It takes cheap labor. EU has tech. If I’m not mistaken Netherlands one of few who has capabilities to produce machines for photolithography. Question is how to make it competitive.

Wow, who could’ve thought China will choose their cheap labor over local. Hungarians got owned by their politicians, again.

I think they will actually build drones. Their labor will be significantly cheaper than Russian’s, whose salary must be high enough to compete with non-military non-government employers. Korean worker will get bear minimum coz no one cares. Korean army gets tech. Russians instead can be sent to frontline where they will not survive till paycheck. Profit.

Trump: People are dying in the war. We need Ukraine to capitulate

Also Trump: Send those mfs to country where they will be executed

While trade war isn’t good for anyone US is clear looser here since China’s export to US (as of 2023 stats) is only 15% from its overall export. They can sell more other countries to smoothen impact. Meanwhile who gonna buy US stuff? “Best friend“ Russia with total GPD of less than California?

There are no monopolies on EU market. It’s a blessing and a curse. 10 mid sized companies will never able to provide as much as one mega corp. Mega corp can throw budget of one company into R&D and it won’t feel it while 10 companies can only do fraction and fear collapsing. There is answer to that - standardization. Which is (mostly) default property of one big solid entity like mega corps but for 10 companies it needs to be enforced. EU doesn’t need 10 PayPals. It needs 10 companies running standardized (federated if you wish), interoperable but independent payment platform.

It’s of course my ignorant opinion with 0 knowledge in legislations and finance. But as developer I have natural hate to copy-paste solutions

Auchan? 🇫🇷🇪🇺

Came to comment same. Though, I prefer “Oushen”

I feel like people are complaining about wrong thing. At least for me it’s not a problem that there are different communities. To me problem is same posts. What would be great is to have same posts merged into one post with comments from all its duplicates. This way communities are independent, lemmings don’t get to scroll same copy-pasta and discussion of same thing is visible cross communities/instances. Question is how we define “same” is it carbon copy of post, or same content only? Alternative titles can be shown if content is same but not title.