• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    cannibalizing production in Europe

    I don’t think that’s what cannibalization by a company is; when KFC canceled their double down because it was cannibalizing sales of their chicken pieces, that was cannibalization because it was one product taking over the sale of another by the same company; beating other companies at what they do is just what happens in a free market.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    That says “critics warn” and they do do that a lot. The FT doesn’t really have the kind of anti-china slant that those critics do honestly, their audience is basically people so wealthy national states don’t particularly concern them and if there’s money to be made in china that’s fine. I mean look at this: