Youtube comments of G L (@gelinrefira).

  1. I'm an application scientist for a German instrument company. We sell high end analytical instruments, each piece can sell upward to over a million. Just trying to sell one machine in SE Asia and India is like pulling teeth. Research institutes, agencies, even Government ones often do not have enough budget to buy even one and sometimes entire institute have to pool money to get one. But you need these instruments to do bleeding edge research especially in life sciences. In China, if they want it, they will get the budget to buy it. They buy not one, not two, they buy a dozens. A fricking dozens and they have these machines working and churning out data all the time. And they do it for multiple national labs, universities and even smaller institutes can still get the budget for one or two. The daring to innovate, and to requisite the resources to achieve those goals in China is astounding, it is simply on another level. Only America and Europe can come close to the level of budget that China can summon to get things they need to push to the bleeding edge. In research, having the money to do things is as important as having the people to do it. China has both and will not give up getting both to get things done. And they are focused, and relentless, optimistic and boundless in energy. Only those who visited China, talked to the people there, eat with them, drink with them and see them work understand this. China will get the chips they need. It is without any doubt that it will happen.
    1000
  2. Modi is such a two faced creep.
    647
  3. Why don't Germany shut down their gas power plants? Considering that China deploys more solar capacity in 2023 alone than the US did in its entire history, criticizing China for not fighting climate is beyond comedic, it is repulsive.
    466
  4. If there should be restrictions on pets, then it should be restrictions on breeds that are unhealthy like bulldogs which are born with difficulty breathing for the rest of its life, and is just cruel or are not suited to this climate, like huskies which are bred to live in snow and run miles per day. So unless you can keep your flat at less than 20C, you are literally torturing a husky, and if you don't run with them for 10 km a day, you are going to have an obese husky.
    396
  5. If the US is not arresting netanyahu, then why should Vietnam arrest Putin?
    384
  6. Kevin brings up an important point. If your country relies on an American company for your crucial communication infrastructure, you do not have digital and data sovereignty. This is why China's Great Firewall exist, why they build alternative digital outlets and to prevent US big tech from taking over their digital space because once you allow that to happen, the US government can do whatever it wants to your government, your people, your society, your politics, and your culture. Remember snow dan, remember what the nsa did, remember prism, remember that American companies like cisco are constantly found to have backdoors in their products. Now even intel chips are found to have backdoors. Everything that comes out of American companies are basically spyware. The moment the US accused China of installing backdoors and spyware is the moment it confirmed that the US have done that to all American tech companies.
    378
  7. Let's not forget that Iran also has a lot riding on exporting oil to China, not just about making money. They are exchanging oil for tech and development from China. That is far more valuable than mere money. It's their chance at beating the US sanctions by becoming more self sufficient in all the important parts of their economy.
    353
  8. China proves that if you educate a population enough, provide them with all the basic needs and wants, they will naturally innovate and be creative. China is the example that if you take on a more socialist view and take care of the peoples's basics, they will have the energy and excess capacity to do great things.
    331
  9. I don't think de-dollarization is only about not using the dollars, although that is a large part of it. If China is indeed taking those USD they got back from selling those bonds and setting up THEIR own financial system to deal with the USD they own, they are still de-dollarizing. The USD system hinges primarily on the dollar recycling BACK into US in the form of bonds so the demand of the USD can be maintained and they don't get hyperinflation with the way the fed print money. If China, and Russia can create an independent financial system that can deal USD and Euros without ever touching US financial system, loans, bonds or whatever, then that is effectively de-dollarization. It is de-imperializing the USD, it is de-empire the financial empire of the US. And it will be fatal to the US. Unless you are telling me that the Feds can sanction any country by having records of all the legal tender they hold by each greenback's serial number and then literally voiding the legal tender of those serial numbers, then well, China and the world will have no choice but to de-dollarize in the most literal sense. But honestly, seeing China selling off the bonds at a loss just to get the physical dollars back is quite shocking, consider that the losses must be huge. They probably know that the US is mulling the ultimate sanction on China and they can no longer wait. After this election, if biden wins, he might go all-in trying to block China. And if he really even considering provoking a proxy conflict in East Asia the way the US did with Ukraine, then it will have to be in his second term because he has no more election to worry about and the US is out of time. That is unacceptable to China, so you are right that they will never want to be in the same position as Russia and the fact that they are doing this means they have very reliable intel that the US is going to try to do something extremely foolish. That is also unacceptable to us living in SE Asia too.
    331
  10. "Countries that need ports, get ports." Hahaha the deadpan delivery by Yanis just underscore how ridiculous this woman's objections were.
    329
  11. It's not bizarre Sean. It is the swan song of a dying empire still shielded behind a delusion of past glories and overestimation of their power. Next stop, fascism.
    317
  12. Telling the Chinese that they just have to overcome these challenges is redundant. What else have they been doing for the past 100 years if not overcoming vast, insurmountable challenges. It's like telling a salmon that they just have to swim hard to get back to the stream they were born in, when they have been doing just that for millions of years.
    240
  13. "You can be a terrible human being, and people would make all the excuses in the world for you because of you utility. But the second you realized you were more than that utility, and you operate with that understanding, oh they will show you your place real quick." Completely encapsulated capitalism and racism.
    219
  14. Don't forget one very very important point. China is not just about supply chain dominance, it is also about CAPITAL CONTROL. All the largest banks in China (and the world) are state owned, and many of their best companies are also state owned. The Chinese government can direct immense amount of capital, not from borrowing, to any areas they deem are of national strategic importance. This is not possible for the US and the west where most of the capital not borrowed by the governments are in the hands of private banks and companies. It is that capital control that allow China to centrally plan their industrial polices, and their economy - a Lenin innovation, and a crucial part of Marxist-Leninism. The SOEs and banks work for the people, they work for the government, they don't work for private, rent seeking parasites. If we are going to talk about the success of the Chinese model, Socialism with Chinese characterizatics, it is time we actually give credit where credit is due and stop this western propaganda BS against socialist ideologies and concepts. It is doing a disservice to deny the most powerful philosophical tradition of criticism of capitalism. It is also irrational and foolish to keep denying the power of the socialist models which has succeeded despite western aggression and slander and misrepresentations.
    218
  15. The west is also defeated in another less flashy aspect: economy. China has now more than 30% of the manufacturing value in the world. It is now the manufacturing superpower. Its dominating industrial capital meant it can create prosperity for its people and ensure security and self sufficiency without exploiting anyone or any other country. The result of that achievement is a stunning validation of the Chinese model: Socialism with Chinese characteristics. And the west does not know how to counter it because it is culturally, socially, politically unable to move away from the death trap of neoliberal imperial capitalism. They have driven themselves into a corner culturally, socially, politically and they cannot reform, they cannot change and they will inevitably decline because they are incapable of any self reflection, lack self awareness and find more comfort in a false reality of western superiority rather than face the music of its inadequacies, incompetency, cruelty and crimes.
    211
  16. Openly declares a tech and economic war, and explicitly said they want to "slow down" China's progress. The sheer arrogance and self-righteousness.
    210
  17. The American Bubble is reminiscent of the late Qing Dynasty Bubble where people within the last dynasty had this bubble that nothing happening outside China mattered. Unlike the Japanese that went on with their modernization with the Meiji Restoration, the Qing Dynasty's modernization efforts were unfocused, halting and often self defeating and in the end retreat back even further into their bubble. Until the west start craving up the country, selling drugs to the people and wage war on China, humiliating them for a hundred years while Japan went on to defeat Russia at Tsushima. Now America is like the end of the Qing Dynasty, fiercely insular, highly arrogant and refuse to learn from the outside world or its own mistakes, preferring the comfort of ideological dogma verged on religiousity. America is on the decline. I only hope it won't drag the rest of the world down into hell with it.
    206
  18. If they didn't arrest Nettie when he came to the UAS to give a speech, why should Mongolia arrest another country's sovereign leader?
    202
  19. This is why tech and data sovereignty are so important. If you depend on another country for your most crucial software and hardware, you will always be held hostage by them. This time was an accident because CrowdStrike didn't do their due diligence, next time it will be sanctions.
    200
  20. The fundamental question should be if Russia, China and Iran were to trade with each other, why should that involve the west in the first place? I want to add the actual premise here since this comment seem to have some traction through an edit. The more core question is why should the west be allowed to control finance and trade to the extent that we are using, (or forced to use) their financial services when countries should be able to set up their own bilateral or trilateral or multilateral trading and financial systems. Of course this is somewhat a rhetorical question since we all know about the history of Bretton Woods and later nixon "the crook" doing away the gold standard. But it really underscore the fundamental nature of today's economic and financial system is just another manifestation of old western colonial power. They put this system in place because they could, and the rest of the the global majority couldn't resist. The post war de-colonization era is really just a switching of the guard, where the older form of direct colonialism by the European on the Global Majority switched to financial and economic colonization by the UAS empire on the rest of the world. This isn't just about the SWIFT payment system. What we are witnessing today is the historical dismantling of this neocolonialism system that the UAS empire has enjoyed since the end of WWII, and they are panicking because they have no idea how to live in a post colonial era.
    198
  21. You forget to mention that it is not that Americans have greater buying power because the USD is the reserve currency. It is that the fed can print money and the US can use those papers to buy stuff. Because the US created a system where everyone uses the USD for international trade, and used through institutions like SWIFT, a country has to have a reserve of USD just to do trade. This means that the US can exchange real goods and services for mere cents to every 100 bucks. In turn, central banks will usually buy US T bonds to ensure their USD reserve don't devalue due to inflation. Again, this means the US can buy things using something close to thin air while everyone has to use that currency just because. It is ultimately a economically colonialism system where American wealthy elites and Americans basically gets free lunches while exporting their economic and social problems elsewhere. The fact that you failed to mention that showed that you are already bias becaus that is the whole point of USD as a reserve currency.
    186
  22. I don't think it is accurate to even say that the Americans innovate and the Chinese execute because it is increasingly clear that the Chinese can innovate just as well and they can execute too, while the Americans are getting worse each year.
    182
  23. Free Puerto Rico.
    180
  24. It's like letting Kevin Spacey be in charge of writing laws on sexual crimes.
    176
  25. I visited Taiwan numerous times for work, and met many people there. I avoid talking politics with my colleagues as this is usually not conducive to a workplace environment. But when we chat outside of work, and sometimes we touch on the this touchy subject, the feeling I get from Taiwanese is that they are apprehensive about reunification for a variety of reasons like if they get to keep their current system (there is a lot of misrepresentation about what happened in HK in Taiwanese media), how their lives will change. However, they also think it is inevitable because the status quo cannot be kept like this forever but in the meantime, they will like to keep it like this for as long as they can. They usually do not think independence is a possibility or even a wise decision. The way I see it, is that the Chinese on both sides of the strait know that reunification is inevitable but they are in no hurry to do so. So they have very mixed feelings with the current Lai government. They know that the US is just using Taiwan as a chess piece against Greater China but they also like to believe they can play this game for a little longer. I think for the mainland, they are contend to just let it go on as long as possible and I think the main objective of Beijing should be enticing the Chinese on Taiwan and integrating their economy even tighter until reunification is a no-brainer. I'm sure that's what Beijing is trying to do right now. All of this of course will be thrown out of the window if the US has its way of turning Taiwan in the a western Pacific Ukraine.
    176
  26. LOL how is Kazahstan going to export their gas to Germany without going through Russia, China or Iran? The stupidity is just beyond the pale.
    167
  27. Well, then we are glad that mersheimer is not in Beijing dictating the politics of China. Merhsiemer despite all his castigation of the current UAS foreign policies is very much a hegemonic style thinker who based his "realism" on western colonial mindset of power politics. He is very much a UAS hegemonist, he just disagree with how the UAS is doing it. China, as a culture and a society, has long since understood this kind of childish, (yes very childish) way of thinking will only lead to a collapse sooner or later because you will spend way too much energy and resources trying to maintain an empire, so they don't do it.
    167
  28. They can always pipe water there. The real obstacles are US backing out and not subsidizing the factory any further, lack of qualified engineers, high cost to operate any manufacturing in the US and the chasm of culture between TSMC and Americans. And most importantly, Americans trying to steal their tech.
    166
  29. Apple doesn't make the most innovative product. Apple has the most ruthless business model.
    147
  30. America does not have any surpluses to duplicate BRI, or even come close.
    143
  31. I kind of glad that the Chinese market is not spending like drunk sailors, the way American/western capitalists think they would. Something has to change, and we can't keep driving this reckless, irresponsible, unsustainable economic model of consumption and growth. The Chinese people are more cautious about their finances and they are more responsible about governing their economy. The Chinese culture is not based on materialistic consumerism that rot the western culture and gave their oligarchs immense power. Yes, it is going to be tough but I think in the long run, changing the way we look at the economy, especially about how to shepherd it is vital for our future, especially when dealing with climate change and growing wealth inequality. There is no such thing as infinite growth, and we cannot keep going through this destructive boom and bust cycle. We must abandon the western capitalist model of economic thinking and switch to a more human centric, focus on public interests, sustainable way of governing the economy. Yes, you won't have these glitzy growth rate, and crazy profits per quarter but this form of economic thinking is ultimately self destructive and it will kill us all in the long run. I will even argue western capitalist model is one of the Great Filters that kills intelligent civilizations. China is willing to take on pain in the short and mid term in order to create a more equitable and sustainable economic model in the long run. I welcome China's new approach to governing the economy and the Chinese culture towards more cautious consumption. China is still on the path towards socialism and they are not going to be reckless with their economy. They will not tolerate cowboy financial shenanigans like Evergrande and Wall St. They won't bail these economic terrorists out, and I applaud them for it. Everyone should adjust accordingly. I have to correct you Sean. Wall St. do not believe in a rising tide lifts all boats. They want China to save them and when they are saved, they will revert to "F*ck you, I got mine." A n*ke on Wall St will literally make the world a better place instantly.
    142
  32. Haha I get Luckin coffee in Singapore just to avoid giving money to American companies.
    139
  33. Gallium Nitride is also crucial in other signalinh application, especially in radars. It all work under the same principles. You need antennas that can transmit and receive signals and GaN based antennas are essential for this kind of cutting edge AESA radars. China has so much GaN that they are using AESA radars in everything. The US may have more advanced algorithms but good software only need tome and talents to write. China has plenty of both.
    137
  34. "It's not that hard." Anyone who works on or design machines that requires vacuum, even moderate vacuum, can tell you that it is not easy or cheap to maintain vacuum for long periods of time. The bigger the vacuum cavity, the harder it is to design and maintain one.
    135
  35. One thing people also frequently failed to point out is that American cities are nearly all the same. The strip malls you see, the bill boards, the type of businesses are all the same from Indiana to Texas, to California. They look the same, the function the same. For a country that is suppose to be innovative and creative, America is a place of depressing sameness. Ohh look, it's Olive Garden. You drove 1000 miles, it's the another Olive Garden as though you never left. Thousands of miles of road, save for the changing natural landscape, America is all the same.
    132
  36. Asking the right question. Why should they be questioned?
    131
  37. An alliance is a bloc made against someone else. China doesn't do alliances, they make partnerships.
    126
  38. China is already making experimental quantum computers to ship for research labs. They are leaders in photonic chips, an area that has been somewhat neglected in the west. Tsinghua is also building a free electron laser based on the concept of steady-state microbunching to supply high quality, bright EUV light for semiconductors manufacturing. This is unlike ASML where the EUV source is created from plasma because the entire litho has to be self contained and shippable. China is going to build a SSMB accelerator which can supply multiple lithos with EUV light source. This is an entirely new concept for lithography and it shows that China is not only catching up, they are pushing the frontiers in every aspect of science and tech. They are also making steady advancements in other aspects of lithography like masking and precision robotics. Only fools will keep underestimating them and think sanctions can work on them. Short of a nuclear strike on China, they are virtually unstoppable. With each passing year as the American empire wanes, China overtaking the US is inevitable and no amount of propaganda will hide it. The problem is the US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on another country, and historically has absolutely no qualms killing large number of people, destroying countries and destabilizing entire regions to get their way. What will they do in an desperate attempt to hold onto their hegemony?
    123
  39. Of course China can.
    122
  40. I fully expect the US media to now disavow university rankings, or they come up with the most ridiculous excuses and conspiracy theories. Yet again, I'm emptied my popcorn.
    120
  41. Yea, the way she explains capitalism is like hearing a homeopathic practitioner explains medicine. It is like explaining why things float in water by saying that thing is lighter than water, so therefore wood floats and steel sinks. She is right on some very narrow aspects of capitalism that makes it a good economic, while ignoring (deliberately or by ignorance) everything else about capitalism that makes it a terribly cruel economic system. As a chemist, it reminds me of hearing people denouncing something as bad because it has chemicals with long names in it. Who pays you Sabine, to make this stupid video? The US government's disinformation warfare unit? Koch foundation? Milton Friedman's ghost?
    118
  42. For the people who I ironically saying that the stock market is rising high and American companies are hitting stock price records, I don't know why I have to say the obvious: the stock market in America is mostly speculative and fueled by easy printed money and do not reflect the real economy.
    116
  43. Since when has Americans' opinions matter to the ruling class?
    116
  44. The only reason why we are not using Chinese CPUs and GPUs yet is because almost all software has been developed to suit western hardware for a long time, and support for Chinese chips are still developing like drivers, compatibility etc. But there is no reason why this won't shift in the future. When the biggest market in the world start developing their own cutting edge software, coupled their own cutting edge hardware, a new Chinese ecosystem will emerge and given the amount of capital and talents that China has, the leading edge will come from China. That means inevitably, more and more countries and companies and customers will migrate to this new ecosystem. In turn, the west will not be able to keep up with this new ecosystem. The US in their colonial hubris has created their worst enemy.
    112
  45. "Are you blaming everything on the US?" No, I don't blame everything on the US but the US is responsible for most of the problems in the world. Being responsible for 90% of the systemic problems is very close to 100%, so I can graciously forgive Americans for thinking that everyone blames them for everything.
    112
  46. America has always been built around protecting rich people and corporations.
    104
  47. The western market is getting less and less important with each passing year, especially now they are almost completely tapped out.
    104
  48. China is still making money ham over fist. They hit 100 billion PER MONTH in trade surplus. Even if they use stimulus, they can just use that trade surplus to do so. The whole world is in recession pressure, and the fact that they Chinese are still posting 4-5% growth is astonishing.
    103
  49. We are witnessing the decline of America in real time. A hundred years from now, these events will be studied intensely by historians as to the lessons of why America fall.
    99
  50. They went to Korea armed with outdated weapons and courage against a technologically superior enemy. They came back on one of the best airlifter in the world and escorted by the most technologically advanced air dominance fighters. The story wrote itself.
    96
  51. China doesn't just control a lot of rare Earth ores, they also completely dominate metal refining of nearly every element. That's what make China truly dominant in both low and high tech manufacturing.
    92
  52. This is the type of videos Americans need to watch before they think going to war with China is a just cause.
    90
  53. The pathetic struggle of a dying empire.
    90
  54. Spineless.
    90
  55. Somehow Chinese ships are passing through without any problems. Maybe it has something to do with their equitable and agreeable foreign policy? 🤔
    90
  56.  @avinashchaudhary8545  I wouldn't be sad if India voted against. I will say "yup, that's India."
    89
  57. Good. About time we get out of the extortion that is the USD.
    87
  58. We have known this for a long time. BRI using the USD and Euros earned from Chinese exports to lift up deliberately underdeveloped countries oppressed by the west, while fostering good will, get those countries to throw off the yoke of the west, while undermining the entire western neocolonial system, and strengthen their supply chain, is a strategic brilliant move that can only come out from the brains of the most sublimely intelligent strategists. This kind of stratagem being thought up by Chinese leadership, then assiduously implemented for decades is why the US and the west can not beat China. There are no leaders in the west that can match the level of sophistication of Chinese strategists and politicians. Western politicians and oligarchs are still scratching their heads. They are like children trying to play chess against a grandmaster.
    85
  59. Exactly. The current epoch is only beautiful for the UAS empire, the imperial core and the imperial semi-periphery. It is horrible for everyone else.
    81
  60.  @antoniohenrique5750  They get too big headed because they probe the fundamental nature of nature itself, and so think they can tackle intangible and often information deprived, highly ideological and political subjects like economics as though they can just read and thought experiment their way to a logical conclusion. But in the process, they removed most of the human elements that are crucial in any social science analysis.
    81
  61. I have now deliberately try to not buy anything made in America, which is not that hard. I try to find alternatives in other countries, especially those that can respect multipolarity and resisting US hegemony.
    80
  62. Westerners cannot abandon the colonial mindset. If you are a thief, you think everyone is a thief.
    80
  63. Honestly, Singapore is authoritarian-ish because Singaporeans are content mostly to let the government work. When they are unhappy, they do show up and vote and take a few seats away to punish the ruling party. I still remember a GE some years back when the ruling party actually lost a number of seats and they started panicking. To say Singapore is not a democracy betrays a very shallow understanding of Singapore and democracy itself. Singapore is not an adversarial type western liberal democracy where the government is thought to be democratic only if there are adversarial opposing parties with near parity power. Singaporeans don't really believe in that because they want political stability more than window dressing politics so common in the west. Just look at how ron desantis sent migrants to Martha Vineyard as a performative political stunt against the dems. Singaporeans will find desantis's behavior to be baffling, childish and intolerable. They want the government to govern with the country's interests in mind, not play juvenile games for votes. It is more apt to describe it as a pragmatic, technocratic democracy.
    80
  64. The material reality is exerting itself on the west, and it is fun to watch.
    77
  65. Huawei's founder also created his company based on the idea of worker commune which is a socialist praxis. The company is employee-owned. He might have admired certain aspects of American companies, but he certainly does not admire capitalist philosophy.
    75
  66. It's not just starlink, it's also starshield which is explicitly a military statellite constellation.
    74
  67.  @tonysu8860  China does not have imperial ambitions. Just because you westerners have imperial ambitions does not mean everyone has imperial ambitions. Taiwan is a breakaway province of China, reunification is not an invasion. Russia's national security is threatened by NATO expansion and explicitly stated goals by US political establishment to subjugate Russia and they act accordingly to protect their national security because they really have no other choices. Just because you are a murderer and a thief does not mean everyone is a murderer and a thief.
    69
  68. BeiDou is also far more difficult to jam because their power output is far higher than GPS. Higher power means it is harder to scramble its signals from hammers.
    69
  69. Which is exactly why Legal Eagle mentioned there is a supreme court ruling that sometimes it is painful to be a citizen because you have to be subjected to searches in the process of your own prosecution, even if you are later found not guilty.
    68
  70. When the western liberal system say it is all for freedom and economic growth, you should follow up with the question "Freedom for who? Economic growth for who?"
    68
  71. China has now become the manufacturing superpower. It also need a robust financial system to back up this manufacturing and technological power. All of this is outlined in their 5 year plan, to develop their financial sector so they can have insulate themselves from the US and break western monopoly on financial services. It is also to protect the wealth of the country that were accumulated through wise governmentship, hard work and a superior economic and political system. More importantly, to use that financial system to further develop their real economy.The virtual economy of finance must be subordinate to the real economy of production.
    67
  72.  @faa9261  Those are not socialist policies. Protecting the bourgeois's assets at the cost of the proletariat is capitalism. The fact that you people keep thinking that bailing out companies for their capitalistic excesses is socialistic is also the reason why the west is in decline. 90% of the westerners don't even know the basics of how the work actually works. They are completely mis-educated on that.
    67
  73. A surprisingly nuanced and non slandering take on an issue about China. You have earned a sub.
    67
  74. I worked in the research industry. China definitely still has funding problem. You can never fund everything but China is strategic in allocating the funding resources in places where it will make the most impact and in line with national objectives.
    65
  75. Yup, the double standards is palpable.
    62
  76. What US made goods? Lol.
    61
  77. China and other countries wanted to assure that mBridge is not trying to take over USD and swift, so they wanted BIS to be involved. But since it is the west that rejected mBridge, then don't blame China and the other countries what will happen next.
    61
  78. France has been more independent from the US hegemonic domination but whether Macron's words turn into real policies is a different story.
    61
  79. This is basically a coup attempt. The trump regime and the gop are trying to destroy democracy in America. This is sedition.
    60
  80. "I am not THOSE men. I am Salahudin." Now that's a line to be remembered, especially the way Ghassan Massoud delivered it. A mix of contempt for those Christians who slaughtered everyone and a firm conviction that he is far above their evil and cruelty.
    58
  81. Free Hawai'i. Free Guam. Free Puerto Rico.
    57
  82. Once I told my mum inflation in hell must be hellish while holding a a pack of 10 million hell currency notes. My mum told me to shut up.😅
    57
  83. It's like punching another dude and then asking the third dude to help make peace, while insulting and threatening that third dude.
    57
  84. Their government style and philosophy and priorities are also completely completely. The CPC is driven primarily by development of the country and delivering promises made to the Chinese people. Their legitimacy, as Xi himself emphasize in their recent party general meeting comes from keeping the people happy with China's development, and if they fail, the Chinese will give them the boot very easily. Their system generally work around consultation, consensus building, and feedback from the people, choosing capable low ranking officials by locals and then moving up the ranks through meritocratic contributions. This creates a cadre of politicians that are highly motivated, civic-minded, very disciplined, strategic, smart and technocratic. It's not perfect because there is still a lot of corruption and the quality of bureaucrats and administrators can vary with top notch officials tend to gravitate towards large cities and centers of power, and lower quality officials stay at poorer, less developed provinces. But central planners know this and they have a strong oversight system. India OTOH is styled like western liberal democracy, in a culture that is far less developed politically and economically. The liberal western democratic doesn't even work very well in the west as nearly all western countries are completely hijacked by neoliberal capitalists and their democratic processes are often complicated, arcane, with lots of undemocratic elements built into it designed to nerf actual people power, and based mostly around theatrics, public and media manipulation, popularity contest, and big money support, not around merit or strength of character. This is exacerbated in India where corruption is even worse than China and billionaires and big businesses used even more underhanded methods to keep the people down, the economy suited to their interests and the politics controlled for their own power. Cheap labor can only get you so far, and China has proven yet again (last time by the Soviets) that some form of centrally planned economy is far more efficient than laissez-faire neoliberal capitalism or even classical liberalism at industrializing a country. China went further and developed their own socialistic model modified from Marxist-Leninist model, combining some elements of free market economy, with push for vital sectors for development and central long term, strategic planning while holding ultimate political power to prevent the billionaire class from taking over the country. Mid and high tech industry cannot survive on cheap labor alone, it requires infrastructure (stable electrical grid, transport, residences, factories, offices), high skilled labor (emphasis on education), political support, stability and security, and synergistic combination of various supporting industries all preferably within the same area. That's why the Guangzhou-Shenzhen bay area is the tech hub of the world today, and it was created from combining central planning (Shenzhen Special Economic Zone) with capitalist investment and market economy, up to a certain point. India's political situation cannot replicate these modes of governance. That's why India cannot copy China's model and it will not supersede China until they can resolve their fundamentals.
    54
  85. Since when is cheap exports that control infatuation rate a bad thing. Does CNA wants us to buy overpriced furniture from the west instead of the same thing from Taobao?
    54
  86. No, the US and the west prefers for-profit companies to make their weapons. Expensive weapons is one part, the lack of excess capacity for surge production, stockpiling, and preparedness all cost money that makes less profits. No for-profit company is going to have 70% of its capacity idling just for any eventuality or to have all the parts and capability to increase production very quickly. They want guaranteed purchase volume and profits, they want in-time factory management, they want to maximize profits by promising a lot, under-delivering and then asking for more money for the capabilities they said they can make. The problem is not high cost weapons. The problem is for-profit capitalism, and that drive for profit also drove most of the conflicts today where the MIC encourages the US government to view everything as a nail to be hammered.
    54
  87. Lee Kwan Yew warned the UAS that this will happen 20 years ago of they continued down this path. He is dead for years now and his words are still prescient.
    54
  88.  @Crazt  You do realized that we are literally carrying flammable, explosive liquid, gallons of it, just behind our seats and we even leave them in our garage. I'm pretty sure when cars were becoming more mainstream back in the early last century, people were also saying it was suicidal to give the general public access to gallons of flammable gas locked up in a tank while there are explosions going on in the engine. If we can make gas burning cars relatively safe, we can make EVs safe.
    53
  89.  @kylezo  Yup, the problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of people to exploit.
    53
  90. @@sei.tsukino No, the Chinese and Russians are actually very rational, if you just stop and listen to what they have to say and throw away all your assumptions that are taught to you by western media.
    53
  91. Calling it a democracy is hilarious.
    52
  92. We do not need to de-dollarize completely. We just need to reduce the demand for USD and US treasuries to the point the whole cycle collapses, and the US cannot export its inflation anymore to the rest of us.
    52
  93. While Balakrishnan can say that Singapore must support international order, it must be pointed that the country that violates the most international laws is actually the US. What we are witnessing is the breakdown of the American empire and the rise of multipolarity, where more nations are gaining stronger sovereignty over their own country and escaping the western dominance. It is a mistake to view this as a crisis, that the world is breaking down. No, it is just the western order of neocolonialism that is breaking down. Singapore must be nimble to navigate this as an independent nation free from being obligated to the western order. Yes, Singapore has benefited from throwing our eggs in the western order basket. But now it is time to move into this multipolar world where we cannot depend on the west dominating everyone and shutting down dissent. If the FM is serious about protecting Singapore's sovereignty, then he must take Singapore's freedom to associate freely with any powers, any country seriously and to shed the western tinged goggles that the world is "breaking down". For 80% of the population in the world, their world is finally starting to be built up. That is the correct view the Singapore government should be taking because there are now many many opportunities for trade with new partners. If we are really serious about the international order, then we should also acknowledge that the Ansar Allah is blockading the Red Sea because ALL NATIONS are obligated to stop any gen*cide as stipulated in the Geneva Convention. What the Ansar Allah has done is essentially an economic sanction on the west. If the US can violate international laws, and trade regulations and unilaterally sanction hundreds of countries, then Ansar Allah has the right to sanction the west to respond to an ongoing gen*cide. I know the FM is a politcian and has to make sure Singapore does not offend the west, especially the US but here we can at least be able to call a spade a spade. Let us not delude ourselves into thinking that the Red Sea blockade is not directly tied to Israel's committing a gen*cide right in front of all of us brazenly, and the west remorseless and unconditional support for it. That is an actual breakdown of international order that the FM so valiantly is trying to defend.
    52
  94. I bet China can make each shell better and even cheaper.
    52
  95. The Chinese government will not likely allow the RMB to be freely floated and thus be speculated upon. There are Chinese Marxist economists like Hu Qiyuan even said monetary policy control shold be returned to the National People's Congress, not remain in the hands of central government bureaucracy, though he does advocate at the same time for more liberalization of the RMB to be utilized at higher rate in international trade. Controlling monetary supply and national capital is the key to socialist control over capitalists. It is what allows China to control their bourgeois class while reaping real economic growth in real assets like factories, technologies, agriculture, minerals, real estate, and of course the consumption of it. They are not interested in financializing their economy like what the neoliberals did to the US from the 80s onward. They are building their own financial system to secure their own capital and to lubricate economic development and international trade in real stuff, not to engage in fake stuff like financial speculation and wall street casino practices. They don't actually want RMB to become the next reserve currency like the way the USD is. They are not interested in that because the reserve currency status require complete liberalization of your currency and allowing it to float freely while you have to print enough money to support the financial market. In the end, you will turn your economy from making real things into gambling other people's money in fake, virtual stuff. That is antithetical to socialism. This is moreso shown in that they are developing cutting edge fintech that lubricate economic activities, not developing new derivatives and other speculative financial instruments. Their goals, philosophy and practice are fundamentally different from the neoliberal capitalist system in the US. It is something that western economists and financiers are supposedly scratching their heads over every time they "analyze" what China is doing. So either that they are truly are incapable of understanding it, or they are refusing to even acknowledge it by pretending to be confused over China's actions, and I'm inclined to believe the latter.
    52
  96. I'm pretty sure they don't want to see it. The last thing you can get an American to admit is that the US is not special, it is not exceptional and it is just like any other empires that have risen and fell over the long course of human history. They have to believe in the American Exceptionalism myth, the American Dream or whatever bullshit they tell themselves to make them feel special, and the first most important criteria is to dismiss every other countries' exceptionalism. They will never admit that China has done something great, something right because that directly contradicts American Exceptionalism. They will vote for war first.
    50
  97.  @SuperSupersoda  No, he was not alone in building Singapore. This is a great man fallacy that even LKY himself told people not to subscribed. He was a great statesman and leader but he surrounded himself with extremely capable people who have a single mission: to make Singapore prosperous and secured. LKY could not do what he did without the people around him. This is the kind of childish mentality that pervades western political discourse and thinking.
    50
  98. That's the common tactic used by western media to distort public opinions. Against your rival, any small little thing that went wrong is amplified 1000 times by using emotive language and visuals, while you don't talk about anything good they did or if you do, minimise it until it sounds blasé or even twist it until it sound wrong. Anything wrong that you did is also minimized, even making it sound like it is a necessary evil or you were actually trying to achieve some other objective so this evil thing is a sacrifice. Anything good, no matter how small, is maximized to a million times to make yourself look like you are better than the second coming of Jesus.
    49
  99. The first phase of China's military buildup has always been area denial of its coastline. DF-21D is one of those threats that could work but you can never really know, and that throws your calculations off. How sure are you that it won't work or your defenses will. That's enough to push carrier operation far off the coast because even if the missiles are expensive, losing a carrier or two is even more devastating. China can concentrate all its missiles in an area to strategically deny entry to US carriers and even if they fired off their entire arsenal of 20, 30 missiles to saturate the defenses and to increase hit chance they only need one successful hit to sink the carrier. If you are a commander of a Pacific fleet, are you going to risk that? Will the Pentagon willing to risk that? Then, the missiles already did its job.
    49
  100. I don't think Russia thinks it will ever get its foreign assets back.
    47
  101. The arrogance of the Us to think they have the right to decide how another country should be run. One day, this karma will boomerang back to the US.
    47
  102.  @SeraphsWitness  No, libertarians believe that they can do whatever they want because they think they can do whatever they want to other people. They dislike government because almost all the rules are against them from abusing their fellow countrymen and they resent that. When they get retaliated because of their transgressions, they always whine about how unfair it is and why the government didn't intervene.
    46
  103. The Philippines has always been the odd one out in SE Asia anyway.
    46
  104. Then they will have to deal with the Malaysian government which will just give you way way too much headache. But then Penang local government is usually fairly competent.
    45
  105. Everyone here is wrong about education. A YT video is designed to entertain. A lecture is design to give you as much information that is relevant to your test or degree. An education required you to practice your work. You need to learn the concepts, the math, the systems and how they interconnect together as a body of knowledge. You go to school to become a professional and that means you need to know esoteric knowledge and have skills sets that have to be TRAINED and PRACTICED. You watch a YT video at lunch time. If you think you can be prof Wang by watching YT videos, then I look forward to reading your paper on rice.
    45
  106. China is already the largest economy by GDP PPP.
    45
  107. How American greed killed hundreds of thousands of people. If people think this is just a Boeing problem, think again. This is a deep cultural rot in America where profit, money and the moneyed class stands above all else.
    45
  108. Yup. The crucial ingredients that all these videos refuse to admit is that Singapore government works, and they work for the people. Westerners cannot fathom, even want to admit that a government may not be an adversary to the people or the individual. They will not admit that the government is part of the country and the people can love their government and be part of the community. This is especially true to Americans who are brainwashed since young to treat the government as a necessary evil and is only there to screw things up. Only private companies are the best, and billionaires and other rich people are messiahs, they are the only ones who create jobs, create the economy, the titans of industries. Government people are evil and are not part of the community and they only seek to corrupt everything. Never mind that the government in these countries are controlled and corrupt by the private sector. This distorted view about government, the state, the people and private corporations is why they cannot understand how countries like Singapore, and dare I say to a large extent China can be so immensely successful. It must be cheating, some sort of repression, oppression by the government, stealing or whatever excuses they can come up with to explain anything, except the most obvious explanation: governments headed by PAP in Singapore or the CPC in China really do care about their people and country, and they do pursue policies that are crafted to benefit as many people as possible, and to maintain the health of the economy, and strive for common prosperity. The other thing they refuse to admit is that central planning works. Singapore is actually a hybrid system that combines using socialism and capitalism, with a very strong central planning ideology and pragmatism that is rooted in material reality and that the economy must be bend to serve the people. It is highly Hegelian and Marxist. It is in many ways, also Leninism that emphasize a strong central government control occupied by a cadre of politicians that has strong theoretical education and will to serve, to ensure the excesses of capitalism, and the vagaries of the market kept tightly under control and limited. They make capitalism work for them, not the other way around. To the westerner drunk on the capitalist cultural hegemony, this is not only unfathomable, it is literally evil incarnate. They cannot accept such a paradigm. What Singapore did is not replicatable in the west because their capitalist class, their oligarchs will not allow their government to exert such control over them. A lot of the principles pioneered by Singapore, especially by the PAP are actually being practiced in China, albeit with significant modifications, to a stunning success. But a westerner will rather put a gun into his mouth and blow his brains out than to admit that.
    45
  109. Keynes didn't say to borrow and deficit spend to prop up a zombie economy. He said to spend to prevent a depression spiral. What the US and Japan doing is not Keynesian at all.
    44
  110. Capitalist cultural hegemony is just like that. They will always find any way to make sure the capitalism system is never blame for the problems they created.
    44
  111. China is going green. They have deploy more solar capacity in 2023 than the US did in its entire history. China is also actively fighting backt he Gobi desert, reforesting an area larger than the size of Belgium. So obviously, going renewable, going green is not the problem. De-industralizing and then using financial boondonggles to extract value out of the rest of the world to feed your spending and military IS the problem.
    44
  112. China took a page out of the west's playbook. Probing into western plastic dumping is just hilariously poetic justice.
    44
  113. The CPC doesn't think it is doing a good job. It KNOWS it is doing a good job and the Global Majority can see that. But the CPC also knows it can do an evening better job.
    43
  114. The US is the prime example that if a person has absolutely no scruples, he can say anything he wants, no matter how absurd, unreasonable and self serving to avoid responsibility, and to boost his own self image.
    43
  115. Singapore is a small country that has to be very careful in how it maneuvers in the international arena. Singapore must be neutral and principled and predictable in the way it deals with other nations. So it is understandable why Singapore does not want to get involve directly with the politics surrounding the gen*cide going on in Gaza committed by Israel. Yes, it is a gen*cide and yes it is absurd that YT will likely censor this comment if I don't type the word to bypass it. But Singapore's position cannot be tied to any one country, especially one that is becoming the pariah of the world even as the west tries to cover for Israel. We know the western media is lying, we know they are trying to do damage control and we know that no one outside the western media bubble is falling for it. If we want to be realpolitik, the west is only 17% of the world population, even including Australia, Japan and South Korea. The rest of the 83% of the world mostly have disagreed with the west on Ukraine and find the Gaza situation absolutely intolerable. Singapore should do well to understand that even if we are closely tied to the western regimes, we have to plan to exit the western world if things get worse. We need to keep all options open and we can never, ever be locked into supporting one side or another. On a more moral ground, the situation in Gaza is absolutely horrible, and if the Singapore government is still blindly supporting the west and Israel on this, it will inevitably earn the ire of the Singapore populations, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters. I know of more westernized angmohphile Singaporeans are very much brought into western propaganda and believe somehow this is a "complicated" situation but I don't think most other Singaporeans will see it that way, Chinese, Malays, Indians and all other peoples living here. It will be a mistake to underestimate how dissatisfied many Singaporeans are with the government's position with regards to Israel and Gaza. Tread carefully.
    43
  116. An advanced, industrialised educated, highly sophisticated 1.4 billion people market.
    43
  117. No, free them. Free Puerto Rico. Free Guam. Free Virgin Islands. Free Hawai'i.
    43
  118. LKY was not a dictator.
    42
  119. We might be finally seeing the US being punished for once for their numerous crimes. Their sins, arrogance and complacency are finally catching up to them.
    42
  120. Sabine, the way you explain capitalism is like hearing a homeopathic practitioner explains medicine. It is like explaining why things float in water by saying that thing is lighter than water, so therefore wood floats and steel sinks. You are a physicist and you should understand exactly what I meant with that analogy. You are right on some very narrow aspects of capitalism that makes it a good economic system, while ignoring (either deliberately or by ignorance) everything else about capitalism that makes it a terribly cruel economic system. As a chemist, it reminds me of hearing people denouncing something as bad because it has chemicals with long names in it. Who pays you to make this stupid video? The US government's disinformation warfare unit? Koch foundation? Milton Friedman's ghost?
    42
  121. China is likely also going to be the first navy to field the world's first drone carrier.
    41
  122. The political and financial system are what did them in.
    41
  123.  @baba10ye  yes, we should bank with the Chinese considering the history of what neocolonialism and financial domination of the US has inflicted on the world.
    40
  124. I cried at vegeta's tender scenes too. This is what boys want all along. Affirmation, love, support, self confidence and understanding what are the really important things in life.
    40
  125. Was there any concern about overcapacity when the US remained the only industrialized country that was untouched after WWII and basically produced so much stuff they cornered most markets and made huge amount of surpluses? I thought not.
    40
  126.  @pohmoh3590  then perhaps there is some miscommunication here. When people say selling bonds, they usually mean selling it before maturity. You are not really selling the bonds if you just let it mature. Kevin said that the 53B is being sold on the secondary market, so that should mean that China literally sold those bonds before they mature and taking the hit up front. Maybe there are bonds that will simply mature but that's not what he is implying.
