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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThomas Friedman said something important today. The reason why Taiwan makes
computer stuff so successfully and not China is because of trust. Companies all over the world trust that the Taiwanese will not steal their research on microchips. And with China they don't trust them.
Add his observations to the news today that a Chinese canadian just got arrested for business espionage for stealing technical information on batteries from his job with Hydro Quebec and giving it to the Chinese. There are stories out this month on how the Chinese have informal local 'police stations' in parts of Canada. They messed with our last federal election.
The US showed the Middle East what unregulated Islam looked like with their slow walking of help when ISIL warfare broke out. The Saudis were screaming at Obama to get involved. Radical Islam seems to have ebbed in many parts of the middle East (not Iran or Afghanistan) since then.
Maybe China needs the example of what happens to Russia, when nobody trusts them, to teach the Chinese a lesson in honesty. Poland and Germany have today taken over the Russian gas companies. The world is like FThem.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)Why so many Russian and Asian pregnant women still being allowed here to have their anchor babies? Why is it that the media never talks about it?
applegrove
(118,022 posts)Our growth depends on immigration.