EPTOn October 08 2026 16:40 Acrofales wrote:
Maybe we should get behind those people. I wonder where they are? Let's look at the last two administrations.
Biden built tight international coalitions (Netherlands, Japan) to choke off China's access to critical future tech (EUV lithography, AI hardware) while using targeted tariffs on EVs, batteries, and solar.
Maybe we should get behind those people. I wonder where they are? Let's look at the last two administrations.
Biden built tight international coalitions (Netherlands, Japan) to choke off China's access to critical future tech (EUV lithography, AI hardware) while using targeted tariffs on EVs, batteries, and solar.
The current administration still targets those industries and the US is still close to Japan as we have been for 70 years. Biden didn't innovate that alliance.
On October 08 2026 16:40 Acrofales wrote:
A surgical blockade designed specifically to starve Beijing’s long-term superpower ambitions while boosting US' and their allies' manufacturing specifically in areas they were lagging behind.
A surgical blockade designed specifically to starve Beijing’s long-term superpower ambitions while boosting US' and their allies' manufacturing specifically in areas they were lagging behind.
This is a flowery way of saying nothing substantive that the first sentence didn't. Did a human even write this?
On October 08 2026 16:40 Acrofales wrote:
Trump flails about putting broad tariffs on everything, which tax domestic industry and raise supply chain costs, while handing relief back to China’s "future tech" through quick-fix tariff cuts and AI dialogues. Icing on the cake was offering to sell them weapons (F35 are your words, no clue where you got that). He isn't containing a superpower; he’s just trying to run a global cold war like a real estate closing sale.
Trump flails about putting broad tariffs on everything, which tax domestic industry and raise supply chain costs, while handing relief back to China’s "future tech" through quick-fix tariff cuts and AI dialogues. Icing on the cake was offering to sell them weapons (F35 are your words, no clue where you got that). He isn't containing a superpower; he’s just trying to run a global cold war like a real estate closing sale.
You don't have to choose between broad and targeted tariffs. You can do both.
What you can't do both of is blame tariffs for being bad and then saying cutting them is relief for China. Cake. Have. Eat.
As to the last and most shockingly ignorant parenthetical statement you made. You don't know where F35 came from? I got it from the post I responded to. It came directly from there. "no clue" - You cannot be this blind. It's written right there. I quoted it.Those were not long posts. It is impossible for someone who isn't a troll to miss the F35 thread. There were all of like 3 sentences to read. What are you doing?
Notwithstanding that you're replying to things you haven't read, even the most informed good faith politico who legitimately didn't see LightSpectra bring up the F35 should have some access to news and current events and would have connected the dots about the F35 canopy and door that shipped through Hong Kong. It was covered by multiple major outlets. We even now newly know why it happened, which was that a valuable government employee, with a publicly guaranteed pension, failed to heed warnings not to send ITAR sensitive technology through countries that aren't whitelisted.
The shipment of warplane parts was originally meant to travel to San Francisco via South Korea and Taiwan — both US defense partners. But the shipment was late leaving Australia and was mistakenly routed via Hong Kong in an effort to speed up delivery, the person said, declining to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
DSV, working on behalf of F-35 developer Lockheed Martin Corp., sent the email noting the ITAR designation, as required by US regulations, the person said. The DSV email may have been sent through a different IT system than the one used by the UPS agent, the person added.
The previously unreported details about the diverted shipment were outlined by Pentagon officials Sept. 29 in a roughly hour-long meeting with staff of the House foreign affairs and armed services committees.
The fresh details shed further light on an incident that has attracted scrutiny over the possibility that a series of errors inadvertently allowed China to gain access to some of the US’s most sensitive military technology. It has proven to be an embarrassment for the Pentagon and for Lockheed Martin.
DSV, working on behalf of F-35 developer Lockheed Martin Corp., sent the email noting the ITAR designation, as required by US regulations, the person said. The DSV email may have been sent through a different IT system than the one used by the UPS agent, the person added.
The previously unreported details about the diverted shipment were outlined by Pentagon officials Sept. 29 in a roughly hour-long meeting with staff of the House foreign affairs and armed services committees.
The fresh details shed further light on an incident that has attracted scrutiny over the possibility that a series of errors inadvertently allowed China to gain access to some of the US’s most sensitive military technology. It has proven to be an embarrassment for the Pentagon and for Lockheed Martin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-07/ups-worker-missed-security-email-letting-china-get-f-35-parts
