Also, regarding the latest Trump spasm to ban software, it strikes me just how much the rare earths ban has hurt them; they were so committed to economic and trade war against China and isolating China that they never considered that China would enact a counter containment strategy against them and demolish them.
You know, I think we should forget about it, after thinking about it for a couple of minutes, this whole thing is just to grab attention and headlines. There is no point here, regarding the software banning talk.
What the question is, it is about power. There are limits to power.
That seems to me the most important thing about power. We see it wielded, but we do not know the limits, even though we know there are limits to power.
Seems to me that the current REE restrictions has exposed the limits to US power, along with that Liberation Day silliness.
That is all I really want to say, and that is why we probably should not really talk about it, because not much there, and probably will not happen.
You know, it is the nuts and bolts, the practical application.
A simple question, is how will the United States government know that some company used US software?
But, I realized, after 2 minutes, that is not even the most important question. The real question is how would the US government even know about business dealings between two countries that do not use USD to transact that trade?
We should remember and understand such a world already exist, although mostly on the margins. Still it is functioning smoothly and working as intended.
Mr. Walmsley explained it months ago, about events that happened years ago.
To conclude this post, how would the US government know about how others trade with China?
Suppose America tells Vietnam you cannot trade with China because you use Google. Vietnam says yes to Uncle Sam, then continues to trade with China. How would the US government know? If they use RMB or dong to settle trade via an electronic ledger, then who cares right.
200% tariffs!
