• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    She committed fraud for the sole benefit of the Chinese state. Sure, you can just frame this as an “open relationship”, but there is some serious fraud and smuggling going on here for the Chinese state.

    • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      She committed ‘fraud’ (aka making a normal private business deal) for a private Chinese company. The Chinese state is currently fully invested in their own hardware which is only a few years behind (and catching up incredibly quickly on the compute side).