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surgical_fireyesterday at 9:07 PM3 repliesview on HN

In South America there's also no anxiety over China becoming a superpower, which may be an argument against Chinese products in the US.

In fact, China has pretty good relations with most South American countries. Likely better than the US. I wouldn't be surprised if many people view China more favorably.


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jasonsbyesterday at 9:17 PM

The average person in the west isn't losing sleep over China either. That anxiety is mostly manufactured by the media pushing the narrative that they are an existential threat. Maybe they are, I don't know. But what I do know is that western companies love it when they can sell you overpriced products made in China, but panic the moment chinese companies sell the exact same product at a fair price.

dialecticalyesterday at 11:10 PM

Hmm, I wonder if that might have anything to do with the decades of state sponsored terrorism the US has inflicted on the entire region since the 70s? Maybe it wasn't the best idea to make that "we will coup whoever we want" crashout tweet in between begging for crumbs of latam market share?

cmxchyesterday at 11:50 PM

That won’t stop the US from practicing Monroe Doctrine to limit Chinese influence.

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