• switchboard_pete@fedia.io
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    4 hours ago

    It is not, generally speaking, more economically efficient to deindustrialize your own country

    china is literally taking money that they could invest in domestic industry and investing it in industry overseas

    i guess now you get to explain why they’re doing that if some form of economic efficiency isn’t the answer

    The thing they wanted you to see were the statistics, not the guesswork and editorialization from that article.

    “don’t look at that bit of the source i just chose to show you” would be an astounding bit of mental gymnastics

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      58 minutes ago

      china is literally taking money that they could invest in domestic industry and investing it in industry overseas

      This does not address what I said. Foreign direct investment is not the same as deindustrializing your own country. There are also more subtle, or at least often ignored, financial aspects regarding balance of payments and derisking from the dollar and eventual attempts at decoupling.

      i guess now you get to explain why they’re doing that if some form of economic efficiency isn’t the answer

      What do you think economic efficiency is?

      “don’t look at that bit of the source i just chose to show you” would be an astounding bit of mental gymnastics

      The expectation is that you engage critically so that you can match up the source with the part they are talking about. In this case, it is that the balance between public and private ownership has shifted towards public in recent years.

      Instead of engaging with what parent was talking about, instead an editorializing quote was found and now we are talking about that and other poor attempts at wit.