it is a rather complex problem.
But what we know is that the earth is too small;
it can't hold 6 billion people.
China overtakes US as world’s richest nation as global wealth surges
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it is a rather complex problem.
But what we know is that the earth is too small;
it can't hold 6 billion people.
Right...who wants to go first?
The Chinese Communist Party has raised China to its current economic level.
I'm pretty sure that if I was head of the CCP and me and my pals had 1.4 billion slaves who could be ordered to do whatever we decided was best, we'd have a pretty rich country in the end.
But is this the end?
I'm pretty sure that if I was head of the CCP and me and my pals had 1.4 billion slaves who could be ordered to do whatever we decided was best, we'd have a pretty rich country in the end.
But is this the end?
Not going to bother at first but since @VicBee so enthusiastically invited me, I will chide in. It's obvious that I am not the only one who feels China's accumulated wealth is neither sustainable nor justified. Yes Chinese people have worked hard but some of the wealth was also accumulated through unfair trade policies unilaterally favouring China violating WTO trade agreements and other not so honourable practices in addition to using a currency whose value is not determined by free-market forces and is instead artificially suppressed to a lower value than the currency of its trading partners.
So no matter how much China feels it's earned its wealth all by itself, the bottom line is it's the rest of the world especially the western world (the part of the world that Xi wants to have broken heads and bloodshed) that's been feeding China by buying China's stuff. If the entire world decides to decouple from China and doesn't buy one drop of China's exports, no matter how hard China works, it's not going to earn one cent, one pence, one euro, one yen, one rand, one rupee, one anything. This is what China seems to forget when it thinks it's earned its wealth all by itself and that's the problem.
The world has never wanted to fight against China as opposed to what is thought by many in China in their misguided and paranoid "nationalism"; it's actually trusted China, trusted China's "peace-loving" rhetoric and freely traded with China for the last thirty years and didn't even want to compete with China. It's actually China's own paranoid "nationalism" which gave rise to its muscle-flexing that's now put the whole world on guard. Now it's going to compete with China. China wants to bite the hand that's been feeding it? Well, no more feeding then...
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Correction: The western world for a large part has raised China to its current economic level.
@JSOP, accept this simple fact: China has its own interests, and it defends them, much like the US of Arseica is doing all the time. Do you remember when US of Arseica says "The action of country X is violating US interests. We can't allow this" ? 
Btw, US of Arseica... Cool name for this dying empire of lies!...
Btw, US of Arseica... Cool name for this dying empire of lies!...
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I'm just amazed at how unable your are to project outside the limited blinders you've set for yourself JSOP. Debunking your points is like shooting fish in a barrel it's so easy, because nothing you say makes sense.
I just like to use you because it's so easy to get you going. I promise, I won't do it again.
Don't underestimate the Chinese people who are not shy of voicing their frustration with their government; they do it all the time.
My belief with regards to Taiwan is this:
Xi is only as powerful as the CCP let's him be. If he pushes hard for a Taiwan invasion to make his mark on history, they will weigh the benefit/consequences and, like all conservative organizations, they will opt for a more conciliatory path by removing him from his pulpit, by force if necessary. The risk to the CCP's power and survival on the mainland would be too high should China find itself at war not only with Chinese Taipei, but most of the nation's around China and the world. Their survival is more important than Taiwan today.
However, for this diplomacy to work western nations have to be unequivocal about the consequences of an invasion, and China needs to know with certainty.
I just like to use you because it's so easy to get you going. I promise, I won't do it again.
Don't underestimate the Chinese people who are not shy of voicing their frustration with their government; they do it all the time.
My belief with regards to Taiwan is this:
Xi is only as powerful as the CCP let's him be. If he pushes hard for a Taiwan invasion to make his mark on history, they will weigh the benefit/consequences and, like all conservative organizations, they will opt for a more conciliatory path by removing him from his pulpit, by force if necessary. The risk to the CCP's power and survival on the mainland would be too high should China find itself at war not only with Chinese Taipei, but most of the nation's around China and the world. Their survival is more important than Taiwan today.
However, for this diplomacy to work western nations have to be unequivocal about the consequences of an invasion, and China needs to know with certainty.
Of course Chona took western money to manufacture and supply stuff. But without the CCP's policy decisions on international trade and internal infrastructure development 40 years ago, China would not be where it is today.
As a guide, for 30 years from 1949 when the party came to power, China was making undramatic economic progress and had little trade with the west. Of course all through this time the western world was becoming incredibly wealthy and making huge advances in areas of health and human development. There was no decision in the west in 1978 to change dealings with China to China's economic benefit, it was a CCP decision on their own country's economy.
The non vaxxers are helping us with their self destructive behavior. We should thank them for their generosity.