    40
  127. The fact that a person can lived in Singapore and never have to own a car is mind blowing to most Americans.
    40
  128.  @Fido-vm9zi I'm one of those everyone. He is right. I don't take the EU seriously.
    40
  129. The more philippines involve the US and bring potential conflict to SE Asia, the more isolated they will become in SE Asia.
    40
  130. Hawai'i has the strongest reasons to be an independent country,since it was essentially stolen by American businessmen who "voted" to join the US and the US government basically deposed the monarch of the island nation by an invasion. If we want to apply the same standards that the Americans applied to Taiwan to Hawai'i instead, then Hawai'ians should have their independence.
    39
  131. You mean not only a genocide, but their little colonial entho apartheid state.
    39
  132. The US literally denies reality with the MMT. If you can just print money and lend it to yourself like it is the most natural thing to do, then why bother going to work? Why bother farming the land? Why bother cooking food? Why bother making things in a factory? Just print money and buy stuff! This is why America is in decline.
    39
  133. It's honestly inevitable. After living in America for over a decade, if there is one thing I learned about American culture is that Americans are very very bad at accepting not being the top bully. These reactionary actions are true to form to how Americans respond to crisis; panic, anger, scapegoating, and then reactionary scattergun actions to lash out at anyone they scapegoated. Americans are taught for decades to be irrational and self centered and this is the result, and no generation is worst at this than the boomer generation now still in control.
    39
  134. The west and Ukraine are not in position to demand anything from Russia at this point.
    39
  135. A little anti-climatic but I guess that's a good thing that it's not so climatic.
    38
  136. Playing both sides is fine as long as you respect both sides and don't show favouritism. Milei is blatantly anti-China and even goes on to insult the entire country. That's not playing both sides. That's choosing a side.
    38
  137. This is what a lot of people need to see, the colonial mindset never left the west. When push comes to shove, when things get desperate, the west always turns to colonialism, violence and fascism. "We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it." - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
    38
  138. The hypocrisy and double standards should be breathtakingly horrible but I have learned so much about US hypocrisy lately that this is just another one to throw on the pile.
    38
  139. China and Iran are not such easy prey as they imagined.
    37
  140.  jjunior8388  You cannot be more wrong. Most of Argentina problems is because they are caught in a debt trap with the IMF, not because they had socialism. Saying Peronism is socialism is like saying a horse carriage is the same as a high speed train in that they both move forward.
    37
  141. Haha seems like the material reality is finally breaking the kool-aid fueled delusions.
    37
  142. That racism is rooted in colonialism and colonialism never ended. It just changed its form.
    37
  143. I went to college, got my PhD in America and stayed there for over 10 years. I even used to be married to an American. Mr. Bolsen analysis of western culture, it's value system, it's belief systems, all the things they take for granted, all their truisms they lived by, are spot on.
    36
  144. Give them 5 to 10 more years. They will get EUV, assuming they don't leapfrogged over to new technologies.
    36
  145. Hawai'i was illegally annexed. They have more claim to independence than Taiwan.
    36
  146. It is as though capitalism has terrible incentives that produce horrible results for society and needs to be controlled and regulated.
    36
  147. This is also a way to mislabel them. They are still Marxist first, because the party do believe in the basic ideas of Marxist-Leninism. The Chinese Characteristics are there to adapt ML policies to the Chinese people.
    36
  148. The fact that the demand for food can still be met easily today even as the bread basket of the world that is US agriculture is not doing well financially only show one very important thing that not even Kevin will admit; the hunger problem that afflicted the world for so long is entirely systematic. And that system is capitalism. So when we see those hungry children in Africa videos from the past, remember that was caused by western capitalist system.
    35
  149. Shhhhh.... that doesn't jive with their narrative.
    35
  150. LOL the collective west is an extension of the American hegemony. YT senosoring again
    34
  151. 45? 45! What difference does this make?! If it is 450 F-16Vs, that might make the Russia paused but 45 old F-16s? Do they even have AESA radars? The longest ranged missiles it can fire is AIM-120D which is already outclassed by the latest R-27 and R-77. They will get blown out of the sky. Do they really think these F-16s are going to have a K/D ratio against Russian Sukhois at 10/1 or can avoid S-300 and S-400? They are not waging a war campaign, they are waging a PR campaign to keep deluding their own people and themselves that this is fine, everything is fine.
    34
  152. That's the huge difference between America and China and to a certain extent Russia. China is so successful so quickly precisely because its government has control over much of the country's capital and it owned the essential industries as state owned enterprises. When China identify a key area, a strategic goal, or something beneficial to the economy and the people, its government has the power to move immense of capital and industrial capacity to achieve those goals. Profit will be nice, but it is secondary to the national goals. This model allows the government to strategically direct the efforts a country over the profit motive, which is seldom aligned with the interests of the public or the country. This is why China is winning.
    34
  153. Apple goes to SZ because it is the world's hub for electronics manufacturing. Everything you need to make an iPhone is within 20 miles radius and they have so much synergy (yes it's a cliche) that all the manufactuers can just feed each other parts. For example, you can do rapid prototyping in SZ that no place on Earth can do. This is the unique capability of the Guangzhou and its SEZ that is SZ. Silicon Valley doesn't even come close.
    34
  154. The real estate "crisis" is China readjusting it's economy to not rely on real estate anymore and move into high value, high tech industries. The fact that the real estate investment is shrinking while Q1 GDP growth of China is still a high 5.3% already tells us that this repivoting of their economy has already work. A lot of this growth comes from increase in exports, in a time when demand is slowing down. This means that even if the pie is smaller, China is getting a larger share of that sweet sweet export of industrial goods. They pop the relationship estate bubble deliberately, and it worked for them. Meanwhile, there is an actual real estate crisis in the US where banks are holding over 110 billion worth of real estate loans that are in danger of default and foreclosure. China's policies have prevented exactly this kind of crisis. It is time for western commentators to stop calling it a China real estate crisis and call it for what it really is, China renewed real estate sector and reinvestment of industrial sectors.
    34
  155. Chinese factories make products exactly to the quality you want to make and you are willing to pay. If you want cheap, low quality products, they can make those for you. If you want high quality products but are a little more expensive, they can make those too. Don't blame China for making low quality products. Blame the American company that tells the factories to cut corners to keep the costs down and sell that product to you at a high marked up.
    33
  156.  @nikkiteareacts  I mean, there is literally a phrase "died of embarrassment" so you are not that far off.
    33
  157. It will never come back once a new system is set up, and BRICS is leading the way to create a new method for international trade and finance.
    32
  158. Stoop so low? If you look at their history objectively from a critical race theoretical framework, they have NEVER raised below being low.
    32
  159. I think most of us are not nuts. It's always the few at the top, the rich, the well connected people that are the psychopaths.
    32
  160. Which is why a militarized commercial jet-liner is a bad idea.
    32
  161. Gorbachev was weak and yeltsin was a coward. Neither of them could insist on the dissolution of NATO because they gave Russia on a silver platter to the Americans.
    31
  162. Germany is led by US colonial collaborators. If Germany is truly sovereign, it would have never made decisions again and again that are against its core interests and instead benefited US interests. Germany, along with most European countries are not sovereign countries.
    31
  163.  @hiufgterde Until it becomes an issue. At some point, the financing of the interests is going to collapse the budget and there won't be enough buyers of US bonds/treasuries without increasing the interest rate which in turn will cause the interest payment to balloon even higher. Then the sht will hit the proverbial fan.
    31
  164. He is still coming from a "the west must dominate everyone" angle. He is just saying the current way to do imperialism is not efficient enough but his version of imperialism is better.
    30
  165. Except that this titanic has a lot of missiles, tanks and warships and have been using them to terrorize and oppress other ships. So now that it is sinking, no ship is going to send out their lifeboats to help titanic. They would rather sit at the sidelines and watch. With satisfaction.
    30
  166. Even today, with all the facade of democracy and freedom, the baseline thinking of Europeans and the Americans is still etihw ycamerpus based col__ialism. It is just a different form of colonialism.
    30
  167. If China can have its own complete ecosystem, it just means they can now sell these chips outside of China. Qualcomm and other semiconductor companies are in for a bloodbath because let's not forget that China stil dominates in other aspects of semiconductor manufacturing. The only thing they couldn't do was these cutting edge nodes. And now they can, and we should be expecting their EUV machines to come online soon. At that point, China can sell their own CPUs, GPUs, and SOCs to the world and companies like Intel, AMD, Nvidia are going to have to compete with Chinese companies, which typically produce stuff that are often just as good, or even just slightly inferior at far more competitive prices. Good luck to them. I got my popcorn ready. I really want to see Jensen's face when sh*t hits the face.
    30
  168. The real Arsenal of Democracy was the Soviet Union, not the US.
    30
  169. Haha the comment section is as I expected, lots of westerners unable to cope with the progress China is making.
    30
  170. No one is really going to benefit from AI in the near future. AI was never meant to be a type of investment you get a return on within a couple of years. It is not a singular super star product that you can sell at absurd prices. Using AI is to change the way you do things. It is there to improve efficiency incrementally, make things a little easier to do, increase productivity. It will take time to figure out where and how to make AI have positive impact. It requires long term investment and research. This is where western private companies and the capitalist system ultimately fails. It cannot do long term investment and holistic, organic growth tha ctomes from long term planning and slow implementation. It demands ROI now and if you don't show that ROI, everyone starts pulling out. Mark my words, the next industrial revolution using AI will come from the country that has the resources, the industrial and human foundation the political will and the flexible system and patience to see it through. And the only country that fulfill all those criteria is China.
    30
  171. I am very sure that China understand how to shore up their fundamentals.
    30
  172. I like how self serving this comment is. Nothing mentioning about the complicity of western oil companies and it's employees in helping corruption to flourish.
    30
  173. Yup, the hubris that makes them think everyone else is stupid.
    30
  174. They are too used to their hegemony. Sooner or later, they will be punished for their arrogance.
    30
  175. In contrast to the LA fire. Check out the Chonqqing fire 2 years ago, it's similar but the results are night and day to LA.
    29
  176. You just need 1 such missile to get through the defenses to give the carrier a very bad day. And countries like Russia and China has hundreds of them. China in particular, has anti-ship weapons in every form - ballistic from space, hypersonic from upper and lower atmosphere, supersonic, subsonic sea skimmers, they can be long range land based rocketry, or launched from jets (land based and carriers) and bombers, from subs (and also torpedoes), and surface ships. They have hundreds of each type in their inventory and even more for the cheaper, less capable ones and if sh*t really hits the fan, they have a complete manufacturing chain within their own country and suppliers from all over the world that will be nigh impossible to blockade and can churn these missiles out by the dozens, hundreds even every month. China now has 30% of the entire world's manufacturing capacity and probably even more if we care counting high tech manufacturing. Such an economy if switched to total war economy will be unstoppable. We are not talking about the launch of a dozen missiles at a carrier group. If the US really provoke a hot war with China, their carrier groups will be facing hundreds, if not thousands of missiles in multiple salvos coming from space, air and underwater in West Pacific. If US vassals dare to join up, they are looking at their entire navy wiped out within hours. This is just what they can do today. In 5, 10 years time, we will be seeing even more crazy stuff coming online that China is developing right now. Oh they can mine the entire first island chain if they really want to and ground shipping to Taiwan, Japan and South Korea into a halt and collapse their economy within weeks. Just look at what the Houthis have done to Israel shipping. China can do a 1000x more.
    29
  177.  @kawaichan490  my reply to you has been removed by YT. Just goes to show how hypothetical the west is
    29
  178. And Singapore for once, is the one sitting on our hands doing nothing while the world moves on from the west.
    29
  179. I don't see this as a crisis. I see this as the world is healing.
    29
  180. That is capitalism.
    29
  181.  @mabruksalman3734  Speak for yourself. I don't think the nuking of Japan was necessary.
    29
  182. That's because the India model is based on western liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism. In other words, billionaires rule the country.
    29
  183. Just go to show that libertarianism is a deadens ideology. It is just a self indulgent mentality. All its accolytes usually write self indulgent works with little regard to actual nuances, the real human conditions. And a lot of projection, twisted projections trying to masquerade as legitimate ideas. Libertarians are adults who never outgrew their angsty teenage years.
    28
  184. Free Hawai'i
    28
  185. No one in America perhaps. The rest of the world is very happy with trains.
    28
  186. Using the LCS for mine warfare is not about having a better capability mine warfare ship, it is using a screwed up design for a lesser role than intended to salvage a shitty situation.
    28
  187. The fundamental difference between a capitalist bourgeois system and mindset that focus on profits and speculation, and a socialist, people-centric system and mindset that's focus on creating prosperity for all people.
    27
  188. Goes to show that presentation can allow you to portray anything in whatever light you want.
    27
  189. "Small businesses are going to suffer!" Well, seem like the neoliberal capitalist system working as intended.
    27
  190. Spain has always been the weak link in the whole "western unity" thing, so is Italy and Hungary.
    27
  191.  @FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube  This comment is why America is a declining empire.
    27
  192. As a major power in western Pacific, if we let China has the same standards as the US, then the Philippines should answer for its close ties with the US which has declared a cold war against China.
    27
  193. To get Lei's words into their ears, you have to remove the other louder noises feeding lies to them.
    27
  194. President Xi has also outlined that China must also create a robust financial sector to ensure it can protect its own financial market. But it will never financialized the country. The financial sector exist to serve the industries and people's wealth, not create bubbles and get rich people even richer.
    27
  195. You mean since the industrial revolution? Or since the Dutch East Indian Co?
    26
  196.  @harrybrooks8514  I'm just getting tired of people sounding like education can be all transposed onto YT videos and they can all be entertaining so no one has to sit down and actually do the work to learn and apply the concepts, the equations, the theories, do the reading and write their papers in a coherent, logical, well-sourced manner. I taught at college level before, and sure I can explain the concept of reaction equilibrium and rate of reaction in an entertaining, low impact way but that video is not going to help you calculate the final concentration of reactants vs products, or how fast it will go. I can make mass spect entertaining but you are not going to learn how to calculate the time it take to fly through the tube for a particular ion at a m/z, and if you want a job in this field, you gonna have to make those calculations or at least understand WTF the equations even mean. Similarly, you are not going to pass the bar by watching Law and Order, or become an MD by watching doctors describe stuff in entertaining fashion on YT. None of that are in these entertaining videos that are just survey level of interesting topics for laypeople, and it does not replace going to school or college. Education is hard, it requires work, and it requires discipline, and teachers are not there to be your jesters.
    26
  197. It is true that the local governments in China is over-leveraged. The central government will have to deleverage its local governments and I'm sure they will do it in a controlled manner.
    26
  198. "the Washington bank, I mean, the World bank..." Hahaha I see what you did there.
    26
  199. You mean Hollywood is not the only one making propaganda laced movies that glorified corporatism and minimize the really shitty parts of it?
    26
  200. The SMO is not illegal. They have seen an existential threat to itself, and it is a real threat and has on many many occasions request, even demand a security guarantee for Russia and was ignored. Every country has the right to defend itself.
    26
  201. The UAS is definitely a financial empire. The USD is the new kind of neocolonialism and I'm tired of the west pretending that the UAS is somehow different from previous empires. No two empires are the same but the intent and achieving imperialism is the same.
    26
  202. Barbarians. Also want to remind everyone that the US also have something similar to Dr. Mengele and Unit 731. It was the MK Ultra.
    25
  203. China's priority is long term, sustainable growth, poverty alleviation and common prosperity. That means they are not interested in superficial numbers, they are interested in numbers that indicate people are doing well. That means affordability of necessities, high savings and investments from the common people, good paying jobs that have wages that can raise with inflation, education level, economic stability, industrial, agriculture output, cost efficient and effective, useful services and most importantly, the approval of the people. They don't care about the bottom line of bourgeois companies, especially when they have created a situation that have harm the country. There is no way they will accept this "get loan from peter to pay paul" bullsh*t. It is anathema to their political ideology and if they don't want angry Chinese rioting, that's the last thing they want to do. What China is doing is giving the world a blueprint on how to govern responsibly, for the people, and the west HATE the CPC for that. This is the right way when thinking on how to govern the economy.
    25
  204. Malaysia applied to join BRICS. So what is Singapore going to do?
    25
  205. Or they are afraid.
    25
  206. Well, there is one big problem with your reporting. The Chinese government is not oppressing the Uighurs. I mean, the Chinese are doing a poor job at oppression if the Uighurs are growing in population, prosperity, wealth, have more infrastructure, better educated. Maybe the US should teach the Chinese how to do actual oppression.
    25
  207. Didn't Georgr Carlin said you have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream?
    24
  208. Imagine if you had live modestly on a 400k salary, saving 330k per year for 10 years, you would be set for life. The interests earned would be enough
    24
  209. I'm pretty sure Ace Combat developers are also fans of these crazy never built ideas. There might be lurking at that website with all the plans of these stuff.
    24
  210. A reverse "make their economy scream" wil be the poetic justice of this century.
    24
  211. US talking about sovereignty for other countries is like a murderer talking about the sanctity of life
    24
  212. Sounds like a repeat of Verdun or Somme, except that the Russians do not have to go on the offense. This Ukrainian offense is politically driven, and not strategically sound because no decent general will send his men into such a strong defenses with little to no artillery and air support.
    24
  213. @christallan8931 They are doing something, it is just not the thing that westerners want them to do.
    24
  214. There are many places in the world where a German engineer or scientist who knows advanced techniques and technologies will be classified as a valuable foreign talent. So Germans should not shy away from taking their skills and talents elsewhere.
    24
  215. LOL they just admit that the ICC was not supposed to target them even if they are guilty. They basically admit their guilt in the genocide of Palestinians and they should not be hold accountable for it.
    24
  216. Yup, not our problem and it certainly not us who created the problem in the first place.
    23
  217. Yea, that doesn't make sense. They don't have to sell at a loss because their low input and high production efficiency will keep costs far below their competitors. A truck is not some sort of loss leader like a console. No way they will just burn money like that. The whole point of BYD being a threat to traditional car makers is that they can make everything cheaper and yet higher quality and loaded with features that customers want. It's like what the Ford CEO said, it's an "extinction event" for them.
    23
  218. There is no censorship in America. *A light goes around you. There is no censorship in America.
    23
  219.  @jamilbrugsen1362  Ohh I see. So what did your uncle do to get himself fired? Corruption? Spying? And now you are here spreading lies. Seem like a family of criminals to me.
    23
  220. The amount of information in this video is itself valuable to the public. The public should know how their basic amenities like water is produced, monitored and used. An informed and educated public is essential in making sure the government is doing its job properly. As a chemist, Singapore's water is very very clean and all the minerals, the chloride and fluoride are all at safe drinking level. The thing that you might have be concern about is old pipes in older flats where there might be build-up of limescale or simply corroded. Changing out old pipes that have corroded will probably help you more than using a water filter.
    23
  221. Yes, becoming a neolib capitalist tends to do that to a person.
    23
  222.  @rodolfodoce indeed. The Americans are so stuck in their ways, they cannot even imagine any other way to operate.
    23
  223.  @andrzejd5301 How can you take a country's word seriously, when they can just tear up a treaty after an election and the only predictable thing about them is profit maximizing and holding onto hegemony.
    23
  224. Why are you surprised that the US is being hypocritical? Didn't that little war taught you anything?
    23
  225.  @sunnychew905  For now. The C929 from Comac might still take a few years more to develop but the fact that there is such a plane coming in the near future means China (and the rest of the world) will not be so dependent on the duopoly any longer.
    23
  226. Hahahaha. The empire eating itself inside out.
    22
  227.  @willengel-vs8ht  Why do you think China is diversifying from US debts.
    22
  228. He has served long, capably and honourably. Let the guy go to his fishing trip. But duty calls, I supposed.
    22
  229. The whole debate sound like two clowns playing tactical games and the whole UAS think they are master strategists duking out on the stage. Meanwhile China, Russia are playing the long term strategic game. The UAS politicians and the USians are playing Othello and believing they are playing some grand strategy game.
    22
  230. The empire cutting loose its vassals and the colonies managers are panicking. Now the empire has taken off its gloves and starting to harvest its vassals to prop up its own zombie economy and the vassals no longer know how to respond. Hilarious.
    22
  231.  @monaliza3334  The rich gets richer. That's the whole point of America.
    22
  232.  @billiosi7448  The frightening part is that a lot of Americans actually think like that or have similar sentiments that amount to the same thing. What if one day they decide that if they cannot dominate the world, they will rather destroy it than to let it falls to the heathens and bring about the second coming of jesus?
    22
  233.  @nikkster01  The loans that were given out from BRI are very low interests. Most are less than 5 percent and 3% are common. Plus, China has either forgiven some loans or refinanced them with debtor countries for a more equitable repayment schemes. They have not use the loans to force austerity, force the debtor countries to accept unfavorable trade agreements or use military threats and actions to coerce them if they failed repayments. They also did not take over assets, save maybe a buying up a percentage of shares. The host countries can take those assets back by law and there is nothing China can do about it,. Nor do either side want to, because both sides have always come to acceptable terms. As Yanis said, China is peddling influence but they are doing in a far more humane way than the west, and yes they are thinking in 200 years term so they also want those poor countries to rise up so they can build a multipolar world where they will all remember that it was China who helped them genuinely a hundred years ago.
    22
  234. "That community cannot be held accountable by me." Yes, that's what the rest of the world feels about America.
    22
  235. You never get to own private property, and now they are coming for your personal property to turn them into their private property. Why do people think there are so many subscription services nowadays.
    22
  236. Think about it. blinken is saying that because most of the money is kept in the MIC and thus in America, supplying weapons to Ukraine is helping to boost the American economy. There are at least X problems with this statement. First, it assume that making weapons is good just because it provides jobs. That is vile, and weapons are not produce for consumption for the ordinary people, it is wasted resources that can otherwise be channel to more productive and better things. Second, it is saying that in a roundabout way, the war in Ukraine is basically exchanging Ukrainians lives for money to be generated and spent in America making weapons to be send to Ukraine. As long as the war continues, there is more excuse to create money out of thin air to feed the American MIC. This is beyond vile. This is just evil. And before anyone say Russia invaded Ukraine, it was the US that created the situation in the first place by crossing Russia's red lines and in bad faith not honoring any agreements made with Russia previously. Will you sit idly by when the bully is coming and telling you he is going to beat you up, and he is just flexing his muscle on you? I know this is an economic channel and Sean is just telling things the way it is, but you cannot look at these events, and the arguments put forth by American leadership and how they twist something so bizarrely evil into something the west and the rest of the world is supposed to stand behind, is just vomit-inducing. This is why I cannot wait to see the western imperialism collapse. Is it going to hurt us? Yes. But in the long run, it will be better for the rest of us not to have for people so vile, so evil controlling us.
    22
  237. There is really no need to say "han" people. It's squeezing a non-existent division in China into the context of western colonial style racism. I agree with the rest of your points, but this "Han" people business need to stop. It's cringy.
    21
  238.  @GBR9794  Even if the Japanese cannot make it profitable does not mean the Chinese can't. Even then, the premise that a public good/service has to be profitable is a flawed concept. Break even or close to it maybe a good target to reach and maintain, and as long as the service is not a huge burden on the budget while providing immense amount of affordability and super charge the economy, it is a net win. The fact that many Americans cannot fathom this concept is also one of the reasons why the US is in decline and part of the capitalist cultural domination of a society that they can control the minds of people living there to accept the most self-defeating and absurd notions.
    21
  239. I agree. The way China handles Evergrande and Country Garden is exactly how I want my government to handle it. Controlled implosion of a cancerous company that is overleveraged, took too much risks for short term growth and profits. The economy is there to work for the people, not the rich. China is explicitly rejecting the western rotting ideology of neoliberalism and "trickle down economy", and I applaud them for it. This is why I believe now that China will usher in a more just and humane and dare I say more free world than the US since WWII. Everything they have done and also within their culture and ideology are about helping people first, developing their country (real organic growth, not fake financial boondoggles and money laundering) and making their foundation strong and resilient. That kind of attitude, behaviour will spread because when they lead with this attitude if putting people first, seeking peaceful win-win scenarios, it will push the world towards that direction. And we need them to do that as we are heading toward climate change disaster. Capitalism will not save us. Capitalism got us in this crisis in the first place.
    21
  240. When they openly colonized and oppressed people because they outright said and believe it is their right to do so. It's horrible of course, but at least they were honest about it.
    21
  241. If the US can build bases in West Asia and around the world, why shouldn't China be allow to be bases to protect their interests in the region. Considering that the US literally threatened China all the time, to cut off their supply lines and trade routes, China will be foolish not to put in some sort of contingency and deterrence there.
    21
  242. That just mean western companies are overcharging their customers or they suck at keeping costs down or both.
    21
  243. De-risking, de-coupling is not weird, it's ideological. It's always ideological. America still wants to dominate but it has been dealt a fatal blow from China's rise so they are having an ideological crisis of faith where on one hand they want to think of themselves as above China and can control and dominate China for "freedom" and "democracy" (hahahahahahaha) but on the other hand, the material reality is their economy will collapse utterly if they force a decoupling from China and try to force their vassals to do the same. It was easy to decouple from the USSR because the Soviets never truly integrated their economy with the rest of the world. China is completely different. Nearly 200 countries in the world and over 120 of them boast China as their number one trading partner. Most of the rest have China as their number two or three trading partner. US cannot de-couple from China because that will mean decoupling from the world as no country will follow the US off that cliff. De-risking, friend-shoring is just desperation as it is a half baked measure it cannot fully remove the core industrial capabilities and technologies from China since China can either buy them from others or develop by themselves. The US is in the same position as the USSR during the Cold War but unlike the USSR, the US is not self-sufficient. We have come to a simple situation: Everything the collective west has or can do, China has and can do. Everything the west still has and China doesn't have, China can develop or buy from others. But what China has and can do, the west might not be able to have or can do. China cannot be stopped, contained or controlled by the west anymore, and it is driving the westoid neoliberals, nationalists and racists absolutely insane. All China needs to do is bide its time to wait for the critical inflection of the US economy and destroy them.
    21
  244.  @alexanderxie3909  De-dollarization does not necessarily mean the USD will disappear from global exchange and trade. To me it means the world will reduce exposure and use of the USD as much as possible, to the point it loses the exorbitant privilege it now enjoys. It also means that the US cannot deficit spend and print without causing hyperinflation and defaulting. It will mean that Americans will be forced to live within their means or increase the efficiency they use their money, or increase the value of their production if they want to continue their wasteful systems. That is the nightmare scenario for the US; being forced to live within their means or risk total economic collapse or even a popular revolution.
    21
  245. Thank you for spelling it out to some thick skulled people that the TREND is China is catching up and leading in nearly every industry. China is leading in nuclear power technology because they are already deploying grid level gen 3 reactors. Some designs are more mature, but they are pursuing them. They are not looking back.
    21
  246. Indeed. The real kicker will be if the Australian government cancels that stupid nuclear sub purchase. What Australia needs is not nuclear subs that won't materialize until 20 years later and won't be enough to cover its huge coastlines. What they need is sensible, stealthy, affordable conventional AIP subs and a lot of them. That's how they can protect their coastlines and trade routes. Nuclear subs in this context is just the American empire outsourcing their offensive capability to the Australians because when it is time, they will definitely commandeer those nuclear subs to attack China. This is just a ploy to make Australians pay for supporting US hegemony at a huge markup. I hope Australians will wake up to that fact and break ranks from the US hegemony.
    21
  247. It should be noted that your comment about the younger generation, the millennials and Gen Z of China not knowing what China was like back in the 80s and 90s works not just in how the transition of China shaped them, but also how they are less bounded by the traditions and rules laid down by the older generation especially in foreign policies. In the past, Deng Xiaoping said China needs to lie low, bide their time to become strong so they can achieve industrialization in relative peace. This is indisputably accomplished with magnificent results from the central planning of the CPC, the Marxist Leninist socialism with Chinese Characteristics. The younger generation has grown up in this hyper paced transformation, this is a generation that is not only hopeful, innovative, highly educated, they are also proud of their country's achievements and its growing power. They will demand respect and the appropriate attitude confers to a superpower. The US provoking China and that China has not responded decisively in something big to knock the US out is still because of Deng's era of restrain. I think this culture of restrain is slowly going away and why shouldn't it go away. But the political environment in China is very vibrant and the people are smart enough to understand Deng's restrain. But I can tell everyone one thing, if China is going to take a shot at the king, they won't miss and the US will reap what it sowed.
    21
  248. Vietnam is always very clear that they refuse to take sides in any great power struggle. They will do what is in their nation's interest, as all sovereign nations ought to do. China and Russia and most of the non western world can work on this attitude because they are willing to treat each other as sovereign nation. That's not the case for the west, which demands that you stand on their side or be labelled as the evil side.
    21
  249.  @connor1414  Oh, who were the Soviets fighting? Oh yea, they were fighting Nazis in Finland.
    21
  250. While the US on the surface is still respecting the One China Policy, they are doing everything else to dismantle it. If they really respect the One China Policy and the Shanghai Communique, they wouldn't have allow pelosi to visit Taiwan, they wont be selling weapons to Taiwan and encourage separatism, they wouldn't be directing their media to keep painting Taiwan as an independent country that needed protection because they love "freedom(R) and democracy(TM)". The US says one thing and do another. What the US doing is gaslighting China, and also the world. We can all see it and we are not propagandized like westerners who actually believe they are in the right on the Taiwan issue. Gaslighting; Triangulation; Projection; Playing the Victim; Smear Campaign; Revenge Seeking; Guilt Tripping; the US have done it all. You know what are the best ways to deal with a narcissist? Set healthy boundaries. Avoid unnecessary communication. Choose your battles. Cut ties when able. Practice self-compassion; China need this especially. China has done all this because the US is a narcissistic country. There is no point in talking to a country that behaves like a manipulative narcissist. Think about it, the US really did all this to China.
    21
  251. It's also an insult to Tolkien.
    21
  252. War was still very risky. It could have gone south.
    20
  253.  @jaymzx0  There is no way a research student does not know the acute toxicity of NDMA. The vial literally has the toxic, carcinogen and environmental toxin labels on it. Any of these label is enough to tell anyone that the chemical can kill a person. Even if it is just a "prank, bro", at best this case was a 1st degree manslaughter. It's basically murder just 1 rung down. Yea, this guy was just sick.
    20
  254. Yup, this has been debated in China. A fairly famous economist in China, Lu Qiyuan who is also a member of the CPC has identified automation and AI as the solution to future shrinking population. Whether China or US can bank on these new frontiers will determine who will prosper. These people are not stupid.
    20
  255. Yea, I unsubscribed when both Alex just ignore how terrible trump is and talk as though that moron knows what he is doing. I'm not saying that the Dems are better. I still listen in on specific subjects.
    20
  256. There is nothing dirty thanking a country that uplifted over 800 million people out of poverty, and responsible for eliminatong 25% of the world's poverty.
    20
  257. Can't print steel, can't print semiconductors, can't print energy.
    20
  258. Some people need to experience pain to learn their lessons. Some never do.
    20
  259.  @Shenzhou.  Well China will be informed by its history and its lessons, and forge new paths ahead for the new challenges in front. They will figure this shit out.
    20
  260.  @irose4066  Ohh like what regulations? It's a economic group build up by the previously oppressed and colonized nations, not the G7 or NATO that has arbitrary regulations and rules designed to restrict non-westernized, oppressed nations to join. When someone talks about rules and regulations like the west, it is almost always rules for thee, not for me.
    20
  261.  @blockraven22  You have no clue what you are talking about.
    20
  262. China also placed a lot of priority on EW, and they have a far more matured electronics industry than Russia. Their EW hardware, software and personnel are also likely far more sophisticated than Russia.
    20
  263. Yuuuuuuup
    19
  264. Lol, Free Hawai'i
    19
  265. Don't forget that every dollar spent in China to do R&D like what Huawei is doing goes much farther than the west. Huawei's 20B R&D fund might in effect be a 40B R&D fund comparative to say apple, or intel, nvidia, amd or ASML.
    19
  266. I have a tiny violin.
    19
  267. So basically they put aquaculture on a ship so it can move around and cycle the water in and out of the tanks from different parts of the ocean, as though the fish is "traveling" across the ocean? It is a good idea that solve several problems with static aquaculture. The most serious one is the huge amount of fish waste being loaded in one area, overwhelming the local ecosystem ability to process all that waste, polluting the area and degrading the water quality to the point it starts affecting the fish stocks. If you can move the fish, that solves the problem. It's definitely an unusual solution.
    19
  268. People keep thinking that ASEAN is like some sort of EU for SE Asia. It's not. It's a loose organization of SE Asian countries that cooperate on a number of foreign policies, trade and some security issues. It is not a framework for a United States of SE Asia and people really need to drop this.
    19
  269. Actually the 2008 crisis has not stopped.
    19
  270. You shouldn't be drinking soda like water in the first place. The fact that you do is a symptom of why America is on the decline.
    19
  271. Free Hawai'i
    18
  272. It's backed by actions and policies, unlike America which says one thing and do another.
    18
  273. The UK US relationship is like an abusive gambling husband who took all the money and lose it and come back home to beat the wife.
    18
  274. Cooperation as EQUALS is never an option for the American hegemony.
    18
  275. The Public Safety Bureau in China is also very respected. People there actually trust their police. There is this video that surfaced recently where a cop were dressing down some Yilin (a big dairy product company in China) employees who called the police to disperse some protestors on in their company's car park. The story goes that Yilin was not paying these protestors who were their suppliers, and they gathered to protest against the company. The cop scolded the Yilin people that this is China, and all grounds belong to all Chinese people and they have every right to be where they are. It is highly inappropriate to want to use public resources against the public and for the company's own internal problems. He would not disperse the protesters for Yilin. It was glorious.
    18
  276. Belgium hasn't pay back anything to the Congolese for their children's hands cut off because their fathers could not harvest sugarcane fast enough.
    18
  277.  @panyaboonc5621  China was willing to resolve this problem once and for all by giving up some lands to India while taking some back. It was India that insist on wanting to take all the lands disputed and then during the last major war (which they lost) they even wanted more. India behaves just like their colonial masters.
    18
  278. Man... This channel really has a hard on for right wing politics. I give critical support to Russia for resisting western imperialism but I'm not about to acknowledge that right wing extremism is the right way to go. The most successful and humane system today is actually China's socialism with Chinese characteristics and yet here we are still denigrating left wing politics. Granted that there are no more real communists/socialists in the west since they have either been destroyed or propagandized out of the society but to condescend the left wing for winning the election is just a lot of copium. Maybe, just maybe after the continuous disasters of right wing neoliberalism, the material conditions are starting to force people to seek better answers to our economic problems and they are starting to regain class consciousness and liking left wing ideologies. Have you both thought about that?
    18
  279. Because incompetent politicians makes for excellent stooges and collaborators for the empire.
    18
  280. ​ @pgobservers No, the foundation of America is unsound. Their growth is based on unsustainable borrowing and military spending, and financial boondoggles. This cannot keep going forever. If you have been paying attention, you will also find that many countries, including Singapore's MAS has been buying gold to hedge against the US eventually unable to finance itself. If MAS is so confident in the western financial order, it will be buying US treasuries which is now at a very high interest rates, not going to buy huge amount of gold. Even European countries like Poland is buying huge amount of gold. China has now over 30% of manufacturing capacity of the entire world and is basically as much as the nearly entire west combined. Their economic foundation is far stronger because they can produce their way out. Meanwhile, the US can only borrow their way out and that cannot be sustainable even with the USD as reserve currency, which itself is losing it reserve currency power. These are just a few examples on why the west is on a unsteady footing and their leadership is woefully unprepared to navigate a growing multipolar world while the rest of the world is slowly coming out to take back their sovereignty. There are so many trends and signs from different sources, different angles that point to the same thing - the west is in decline and the US is sucking its vassals dry to sustain itself. You are exactly why I warned against consuming western propaganda blindly. Don't become too westernized in your worldview or you will get a distorted view of reality.
    18
  281. No, China is not telling Japan and SK not to align with the US. China is telling Japan and SK to grow a spine and do what is in the interests of their people and country. Not aligning with the US on everything and acting like a obsequious vassal is in the interest of the people of Japan and SK.
    18
  282. You could even say it is the real DEI.
    18
  283.  @Newlinjim  Evergrande was a mistake that was corrected precisely because the state still retain control over the capital. It's not a perfect system that can prevent all malfeasance but it has proven that it can correct itself when it identified a problem.
    18
  284.  @samueljohnston2516  This is the same lame ass excuse America use to not invest in public transport. Japan has many low density, outlying towns and villages and they still get served by public transport.
    18
  285.  @villaluracecilia6961  The privilege to genocide a people while being protected from all criticism and consequences because it is a settler-colony state of the American empire.
    18
  286. Ohh FFS, we all know what the west "investment" in Africa actually is.
    17
  287. The Darwinian viewpoint might work if the economy is still based primarily on producing useful goods and services. Unfortunately for the ordinary Americans, the baseline economy of the US is financial shenanigans and weapons manufacturing. High tech might be useful, but that advantage is slowly but surely eroded away by China. America today is left with doing useless jobs producing useless stuff, and it's really not the fault of ordinary Americans. But they will be the ones suffering the most when the axe falls and these useless jobs they depend on making ends meet evaporated.
    17
  288. And to see the Mexican President, AMLO who will likely want to have closer relationship with China. Xi knows this. Mexico joining BRI for example, will be a huge win for China.
    17
  289. JDAMs and similar kits are used on enemies that do not have sophisticated defenses that includes electronic warfare capabilities. If you cannot jam it and do not have air superiority over the air space, then these weapons are very useful against you. But if you have EW and control of the airspace, then you can severely degrade its effectiveness. Russia has a lot of EW capability but China is on another level even more capable and has far more assets that can jam, spoof and disable every part of the electradiation spectrum.
    17
  290. It is irrelevant whether Russia passes some purity test. The relevant part is that they are resisting western imperialism and that imperialism is what keeping everyone down.
    17
  291. More like giving insurance to a convicted drunk driver.
    17
  292. I wonder which countries America stole their wealth from?
    17
  293. I think that kind of success alienating the person from the community from where he came from, is very common. You are not alone in this.
    17
  294. Lol, trump taking care of America has to be the biggest joke of this decade.
    17
  295. The last person we should be listening to is Bolton on foreign policies.
    17
  296.  @Arnsteel634  Then they should hold the people accountable for creating this mess in the first place. Ukraine has occupy a unique position in Europe as the country between Russia and western Europe. Their role and strategy are quite clear; don't get suck into a power struggle between the US and Russia. It is not ordinary Ukrainians fault that the 2014 coup took place because it was the US who did the coup to used it to expand NATO. If Russia did not respond, then it would have been the Russian people suffering under US domination and their plan to destroy their country. If you are the leader of Russia or Ukraine, what would you have done? Maybe sit down and assure each other that each other's security concerns will be guaranteed. Ukraine won't join NATO, and Russia doesn't have to feel threatened. That will be the most sound thing to do. That was the status quo before 2014. If you want to blame anyone, blame the US for their imperialism and arrogance.
    17
  297. That will depend solely on the US stop being an AH.
    17
  298. They can't exploit countries that are economically independent, technologically advance and militarily strong.
    17
  299. It can't do it because its system is capitalistic which at its core is about extraction and exploitation, not about the well-being of the country. It literally can't.
    17
  300. Thank you for watching the inauguration so I don't have to.
    17
  301.  @RobOfTheNorth2001  We can all make up anything we want on the internet.
    17
  302.  @trekpac2  He is here to troll. Ignore him.
    16
  303. It's soft censorship but it is still censorship.
    16
  304.  @watcher171  They lost the moment they rejected the peace deal in March 2022 because boris acting with instructions from washington told them to fight.
    16
  305. The doublespeak is really foisting the dictatorship of the bourgeois as democracy.
    16
  306. The power of central planning and socialism with Chinese characteristics.
    16
  307.  @robertharper3754  That is all true but they are all niche applications that does not have the numbers to justify a full production. Most of the applications are done by modified versions of existing platforms, or other types of vehicles, that have been built and sold in large numbers. I can totally see this as a sub hunter too, but even the USN's P-8 is a modified version of the 737. Fire-fighting is usually modified version of civilian jetliners. Mine warfare and patrolling still done by existing small ships, medivacs by helos, etc etc. It is a shame we don't see flying boats used in large numbers anymore but it is just that everything they can do, something else has already done so either cheaper or simply existing first.
    16
  308.  @CyrusJanssen  And for that, Cyrus, you would have been jailed if you lived during the McCarthy era.
    16
  309. Withdraw all military advisers from Taiwan and stop all weapons sales. Reaffirm the One China Policy and publicly announced that the US government will never seek to subvert Taiwan internal politics towards independence. Remove all "NGOs" subversion outfits from Taiwan. Stand down from patrolling within the first island chain with military assets. Remove all sanctions and allow China to trade freely with US companies. Then they can talk.
    16
  310. Maybe you guys should have a revolution.
    16
  311. Nearly every empire eventually fell because of overstretching themselves militarily and financially, while ignoring fundamental problems within its system. America is going down the old road of a declining empire in the exact same ways.
