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An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
The Economist
China | The Voldemort of economic plans
“Made in China 2025” has been a success, but at what cost?
LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan, introduced a decade ago, called for pouring money and resources into dozens of industries. The goal was to turn China into a green and innovative “manufacturing power”, one that relied less on labour and Western supply chains, and more on automation and new home-grown technologies. This was Xi Jinping’s vision for the Chinese economy.
[PAYWALL]
Oh noes! China made a plan, funded it, and it worked! The horrors of advancing your own society by your own bootstraps! AND IT WAS THE COMMIES WHO DID IT FIRST!
The Voldemort of economic plans
Holy shit lmao get the fuck outta here
I’m so sick of these articles. They never deliver. The cost is $14.99, plus shipping ubless you spend $45. Why can’t their expert researchers find it out thenselves?
Don’t even get me started on “how many roads must a man walk down?”
This reads like something that was generated by an AI trained solely on satirical Hexbear posts.
You’ve heard buttery males
now introducing
butta wocus
literal infants
Reactionaries really are children. It should have been obvious ever since they decided human extinction from climate change is worth it for the treats.
haaaa couldn’t even get past the first sentenceMillenials can’t get past the first sentence without doing a harry potterism.
Okay who got a job churning out China bad articles at the economist as a bit?
When America pushes to buy “Made in America” and from “American” companies, its patriotic.
When China (or literally anyone else), its foreign nationalists trying to undermine our economic power.
(Please ignore examples like NAFTA allowing GM/Ford to make 99% of a car in Mexico and shipping it for assembly in the US so we can put a flag sticker on it. And ignore us being so treat brained that 80%+ of every product I’ve ever seen a tag on, that isn’t food, is NOT made in America and that’s ok until it suddenly isn’t. And ignore that we’ve so thoroughly destroyed domestic manufacturing that its impossible for USA consumers to even try to willingly buy American.)
A lesser lib would have put “green and innovative” in quotation marks because they believe China is not actually green and innovative. Putting “manufacturing power” in quotation marks is a level of liberalism that is physically unsafe for the human brain.
Even tho op prefaced this in title, I still did not believe LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT was article text. My brain slid over that, assumed it was a little joke by op. Never. NEV-ER woulda believed. It’s just… too on the nose.
And it’s literally the first three words LMAO
I literally laughed out loud, like a harsh sort of howling laugh, when I read “LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT”
Literally right off the bat, too, lmao
And right after “But at what cost?”
China: Suffering from Success
JK Rowling was a mistake
AK Yearling > JK Rowling
This is just what happens you ask ChatGPT to generate an economist article.
Americans still haven’t shut the fuck up about going to the moon so they can’t conceive of a government doing something successfully and then not talking about it
There’s no way they still use the “but at what cost?” not ironically. That has to be an internal joke by now.
China was mentioned in a meeting at my tech bro job the other day and some guy that I’m cordial with messaged me privately “BUT AT WHAT COST”. So I think oh this guy is dog whistling at me that he is actually a China enjoyer, so I test that out by being like “yeah it would be great to work with China” and he immediately launches into a serious tirade about how they’re fascists destroying the world.
So uh…no I think they actually do say this seriously. I couldn’t believe it
for real, there even was one mexican NGO ghoul saying it in Spanish during an interview, it’s like these people have a script.
“But at what cost” is the West’s trigger phrase for having their citizens imagine horrible things, get mad at their imagination, skim the article which confirms their imagination, and then go about their day like nothing happened.
“Like Lord Voldemort…” and this is where I stopped reading that fecal matter written by billionaire bootlickers.
