• TheRedTerror1917@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    Libs constantly claiming “China collapse soon!” Are just projecting the US. Hopefully I’m out of here before that happens.

    • PropagandaBot@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      3 years ago

      There was a post stating how China had been inviting some high profile researchers from Western countries to disclosure secret information about how the Chinese economy and political stability were in the verge of collapse. As it turned out they were offered obvious lies and ate them like hopium.

      I don’t remember if there was a reliable source to back that claim, but wouldn’t that be amazing? They fell into that narrative and they won’t accept the Global North collapse until it has happened.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        13·
        3 years ago

        Here is what i suspect happened there: a couple of enterprising Chinese academics/businessmen with little or no relation to the government knowing exactly what westerners wanted to hear at that time, decided to invite some gullible westoids to these “conferences”, charging of course a hefty fee of entrance for the privilege to hear this “secret insider information” about the imminent collapse of China. Westerners loved it as it played right into their “end of history” delusions, and their hosts made off with a bunch of westoid cash. I believe this is known as the “sigma grindset”.

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      3 years ago

      Ironically Gordon Chang’s book probably bought the PRC some precious time to rapidly catch up while the westoids were overdosing on hopium lol

  • Redpri (He/Him)@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    Must say, that’s a fool proof plan right there.

    Let’s just fuck everyone’s, included our own, economies, but fuck our own a little less.

    And socialist economies haven’t shown to be much more stable than capitalist economies, not at all.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      Isn’t that usually the idea behind sanctions as a warfare method? Besides, the economies that are expected to go pop are not, in fact, socialist - Russia, EU, India. Doubt anyone in Washington seriously expects China to collapse anytime soon, but the others? Why not try.