• Steve
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    China having a cheap, robust education and transportation system with low cost public utilities and an efficient legal bureaucracy isn’t a subsidy, its an efficiency.

    None of those are subsidies, or what I ment.

    That’s what every country wants. You think the Germans and the Brits don’t want Volkswagons or Aston Martins to be the dominant global automotive brand?

    No. They’re certainly not acting like it. Not doing anything serous to support that goal.

    Claiming the BRI as a subsidy

    Not what I did. It’s an economic global power play, to replace the US and USD as “The” world power. Subsidies are just part of the plan.

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      It’s an economic global power play

      Building interasiatic high speed rail is no more a power play than digging the Panama Canal or building up the Singapore port network.

      These are material improvements to international trade and travel. You’re describing them like some kind of corporate bust out.

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        2 months ago

        You keep mentioning things as if I was talking about them first.
        Who are you supposed to be responding to? Are you having multiple conversions and getting us mixed up.