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4) Fourth, Communists are like Democrats in that they are waging international trade wars and proxy wars, as well as domestic political conflict.
However, Communists have the upper hand in all these conflicts.
a) The Communists have mostly crushed their domestic tech opposition, while Democrats have not yet succeeded in seizing the fortunes of Elon and the tech guys with “unrealized cap gains taxes”. And indeed Democrats may still lose to Technologists in the long run.
b) As for the trade war, China builds things and you’re starting to see WSJ acknowledge that (for example) Huawei or chip sanctions aren’t going as planned.
US sanctions are in fact like tariffs in that they subsidize domestic Chinese manufacturing and force all buyers to buy Chinese products only.
c) As for the proxy war, China is backing Russia and they have fought all of NATO to a standstill. Germany is now cutting budget and the West is tiring of Ukraine. So China is winning there too.
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