    16
  312.  @SeraphsWitness  It's not rubbish when it is true. The rubbish here is you pretending otherwise, and why libertarians are some of the most delusional and self-serving people in the world. Every libertarian I have met, even among friends always have this one overriding belief, that if they can just be left alone and not obey these rules, they will do so much better and everyone else will also be better while conveniently ignoring that their position in life is owe largely to their socio-economic strata and not because they are particularly more hardworking or smarter. They are just more lucky, and they always refused to acknowledge. From there, everything else is colored by this lens. Their survivorship bias, their overweening sense of their rightness and of course their disdain at rules imposed on them from the government, never able to acknowledge that these rules are what is keeping society from turning into economic mini-fiefdoms controlled by the few powerful and ruthless of neo-fuedalism. It has nothing to do with freedom. It has everything to do with selfishness and rubbish thinking.
    16
  313.  Dennisestrada  Chinese films sell very well in many places too. Are they forcing it down their throats? Your indoctrination is showing.
    16
  314. Exactly. The European countries are mostly lead by colonial administrators endorsed by Washington. No one gets to climb up the political ladder to occupy top positions in western Europe and the Scandinavian countries without the approval from the White House. This includes Japan and SK. These are not sovereign countries.
    16
  315. She can have the best hairstyle and she will still be terrible.
    16
  316.  @johnsmith1953x  Sure, they can try to stop it. I think more stars on that stupid wall and they should get the message.
    15
  317.  @xiawilly8902  Did you watch the video?
    15
  318.  @xiawilly8902  No you only the propaganda version. He just told you the actual history.
    15
  319.  @marczhu7473  No, China is an actual democracy because its government delivers exactly what the people demand. There are reasons why the CPC enjoys over 80% approval from the Chinese people.
    15
  320. Not even close.
    15
  321. Don't forget Snowden, and even Manning.
    15
  322. Why you say that verusian pictures don't really generate much response? Because no one is better than us at tooting our own horns and diminishing the achievements of other people.
    15
  323. "Function" is a generous word to describe what the UAS has set up.
    15
  324. The Arab delegates who visited China had yielded real results.
    15
  325.  @marcbjorg4823  That's just shipbuilding. We have not even considered everything else. Remember that China now has 30% of the world's manufacturing capacity.
    15
  326.  @Teutathis  LOL as though the US is not doing that even right now. Everything you said the US did, and did it blazenly.
    15
  327. You think EU is an independent entity? Hahaha
    15
  328. A Chinese historian pointed out that China did expand in the past but it often took a very long view for its conquest and tributaries. It can take decades if not centuries to assimilate, sinicized other peoples which is how places like Xizhang (Tibet) and Xinjiang became part of Greater China. Xizhang was conquered by the Mongols and incorporated into the Yuan Dynasty but it took most of the entire Ming Dynasty to assimilate the region as part of China proper. China did not really used western colonial style to expand their territory, which is to go into another people's land, plant a flag and start taking the lands and enslaving or destroying the locals. Western colonialism is brutal and often does not seek to assimilate the locals but to displace, replace or enslave them and it create an entire concept of virulent racism to justify that brutality. Such a concept is alien to the Chinese, which emphasize on tributaries, sinicization and slow incorporation. Which is why these places eventually did become part of China because at the end of it, they became Chinese. Even outside invaders like the Mongols (Yuan dynasty) and the Manchus (Qing dynasty) are themselves sinicized heavily . They became part of the conquered. That's why it is intellectually dishonest to equate the history of places like Xizhang and Xinjiang in the same vein as western colonialism, as though China acquired these lands through western style brutality, racism, hypocritical double standards, and oppression.
    15
  329. Haha maybe that's why the Chinese don't really take France or macron seriously when President Xi visited. Instead, they concentrated on Hungary and Serbia.
    15
  330. I think globalization is fine. It is just changing its nature and players. In the past, globalization mean gutting western labor power by allowing free flow of capital to exploit poorer nations by western companies and institutions like the IMF and World Bank. Today, globalization is multipolarity where the Global Majority countries are beginning to free themselves from bondage to the west and develop rapidly, and so allowing them to participate in a globalized economy. It is the west decoupling from the rest. We are just trying to move on. They can either join us as normal countries with no more exorbitant privileges anymore, or they can stay behind and leave us alone.
    15
  331. Bilingual in both Mandarin Chinese and English will take any kid far.
    15
  332. Zelensky is some sort of political genius that can "cut through bipartiansan deadlock?" Well if I don't have any principles or ethics, I can also write whatever I want.
    15
  333. Sure, why not? Let's talk human rights, the rights of those still imprisoned in Gitmo. How about those who are imprisoned unfairly in American prisons to serve as slaves. The legal system that target minorities for imprisonment and a economic system that disenfranchised these same minorities, in a cycle that supply prisons with a steady stream of slaves. How about let's address that.
    15
  334. ​ @pyrophobia133  Exactly. No country, no culture, no society has the combination of the long sighted strategic vision, the political system to enact multi decade strategy to expand productive capability for the prosperity of the people (ie. socialism), the right starting material conditions, a cadre of bureaucrats capable to execute that vision, the culture that has the patience, the willingness to endure hardships and the unity to do it together. Only China and the Chinese culture, and society has that combination. It is difficult for the Chinese to achieve this. It is impossible for any other people to do it.
    15
  335. Wait, so capitalism shoot itself in the foot and we need some socialism to shore up its inadequacies?
    15
  336. They should not assume that the Chinese will think like western bourgeois capitalists where exploit a supply chain loophole is normal way to go. No, China always think about how to solve efficiency or supply chain problems so goods and services get to the people at an affordable price. Profit maxmization is not the top priority. China is still a socialist Marxist-Leninist country. Their priority is development and common prosperity. That's their guiding mindset in their politics, their culture, their society. The west is the complete opposite. Their mindset is short term gains, exploitation and keeping everything for themselves. That's why the only thing they can think of is exploiting this supposedly magnet crunch while China work to resolve the supply chain. China is showing the world what the right model should look like.
    15
  337. It goes into inflating the stock market. American companies have insane market cap but that's not because it really is worth that much. They are that high because of the high amount of dollars that made its way into the stock market to inflate those prices. Some of the largest companies in the world are in China based on their manufacturing capacity, IPs, and numerous assets and yet their market cap is much lower than American companies, most who don't even own factories. Yes, they own a lot of data and data is big money, but so do the Chinese companies. It tells us all of these are inflated prices by the huge amount of dollars circulating. The dollars are not benefiting the people, they are benefitting the net worth of America's (and the rest of the capitalist world) richest people.
    15
  338. Haha he won't last long if he can't deal with the economic problems Japan is facing and part of the solution might be going against America's interests.
    15
  339. They were colonial managers who lost their master and is confused at what to do, so they are just defaulting to the last instruction: keep the war going.
    14
  340.  @jakobbergen7574  And I'm glad more and more people are finally breaking out of their spell.
    14
  341. Russia does want Kiev because it will be more trouble than it is worth but they might want Odessa since that is also a Russian speaking majority city. They want a buffer state, not another troublesome province.
    14
  342. I'm just happy that more and more people are able to point that out. A few years ago, you will never hear opinions like this online.
    14
  343. The actual war started in 2008 when the US expand NATO eastward.
    14
  344.  @lauralhardy5450  if you are referring to the Americans.
    14
  345. Yup, guilt is one of the most powerful emotion and so easily manipulated. My ex basically made me feel guilty all the time and it is always my fault and it doesn't matter what I do, it is never enough.
    14
  346. It's not even good debates. Most of the debates are muddied by superficial issues. None of people or the politicians are willing or even capable of debating any problem to its underlying cause and understand its core. That's probably because most problems in the US and the west in general have their core issue in capitalism itself. Any debate that will closely examine any western issue honestly, courageously, with integrity will almost inevitably lead to pointing the fingers at the western core ideologies and system, that is the (neo)liberal capitalist bourgeois "democracy". Basically, the rich capitalists want everything to themselves, and they control the political establishment, the media and even the educational institutes that shape these debates. No way they will allow such conversation to take place. The only platform where people are shouting out these core issues is really tiktok and the Gen Z and millennials are beginning to wake up to concepts like class consciousness and class struggles, even socialism and Marxism and worst, western imperialism. It is scaring the bejeezus out of the rich people in power and the political establishment. That's the main reason why tiktok is getting banned.
    14
  347. Probably to Aquaman.
    14
  348.  @brazensmusings2738  The fact that Russia adapted so fast, even with the help of the Chinese, only goes to show the underlying vulnerability of the USD system. Russia is not a small economy and even if their market and economy are simpler than China, they have still shown the rest of the world the alternative route to international trade and financial settlement without using the USD system including all its financial institutions. The threat to the US is that there is a real alternative to the oppressive USD system. You only need a slightly better alternative for people to jump ship from a system they find is screwing them over at the benefit of the oppressor. This is as basic as the first time civilization emerge; no one likes to be oppressed and the oppressed is always lookign for a way out.
    14
  349. Equal to europe? That's a low bar to clear.
    14
  350. It is such an American thing to say that the US funds NATO as though they did it for altruistic reasons but failed to mention that NATO basically controls EU foreign policies and US has suzerain power over European internal politics and economic policies at great benefit to American interests.
    14
  351. It's the overemphasis in these wonder weapons, which is a PR campaign, that caused such a sensation in western media when a tank got destroyed. Sensible people with a cursory knowledge of military and logistics know that a single tank destroyed doesn't make a difference. They will also know sending 14 tanks into such a conflict also makes no difference and is pointless tactically or strategically. But most westerners are not sensible and quite ignorant about how the world actually works. So this kind of propaganda, and its failure has huge impact on their psyche.
    14
  352. The tragic part is that the American worker is already working at near maximum capacity. The problem is their wages still suck and their jobs are mostly low value service jobs and their values taken from them.
    14
  353. Yea, I don't really give much credit about what western corpo-state mediaal and state affiliated "NGOs" say about China. They have been proven to be mostly wrong, or straight up lies or at best misleading.
    14
  354. That's what I'm afraid of. While this is admirable, but Germany is very much still a client state of the US and will not extricate itself from this nefarious relationship any time soon, if ever.
    14
  355.  @MikeyJJJ  So was Singapore after decolonization. We didn't have a revolution but we also were oppressed by the British, and during WWII, by the Japanese. It might be the characteristics of American culture to be highly resistant to authority, but taken to the extreme like how they do, is just childishness. At this point, the way Americans are anti-authoritarian is just like a child sitting at the dinner table refusing to eat his broccoli and keep saying "I don't wanna!" Also, the Chinese and Singaporeans are not "pro-authoritarian". Everyone is anti-authoritarian to some degree, but it is not just the degree that counts, it is also the kind of reasons why you are anti-authoritarian. There is no point in being anti-authoritarian against rules that make the society safer, more prosperous and more unified. OTOH, it is wise to be anti-authoritarian against measures that are oppressive. The wisdom of a person and the society is to recognized the difference. Eat your broccoli even if you don't like it because it is good for you. But it's okay to refuse junk food, because it's bad for you. The problem is that Americans think not eating the broccoli after being told to do so, is freedom and individualism. And then they are tricked into eating junk food by corporations because it is so tasty they can't resist eating it, even though they were manipulated into thinking they chose it. They also thought that is freedom and individualism. That is peak stupidity.
    14
  356. This is what a CIA stooge or bot looks like.
    14
  357. Haha, it's has the same vibe as if you piss off the American establishment, you must be doing something right.
    14
  358. Anyone remembers PRISM from the NSA?
    13
  359.  @baykal6  It's like saying you could donate blood 3 times a day. You could definitely do it and survive but you will still be severely hurt. Do it a few more times, and you might just die.
    13
  360. Why is everyone still pretending musk is trying to protect free speech. He is trying to control speech and the "marketplace of ideas" like every fucking billionaire. Public opinion is too dangerous to be left to the public and that has always been the guiding philosophy of the capital class in the west.
    13
  361. @warheadsnation  Everyone from the west who talks about the SCS always like to leave out one crucial fact. It was the SE Asian countries that first started to lay claims over these islands that have been used and populated by Southern Chinese for centuries, during the second half of the 20th century when China was the weakest to enforce their territories. Now that China is back in the game and able to enforce their sovereignty over these islands, the west, along with lackeys like the Filipinos conveniently forget that they never occupy these islands centuries previously. Their legitimacy over these islands are tenuous at best, which is why most of them choose to keep the status quo of ambiguity. Only Phillipinnes is dumb enough to fight China over this.
    13
  362. Ohh Sean, you and your metaphors. Livin' on a Prayer has got to be one of your best.
    13
  363. Does the US even know how to mine and refine tungsten anymore? Are Americans even willing to mine and refine metals anymore?
    13
  364.  @tonyp2865  It returns because the system allows this kind of bullsht jobs to return to drive up another bubble. Another system like the Chinese one will have political power able to redirect the country's energy and resources into useful things.
    13
  365. I don't think China is selling as much as they are letting the debts mature without buying new ones. If they sell their bonds they bought at lower interest rates now, they will take a hit. By not buying new ones, China is saying that they are not interested in putting their national reserves they earned into the USD system, which for the US that requires other people and countries to keep buying their debts to survive, this is tantamount to "selling" debts.
    13
  366. Instead of simply following in the west and China's footsteps, Russia should develop their own unique strengths. They have vast amount of mineral and energy wealth. They have fertile lands which ironically as the climate warms up will open up more land for farming. They still have very strong R&D traditions and institutions and should work together with China to develop any cutting edge technologies that they can have a piece of. Their industrial base mean they can do other kinds of high tech manufacturing, with semi-conductors being part of it, while continuing to dominate industries like nuclear material refining and nuclear energy. Of course they can still developed those industries you mentioned but China already have most of it locked down anyway. Russia will have to offer something more unique for them to be competitive.
    13
  367.  @marcusclarkson5520  No, they don't. That's the point this video and numerous other videos have been making in this channel. If you are not even watching the videos and understanding what Kevin is saying, then why even bother saying something that is already proven to not be true. The fact is that the US does not have the greatest defense companies; they have the greatest MONEY-MAKING defense companies. They don't have a great economy; they have a VIRTUAL economy where the majority of their wealth is generated by financial casinos, that increasing being despised and losing power due to de-dollarization, and de-financialization by other countries. The most amazing thing the US has produce is USians that can be exposed to the truth and literally still be immune to the truth. It is truly Orwellian. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” This is what your capitalist masters have done to your brain.
    13
  368. Haha no one is going to give China's efforts a fair shake in YT channels like this. But I am glad that a lot of people are calling out for China's FEL efforts and they are probably at the leading edge for this application. Shows that the western propaganda about China is not as tight as they will like it to be.
    13
  369. Haha, the ambassador of a country is not going to reveal the policies of his government in a public interview. Asking the ambassador what China will do with a trump presidency is a useless question. No ambassador is going to limit his government's options by publicly saying this or that without his government explicitly saying that's what they are going to do. Instead of asking these low gain questions, the interviewer should be asking about the ambassador's opinions on the current NZ and China relationship and whether NZ foreign policies actually matches China foreign policies, so we can actually know what China thinks.
    13
  370. If we can make nuclear reactors smaller to generate electricity, this idea really can work. The electricity can run motors for propellers or ducted fans. The last part of the trick is to make the plane a drone. No crew, save weight for shielding and it can fly indefinitely until it needs servicing. All it does is tug planes across well traveled air routes. Logistically, you will always have at least a few of these tugs arriving and leaving the rendezvous point which should be over water and far enough from the coastlines to be safer, and any commercial or military plane can make a flight plan to get hooked up when they arrived at the place at the appointed time. Customers pay for the miles they flew, which will likely still be cheaper than burning actual fuel and wear and tear on the engines, and they only have to carry enough fuel for takeoff, landing, reaching/leaving the rendezvous point and for emergency diversion to another airport. It will even save on emissions. This is one way that nuclear power can actually be used on planes in spite of the safety concerns. They just never need to get near any coastline.
    13
  371. That's because the EU members are not sovereign countries.
    13
  372. Yup, you're right. China plans for the long term. They are extremely patient investors. They are willing to invest in projects that won't bear fruit for the next 10, 20 years. That's why they are superior in their investment strategies. They are willing to wait.
    13
  373. hahahahahaha And they say the Chinese government is wrong for controlling their real estate implosion. This is exactly why China wants to deleverage their real estate market and developers and to cut excess real estate capacity so the market doesn't over build. Deflate the real estate until the excess capacity is corrected then resume normal credit. A controlled popping of a bubble is far better than a "natural" boom and bust cycle and westernized economists are hopping mad that China is defying their predictions and their methods. China does have a debt problem but after seeing how they handle the real estate market, it proves they know how to handle their own sht and they know exactly why western capitalism is so terrible to ordinary people and how to control it. The difference between how China handles her own real estate crisis over how the west handles theirs will be the battle of economic models that will prove which marcoeconomic models is the superior one, and I get the feeling that China with its centralized capital control that can produce a soft landing while the west crash and burn. This will be the most important social science experiment of this century.
    13
  374. Tell America to stop provoking war first, then cry foul when consequence hit them.
    13
  375.  @giliair4993  Bad democracy acts as a smoke screen for the rich ruling elite.
    13
  376.  @SodiumSyndicate  Seem they did move on by excluding India. Sounds like you are just coping with a lot of sodium.
    13
  377. My job lets me fly SIA for work. I'm now too spoiled for other airlines. Most airlines can't even touch SIA, and American airlines are downright ghetto compared to the top airlines.
    13
  378. Marshal Zhukov supposedly said this, that they liberated Europe from fascism, and they would never forgive them for doing so.
    13
  379. Well, economic policies are closely tied to foreign policies. But if you have a dumb foreign policy, your economy is just going to suffer. A good foreign policy will in turn unleash the potential of your country's economy.
    13
  380.  @PitofDoom666  I don't think China really has any role in holding back Russia, nor do they want to.
    12
  381. Yea, Patrick is good at analyzing what rich people will do. Not so good at analyzing what other countries and working class will, as they have a completely different economic, financial out look and social mores, and priorities. For example, China deliberately pop their real estate bubble and refuse to bail out the overleveraged developers, making sure the home buyers and suppliers get their stuff first and let the vulture investors have the scraps. Then they used this opportunity to diversify the entire country's economy away from real estate, and impose strict limits on developers. This is unheard of in the west, it broke every rule in their book and it boggles their minds and all they can do is keep saying it won't work, it won't work, it won't work. Well, what do you know, taking care of your people first result in even higher approval ratings and the economy will eventually recover from the pivot and put energy in other useful sectors instead of useless and endless financial speculations. China is doing just fine because it does not work the same way as the western economies. Their policies and the actions will never be taken by western neoliberal capitalist governments and it is blowing the minds of western economists who have drank their own kool-aid on neoliberal economic dogmas.
    12
  382. Everything on US stock market is over valued from cheap money.
    12
  383. An unpunished chapter in American history. The US is just racking up these karma.
    12
  384. That's why they keep refining those plans. They have a lot of periodic reviews, feedback and consultations. You really think mega projects like BRI, industrialization are decided by a few people? This kind of childish thinking is part of why the west is in decline.
    12
  385. TOXIC individualism.
    12
  386. It also means NATO's military and political doctrines are out of date and pretty much proven to fail.
    12
  387. It's the way Americans look at the world.
    12
  388. The CPC doesn't even say they are a communist country. A communist country is a stateless, classless, moneyless society and they are nowhere near. They are at the state capitalist, socialist stage but they always want to advance it slowly. The funny thing is that no country has ever reached communism, not even the Soviet Union. The transition to communism takes stages and we are nowhere near that because we still live in a world dominated by bourgeoisie capitalists destroying every nascent socialist country and is constantly practicing cultural hegemony to indoctrinate the working people against their own interests.
    12
  389. I loved it so much when China was able to tell companies like BlackRock to pound sand.
    12
  390. It's call capitalism.
    12
  391. Lol, since when is the poor bailed out by the government. The poor is part of the working class. There are only two classes, the one that owns capital and the one that exchange capital using labor.
    12
  392.  @himanshugurjar9002  The border issue is caused by India being too greedy and wanted to take all the disputed territories instead of adopting a win-win, give and take approach that China proposed way back in the late 60s.
    12
  393. Blaming everyone else instead of self reflection for their mistakes is a quintessential American trait.
    12
  394.  @tonysu8860  No, China is not claiming the islands by force. They are making claims just as everyone in the SCS is doing so. Just because China is making claims does not make them the bad guy. While the Philippines is the one breaking international laws by deliberately grounding a ship in a reef and demanding that everyone recognize the reef as theirs.
    12
  395.  @mortenovergaard7397  Prohibition only works if the society actually has a good foundation where people have roofs over their heads, food on the table, fulfilling well paying jobs, access to education and healthcare. Factors that many of these poor Americans have little to no access to. That's why they escape into drugs and alcohol. Happy, fulfilled, purposeful people do not abuse drugs and alcohol even if you give them free drugs and alcohol. Without solving the fundamental social problems in America, no amount of prohibition will help.
    12
  396. I wouldn't put too much confidence in modi though. Guy is basically a neoliberal capitalist in the same vein as western leaders.
