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Looks like we Trumped Red China

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Posted By: Judy W., 4/2/2024 7:29:16 AM

The news on Monday morning was dominated by stories of an economic recovery by Red China of a recession that the U.S. press had largely ignored. (Snip) John Austin of the Brookings Institute wrote in Time magazine, “Conventional wisdom that [Red[ China’s economy would eclipse the U.S. in a decade—maybe even sooner—is looking uncertain. The view that [Red] China was the emerging geopolitical power, with developing nations tucked under its wings, is looking similarly shaky. It is now unclear whether [Red] China’s GDP will ever surpass the U.S. and nations around the world are rethinking their ties to Beijing and the debt trap that is the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 4/2/2024 8:31:41 AM (No. 1690971)
Oppressive Communism is always a failure, always. When the people lose the will to succeed, their productivity is minimal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: plomke 4/2/2024 9:08:06 AM (No. 1690997)
Don't be so quick to dismiss the economic and military might of Red China. China is a long way from being led by a animated corpse. China also doesn't have thirty five trillion dollars of outstanding debt. China doesn't worry about DEI,WEF,ESG or "Climate Change". China don't worry 'bout nuttin...
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 4/2/2024 9:37:00 AM (No. 1691022)
China's demise is exaggerated. They are a huge threat. Think North Korea on steroids.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 4/2/2024 11:26:11 AM (No. 1691081)
Almost everything in China is a government fake or just fraud. This is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynNsPs9i80
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 4/2/2024 11:59:11 AM (No. 1691100)
Yep, everything is perfect in China. Wall Street Journal took a look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwc3EBW0Sc
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 4/2/2024 12:08:52 PM (No. 1691112)
It is difficult to grasp how may millions and millions, probably billions, of tons of concrete were used in these unfinished buildings, which will never be finished, never be lived in. And with the low rate of natural deterioration of concrete, unless these are torn down and the concrete hauled away, they will be there for centuries getting more and more decrepit and dangerous to go into. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt-Pa5s5zZI
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 4/2/2024 2:26:41 PM (No. 1691153)
#6, it's interesting that the building developers were so fixated on copying Paris, Manhattan, and London down to the last detail. Seems to back up what I've always read about the dearth of creativity in China... the idea being that their educational system doesn't engender (or sometimes even permit) creativity.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: john56 4/2/2024 2:54:11 PM (No. 1691169)
Reagan basically made the USSR overspend on its .military until they collapsed. Maybe Trump can do that economicaly to China, assuming Joe Biden doesn't bankrupt us first.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Omen55 4/2/2024 3:58:58 PM (No. 1691188)
Just imagine what Trump could have done to the Chicoms if him instead of Joey as POTUS? We could be seeing a repeat of the fall of USSR. This is how Reagan did it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Timber Queen 4/2/2024 4:07:30 PM (No. 1691190)
#6 - Thank you for the video links. I also did a second video from the #4 link. I had seen some others on the "Ghost Cities" before, but none as detailed in their explanations of the root and consequences of the phenomenon. If China's economy is about to implode, and their puppet president of their biggest potential adversary is failing and will lose to the man who ate China's lunch last go-around, why not invade Taiwan before America's election? I agree with #7's observation about the re-creation of the great capital cities of Europe. It was rather creepy. Why would the average Chinese citizen want to live in a physical environment that was not their culture? If they wanted to live in Europe they would emigrate...if they could. Which they can't. So if they wanted to live in one of these "foreign" cities, would they not be signaling to their government they hold anti-China feelings? What a Catch-22!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 4/2/2024 6:06:10 PM (No. 1691254)
Re #10, if you go to Serpentza's Youtube channel and start from three or four years ago (maybe more) he apparently started out with him and a friend, two Aussies, I think, traveling around China as tourists on motorcycles. At some point he learned to speak Chinese, and lived in the country for a number of years. He has a lot of experience with their crazy government antics. Like the rule that requires two elevator repairmen on all jobs to ensure that the maintenance is done properly, and a photo must be sent to the government office to prove there two working. So, they carry fold up cardboard cutouts of a repairman, to put a bit farther than the one real repairman, take the photo and leave....no repairs. This one about bike-sharing bikes is just mind boggling. And most of them are brand new. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwNdNL2GA3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfLWFv3ixk
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