The Capitalist Manifesto: If Apple was a Chinese company, jealous bureaucrats would have brought it down ages ago

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Opinion: Dictators believe they can successfully combine authoritarianism with modern capitalism. They are wrong

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At such times, newspapers sometimes print diagrams of nations’ relative strength dotted with symbols for armies, missiles and warplanes. They are missing a trick in failing to include the fruits of capitalism in democratic countries: for example, millions of smartphones produced by Apple, a business that was this week briefly valued at US$3 trillion.Article content

Soldiers are visible evidence of state power. Spies and propagandists operate in the shadows. China’s army of spooks should be happy with the latest tech crackdown. New scrutiny of foreign listings mattered less than a requirement for tech groups to disclose recommendation algorithms and user search histories.

 

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how about including - if a nation voted in a socialist government, the liberal capitalist nations will ensure that the government is removed in a coup and an oppressive violent regime is propped up in its place to ensure capitalist extraction of resources.

Apple is a Chinese company

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