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Out of legitimate curiosity, what are the alleged costs they usually point at?
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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.