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diveanon ◴[] No.21190558[source]
Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

Really seems like a win win scenario.

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nabla9 ◴[] No.21190677[source]
How about Chinese owners?

Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.

Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.

Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.

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xenocratus ◴[] No.21190916[source]
Matt Stoller has been doing some coverage on just how much control China has built in Western economies. Quite scary.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-joe-biden-empowered-c...

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megous ◴[] No.21191704[source]
It's called trade. US americans send $ to China for cheap goods and manufacturing, Now, Chinese have $ to spend in the US.

Not really scary. It's better for superpowers to have intertwined economies, rather than be isolated. Less incentives for conquest and war.

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1. delfinom ◴[] No.21191762[source]
Not really. One super power now has majority ownership of the other. They can now conquest with little business disruption ;)
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2. thieving_magpie ◴[] No.21192029[source]
> One super power now has majority ownership of the other.

A few companies and minority ownership stakes does not mean any super power owns the majority of another super power. That's a wide gulf.