<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wbl</author><text>The traditional US way to change the rules: get other countries together to back up your position, suggest a principled approach, be willing to make concessions in other areas. The new way: flip the table over.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AimForTheBushes</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move. It is completely unfair that it&amp;#x27;s cheaper to ship from China to the United States than it is to ship from Chicago to New York. It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage. There is always the argument of semantics of what makes a developing country a developing country, but I think being the second largest economy on Earth isn&amp;#x27;t afforded that label.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elicash</author><text>If this is about China, then why wouldn&amp;#x27;t other countries want to join us in changing the fee structure? Better to team up with other nations than pull out and be all alone on a framework that&amp;#x27;s far bigger than China and relates to all global shipping, no?&lt;p&gt;Genuinely asking because I am unfamiliar with these issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AimForTheBushes</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move. It is completely unfair that it&amp;#x27;s cheaper to ship from China to the United States than it is to ship from Chicago to New York. It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage. There is always the argument of semantics of what makes a developing country a developing country, but I think being the second largest economy on Earth isn&amp;#x27;t afforded that label.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month</url></story>