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What happened to free trade?

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It’s only free trade if you’re trading with the FREEST COUNTRY ON EARTH 🦅🦅🦅

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Every country is absolutely free to trade with the US as much as they want*. Perfectly free trade!

*As long as the trade balance favours the US.

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Free trade only ever meant that non-US countries must reduce or remove tariffs and remove capital controls vis a vis the US, so that US capitalists may exploit to their heart’s content.

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International transfers of weapons and equipment needed to make weapons has always been excluded and under additional restrictions.

Edit: Arms Export Control Act (AECA)

This is the reason why Microsoft can only sell the Windows OS to Iran if they remove strong encryption support (like newer versions of TLS). It’s nothing new at all.

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Weapons of mass destruction rhetoric ye talkin’… I say its mere pretense…

You seem the type to look at any Global-South country buying ammonium-nitrate fertilizer, who happens to be anti-U.S hegemony, and claim they’re making bombs out of 'em

What weapons exactly?

Mobile electronics, computers, GPS? they’re tools to achieve military strategic goals, but not necessarily military

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I don’t think China has any issues producing electronics, computers, or GPS. LMAO.

Here are the details of the restrictions - https://www.csis.org/analysis/balancing-ledger-export-controls-us-chip-technology-china

We’re talking about chips used pretty much exclusively for Artificial Intelligence use - which China uses to abuse human rights of its citizens and to develop weapons which threaten Taiwan, the Philippines, and all free trade moving through the South China Sea.

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Walter White Face: Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

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Arms Export Control Act (AECA)

This is the reason why Microsoft can only sell the Windows OS to Iran if they remove strong encryption support (like newer versions of TLS). It’s nothing new at all - been around as long as I’ve been alive. Free trade rules only apply when national security rules don’t.

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Meanwhile, 40% of US DoD weapons system and infrastructure supply chains rely on Chinese semiconductors. 😂 https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65e61e6392aba0fa1dba723e/66104c1d4e3ae7809bcd8082_Govini_2024_Numbers-Matter.pdf

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this is like banning sugar because it is an ingredient in rocket fuel.

Don’t lie to yourself, this is proteccionism.

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You see, free trade is only desired when you’re ahead not when you’re behind.

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