should fall behind voluntarily?
Just because the most ignorant President in American history advocates it?
