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BBC:
US Attorney General William Barr has accused Hollywood and US tech firms of "collaborating" with the Chinese government to do business there.
Companies like Disney routinely agreed to censor films while Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple were "all too willing" to work with Beijing, he said.
Such actions risked undermining the liberal world order, Mr Barr added.
His intervention is the latest criticism of China by White House and other US officials.
Tensions between the US and China have been rising over a host of issues. The US this week removed Hong Kong's preferential trade status, after China brought in a controversial new security law for the territory.
Does working with China mean freedoms are undermined elsewhere?
Also at the Hollywood Reporter. DoJ: Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks on China Policy at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:43AM (11 children)
"The Doctrine of Fascism" by Mussolini spells out exactly how to go about doing that.
The Italian and German versions during the 20's, 30's and 40's had the State controlling industry, which I can't see happening in the US, but no doubt people like Barr could come to some sort of agreement, and capitalism has no moral constraints.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:17AM
capitalism has no moral constraints.
Neither has Barr.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:27AM (1 child)
Perfect fit for the Chinese Communist Party then or are you in denial about sino-fascism?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:20PM
It is usually only ignorant Internet trolls who use the term "sino-fascism" and even then those sorts of terms have only started since Trump decided to use China as a distraction for his failures.
"Sino-fascism" certainly does not matter to the massive western corporations who profit from China, so my views (and yours) are not relevant.
(Score: 3, Informative) by legont on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:23AM (7 children)
It was actually the other way around. Corporations controlled the state in fascists regimes. Some say they collaborated, but it does not matter. We are getting over there full speed.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:04AM (5 children)
Like what? Wasn't the case in Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain, or Nazi Germany for glaring counterexamples. Instead the state was supreme.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 19 2020, @07:02PM (4 children)
None of those states could exist without corporations to build and sell them their weapons, and finance their campaign, even the commies couldn't it. They have to make deals too. No matter where you look the financiers own it all. You can't have a revolution or a dictatorship without adequate funding.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @01:25AM (3 children)
You could say the same of workers and slaves in such societies. That didn't make the workers and slaves supreme.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 20 2020, @01:36AM (2 children)
Eh, doesn't really make a difference. We're just acting out our primitive animal nature, fighting over territory like dogs
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @01:45AM (1 child)
To the contrary, you just acknowledged it does.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 20 2020, @02:13AM
Just your imagination
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:17PM
No, it really wasn't:
from the wikipedia piece on Italian Fascism. [wikipedia.org]
There is also this bit: