[citation][nom]cheepstuff[/nom]Enforcing one architecture means necessarily excluding others. If they strictly enforce a single architecture among manufacturers, and disallow other possibilities, they are shooting themselves in the foot by restricting innovation. The whole reason a variety of architectures are roaming the marketplace is because consumers have a use for them. If one instruction set met all consumer requirements to begin with, there would be only one kind of instruction set. Suppose an revolutionary instruction set is invented in ten years, the Chinese will lag behind the rest of the world because government officials cannot evolve as fast as a free market.Centrally planned shenanigans like this will hurt the Chinese people. A government should not needlessly take away the rights of the consumers to choose the product they want to buy just because a bureaucrat thinks they have an original idea.[/citation]
It's the good old protectionism.
[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]Smart move. This would strengthen the Chinese's economy and keep billions and billions of Yuan from getting out of the country and instead, keep the money within their borders to improve their nation.Gotta hand it to the Chinese, they're very smart when it comes to their future and development. Unlike a certain already developed nation, they don't let entire industries move overseas to other countries where millions of jobs are created and where interests are more on the basis of becoming highly developed - to grow as a nation as a whole - instead of filling the pockets of giant corporations who are allowed to get around tax loopholes thus denying their own people of tax money and millions of jobs. Decades from now the Chinese will be the top superpower and the people from the nation that used to be on top will be wondering why and only then will they realize their mistake. They won't realize right now when the tide can still be turned.[/citation]
In the 1920's, the American business people and politicians thought it would be a great idea to slap a stupidly large tariff on all imports, some imports even had as high as 60% tariffs. Their reasoning? To protect their booming economy.
But tariffs was a game that everyone could play. So Europe and other countries slapped tariffs onto their imports, including American exports. Then global trade crashed.
Needless to say, it helped set the stage of the global depression of the 1930's.
Did the Americans succeed in stopping their dollars from leaving their country? Yes. Did it help their economy? In the very short run, until the 1929s.
And before a flamer calls out at me as an anti-American, I'm a US citizen who's studying for the Advanced Placement US History test.