I always understood it to mean the “cost” is just more capitalist accumulation. “They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!”
So I gather from this answers that none of this news articles never articulate any concrete cost that they alleged? Because I know that anything they could say would be skin deep at most but never anything substantiated but I expected something, I’ll try to track down some of this news and check
Out of legitimate curiosity, what are the alleged costs they usually point at?
Yellow peril
Are you asking about coherence and reason in the narrative? What are you, a Russian bot?
I always understood it to mean the “cost” is just more capitalist accumulation. “They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!”
So I gather from this answers that none of this news articles never articulate any concrete cost that they alleged? Because I know that anything they could say would be skin deep at most but never anything substantiated but I expected something, I’ll try to track down some of this news and check
Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.