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That’s the first time I’ve heard free labour cited as a reason for the measures. It doesn’t seem persuasive tbh.
It’s nice to believe the PRC is any different
But there is a category difference here. The PRC is a multi millenia civilisation coming out of a century of chaos largely caused by western imperialism. The US inherited and propagates that western imperialism by any means necessary.
The two countries are at very different stages of technological and political development.
The US, as the geographically secure hegemon, has had the luxury of notional unfettered political freedom. China has, naturally, has had to develop a more secure, less free political system, because of outside threats of destabilisation. By the hegemon.
Need to compare them with way more context than “they both are doing imperialism right now,” which I don’t accept that China is doing in any way camparable to the west.
