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ryandrakelast Friday at 4:57 PM1 replyview on HN

But, they're also something like our third biggest trading partner. China is like a Schroedinger's Adversary: Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one.


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JumpCrisscrosslast Friday at 5:08 PM

> Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one

Which politician argues China is a friend?

We bought Soviet oil in the 1970s [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_Soviet_...