BEIJING (AP) — China’s politically volatile global trade surplus surged to $676.4 billion in 2021, likely the highest ever for any country, as exports jumped 29.9% over a year earlier despite semiconductor shortages that disrupted manufacturing.
  • ghost_laptop
    4•2 years ago

    B-b-b-but it’s going to collapse any minute now, you’ll see!!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      3•2 years ago

      It’s amazing how despite being wrong for literally decades people proclaiming that China is about to collapse still have jobs.

      • ghost_laptop
        3•2 years ago

        They are being paid to say exactly that so that Westerners who haven’t bothered to read anything regarding China’s politics or economics feel good because they think their country will outlast the evil communist one. They don’t give a fuck about journalism.

        • Muad'Dibber
          4•2 years ago

          Gordon chang still does interviews lol. An “author” whose books we got to see proven as completely wrong as the mayan apocalpse, yet still gets paraded on US TV to sell sinophobia.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          3•2 years ago

          At this point western media is like Goebbels trying to explain how the Wehrmacht is invincible while being rolled by the Soviets.