    12
  397. It's called socialism, where the distribution of capital is prioritized for the majority of the workers.
    12
  398. It is.
    12
  399.  @displacednaija  " MMT which is Keynsian economics" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    12
  400. Containing Russia? 🙄
    12
  401. FFS, I will repeat one more f*cking time to you westerners. China does not want to invade Taiwan as long as the status quo is maintained. They want peaceful reunification and they know Taiwan will be more and more integrated with China as time goes by. They are not in a hurry to reunify Taiwan and they don't want to kill their own people doing so.
    12
  402. The entire SE Asia is a huge goldmine to explore. Singapore is good to be the hub. You stay for a few days to explore, then fan out to Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Angkor Wat is a wonder of the world and definitely worth a visit although Cambodia is supposed to be very unsafe right now so until things improved, you might want to avoid going there.
    12
  403. If everyone can see this coming, why aren't they doing something about it? Oh yea, I forgot, the people are not in power in America.
    12
  404. Cuba does need defending from American Imperialism, considering that Cuba's sovereignty has been violated many times in the past.
    12
  405. The problem with Americans is that a lot of them truly believe they are the good guys all the time. That no matter how bad they screwed up, or how nefarious their intentions are, they are still the good guys because the ASSUMED everyone opposing them is worse than them. It means that they believe in a very black and white worldview and dissenting narratives are not tolerated despite them saying they have freedom of speech. You get canceled if you say the wrong things, either through public opinion or through official channels. Dissenters are seldom explicitly censored so they can maintain an air of plausible deniability that they are practicing censorship. Like that article Brian showed naming him and his peers as Pro-China shills, they manipulate public opinion against dissenters in order to silent them. This is their MO for practicing information control and censorship. This also means that it frees them from any moral and ethical obligations when fighting themselves "evil" enemies. Which is why they can exercise double standards, being hypocritical and conveniently ignore facts against them, without any qualms. If you are fighting the devil, you use every trick in the book. No action is underhanded, unscrupulous, dishonourable when fighting the devil, right? It has gotten to such an absurd degree that they have been able to convince a disturbingly large segment of their population that Russia is bad for invading Ukraine. But Israel is the "most moral" army in the world, and there is totally no gen*cide in Gaza and Hamas is the evil one and the war begins at Oct 7. However, it is also clear that these public opinion manipulation is losing its power as non western countries don't buy it anymore, and westerners are growing tired and cynical towards their own media. The lack of support against Russian sanctions by non western nations, the huge number of protests around the world including in the west against Israel, and people simply not that interested in Xinjiang lies anymore is testaments to that. When the world is finally rid of American Imperialism and western domination, we need to have an international legal system to keep in check these propaganda and public opinion manipulation. China's leadership as usual, is prescient towards this and enacted control over their information sphere with the great firewall. This protected Chinese citizens from western social media invasion and manipulation and protected their citizens' data, achieving true data sovereignty. While the rest of the world gets attack with psyops and color revolutions. Western media needs to be collared and controlled after this is all over because they have proven to be nefarious and another tool by their empire's imperialists to attack other countries.
    12
  406. Imagine Game Science make a game on the American revolution by inserting a Chinese character based on an obscure historical figure that did not really do much, lionize that historical figure, overblown his importance and then use it to pander to a Chinese audience while saying it is "historically accurate". Or a Japanese studio doing the same thing. Yea, I think people in the US will be outraged too. The hilarious part is that there are literally thousands of samurais in recorded history, not to mention fairly famous ninjas or shinobis that can take on this role and they deliberately choose to find that one person that was not of Japanese descent to represent Japan's culture. If they don't want to pick someone too famous, they can pick from the roster of thousands of Japanese historical figures that were more obscure for some creative freedom to write a fictional story. Saying that this is just a game or fiction is a cop out when it is obvious that this game was meant to be a "hard" historical fiction is a cheap cop out. Elevating Yasuke into hero-dom in a Japanese oriented product is like a screwy, cynical version of Dancing with the Wolves. He could have been a perfectly great NPC and cameo.
    12
  407. Because in capitalism, you can fail upwards of you have enough money.
    12
  408.  @JaKingScomez  Imagine being in a hellhole and refusing to admit it because of ideologies.
    12
  409. It like saying you didn't break the base because you didn't touch the vase. It was the ball that you threw in the house that touched the vase.
    12
  410. Please don't insult brutalism.
    12
  411.  @yusufbest4475  America will always put companies' profits over social well being, so anything that reduce car makers' and oil companies revenue is a big no no. That's the core difference between a moderate capitalist country like Singapore and most of Europe and crony, hypercapitalist country like the US.
    12
  412. The US has the best democracy money can buy.
    12
  413. Yup, the communist parties of various countries almost always use the name type "communist party of country name". They almost never use the "country people communist party" because it wouldn't make sense.
    11
  414.  @gabesd6697  That... is true to a certain extent. There is a mentor troupe in Chinese writing that is the mysterious, come in fast, leave fast mentor. The mentor is usually some powerful figure who disappeared a long time ago, and the hero either seeks him out or the mentor finds him. He teaches the hero, they trained and he kicks him out and say the hero has to move on while the mentor disappears again. The mentor usually do not die because he is almost like a repository of knowledge rather than an actual character. Or he has complex arcs of his own that doesn't revolve around the hero. I feel like this kind of troupe is useful for the writer because it keeps the mentor's mysticism and its potential for later shenanigans, usually when the hero met something he could not overcome in the real world. So he went back to seek out his mentor again for that "Final Technique(tm)" that either the hero was too impatient to learn at the time or the mentor refused to teach him because he has not "matured" enough. There is also a Chinese troupe that mentors do not teach the "Final Technique(tm)" because he fears the student will surpass him. It's usually involve an evil mentor who still wants to keep the hero subservient but useful.
    11
  415.  @typedef_  elon musk is not going to give you money for bootlicking him on a YT comment section.
    11
  416. Sounds like you are just ingesting a lot of copium dealing with the fact that the world is slowly turning away from America.
    11
  417.  @Shenzhou.  This is always the problem with capitalism. Companies always overproduced to try to capture market shares, then they go bust when demand start dropping. It's a stupidly inefficient system
    11
  418.  @guitarkaisg3357  I like it that in the west, coercion and unequal power balance between two sides is known as "fair."
    11
  419. Yea, privatizing a public service company is always a screwed up. It goes from serving the people to serving the shareholders. The eventual result will be less for everyone and more for the shareholders. Allianz is a private insurance company based in Europe. If they can extract capital out of Singaporeans and pay out as little as possible, they will do it. They are not here to protect you and I. They are here to extract capital and nothing more. Every country who sold off their public serving companies and embark on a neoliberal path ALWAYS fail its people in the end.
    11
  420. It's an a economic forum, not a political one. Unlike the west, China knows how to separate things out and get things done.
    11
  421. LOL you think trump care about this? You actually think trump is capable of anything like long term strategic planning. This kind of delusions is part of why America is in decline.
    11
  422. I'm not a fan of Putin either but him and Russia taking NATO for a ride is just hilarious. Anything to beat back American imperialism.
    11
  423. Don't forget that Brazil and Paraguay has a lot of hydro electricity from the Itaipu Dam and still has a lot of hydro power potential. Electrification of its transportation is a no-brainer, especially since it is such huge country with very concentrated urban areas.
    11
  424. This looks fun. Something a little out of the ordinary and a blast from the past. Literally!
    11
  425. It's not communism. Yet. One of the misunderstanding in the west about communism (I think this is deliberate propaganda) is that people think that communist countries are already communism. No, none of them are communist. Communism has actually never been achieved. All the experiments have been trying to get to communism, to transit there and that includes the USSR and even modern China. There are a lot of intellectual debates on how to get to communism among communists, and many concluded that it is a step-by-step process to turn a capitalist, profit oriented market economy into a communist, public oriented market economy. In many ways, China has achieved the first step towards communism, that is to develop the country to the point that it is industrialized, with a strong market economy but the political power lies in the hands of communists, who are guiding the country through stages of socialism to the final goal of communism.
    11
  426. Everyone who says China is years behind something at the moment they hear China is ramping up in that area ALWAYS have to eat their words a few years later.
    11
  427. Revolution.
    11
  428. @ hahaha YT deleted the comment I made about it censoring whether you are editing or not.
    11
  429.  @raininthesouth  lol it's like you didn't watch the video at all and just start barking US state propaganda.
    11
  430. Their numbers are generally accurate.
    11
  431. Well, we in Singapore really needs to rethink our foreign policies, considering the US is getting more and more unhinged everyday.
    11
  432. Proven yet again that libertarianism is a creepy and deadens ideology. The entire premise is based on a juvenile view of the world of "you don't get to tell me what to do! I get to tell me what to do!"
    11
  433. Yup, lots of us already saw that hundreds of miles away. The last bond sales for 10y and 30y were also ugly too, so not surprising that this round the 2y and 5y are getting hammered too. Couldn't happen to a nicer government. I'm waiting for the day when the USD is in low enough demand that there is not enough USD circulating in surplus countries to buy US debts, then I got my popcorn ready for the show in Congress when the US government realize they simply cannot finance their budget anymore because the bond yields are so high it is eating away the budget and they can no longer keep borrowing and deficit spend. Is the US government going to go into severe austerity and cut all welfare programs that is supporting a barely functioning society so as to protect the defense budget, or the reverse? The former will likely cause huge social unrest (popcorn ready) and the latter will finally spell the end of the American hegemony as the military can no longer support all its oversea bases, assets and the MIC. OR the US government defaults, that will be even more fun. Either way, interesting times ahead for the United States of America.
    11
  434. It is also a treaty obligation. The Geneva Convention says that all nations must not conduct or aid in a g-cide, but there is also another condition. All nations must also try in their power to STOP a g-cide and that's exactly what Ansar Allah in Yemen is doing: trying to stop a g-cide. This is also why the west refuses to admit that what is happening in Gaza is a g-cide because that will force a legal obligation on them to stop it, when they are also the accomplices.
    11
  435. Thank you Ben, for watching through that entire slough of a hearing.
    11
  436. The west never had to fight a peer level adversary that can bring the same level of tech to the battlefield. What do you expect? Precision weapons are all about communication between the weapon and intelligence, and that chain is linked by radio. So as long as you have the tech and supplies to deploy electronic warfare, you can degrade precision weapons. As though only the west has electronic warfare capabilities. Russia is not even the most advanced or capable in EW. That crown belongs to China, which had to taste the bitter medicine of being bullied in the 1980s by US EW and spy planes. The day the US dare to start anything with China is the day the entire west pac is jammed.
    11
  437. Speak for yourself. American and western politics is irrational. Chinese politics is very rational and sober.
    11
  438. Yuan is not like the USD. It's backed by the historically unprecedented amount of trade surplus China has.
    11
  439. I have a very small violin.
    11
  440. And we can source the wheat elsewhere.
    11
  441.  @humwawa3468  Yuuup. People do well to remember what shitsingger said "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." The US literally think it can judge whether a country's sovereignty can be suspended because their people elected government they don't like.
    11
  442. Well, the billionaires have no political power in China. That's why they can do all these amazing shit.
    11
  443. It is a dubiously useful metric the way we keep measuring area with football fields and volume with Olympic sized swimming pools. It is to show that we actually don't need that much area to power our civilization. We just have to do it but it doesn't mean we have to do it in the Sahara.
    11
  444. Yuuuppppp
    11
  445. Thank capitalism instead.
    11
  446. Ben is also learning Chinese. He said it's hard but I think he will become fluent. I think he's already proficient in Spanish from living in South America.
    11
  447. I doubt the US will allow its own retired astronauts to consult with the Chinese space agency.
    11
  448. Their foundations are still strong. Money saved up by the people means that the people are the cash rich part of the economy, not the selected few capitalists. Chinese consumers are cautious and that might be painful in the short term if they are not spending but in the long term it means they are the ones who will control the economy with their considerable savings. In times like this, cash is king and prudence will bear fruit in the future. Not to mention, they will still keep their industrial base and when the world recovers, they will be the ones who can make and build everything and anything. Power to the people. No war but class war.
    11
  449. Krugman turning neocon hawk is such a disappointment. But then he has always been a neoliberal economist so supporting fascism and capitalism at all cost is second nature to him.
    11
  450.  @laviklee  Well, I will say that in the past, China literally has no financial service sector. The Chinese government is now clearly focusing on developing an alternative financial system that can secure their capital and allow trade among all trading partners without the risk of being targeted by US economic terrorism. Their policies definitely hinted at subordinating this new financial sector to the productive sectors of the economy. Time will tell if this will continue because there are always bourgeois elements seeking to supplant control from the socialist government. As long as the CPC remains in charge, this will not likely happen. But danger can come from within the party as infiltration is always possible.
    11
  451. Because the Chinese government is lead by rational, objective, highly competent and emotionally mature adults. They do not usually do things out of anger or do they gloat. Except perhaps about Taiwan, which is a highly emotional subject for all Chinese people.
    10
  452.  @robertward8035  Free Puerto Rico, free Guam, free Texas, free California.
    10
  453. Exactly. When he claims China is hegemonic in the same sense that a western country would be, and then say the US hegemony is benign to other western countries, I just have to laugh at the stupidity of it all. This is supposed to be a professor in a university and if this is level of intellect of western scholars, then it is no wonder why the west is in terminal decline.
    10
  454.  @Duesre  You would rather be force to buy a car than to have the freedom to go anywhere without being coerced into buying something?
    10
  455. IRS is deliberately defunded and crippled by republican admins so they cannot go up against the richest people in the country. This is by design.
    10
  456. You don't have to add that last sentence, as though Russia and China do not graduate sociologists.
    10
  457. Singapore depends heavily on western investment, talents and military equipment especially from the US. Trust me when I say that Singapore hates being forced to take sides, especially on something that is none of their business. But, Singapore also has a huge incentive to push for international order that big countries must not bully small countries on pretexts. It is true that Russia is pushed into a corner by NATO expanding eastward, but they invading Ukraine is still a big no from a small country like Singapore.
    10
  458.  @vincesiy1403  Indeed. Singapore hates to be forced to choose sides. As a small country, its survival depends on being friendly with everyone. More than that, SE Asia and ASEAN itself hates being pushed around. The side, China or the US, that tries to force ASEAN to choose a side is gonna find them choosing the opposite.
    10
  459.  @nneeerrrd  Cope some more, it is amusing to us.
    10
  460. You will finally get a taste of what it means to make your economy scream. I hope you have land to grow your food lol.
    10
  461. He is going full colonialism and harvesting the Europeans, the Japanese and the South Koreans. I got my popcorn filled because the drama is going to be as he likes to say "tremendous".
    10
  462.  @jackyhuang6034  You have no idea how patient Beijing has been with Taiwan. If Taiwan is a breakaway rebel state of the US or any western country, you wouldn't have been born to be here typing on you PC replying to that comment because your granddaddy would have been killed long ago.
    10
  463. Marshal Zhukov said, "we freed Europe from fascism, and they will never forgive us for it." He was wrong though. Fascism will never go away as long as capitalism and oligarchs never go away.
    10
  464. They also probably said the US won the Vietnam war.
    10
  465. It shows that Russia has a lot of extra capacity that is not even utilized for the SMO.
    10
  466.  @sharkybrickfilms99120  Did you watch the video? The Japanese were ready to surrender, they just need an out. Your argument is completely backward.
    10
  467.  @frenchfry5675  These things take time. Look at the trend, don't just look at the present.
    10
  468. Hahaha, if the western media move the goal post any further, it will be out of the stadium.
    10
  469. In America, rich people do not have to play by the same rules we all do.
    10
  470.  @adamhustler3639  Yuuuppp, if you are working for a living and cannot live off your capital, you are working class whether you can afford a Lexus or homeless. This kind of "middle class" Vs the "poor" divide is exactly why the UAS is such a dumb place.
    10
  471. Haha I think the problem is encouraging the Chinese to spend because they have such a strong culture of saving money and their inflation and cost of living is so much lower than other places. But trying to decide how to spend money because you have a lot of it, is a good problem to have.
    10
  472. That's capitalism.
    10
  473.  @jackchiu7560  Yea Free Scotland! Free Gribraltar! Free Falkland Islands!
    10
  474.  @fredmanly3122  Bingo. The main objective of the PLA is to deny USN entry to waters near China's coast and then further out into the ocean in the future. They do not have any real expeditionary capability right now for a cross ocean invasion but they don't need to. They need to turtle up first and everything they have been doing is to ensure that turtle shell is extremely expensive to penetrate. If you are defending your country, wouldn't you do the same?
    10
  475.  @marinekong235 They invaded based on a lie. Let's not pretend otherwise.
    10
  476. This is why socialism works.
    10
  477. It's a chicken and egg thing. Good public transport makes dense urban environment far better but public transport might need density to work great. But then, places like Japan also showed that it is possible to operate public transport in less dense areas as they still have trains and buses going into suburbs and rural areas. You don't make as much money but the having that public transport option even in less dense areas is a huge plus.
    10
  478. WWII was won at Stalingrad and by the Soviets, not at Normandy.
    10
  479.  @khiem1939  I thin you are talking about the US where people literally gets cancelled for saying the wrong things.
    10
  480. See, China didn't close any of these relationships. It was always the other side that did it.
    10
  481.  @ianrichardmorrissey6082  Not Chinese politicians it seem. Nothing but net for the last 4-5 decades for them. So maybe it is not the politicians fault per se, but the system that produces those politicians to be blamed.
    10
  482. Remember, the US did that.
    10
  483. In Shawshank Redemption, Andy did have an advantage because he was ostensibly working for the warden who obviously have access to the outside world. The warden or his cronies take everything Andy fabricated to a lawyer to get it done and he never even have to meet the lawyer.
    10
  484.  @theblackdog2399  All of it.
    10
  485. Like Lenin said, there are decades when nothing happened, then weeks when decades happened.
    10
  486. Oh it can fly passengers, if you are willing to fork out 20k per ticket and ignore the sheer amount of emission per passenger per mile. Not to mention the lawsuits from blown eardrums.
    10
  487. Hahaha, just reopen steel mills that have been mothballed for years, it's easy! Like how they take a museum battleship and just start the boilers and go hit alien ships with it! Gawd you people are so blep. But the movie Battleship is really a allegory of the US today; looking back at the glorious days and believing that the power will just come back with no sacrifices and hard work.
    10
  488. They just started. Not everything has to burst out on the scene like Huawei or Black Myth Wukong. But the fact that they are pretty much the only other manufacturer who is willing to challenge the duopoly already signals a shift in the future of high tech aviation. This is not Brazil with their Embrarer or Canada with Bombardier. This is China. Their industrial might and technological know-how and potential are on a totally different power scale.
    10
  489. That's how capitalism work.
    10
  490. India is only growing because its population is growing. China is growing because it is increasing the productivity of its people and industries. They are not the same.
    10
  491. Maybe the Chinese government is waiting for the 4th gen nuclear reactors, including this thorium molten salt reactor to mature before they scale up. Once they decide to scale up, it is going to ramp up very very fast.
    10
  492.  @bjorntorlarsson  Once again, capitalism incentivize the worst kind of short term profit seeking behavior that always cause problems for the rest of us.
    10
  493.  @connorhart7597  Something something Taiwan. something something Pal*sti*e
    10
  494. Exactly. For those outside the western media bubble, we already know what the heck is actually going on. Nothing Putin said about the situation will be anything we don't already know. But what he said about moving forward will be revealing the stance Russia is standing and that's the important part.
    9
  495. Content like his are most likely shadow banned.
    9
  496. Geopolitical economy might be next. So is the Duran.
    9
  497. You need antimony for the primer in cartridges, so you cannot make bullets and artillery shells without antimony.
    9
  498.  @wnklee6878  it's call "I'm better than you and I'm winning."
    9
  499. You're right, we should beware of the UAS coming to spoil it.
    9
  500.  @GBR9794  LOL where did you get your sources from? Is it a non-western independently verified source? If not, then go away.
    9
  501. Watching the IMF lady finally saying that the US debt situation will destroy the west is just chef's kiss. My tiny violin is getting played so often I think I'm wearing out the strings.
    9
  502. It's their money, they earned it so why shouldn't they get to do what they want with it.
    9
  503. He's not anti marriage. He still believe in true love and a couple being together for the long haul. He is saying there has to be a better way to teach people to choose the right partner for themselves so they don't have to go through divorces in the first place.
    9
  504. Yea, but that business model only make sense if it take hours to charge. Car batteries today only take less than an hour to charge enough for a moderately long journey and it is going to improve. However, it could still work if it really does cost far less upfront because you are renting a battery, not owning it. But Nio will need a huge network of battery swap stations for this to really work and that might be its Achilles' heel. However, I do agree that having the old batteries recovered by swapping from cars will probably be easier in this model, which makes maintaining and recycling easier.
