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To be a reserve currency you have to run silly deficits. Where are the reserves supposed to come from otherwise?
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May 24, 2019 10:21
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R. Guyovich posted:incidentally this is why china will dominate 5g. they started work early and they use the cheaper, better wireless bands that the us has reserved for its military. What even is the point of 5G? Am I the only one who can live without streaming 4k porn on my 6'' devices?
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May 30, 2019 08:40
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LimburgLimbo posted:Oh thank goodness, must be alright then. Everybody knows western nations are infallible and good. Not the biggest fan of China, but I doubt mandatory schooling is the biggest evil here?
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Jun 14, 2019 08:48
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Kurnugia posted:Didn't the US and canada use mandatory schooling as one of their tools in the cultural and quite literal genocide against indian tribes? Every nation state in Europe exists because they introduced mandatory schooling. Don't think that is an overstatement. By the very nature of the beast a state relies on a certain level of coercion. Though that probably has little to do with what's going on in Xichuang currently.
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Jun 14, 2019 09:46
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Lightning Knight posted:the real power socialist move is for Xi to declare Bernie the rightful American president and invade the US Aliexpress now exclusively delivers to one of the only legitimate US president's three houses.
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Jul 24, 2019 08:26
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Grapplejack posted:I wonder if Russia ever gets salty about being totally usurped by China on the world stage Wait till you hear about the Sino-Soviet spli.
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Jul 31, 2019 10:27
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Zodium posted:every day I thank the CCP for keeping my friends in HK safe from the CIA's tanks Thank you foryourservice.
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Sep 4, 2019 07:44
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R. Guyovich posted:since the calls of "please invade us president xi" are made by imperial chapo leftists who think china is double hitler im gonna go ahead and say those are jokes Please don't revoke my tankie card, but I'd imagine the HK protesters are just as sincere if they call for Trump to invade. China is not Venezuela, the US can't do poo poo and most everyone should know this.
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Sep 9, 2019 08:53
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https://twitter.com/mahobili/status/1183047991717961728
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Oct 12, 2019 23:48
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Grapplejack posted:I think Japan is genuinely trying to re-establish itself in the region, hence all the recent poo poo over article 9. The US is a useful Ally for this, because China is a regional rival and Japan can play them up to get things. I always thought it was the opposite. Getting rid of article 9 allows Japan to sell larger scale military involvement in the US' postcolonial ventures for favors. It's basically the crusade mechanic from ck.
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Sep 16, 2020 00:14
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Throatwarbler posted:lol I love the idea that President Donald Trump is some kind of principled Grand Ayatollah who "hates" a thing or not because of some deeply held principle and not just to rile up crowds of dumb white chuds. He certainly hates things. But if you actually look at his complaints against China it's really the same song every US president has been singing since the USSR fell. R IPs 
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Sep 22, 2020 15:19
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rudatron posted:Exactly which US law allows the arbitrary detainment based on ethnicity? You know, like what China is doing right now. Well if you look at the Chinese constitution you will find that minority rights are in fact guaranteed, so no discrimination can be happening. Check and mate.
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Sep 28, 2020 13:33
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Truga posted:yeah so have a referendum then if it's so clear cut, this doesn't seem like a hard problem What's this, Tibet voted for.....Brexit?
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Sep 28, 2020 15:21
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Grapplejack posted:Somebody forgot about vietnam Yeah, China did quite a few blatant dick moves. Backing Cambodia against Vietnam, that first border war against India.
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Sep 28, 2020 16:18
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Al-Saqr posted:I wonder if Biden wins will america go rushing back to sign the TPP or has that boat irrecoverably sailed. Those never go away. They just come back under a different name, but it's always the same people in those trade talks, backed by the same interest groups.
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Oct 11, 2020 12:56
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Al-Saqr posted:Lol yeah he owned trump. Scrree posted:lol if you havent believe in juche spirit since kim said "i will tame america's dotard with nuclear fire." and then did Did they get anything substantial out of all the song and dance?
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Oct 11, 2020 17:51
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Top City Homo posted:"Equal pay for jihadis is a representational issue that Erdoğan can't ignore" While it is not our place to interfere in the sanctity of contract negotiations, the only one who will profit from this discriminatory approach is Vladimir Putin's Russia -- me in the NYT.
