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US calls Chinese EVs a posssible security threat. When you preach free markets, but really want to have protectionist policies then there's always a security threat. (asiatimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

seen-this-one remember the whole huawei spies on you thing? Oh yeah turns out that was spin to enable protectionist laws so cisco could slap 5g gizmos together and do actual r&d for once, instead of spending its entire annual budget on stock buyback.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

it's the same playbook every time