    9
  505. As a chemist, I agree. The way she explains capitalism is like hearing a homeopathic practitioner explains medicine. It is like explaining why things float in water by saying that thing is lighter than water, so therefore wood floats and steel sinks. She is right on some very narrow aspects of capitalism that makes it a good economic, while ignoring (deliberately or by ignorance) everything else about capitalism that makes it a terribly cruel economic system. It reminds me of hearing people denouncing something as bad because it has chemicals with long names in it. Who pays you Sabine, to make this stupid video? The US government's disinformation warfare unit? Koch foundation? Milton Friedman's ghost? It's not that just because she is a physicist she cannot comment on economic systems. It's just that her understanding of economics is like the level of a undergrad 101 class. Worst part is that it is peppered with obvious capitalist propaganda. But the problem is she has a large platform and she is spreading wrong information and wrong ideas about how the world works.
    9
  506. Yup, this is how AI can improve outcomes and increase efficiency and productivity. They can act like a very good PA, consultation and make sure to point out anything you might missed. It's the same in every industry. If the AI can help with the chores and do data fusion from a lot of variables and point out important things to consider, then it is already a game changer.
    9
  507. She thinks that the US government is reformable. Now that's reaaaally optimistic.
    9
  508. What's there not to like a government that uplifted 800 million people out of poverty and is installing the largest renewable and nuclear energy grid to fight climate change?
    9
  509. Can do the 6 months T-bills. It's fast and you get your money back with lower risks because you are not locked into that madness.
    9
  510. 80%o of the world is not depressed at all.
    9
  511.  @marcusclarkson5520  No, they don't anymore.
    9
  512. Arsenal of democracy is overblown. Like nearly everything written in the west, it is either exaggerated, misrepresented, or outright lies. By the time the Lend Lease happened, the Soviets were already producing huge amount of war material from artillery, to planes to tanks. The Lend Lease contributed probably around 10% of Soviet war material, and it happened AFTER Stalingrad, which is where the tide of the war truly turned. What Stalin needed from the west was to open the western front sooner than later so he could save as many Soviet citizens' lives but the west took their own sweet time to do so. By the time D-Day happened, Germany has already inevitably lost the war. The Soviets won the war through their ingenuity, perseverance, immense efforts and shoulder the bulk of the suffering and sacrfices while the west whimpered behind the English channel and the Atlantic Ocean. It is time we correct history.
    9
  513.  @peaceleader7315  China is not the US and their foreign policy, governing principles and culture are very different. China don't want to use neocolonialism the same way America did, they just want to trade and be left alone. The rise of China is largely peaceful and did not utilized colonial extraction and exploitation so why will they do that now?
    9
  514. The way I see it, is that this is one of the seminal events that trigger a reordering of the world. Many times in history, you see this kind of triggering events that spark a whole chain of events with people, countries reacting and acting to these chains of events. The result will settle the world order for decades, even centuries to come. These triggers that will cause the subsequent chains, are always backed by development months and years prior. WWI was sparked by the assassination of the Archduke but it wouldn't become WWI of it was not for all the great powers doing their thing and forming blocs, and alliances that dragged everyone into the quagmire. We have been seeing a monumental shift for years now, and there are many events like the China joining WTO, BRI, BRICS, 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the general decline of the west with the 2008 crash, along with them still not learning their lessons while the general rise of the China, Russia, central Asia and the Global South. Now these developments will come to a head. We are seeing this with maidane coup in 2014 in Ukraine, that led to the war. Now we are seeing the culmination of Israel genocidal policies burst into flames from the attacks by Hamas. We are witnessing history. At this point, keep your cash and gold and just hold on for the ride.
    9
  515.  @waichui2988  Exactly. Chinese history has many examples on the flexibility of their culture and systems. Beijing is very willing (for now) to negotiate an arrangement that can satisfy Taiwanese Chinese as long as they are willing to reunify peacefully. If you look at the political arrangements of China's various provinces, you can see that variety of political systems. You have autonomous regions, you have SARs, you have federated city like Chongqing, you have the normal provinces. Taiwan is a special case, and Beijing will find a way to accommodate them. Better to negotiate now while Taiwan still has leverage of a peaceful reunification or lose every leverage when they get pushed into a war caused by the US. Even if they had to use force, I'm sure Beijing doesn't really want to just impose direct control over the island province but they won't give any face to the separatist ringleaders.
    9
  516.  @aj2228  Hahaha I'm so amused that people are now using this meme against western BS narratives. Free Guam too.
    9
  517. I'm not buying another Nvidia product period, on principles.
    9
  518. China did not steal a trillion dollars in technology per year, that's just a blatantly false claim. But America does steal trillions from the Global South every year in labor value and natural resources, so what's your point? China did not steal the tech, they bought it by tech transfers. Espionage made up a small part of it and CIA steals stuff for American companies all the time. If you don't agree to China's terms, you are welcome not to come to do business in China. Isn't that freedom?
    9
  519.  @simonooi2544  Please don't put Vietnam in that list.
    9
  520. Mersheimer is the quintessential example of a thief thinking everyone steals.
    9
  521. Being censored on YT for pointing out western hypocrisy and contradictions is a common here, and a common L for western media.
    9
  522.  @JonyC6969  Arrogance, white supremacy, western exceptionalism colonial mindset. Take your pick to explain why they don't understand.
    9
  523. In capitalism, that's an existential threat.
    9
  524. I think jr., and reagan have a run for the money in the worst admin. Not that any of them are good.
    9
  525. They sanction Russia because Singapore is a small country and no big country should invade a small country for any reason. We know that Russia was basically pushed into a corner but at least Singapore stood by their principle, and they still have to navigate being coerced by the west while having to balance their ties with a rising China. Singapore has historically remain neutral in most international conflicts, sanctioning another country is extremely rare and done purely for political reasons because the west demands it.
    9
  526. You know, maybe we should be containing the US instead.
    9
  527. Quantum computing is really a very misunderstood field in the public sphere. Quantum computers have special properties that exploit the quantum effect to make certain type of calculations much faster than silicon based computers but that doesn't mean it is "faster" than silicon computers. However, what quantum computers excel at is something that any country that can exploit will give them an edge in technology and applications.
    9
  528. It is not really jealousy. It's fear. US politics has always been based on neoliberal ideologies, that the US government must have hegemony over the world and the corporate institutions form the backbone of US economy and power. That hegemony allows the US government, and by extension American corporations, to act with near impunity. They have done so since the end of WWII. You could say the Chinese government is doing the same thing but it is actually not that relevant. What is relevant is the thought process behind advancing and preserving American hegemony: they know if America loses that hegemony, American corporations will be relegated to second tier institutions. They will have to compete on equal grounds with the everyone else and they will not be able to enjoy the power, prestige and command over the world's economy and thus unable to exploit other countries and peoples with impunity. Losing that power, even the possibility, is driving the corporate world of America and the US political establishment insane. That's why you see so much hostility from western media and the US government. They don't want to lose that power to exploit with impunity and they know that they themselves can be targeted for exploitation and RETALIATION from their victims if they cannot control everything. I think most Americans can get used to a multipolar world where they are not automatically by default being catered to. But some Americans, especially conservatives and those with wealth and power, a multipolar world is nightmarish. Imagine an American billionaire arrested in Ghana for exploiting the country and subjected to Ghanaian laws, because Ghana has the economic strength to resist the US government. from China's backing. The victims of American exploitation and meddling will have the power to prosecute the Americans responsible for it, and there is nothing the US government or the west can do about it because if they tried to intervene like they did before, the collective economic and military might of the new bloc of nations lead by China will block them. That is the core of their hatred. They know a strong and an increasing influential China will deny them that power.
    9
  529. That's what capitalism do. Expanding into other territories to dominate their market (Ukraine and Russia), maintain their dominance and access (Isrl) and funnel more and more capital to capitalists.
    9
  530. Diplomacy? What's that? - USians.
    9
  531.  @tubebreguet  Well, you see the only moral dependency is US dependency.
    9
  532. The Chinese do not forget their benefactors, and those who harmed them.
    9
  533. I doubt Japan will really want to fight a hot war with China when push comes to shove. A lot of these calculations made by US strategists hinges on everyone in west Pacific going against China at the behest of the US. I can assure everyone that no one in SE Asia wants a war with China. Phillipiness is just the dumb exception and they won't matter and even then I think they will balk. SK entire economy depends on China and Japan's economy is also heavily tied to China. Going to war with China will destroy all of them. While China will suffer, it won't collapse because it has the entire supply chain within its borders and now it has BRI that stretches across Eurasia and into Africa. Its supply chain won't be fatally threatened by the US and its vassals. In an all out war without nukes, China will win by attrition. The Chinese will be fighting for their homeland and the years of injustice, unfair treatment and humiliation they suffered at the hands of westerners will boil over if the US really attack China. Everyone can make that calculations and they did. Most of the war simulations done by the Pentagon showed even with Japan showing up, China will win at a great cost but they will win in a west Pacific war. You Americans think in the most childish, bloodthirsty and irresponsible ways because you have never gotten your mainland getting bombed to nothing before. So you think your invincibility allows your to do whatever you want and not suffer any consequences. This is not about freedom, or democracy, it is just Americans doing its "might makes right" BS.
    9
  534. The problem is not the type of people who become politicians. The problem is the US is controlled by rich people and companies, for rich people and companies.
    9
  535.  @hiufgterde This thing will not happen immediately. It will just keep getting worse and worse. The cracks on the dam will appear slowly, but more and more until the dam breaks.
    9
  536.  @Knowbody42  It is amazing that people can still say this crap today.
    9
  537. Barr didn't survive for so long by being a dumbass. That's also why he is so dangerous.
    9
  538.  @jedensnow1084  So is a credit system. And the social credit is not a social reputation system like how you imagine it.
    9
  539.  @jedensnow1084  The hilarious part is that you think the credit system only affects your ability to borrow money when the ability to borrow is everything in a capitalistic society. Also, again, the social credit system is nothing like you imagine in the west. It is not a dystopic control mechanism where it can prevent you fro writing a blog or making friends. It is mostly used to for reviewing businesses that might have impact social well-being, like an actual BBB. People in the west have absolutely no clue what China actually is, how the people live there, and what their government actually stands for or does. 90% of the stuff that comes out of western corpo-state media and westerners are either fluff, grossly misleading, outright lies, tortuously self-serving twisted logic and always hostile and condescending.
    9
  540.  @Sean-giang  Cope some more, it is entertaining to us all.
    9
  541.  @Nationfirstalwaysfirst_IND  Cope some more, it is amusing to us here.
    9
  542. Haha it's not going to improve beyond gesturing because the American Empire owns Australia.
    9
  543. They are still paying 380 billion for submarines that is not even the right kind for them.
    9
  544. A personal property is something you own that you use or consume. Like your toothbrush you use to brush your teeth, or your car that you use to move around or even your house that you live in. A private property is something you own that can generate capital. Like a factory that you bought or tell others to build for you because you have capital in the first place. Then you proceed to take the surplus value generated by the factory simply because you have your name on it. When the west seize Russian assets, they are taking the capital of Russia and giving it to their own private capital in the forms of weapons payment. Private property for private capitalists in the west are very much protected and will even have more private capital/properties. You and I and this OP have personal properties. We are not even in the club of owning private properties to be affected by this. But the fact that everything is becoming a subscription or leasing model means you don't even get to own personal properties anymore because all your personal properties are becoming the private properties of the private capital to extract rent out of. This is the problem with 99% of westerners. They are so miseducated about the economy and deliberately so, that they are not even equipped at a basic level to understand what's going on. It's like trying to do orbital mechanics by believing in an Earth centered system. It is also how you get people thinking that socialism is when the gubmint owns your car and completely miss that companies are trying to turn your car into their own private property by forcing you to get a subscription for its "extra" features.
    9
  545. This comment right here is why the rest of the world is moving away from western imperial core. The arrogance in slandering Singapore and China because they decided to focus on cooperation instead of conflict. I bet if Singapore say "we hate China", you will suddenly change your tune to "Singapore is so great!" So since Singapore decided to cooperate with China, you brand Singapore as authoritarian country helping China. The hypocrisy and double standards is so obvious that it is disgusting, and everyone can see it. Countries are moving out of US influence not because they hate freedom or they are authoritarian. It is because US has lost all credibility as a functional country that does not even obey the rule it imposed on others. It is because the US has consistently showed that they cannot be trusted and will only look at for its interests, at the expenses of everyone else. That the US will throw you under the bus for its own political goals. The world is gravitating towards China because everyone know it is the next rising power and that China has been consistent and rational and actually respect other countries' culture and sovereignty while the US has been invading and destroying countries that refuse to bend the knee, even go as far as weaponizing its own currency against its rivals. Go on, keep deluding yourself that the west are the good guys, and everyone is just authoritarian and anti-freedom and other bullshit you tell yourself to demonize others, so you don't have to face yourselves in the mirror and realized you are the bad guys.
    9
  546. No, they are very different. China's industrial policies are about growing into novel, sustainable industries that can keep creating new kinds of jobs, new venues of innovation and helping to uplift the little guys so they can change the country, and the world for the better. US subsidies is about sustaining dead weight, too big to fail companies so they don't have to shoulder any risks for their mistakes and often risky behaviors, and to increase asset prices for the already wealthy when they do stock buy backs. US subsidies is about helping the fat pigs, the parasites by "socializing" the losses and privatizing the profits. They have completely different motivations because the people in power have completely different incentives. China is about revitalizing their civilization and bring common prosperity for all - dirty concepts to all neolibs capitalists in the west. The US is about keeping the workers down and continue exploitation and extraction of their labor and natural resources to enrich their rich. China is about protecting the sovereignty of the people, the US is about protecting the sovereignty of the wealthy bourgeois.
    9
  547. No amount of propaganda, lies and slander is going to overcome the material reality.
    9
  548. As an Asian man, Richard's comment about the fear of showing vulnerability and then your partner will leave really stuck a chord with me. I have the same irrational fear too. What if I break and no one is there for me. It's fucked up.
    9
  549.  @larsnystrom6698  Aren't both things the same?
    9
  550. No, they want you to throw it away, and lease a new one.
    9
  551. 18% is a lot. Anything above zero is too much.
    8
  552.  @Pappy214  You shouldn't be quoting a person who spread lies about Stalin, attack a person who could not defend itself, destroyed the basis of socialism in the Soviet Union, for political gain. I can guarantee you that nearly everything you think you know about Stalin is either wrong, mispresented or just outright made up. This is the what capitalist cultural domination look like. Educate yourself.
    8
  553.  @turtlesoup8134  ohh yes, they are also building unmanned subs.
    8
  554. I find it really hilarious that the F-16 is still touted as a weapon that a modern integrated air defense capable country will be afraid of. If you are bombing people with no SAMs and fighters, then sure F-16 will be an excellent weapon. Against a country with long-range, over-the-horizon radar stations, early warning, S-400s and Su fighters with big radars and BVR missiles, it will take hundreds F-16s to even make a dent and expect to lose a lot of them and the pilots in the battles ahead. A couple dozens F-16s will not make any difference at all, even if they are used strictly for launching standoff weapons against ground targets, and then fly the hell out. Heck, we are not even asking which version of F-16s are they sending them? The A/B are virtually useless now and I don't think there are many of those left. The C/D variants are the most numerous and they don't have the capability to use BVR missiles like AIM-120s without some sort early warning or target finding from other sources. No way they are getting the E/F variant with the AESA radars, much less the latest V version, which barely fulfill the 4.5 gen fighter criteria. Haha NATO is not even thinking of giving them F-15s. Or F-18s. Well, the US stopped F-18 production, both the original and super version, so they don't have spares anyway.
    8
  555. I doubt it will really drop to that point. It's a problem every middle income and above country faces. What is more likely to happen is the Chinese government will find a middle ground to encourage more birth rate and the Chinese society and culture will figure it out for themselves. A lot of the problems with low birth rate in developed countries are due to simpy people are just having fewer kids because raising kids is expensive and time consuming, people marrying late, having kids later, are more career focused etc. But this problem is exacerbated in the west because of alienation and the atomization of society into lonely islands of individuals, mostly driven by capitalistic tendencies. I don't think this fate awaits China because the Chinese government has the power to social engineer the country for public interests and the Chinese culture is inherently still more collective, supportive than the west. There just need to be a balance between rising living standards and the inclination to have children and if any country can figure out that balance, it is probably China.
    8
  556.  @miki-i6094  Yet China has installed more solar capacity in 2023 alone than the UAS in its entire history.
    8
  557.  @garykappes4654  ASML future will be cooperating with SMIC and actually combined their efforts to ensure the Dutch will always have a seat at the table of cutting edge semiconductors.
    8
  558.  @Lee-ic8ln  Nope, I have been to many countries. There are chain stores but no one build everything exactly the same across an entire country.
    8
  559. The "golden age" of air travel is just unrealistic nostalgia. The true miracle of air travel today is not speed, nor even the service or technology. It is affordability. Now you can reach nearly ay part of the world within 24 hours from the start of your journey at your local airport, without costing you an arm and leg. It used to take days even by air to get from say NY to Sydney, and months if you couldn't fly. Traveling was arduous that people used to make this kind of journey once or twice in their lifetimes. People used to travel for long distances and then settling at the new place for the rest of their lives because there was no way they could even return. Now it is possible to visit friend/family over the week, halfway across the world and be back for work on Monday. This is insane. People complaining about air travel today are really spoiled.
    8
  560. Long term strategies that focus on sustainable industrialization and human centric development to create broad prosperity among the population of South America? Americans ain't interested in that! More than half a century of mismanagement, hostile foreign policies, interventions, profiteering tells us all about American priorities for its southern neighbours.
    8
  561.  @andyofori463  Totally agree!
    8
  562.  @albertteng1191  Did you mistake China for the US?
    8
  563. You mean the West Africa that is still forced to use a currency issued by France and is kept under modern colonialism?
    8
  564.  @grimaffiliations3671  Sure, but the private sector is not producing enough value to justify the flood of new money and all that money are also being hoarded by the capitalists anyway. It raises their asset prices but hardly contribute to the economy.
    8
  565. I doubt Russia lost that many troops or tanks. And they haven't even committed all their military. The SMO is only a small portion of their military strength.
    8
  566. Sufism seems to have a lot of parallels with Hindu and Buddhist asceticism.
    8
  567.  @blede8649  So you're saying that the ICC doesn't even work.
    8
  568. Right at the start of the video, I was thinking, is he going to talk about the niobium silicon alloy? And yuuuuuuppppp, it's the niobium silicon alloy.
    8
  569. The only side that is trying to provoke a war over Taiwan is the US. China already made it very clear where their red line is with the One China Policy, which even the US has agreed to respect on the surface. Yet the US is trying to disrupt the status quo by deliberately stepping on the red line trying to force a reaction out of China. It will be like China putting nuclear missiles on Cuba like back during the missile crisis knowing full well that is the US red line. If you do not respect other countries' security concerns and sovereignty, no amount of talk about freedom or liberty will give you any moral high ground. No one in the west Pacific wants war and everyone can see it is the US provoking one. Only westerners are arrogant and blind enough to believe that the US is trying to protect Taiwan. Yea, by deliberately forcing Taiwan into a dangerous situation knowing full well how China and the Chinese people feel about the island. It will be as though China goes to Hawaii and fund and provide weapons to separatist groups there, then claim that Hawaii is now a country and have the right to secede from the union. To the Chinese, and most of the world, that is exactly what the westerners are doing when they start to claim that Taiwan is a country. If you think China is going to be a pushover, you are going to be in for a nasty surprise. Moreover, China is governed by a highly rational, highly intelligent and disciplined corp of technocrats. If they are really as incompetent as you westerners love to delude yourselves with, then why worry about China? Because deep down you know China cannot be beaten down anymore. The Chinese government is far less likely to be move into making geopolitical mistakes than the US and the west which are more into ideological dogma and purity tests than actually governing their countries. The restrain they have shown, and yes it is restraint over pelosi's dumbass visit to Taiwan showed that level of discipline. They didn't start a war even when their own country has been invaded. On that alone, China only have to bide its time and continue to grow stronger and build alliances with countries put down and brutalized by the west. Within 10, 20 years China will find a way to reunify Taiwan peacefully. If war comes to the west Pacific, we will all know it will be caused by the US, and the whole of East Asia will turn against the US. Even Japan and South Korea will find itself in an extremely difficult position.
    8
  570. What they really need is a country neutral Bancoor system. Block chain is just another technology.
    8
  571.  @nigelgarrett7970 Where do they get the uranium ore from?
    8
  572. Please don't include Singapore in the collective west. Singapore will keep the US close enough for its own interests but it will not follow the US off the cliff like Australia, the EU, Japan and UK. If the US forces a war in west Pacific, expect the SE Asian nations to take a very very dim view of the west, and Singapore will be part of that collective.
    8
  573. hahahahahaha since where has the west obey international laws whenever it suits them?
    8
  574. That's not China's fault.
    8
  575. Hearing people like him make self serving statements and deliberately ignoring the west's fault in creating this horrible war is just replusive. It's like hearing a criminal accusing the victim of the crimes he committed against the victim.
