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Boris Petrov's avatar

Gina Raimondo, Biden administration’s commerce secretary (int’w with CNBC – Sept. 28, 2021):

…”we really want to slow down China’s rate of innovation…hence we need to work with Europe”

Note-1 -- Well-being of China’s population and human progress in general is of no importance

Note-2: -- The budget the U.S. passed for the 2022 fiscal year, which commenced 1 October, includes $180 billion for research and development in the technologies of the future. This amount is to be spread over eight years, for an annual R&D expenditure of $22.5 billion.

The budget Beijing passed last year provides for annual expenditure on R&D in new technologies of $560 billion—slightly more than triple, each year, what Washington just allotted for eight years or 25X higher per year that of the US…

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Ian Brown's avatar

Americans especially don't have stories about making peace to fall back on, which is why no matter how many "Hitler Invades Poland" type scares they are sold, the propaganda continues to work. If you can't make a crazy appropriation of the Americanized WWII story, or the story of Stalin's gulags/"The Evils of CommunismTM", it might as well have never happened. That's why peace, coexistence, cooperation, as well as things like public health, just aren't in our vocabulary or minds.

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