Yes, unironically. America and China are rivals on the world stage, but the world is deeply interconnected - if China’s economy takes a dive, it’s bad for everyone; just as it would be if India or the US’s economy took a dive.
So why do we keep banning their electric cars and completed solar panels?
If their economy is crumbling, why do t we let Americans buy their cheap green products as climate change is a pressing issue that we cant afford to wait to address?
Because dumping cheap equipment hurts everyone in the long run. It damages the research pipelines, it damages production capacity, and it risks public safety.
It’s essentially a method to create a monopoly that you can then exploit later.
I think the issue is I said “cheap” meaning “inexpensive”.
And you’ve taken it to mean “low quality”.
BYD is surprisingly high quality, as is their solar panels.
For the panels specifically, we can completed units for consumers, but allow the pieces imported with a tarrif and then put together and sold at a drastically higher price.
I meant cheap as in subsidized, these panels are being sold below what the normal market conditions would warrant due to interference from the Chinese government.
This is what’s being used to push the harms I mentioned.
The only economy on the brink is the US. China was one of only 3 that grew GDP and outpaced inflation the last several years, where wages outpaced inflation.
I admonished someone else for using tankie too loosely earlier, so I feel I should do so again.
Calling them an apologist is maybe more appropriate in this context. They are not actually making a tankie argument (one involving force), just spouting low level propaganda (I do not know or care how accurate).
That’s per a UN report, but I’m sure since your state approved propaganda machines like MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, etc. Did not repeat it. It must not be true since it shines a bad light on the US and is contradictory to the propaganda the state feeds us that we are doing so well
The difference is China doesn’t give a fuck about its aging population. Once it gets it’s hands on Taiwan, the US isn’t the defacto world power any more.
In this day and age, any posts not clearly labelled as sarcastic should not be treated as such. There are plenty of people out there who, as you said, would believe it without question and spread it like gospel. Unfortunately, there are enough of them where you can’t give them the benefit of the doubt any more. There absolutely are people who would read and disseminate it and turn it into the next big conspiracy theory that somehow Joe Biden would be held responsible for because of his relationship with Genghis Kahn. Or something.
Your article is written by someone who has a vested interest in the price of silver. Your 20 “proofs” are a list of opinions from the author, often with one sentence being broken out into multiple “reasons” in order to make the list look even longer. I think I’ll pass on the idea of him being an impartial, reliable and/or accurate source of information, thank you.
Seriously,
Joe Biden still pounds the table “that the economy has never been stronger”
Indeed, there are decades when nothing happens and then hours when decades happen.
No but it is the first step. If countries no longer have to purchase oil from OPEC in US dollars and they’re able to use their own local currency to purchase oil, that will be the end of the US dollar being the world’s reserve currency. The petrol dollar has had a stranglehold on other countries for decades because it required them to purchase oil that they needed in US Dollars.
Unless china can peacefully occupy Taiwan, that won’t be the result.
The result will be that TSMC et al will blow up the fabs. At which point basically the entire world is screwed and china is not any better off relative to where they started.
Reunification can only happen after China gains the ability to chose its own leaders. Otherwise the Chinese leaders can never be trusted. When the reunification happens, I think that Taipei should be the capital of China for the first 10 years or so since that is where the experience in democracy is located.
No, it would have to be Beijing, or at least Nanjing. The name “Beijing” literally means “northern capital”. Nanjing means “southern capital”. Other cities do not have the cultural cache to be the capital of China. It would be like France having a capital other than Paris.
So rename them to whatever “Donkey’s Ass” is in Chinese rofl
What the hell kind of nutso idea is that? “No, it has to be the capital because that’s the name”
Do you know what the capital of New York is? It’s not NYC. It’s Albany. Just because a city has “cachet” doesn’t mean it should be the seat of government.
I’m saying that Beijing has legitimacy in the eyes of the people of China, and has had that legitimacy for at least 1700 years. Forget Albany. You have to look at this from the point of view of a country that thinks it’s thousands of years old (rightly or wrongly). The capital of Italy is Rome, and it will always be Rome.
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