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  • 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









  • 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.



  • 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.






  • 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.