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Oct 31, 2020 12:19
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Fame Douglas posted:Apparently they lost three decades. But people aren't hungry, there aren't homeless everywhere, they have amazing trains all across the country. Maybe losing some decades is preferable? Number did not go up 
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Nov 12, 2020 12:08
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Hooting and hollering for the imminent collapse of the American empire, but does that trade deal actually change anything of significance? Everything I've read is long on symbolism and short on particulars.
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Nov 16, 2020 01:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:It's not so imminent yet because RCEP still has to be ratified over the next two years in the individual member states. Most trade deals in recent years were a mixture of mandatory ball torture for drawing the Mouse without compensating Disney and the establishment of the right to expected profit while even the most optimistic projections by the most shameless economists end up with no more than couch money as an overall economic effect. And those economies are already pretty integrated so I don't see how somewhat lower tariffs are going to change the big picture.
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Nov 16, 2020 13:53
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KaptainKrunk posted:China has probably closely studied East German family planning and socialized child rearing and I wouldn't be surprised to start to see programs similar roll out this decade. Why would you think that? Why would China look at a Soviet satellite that vanished a generation ago?
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Nov 19, 2020 02:31
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KaptainKrunk posted:Their family planning system was good and caused a noticeable bump in fertility. Ah, OK. You meant something like the one in the GDR not that one in particular.
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Nov 19, 2020 06:13
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This line of discussion reminds me of the elder Galbraith's New Industrial State. Interestingly, his argument was that both the Soviet and the US economies will have to move to a mode of production that gives companies significant autonomy. Basically his thesis is that all decisions in a modern technological environment need such a broad range of expertise that the decisions need to be taken by committee and can only be effectively managed on a higher level by assembling a replica of said committee, thus making corporate boards and Gosplan an increasingly bad way to run things. Now, obviously that didn't happen and we're mostly just doing things poorly instead, but it is a line of critique that isn't fundamentally based on "market forces".
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Nov 22, 2020 16:03
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punk rebel ecks posted:China literally has concentration camps for their Muslims that put America's treatment of Muslims to shame and is a wetdream to ICE workers. I don't think we can trust the information we have enough to make this quantitative judgement.
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Nov 26, 2020 21:58
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Remember China's Kimchi crimes? https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1333823774680989696 Someone got a grant
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Dec 5, 2020 08:20
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indigi posted:did not expect to see Saudi Arabia on that list Pompeo should go to the next Saudi embassy to have a frank and honest discussion about that imo.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:04
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Grapplejack posted:Maybe the first time but there's zero chance anyone remembers or cares about this a year+ later; my guess is someone in the government stepped in to stop it and score some points with Xi since CDPR is relying pretty heavily on China to make up for bad western cyberpunk sales Did the game actually sell bad?
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Dec 16, 2020 23:06
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Dreddout posted:The only reason china isn't a post-soviet style hell hole right now is because they don't attempt to overthrow capitalist governments. (Though they do give preferential treatment to established leftwing governments like Cuba and Venezuela which shoots holes in your red capitalist canard) Neither did the USSR for most of its history.
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Dec 18, 2020 02:24
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Grapplejack posted:I imagine if the US balkanizes a lot of conflict is going to happen all at once. I can see China invading Taiwan like immediately and Libya/Syria light up. A lot of minor regional powers would likely get nukes at this point for protection. The Korean war would also probably start again, unless China stepped in. Why those? Libya is on fire already with enough European powers involved to keep going even without the US and in Syria there is broadly a settlement favoring the anti-US side. I also don't really think that the US is what keeps the Korean War from restarting since the latest peace initiatives were driven by the Koreans themselves.
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Dec 23, 2020 01:35
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Grapplejack posted:My assumption is that with the US suddenly gone SK would have no backup from US forces, and that's a pretty big part of their defense program. For Libya I guess I'm overestimating the amount of US support for the provisional government but my assumption is that the US going down would throw Europe into a panic and the rebels would be able to take advantage of that to sweep the GNA. Syria is mostly being propped up by the US and when the weapons and money stop the rebels will probably just vanish or be routed quickly. I mean South Korea has something like twice the population of the North and its military is explicitly built up for that conflict. We might just as well see a panicky peace agreement since with the US out they'd both be rather worried about China. For Syria it seems that happened already. The state as of a year ago was that Turkey guaranteed some small border regions, not quite sure where we are now. And in the Kurdish region the US was handing off slices to Turkey to ethnically cleanse. I guess that would accelerate with Turkey and Syria scrambling for territory. Also, Taiwan chat reminds me again that I have the choice between China experts who don't speak the language and poo poo posters on the net when it comes to figuring out what the second world power is up to. Are any of those language apps worth anything?
