"The West" is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah the west pulls plenty of shady, awful crap but that's just a reason for the west (and everybody else) to try to be better - it shouldn't be used as an excuse for other countries doing evil shit.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

It's amazing anyone can believe they are well informed and unironically say this bullshit

[–] pressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 1 year ago

we made a commitment to preserve democracy

Huh, when did you make such a commitment? Sometime in between of toppling democratic governments, installing dictators around the world and invading sovereign nations?

[–] regul@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Well the moral argument is obviously false on its face.

But the microchips argument is also bizarre. Taiwan isn't the only country that makes microchips. In fact the US has been spending large amounts of money to stand up domestic chip manufacturing. And China is also the leading global supplier of plenty of other commodities. Why is it that only matters for microchips?