Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she hopes China won’t mount major retaliation against any steps Washington takes to safeguard investments in critical new industries, while emphasizing the US cannot allow these emerging sectors to be “wiped out” by Chinese competition.
What on earth could factory inspectors be spying for? Like I don’t put it past them, but at this point I’d like to know.
Probably more of a fear of the claim that they were spying… though how much of this fear is actual and how much of this is fabricated by the USA companies is not investigated in the text that I skimmed.
the cop of the imagination does so much more to curtail behavior than any real cop ever could