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Dec 23, 2020 02:20
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The more I read about the Cold War time the more I get the feeling that the conflict with the USSR was entirely a side show while the main event was preventing Third World development. Makes sense that the USSR going away changed nothing.
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Dec 25, 2020 20:45
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Chomskyan posted:https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1344302667473051649?s=21 Lol Stoller. Ardennes posted:They assumed that the Europeans would/will just buckle under and everything would reset to the Obama-era. That has been a pretty safe assumption. Especially now that Angela Merkel is leaving, because her successor is going to be significantly weaker and probably more dependent on the classical transatlantic networks. Remember when she was new to the party leadership she also went to Washington to pledge fealty to the coalition of the Willing. I don't think the EU will excitedly jump into a trade war, but I fully expect them to stumble into half assed support of specific US wrecking projects. stephenthinkpad posted:The EU is not going to help the US against China any more than paying lip service if Biden doesn't give 1) Nordstream2 to the Germans and 2) IT tax to French. Do you have any basis for this? As far as I can remember Nordstream is basically the only major project that's going ahead despite US objections.
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Jan 1, 2021 16:04
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mila kunis posted:Didn't they just sign a major trade deal with China Did the US even object to that?
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Jan 1, 2021 17:33
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Lol. That's what I like to see. But I'd still argue that it's not that big of a step. European oligarchs get to pocket a bit more of the loot and feel a bit more in control, while China gets a few avenues to park its surplus. stephenthinkpad posted:Keep in mind Germany is the president of the EU council in the 2nd half of 2020. You got to think EU pushing thru the investment deal with China in the last day of 2020 is Germany's way of sending Biden a message. The opposite I'd say. If you rush the deal through while the Orange One sits in the WH you don't have to tell the new admin to gently caress off when they object.
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Jan 2, 2021 01:00
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Ardennes posted:The incoming administration already objected and was told no though, Trump technically being in the White House maybe made it a bit easier but the EU clearly made its choice. I mean unless Joe Biden personally yelled in a phone it's really just random jerkoffs. Much easier to say no to.
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Jan 2, 2021 01:19
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Ardennes posted:Blinken is suppose to be the incoming Secretary of State. Well, then he can come back once he has finished the paper work, as we say in Europe.
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Jan 2, 2021 01:31
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Chomskyan posted:This is how I feel about it too. It's a pretty limited deal centered on a few key industries. On paper it gives more to the Europeans than the Chinese, and I think that on paper promise will translate to reality for Europe, but only if they continue to have a relatively stable trading relationship with China. Yeah, I mean purely on the merits it's poo poo. As a European I don't want to encourage our Oligarchs to move even more industrial capacity to China and China shouldn't give up any control over it's industries to the European upper classes. However, if the sense of momentum created by the rush to make a buck and European politicians patting themselves on the back keeps us out of the next rounds of bullshit it might be worth it.
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Jan 2, 2021 14:35
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Happy Thread posted:Just got word of something. A friend of a friend works at a big pharmaceutical company in China. Her friend works for the embassy department. 80% of that department's people who got sent to Russia in September caught COVID despite having the Sinopharm vaccine. Looks like it doesn't work. gently caress I mean it's not completely unexpected if true. If they get regular swaps and the vaccines don't give 100% sterilizing immunity you'd probably see positive tests. But that still doesn't tell us if they get any symptoms or even if the are shedding the virus.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:04
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indigi posted:how does it wind up in swabs if you’re not shedding? You're jamming those swabs up the nose for as far as they will go. That doesn't mean that you'll necessarily get any kind of viral load outside the body. As far as I know all the tests commonly used are binary. You don't know if you're 80% covid by mass or just over the threshold.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:50
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:ahh those sensationalist headlines. what is a president supposed to say? let's be ready for war after lunch? when we get around to it? I mean you need years of training to form a solid phalanx. And all that effort might go to waste if the Indians escalate to longer sharpened sticks.
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Jan 5, 2021 16:40
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