Lol. No.

Great insight about the geographically delayed effects across US ports.

Even if they decide to push the undo button now, the supply shock is already in motion. It remains to be seen how the US will try and mitigate the fallout of all of this. Either way, a massive own goal.

Yep, this pretty much sums it all up.

I was talking about weed specifically with my comment

About cannabis specifically i agree with you. But given China’s history i also can’t fault them for choosing to be cautious.

It’s definitely something I hope changes in the future

Why? Why should a successful policy that protects China and the Chinese people change? This is not like the US’s failed “war on drugs”, this actually works and prevents all kinds of bad secondary effects. You realize that the international drug trade is intrinsically linked with imperialism? From the opium trade of the 19th and early 20th century to the CIA’s drug smuggling, empire has always used drugs to further its nefarious aims.

We recently even had a post about the history of how drugs were used specifically against China, and not just in the Opium Wars: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7620593

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Excellent take by the KPRF here. And despite the awkward translation you can still understand very well what they’re trying to say here. They really hit the nail on the head about the lack of any coherent ideology on the part of the current Russian government.

Not really.

It’s not that easy to just make a “second China”. Because what made China China wasn’t just cheap labor costs, it was the entire foundation built during the Mao era. Even India with its similarly large population size as the other comment here suggests can’t just replace China overnight. If they could they would have done so already.

But India is pursuing a fundamentally different model of economic development and the US can’t magically transform it with just their “carrot and stick method” that you mention. They would need not just to invest massively in a kind of Marshall plan style without immediate prospects for a return on that investment, which US capital is not going to be easily persuaded to do, but also change the entrenched oligarchic and political structures in India that stand in the way of China style industrial development.

And India is where the US’s chances are highest. In South East Asia they stand even less of a chance, countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, they are much more highly integrated into China’s economic orbit. And yes, the Philippines is a US neocolony that can serve as a military launchpad, but they definitely can’t economically replace China. I think if the US imperialists really are thinking along the lines you laid out they are severely deluding themselves.

Turns out Vance calling the Chinese “peasants” was a compliment after all, because Chinese peasants are living in the future.

That’s cool for people who work with video professionally, and it’s double cool that China is making its own standards, but for me personally it’s going to be a very long time before this is practical. I don’t have a TV and i’m not planning on getting one, and as for gaming at 8K, that’s just insanity. I don’t even have a 4K monitor because the kind of graphics card required to run anything modern at that kind of resolution is still insanely expensive. Imagine the kind of graphics card you’ll need for 8K… It’ll probably cost more than my car. And streaming videos at that resolution? Forget about it, not with the DSL level internet speeds that we still have where i live. Our internet infrastructure is still in the stone age compared to countries like China.

Ah, that’s too bad. No i haven’t archived it, but the main text of the post is basically the entire text of the thread in the linked tweet. I only added the italicized bit at the top, the rest is the original thread’s text copy pasted.

There should be substantial financial and social help given to families that want to have children, and they should get more help the more children they have.

(But to balance that out with a left wing policy, i also want free contraception for everyone who doesn’t want children.)

Russiagate truly broke the brains of liberals.

The article claims that this is because China supposedly doesn’t care as much about the environment as European countries do. In reality the opposite is the case. China is the only major industrialized economy in the world on track to hit its climate goals, and it has undertaken enormous investments into green energy. As even the article admits, China basically manufactures most of the solar panels and many of the components that go into the windmills that Europe uses and that the world needs for a green transition. Not only that but the use of EVs is more widespread now in China than virtually any other country in the world. They are literally everywhere in China. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that China is at the forefront of cutting edge nuclear energy development and has invested huge sums into building hydroelectric power.

What the article is trying to do is justify why Europe should ditch its climate goals.

Not too long ago some CDU people were gleefully bragging about how they “pulled the rug out from under the AfD” by - get this - adopting all of the AfD’s migration policies. And yet the AfD’s popularity keeps rising. What a shock, becoming the discount fascists hasn’t made the fascists less popular…

Absolute gigachad.

Translation:

A better translation of the most interesting part of this announcement:

“Based on the current tariff levels, there’s no possibility that U.S. products would be accepted in China’s market. If the U.S. would continue to to raise tariffs on China, China would just simply ignore it.”

= There is no point for China to raise tariffs any further past this point because US goods have already become completely uncompetitive in China now.

A lackluster party is better than no party. Collective organizing is essential. Individualism is liberal and bourgeois.

“We’re coming home!” Crimea celebrates after 97% vote for joining Russia

“We came back home to Mother Russia. We came back home, Russia is our home”

“We are Russia, we have always been Russian people in our souls here in Crimea” “We have been waiting for this day for 23 years”

96.77% of Crimeans vote to re-unite with Russia

“We are going home, Crimea is going to Russia”, said the republic’s prime minister

Majority of Crimea citizens one year after referendum do not regret joining Russia

Crimea celebrates 2 years since historic referendum to rejoin Russia

Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since

The Majority of Crimeans Are Still Glad for Their Annexation:

“it is incontrovertible that most […] Crimean residents welcomed joining Russia. Numerous polls at the time of the annexation and in its immediate aftermath revealed broad support for joining Russia”

“Crimea’s annexation in 2014 gave residents grounds for optimism, with a majority of Crimeans hopeful that their lives would change for the better.”

“The majority of Crimeans do not experience Russian rule as oppressive, alien, or unwelcome. Instead, based on the evidence of our surveys, they are reasonably happy to be living in Putin’s Russia.”

—Foreign Affairs Magazine, official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, arch-imperialist US neocon think tank