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India is notorious for its strangulatory regulatory regime.

We absolutely can choose. We have essentially denied them access to our telecomm industry. We can do the same with autos, which are also highly computer-enabled. It is if they're a security risk, and they've proven themselves to be a security risk.

The objection to China isn't what the US might do. The objection to China is what China has done, does, and will do. There's no point fretting about Chinese foreign interference in our elections if we're going to invite them to become even more of a major economic player in our country than...

After that has failed a few cycles, it should be clear that a new structure of governance is needed. For my part, I've seen enough tut-tut hand-wringing and inaction. The incumbents have demonstrated they either cannot or will not improve - it doesn't matter which.

Oh, but it is your problem. It is everyone's problem. If a local government is dysfunctional and incapable of maintaining basic infrastructure, is there any practical hope that they will be told they're SOL and will have to unfuck themselves or do without, with no money from any other government?

An alternative is to equalize in the other direction. Grant all Canadian communities the same powers within extended district boundaries. Obviously the point of that would be to give effect to consequences that would highlight the absurd imbalances, and provoke fundamental reform.

So, again, I'm talking about first changing the laws. That can include withdrawing from treaties. So by definition it would not be "illegal". That has been paid for, many times over. There has always been an exchange, and never only a taking. I suppose the problem for most people is that...

Invitations to a more trade-hostile, domineering, and imperially-minded geopolitical acknowledged foe are an irrational solution to dealing with an only slightly and sporadically trade-hostile, only annoyingly domineering, and not seriously imperially-minded neighbour and acknowledged ally.

Why? Why should the country (federal government) not sweep aside all of the baggage of the colonial era, particularly the parts that were concocted to protect private trading interests or the whims of a monarch? Confront the ugly truth: the land was conquered* and a new nation eventually...

Not particularly useful without a sharp separation between "youth in high school" and "youth out of high school". What is it about people who do these things who insist on muddling such sharply obvious group distinctions? Lack of perspicacity, or number-padding to grind axes?

And there is one of the sticky points. Governments are arbitrary creations, but individuals are not (we cannot control whom any person gets as ancestors). Stipulating for the moment that those individuals have particular rights, it is nonsense that they can lose any part of them by moving. It...

As I wrote, "should". We part emphatically on the status of peoples in their nations. As I've written before, there should only be one status of citizenship, and "self-determination" should be limited to local (municipal/district) governance, and those rules of governance should apply to all...

Some might, particularly if the "dynasty" already has a wide enough family tie spread to control a majority. Nothing but representative government subject to periodic elections should be an option anywhere in Canada. "Hereditary" should mean approximately "honourary".

Sarcasm. See Obama, Prize, Nobel. He talked his way into an "award" for which most people have to produce a significant concrete single achievement or a lifetime of work.

Closer ties and military cooperation between nations in that region and the US were unexceptional from approximately 2 Aug 1990 to 20 Jan 2025.

If Trump wanted a Nobel, he should have run as a Democrat.

What's an extra 0.5% across the board (all the contracts under negotiation) worth if they cave because of the indirect pressure from liquor-retailing businesses? Multiply by the actual number of 0.5s that result. The cost of not being in the business is less than the cost of providing leverage...

Yes; your tech - whatever you have that they can get hands on - will be leached, and gradually manufacturing will be moved. Cooperation with China would be the fastest path to becoming the hewer-of-wood-and-drawer-of-water nation that some claim to oppose. [Add: entertaining thoughts of...

Unless war has suddenly become less stressful than in the past, combat can only be endured for any useful length of time by fit young people. Fully manned units of unfit people are just a strain on the medical system waiting to happen.

Ie. nat-cons.