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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
- Message-ID: <louis.725593533@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:45:33 GMT
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- gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan) writes:
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- >In article <BzzID0.1zC@fc.hp.com> chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns) writes:
- ||Joe Trott (joet@dcatlas.dot.gov) wrote:
- ||: phillip@kiwi.gen.nz (Phillip Hardy) writes:
- ||:
- ||: |noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL) writes:
- ||: |: I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
- ||: certain business interests found it easier to complain than to compete.
- ||: Granted, the Koreans were "dumping" at below cost, but people who are not ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- |Interesting note - the Japanese have been doing this for years. They
- |will enter a market, dump products below cost until all of the
- |competition goes under trying to keep up, then they have the consumer
- |by the proverbial jewels...
-
- |They dont see this practice as wrong, as it is life in Japan...
- |Business is war and what is wrong to some (USA) its how its done
- |in another place (Japan)...
-
- I would say it has been, and continues to be part of the Japanese
- national strategy:
-
- In 1857, when the competition between Japan and the United States began,
- the shogun's adviser, Masayoshi Hotta, observed:
-
- I am therefore convinced that our policy should be to stake
- everything on the present opportunity, to conclude friendly
- alliances, to send ships to foreign countries everywhere and
- conduct trade, to copy the foreigners where they are at their
- best and so repair our own shortcomings, to foster our national
- strength and complete our armaments, and so gradually subject
- the foreigners to our influence until in the end all the
- countries of the world know the blessings of perfect tranquility
- and our hegemony is acknowledged throughout the world.
-
- This is quoted on page 113 in "Trading Places," by Clyde Prestowitz, a
- must read for anyone interested in the US -- Japan trade deficit, and
- the resulting colonizing of America by the Japanese.
-
- So you could say that Japan has had at least a 135 year plan. After
- Hirohito came to power in the 1920s, the Imperial Army and Navy became
- the chosen instrument of world domination, and the pathway was China.
- The proponents of economic dominance lost out, for a while. What WWII
- really taught Japan was that they could not succeed with armaments, as
- apparently planned by the shogun's adviser in 1857. They tried.
-
- When the occupation ended in the early 1950s, and MITI was formed, the
- strategy was to use trade to establish the hegemony. They have almost
- succeeded where the Imperial Army and Navy failed.
-
- To sum up my view of Japan vs the US since WWII:
-
- The Japanese have had a nationa *economic* strategy, but no military
- strategy.
-
- The US has had a military strategy but no economic strategy.
-
- Who is becoming an economic colony of whom?
- --
- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
-