Reply to post: Re: Huawei + China Vs Cisco Systems + United States of America

Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: Huawei + China Vs Cisco Systems + United States of America

If you look at the numbers you'll see that developed economies have lost more jobs to automation than they have to low-wage economies. Where there are job transfers there is usually a return either in the form of demand for something else that the developing economy can't provide, or investment.

It's only with robots that you don't get any kind of trade.

Trump's approach is largely a rerun of the unsuccessful protectionism of the 19th century and could be as damaging, though that was popular with large parts of the country,

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