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Or as they did with cobalt alloys: use slave labor to flood the market and push out all competition, then rug pull and cut off all supplies.
They're in the middle of this process with electric vehicles as well.
Another thing they like to do is make manufacturing deals with foreign companies in order to steal the technology for the state, which there is a lot of opportunity to do in the Silicon industry.
So, the Walmart model.
I can tell you're making an analogy of how Walmart pushes out smaller stores in towns,
but after Sam Walton died Walmart has sold primarily Chinese products,
so, yes, exactly, in more ways than one.