    8
  576. This is deliberate, because Singapore is still a fairly independent state unlike Japan, South Korea, Germany, the UK and other western "countries" who are basically vassals of the US empire. The US have been wanting to disrupt and control Singapore internal politics for a very long time because of its strategic locations. The US government have no qualms destroying Singapore just to make sure they can get a base here that they fully control and use to project power in SE Asia and threaten China. The Americans have always been imperialistic. They have always use their media to sow chaos and interfere with another country's internal politics. This kind of "interviews" happen many times in the past where their media give an outsized voice to Singapore dissidents that we know are cowards, incompetent and traitors so they can apply pressure on Singapore internal politics. This is how the US create colour revolutions and don't think Singapore is immune.
    8
  577. The answer is the same as to why there is no real investigation on the bombing. I give everyone a hint. The answer is the thing that the galactic empire in star wars is based on.
    8
  578. 68 is not a young age and a heart attack can kill anyone at that age. He had been working a high level job, with immense pressure. Maybe his health was not the best to begin with, you add the stress of leadership, it is not really that surprising he can die from a heart attack. Stop with the dumb conspiracy theories.
    8
  579. Singapore has no issue with gun homicide because we are not a childish people who think a deadly weapon is a toy, and that freedom is owning as many toys as possible.
    8
  580. You will have to give socialism a try in America. It won't happen. Americans deserve the life they got.
    8
  581. At this level of competence, it is obvious that the replicas maker can make the exact same quality as the original maker. The only problem is they don't have the same prestige so they can't sell at that price to justify the same level of quality control and embellishment. It also proves that whoever made the replicas already have a strong technical knowledge of high quality watch movements and they will also able to create their own unique movements if they have the money to pour into R&D. There is no way the people who reverse engineered these movements do not have ideas of their own. The only reason why Swiss watches are still selling at such high price is the prestige and branding, not because their technology or capability to create new movements are unsurpassable.
    8
  582. Free Hawai'i
    8
  583.  @first-gordonchang9510  Like most people who lived in the western media bubble.
    8
  584. Unpunished war crimes. The West suffered nearly no direct consequences for the suffering, deaths and destruction they have wrought. To the Americans, these wars are mere mistakes. Costly mistakes but just mistakes. To the people who were on the other end of the pointy stick, it was pain, indescribable pain of watching your loved ones die so some asshole on wall street has their networth bumped up. I think America needs to suffer that pain. And with the rising of China, they are afraid that it is coming and it is driving them insane.
    8
  585. That's the point. It is to force people to not buy products that are cheaper and better, so their own companies can sell their more expensive and lousier products.
    8
  586. Good.
    8
  587. I have a personal screen with hundred of movies and shows with far more comfortable seats and actual breathable air. Beat that.
    8
  588. Everyone's attention is on AI but China is quietly kitting out their industries with all the most important parts that are needed to achieve true semiconductors self-sufficiency. One aspect is electronic design automation (EDA) software that is essential for cutting edge semiconductor design and development. It is a sophisticated software that allows chip engineers to design their chips quickly. You don't want to waste your time reinventing every functional circuit, and microchips are way way too complex to be drawn by hand. EDA software are dominated by the west because they were the first to build these software. Now China is quietly supporting local software companies to build their own EDA, and the next battle line will be US sanctioning China on EDA software, if they have not already done so.
    8
  589. It is possible to build HSR in geological unstable area, as Japan's earthquake warning system that will shut down their trains have demonstrated. But what really gets me is the sheer amount of hype, fanfare and pomp that went into promoting these bullshit tech when actual scientists, engineers and all the support people that worked hard, stoically, quietly on real, practical tech like HSR and jetliners don't really get shine on. Japan's Shinkansen is a miracle of science and tech and the will of the Japanese people to excel and create something that worked and worked wonderfully. Being compared to vaporware hyperloop is honestly an insult to Shinkansen which has carried over 10 billion passengers with no passenger fatality over 50 years! It is an insult to every country trying to build HSR and public transport to bring that same benefit to their people.
    8
  590. Then why is the west starting to block sales of Chinese EVs?
    8
  591.  @invader2867  You are very generous when you say that the US system works. Works exactly for who?
    8
  592.  @northstar4601  How about basic freedom like having healthcare? And not dying from a pandemic. And not being coerced by an unfair economic system? America is not merely flawed, it is an unmitigated disaster.
    8
  593. It just needs to satisfy its people desire for prosperity, which is measurable and real. And the CPC has hit the ball out of the park.
    8
  594. You have nukes, and one of the most bloodthirsty culture in the history of the world. Not using nukes again will be surprising.
    8
  595. The aid was released because they got caught!!!
    8
  596. And the article still reads very chauvinistic.
    8
  597.  @weizhang2834  It's not 75%. At most 70%, and there are still two huge minorities, Malays and Indians. English is a neutral language that unified the country under one national identity despite its diversity and multi-culturalism. Instead of insidiously implying that Singaporeans are western stooges, why not learn from them why they can maintain peace and stability, create prosperity while still able to respect every race and religion and creed.
    8
  598. I say do it, so we can finally be done with the western financial system.
    8
  599. Just look at what the Native Americans are like today.
    8
  600.  @Starwarrior9831  You don't need to use US banks to transact USD if you have your own financial system to transact those USD. That's what China is doing now; they are making an alternative USD based banking system that uses USD but never have to use US banks to do it. Get Fud lol.
    8
  601. ​​ @cybervigilante Don't blame China for a lousy bike because the factory made it exactly to the specifications that Schwinn wanted. Blame Schwinn for wanting to cut corners to save costs. If China only knows how to make cheap, low quality crap, then they wouldn't be winning competition in nearly every industry they go into. Just look at their EVs. Ford CEO and CFO went to test drive one and they said this is an "existential threat" and the Chinese EV makers are so far ahead of them. They are cheaper, AND better quality.
    8
  602. Your opinion matters less than a used toilet paper.
    8
  603. Economic empowerment and recolonization, political independence and psychological decolonisation. China has achieved every part.
    8
  604.  @jult2309  The US put tariffs on everything for over 150 years of its history and only got into free trade after WWII when it is the only industrialized country untouched by the war. Hypocrisy much?
    8
  605.  @EZsWaterBoy  Their actions already spoke for them. They have always been cooperative, and seek win-win, sustainable long term solutions. They are not seeking hegemony and don't give a d*mn about it. You have been grossly disinformed by the western corpo-state media.
    8
  606.  @darinalumar7748  All nations are obligated to stop a genocide. The Ansar Allah is only doing their duty to stop an ongoing genocide. Your support of Israel and misrepresentation of the Palestinians and their resistance makes you a supporter of genocide...
    8
  607.  @mandrews1245  Indeed, de-dollarization will take place over a long period of time so now is not the time to act rashly. But the provocation from the US is simply unbearable. The patience and discipline shown by the Chinese leadership is impeccable. Most people would have weaponized the t-bonds that China holds against the US.
    8
  608. Singapore voted in favor of Palestinian membership is a good thing but sanctioning Russia is still dumb. I get that Singapore has to make a show of being part of the western club but geopolitically we all know that Russia's SMO is primarily to counter US imperialism and aggression that directly threaten Russia's core national security. If Singapore is really a principled based country, then we should be acknowledging that threatening another country's security by expanding your military bloc right to their doorstep, even after numerous pleas from that country, is unprincipled.
    8
  609. That's what neoliberalism is.
    8
  610.  @samstone4320  Yes, it's the only thing narcissistic bullies understand.
    8
  611. Yea, the way she explains capitalism is like hearing a homeopathic practitioner explains medicine. It is like explaining why things float in water by saying that thing is lighter than water, so therefore wood floats and steel sinks. She is right on some very narrow aspects of capitalism that makes it a good economic, while ignoring (deliberately or by ignorance) everything else about capitalism that makes it a terribly cruel economic system.
    8
  612. Free Hawai'i.
    8
  613. I'm pretty sure any of the big content creator in space related content will get screwed if they criticized musk beyond what musk felt will damage his reputation. It is obvious that there is a lot of self censorship among these content creators. Their livelihood depends on having access to people like musk, or at least not being blacklisted. It smacks of the classic manufacturing consent type of media control. Influence from powerful people on those that depends on their pleasure, is often enough to moderate the content. No need for overt censorship when these content creators hardly have the power to go against these rich ratf**kers.
    8
  614.  @john99776  That's the problem with capitalism. You eventually run out of people to exploit and the finanicalized system does not produced anything valuable, it depends on exploiting other countries' productive system to suck up the value.
    8
  615.  @DragonYang01  Everything take times, and no one started off an expert. Of course new companies in China trying to make sophisticated machines like a harvest combines will take years to get up to standard. But the fact is that they only took years, not decades to catch up to companies like John Deere tells you just how fast the Chinese manufacturers learn what the market needs and to build those products at a far cheaper price. That's why the Americans are crying foul because they slept one night and then found out they can't compete with Chinese companies the next day.
    8
  616. No need to insult someone's wife for his crimes. It's low even if Macron is a criminal.
    8
  617.  @fpsoftdev  Modern HSR trains are the pinnacle of transport technology. Just because America is indoctrinated to believe that trains are icky does not mean trains are not technological marvel. Even trains are not technologically advance - which is somewhat subjective judgement - it does not mean it cannot be the right tool for the right job. The modern train is the best tool for intercity travelling, better than cars, trucks, buses and only jets can beat it only at long distances.
    8
  618. This is CAPITALISM.
    8
  619. The only major thing left for China to resolve properly is the real estate and I have very little doubt that China is doing the right thing now to help their citizens first. Ultimately, their priorities on making sure their citizens are protected first from the instability of capitalistic business model will ensure they can reap the benefits of a controlled market economy without hurting themselves. At least not too much.
    8
  620. Americans look at Taiwan like a pawn. China looks at Taiwan as a wound that has never healed from a century of humiliation. One is a perspective based on exploitation and hegemony. The other is based on historical trauma. Tell me which side will have more determination?
    8
  621.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  There's still a lot of money to be made in America. I say China should still sell as much stuff as possible to the American market. China is not doing anything wrong, immoral or unethical so why should they be sorry for making money in the US.
    8
  622. "China is a huge market, we need to convert them." But they have this weird thing that they worship their ancestor and it is entrenched." "Say it is not really worship, just veneration so it does not violate our doctrine. Now go and convert them. God and the church will be most pleased with a couple hundred of million new Chinese believers." "As you command, your holiness."
    8
  623.  @dann5480  That's what they are afraid of. Every time it goes like this: China will never be able to do this high tech industry, they entered the industry; then it's China's new products suuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkksss LOLOLOL, so they persevere; then their next gen or 3rd, 4th gen product becomes highly competitive and near parity within an astonishingly short period of time, and their western detractors start accusing them all kinds of nefarious wrongdoing; then the Chinese companies start becoming mature and their products becomes not just competitive, but even better AND cheaper, so their detractors want to ban them or put tariffs on them. The C929 is going to start making them panic. The possible C939 will probably make them wet their pants.
    8
  624.  @L98fiero  They didn't intentionally planned but they have the worst incentives because they are capitalists.
    8
  625. It really is as simple as China welcoming someone who is not openly hostile and willing to respect them and their differences, and understand their similarities. No one, no matter how great their hospitality culture is, will want to host a group of people who has outright, numerous times say you are the enemy and the worst thing to happen to the world.
    8
  626. No need to bring in toxic masculinity.
    8
  627.  @anticorruptionagenda5106  No, the universal human rights is incomplete because it completely ignores the social level human rights for individual human rights that does not address how private citizens' accumulation of power and wealth and violating everyone's else freedom and rights.
    7
  628.  @lydiawhitting5406  LOL that's what you have been hearing from western media. Nearly all the projects that China has done with the Belt and Road Initiatives have been tremendous help to the countries who participate. They get roads, ports, basic infrastructure, like electricity and hospitals that can uplift their people out of poverty. These infrastructure are also built according to the country's needs, not the needs of the MNC to extract resources. The fact is that what you described is exactly what the west has done to Africa but China is doing the opposite, so you are fed these lies by your own media. The debt trap diplomacy is made up and came out almost altogether at the same time, showing a coordinated information warfare against China by the west collectively. China has not confiscated anything nor can they do that nor have the desire to, they have not pressured anyone to take the loans they don't want, they did not deliberately give out loans knowing they can't be paid off, and they have always refinanced the loans if the loaners ran into difficulties. That's why the US government is panicking trying to rein in China's BRI by attempting to bring their own initiative online... and failing miserably because it was obvious to everyone it is just a counter to China and not serious project and the amount offer is often insultingly small, and all they talk about is China China China and nothing about the interests of the locals. It's insincere and patronizing and insulting. That's why the the Summit of the Americas failed miserably because the US treated all the American countries like they are under its boots, and you think people have no dignity and self-respect. For the US, there is only I dominate, and you submit. Fact is China's cooperation is always based on a win-win mentality that benefits all sides. They get access to a new market, the countries get help they desperately need. Recent polls across the Global South have shown that people view China generally favorably despite western information warfare. You just don't like that China is actually helping, and winning the hearts and minds of the Global South.
    7
  629.  @bobiel9048  Yes, it's called the dictatorship of the bourgeois, that's what capitalism ultimately is.
    7
  630.  @baba10ye  Untold amount of misery and suffering.
    7
  631.  @mykeprior3436  China has been doing the right things for a long time.
    7
  632.  @jeffhedrich3551  This is why I now refer to the country as UAS instead of USA and the people as USians and not Americans. I don't want to insult the people in South America by loosely associating them with their worst enemy.
    7
  633. China didn't lose that war with Vietnam and it was really hardly a war. It lasted for about a month. China just didn't press on because it was only to punish and stop Vietnam. If China was serious, the PLA would have overrun northern Vietnam easily.
    7
  634. China would rather not be any hegemony, benign or not.
    7
  635. Singapore isn't perfect, but it is perhaps the city that is closest to perfection.
    7
  636. YES! The US should totally leave all these burdensome international organisations. Let's take it further, why should the world benefit from the US market. The US should also totally decouple from the world, ban all travel in and out of the US, ban all imports in and exports out of the US, so Americans can reindustrialize and rebuild the US to be great again. Dew it!
    7
  637.  @MoorenaEl  Yea, it is extreme. I'm just using the word "soft" to characterize it as covertly done. Maybe a better phrase will be covert censorship.
    7
  638. Debord's Society of Spectacle explain this failing empire need to for ceremony because all they have left is superficial spectacle and they need the spectacle to cover up everything that is going wrong.
    7
  639.  @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko  The word "dictator" has lost all meaning when westoids use it.
    7
  640. I see you are out earning part of that 1.6B pot.
    7
  641. When a DF-27 slam into the deck of a US carrier.
    7
  642. We also find it unbelievable that we would have invaded Iraq in 2003 based on flimsy intel, but here we are. Who are we to say we won't invade China based on pretexts and force Japan, South and Taiwan to gank China together?
    7
  643. I don't think the Russian diplomacy is that sophisticated. It's just adults looking at a situation objectively and then saying thing that are rational; this is our redline, we told you that, it is a fair redline to draw but you ignore it so we have no choice but to do something about it. Now they are winning because they employed a sensible strategy and they have the upper hand to dictate their terms, which again are based on their redlines. It is the west that have lost all sense of diplomacy because they are so used to getting their way that they didn't have to practice diplomacy - compromises, treating other people's interests with respect, equal level of consideration etc. etc. It is the west that's being foolish that it made simple diplomacy look sophisticated.
    7
  644. All states have the right to take back any land for the people and country, and redistribute it. Letting foreign entities to own pieces of your country is a st*pid thing to do.
    7
  645. The theater of the debt ceiling "debate" is really one of the finest example of Deboard's Society of Spectacle.
    7
  646.  @Gwaponame  As a Malaysian and living in Singapore, I'm shocked how du*b you are to trust the Americans.
    7
  647. You people don't know what is good for you even if it is waved right in your face.
    7
  648. It's mostly western politicians, especially American ones.
    7
  649. Europe and the US never really remove its fascist roots because they are still the same after WWII: bourgeois capitalist. This is bound to happen every time capitalism began to slide into decline. Marshal Zhukov once said that they liberated Europe from fascism and they will never forgive them for it. He was prescient.
    7
  650. Wait, you're telling me that it is the US government refusing to let developing countries have better access to the USD that is causing food prices increase? So it's not the Russians not renewing the grain deal? Well, you don't say...
    7
  651.  @TomCotter-pu2oh  Somehow every ship that are not israel or going there seem to be fine. So I don't think they need the extra protection because of they are not committing crimes against humanity.
    7
  652. Capitalists and cops are intersectional in the UAS.
    7
  653. I don't see a problem. De-imperializing the USD is a good thing for more than 80% of the world.
    7
  654. More like a mafiaso Don controlling your money.
    7
  655. They also have students in sociology and humanities. The difference is they don't virtue signal and weaponized their ideologies.
    7
  656. Come on, you think trump will be better?
    7
  657.  @edmundleung2098  cope some more, it is amusing.
    7
  658. China's industrialization defies comparison in world history except for one example: the rise of the Soviet Union pre-WWI. In a short 20-30 years, the Soviet Union also went from a largely agrian backwards country into a industrial superpower. It is no coincidence that both countries used at their core the Marxist-Leninist mode of development. China has many modifications to the ML model as "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" but it is still baseline ML. This is also what the west, especially the US fears the most. Proving that socialism actually works in such a tremendous fashion by China is eroding the propaganda that the west has been pushing for decades. The rest of the works is starting to wake up to that fact because of China's meteroic rise. More and more people want to learn how China succeeded and became strong enough to resist western Imperialism and the answer staring in everyone's face is socialism and it is infuriating the western political establishment.
    7
  659. Now China need to figure out the logistics and technology to massively recycle these windmills and solar cells.
    7
  660.  @John-yx6yz  WTF do you think you can.
    7
  661. And to buy gold. A lot of gold.
    7
  662.  @CN_SFY_General  China was a novice in nearly everything 30 years ago. Look at where they are now.
    7
  663.  @korana6308  Ohh they felt it for a while but they have alternatives; trading with China and the Global South. Sanctions don't work when there are alternatives.
    7
  664.  @agustinnarvaez5251  They also only have a 140 person team. Not exactly a big team to develop such a huge game.
    7
  665. Do it! Do it so de-dollarization will go faster.
    7
  666. What makes you think the US is a leader in sociology.
    7
  667.  @msimon6808  The laser systems for FEL like SSMB are huge. They are size of a warehouse. They are not exactly portable so making transporting them as a single unit impossible, unless you break up the parts and ship them in smaller containers, then reassemble them at the customer's site. That will make it very complicated and risky and expensive because reassembly takes a lot of time and you have to make sure it works on site. You are basically building the laser on the customer's site and anything can go wrong. This is not conducive for an export oriented product. Tsinghua is going for this approach because they are not expecting to export this technology outside China as a product, unlike ASML. Once it is shown that it can work, most likely companies like SMEE will take on the job to build it and fabs like SMIC will just have them built on site in their foundries.
    7
  668. LOL I buy from Taobao and Shopee. Who cares if the Europeans and Americans can't get their goods because the Suez Canal closed down.
    7
  669.  @SaulOhio  "Capitalism is much more about cooperation than competition." Ohh yea, those indoctrination are great, aren't they?
    7
  670.  @thinkbeforeyoutype7106  Indeed. The fact that they can still use the analogy of the garden and the jungle shows that the colonial mindset never really left them. It just morphed into something they can pretend is more civilised and also putting themselves on the pedestal of civilization.
    7
  671.  @Hyrodeniamandibulata  Good luck not getting inflation.
    7
  672.  @Wvavy  we are already seeing. When you finally feel its effects in America, then it is already finished.
    7
  673.  @Redrally  You mean the British embassies cannot even issue temporary passports? That doesn't sound right.
    7
  674.  @timothyrockwell2638  Not only that, the US congress passed a law forbidding China from participating in the "International" Space Station, so they went ahead and build their own.
    7
  675. He did say, in our own backyard.
    7
  676.  @HANZELVANDERLAAY  ya, Americans have very short term memories. They forgot how awful jr was, and the fact that reagan was also senile most of the time, like biden. But all American presidents were awful anyway.
    7
  677. You can say whatever you want but you should be ready accept the consequences for lying.
    7
  678. Technically, the Person of the Year does not have to be a person who has good influences. They just have to be the most influential according to the editors. On that regard, musk is very influential, bad influence that is.
    7
  679. Good. Make their economy scream.
    7
  680. Water can be piped and transported. You think Phoenix has no water? They piped it from the Colorado river. It's a trivial non-challenge. The real problems are US backing out and not subsidizing the factory any further, lack of qualified engineers, high cost to operate any manufacturing in the US and the chasm of culture between TSMC and Americans. And most importantly, Americans trying to steal their tech.
    7
  681. As Michael Parenti said, Africa is not poor, it's a very rich continent. It is overexploited and underdeveloped.
    7
  682. god didn't make Singapore for what it is today. Singaporeans made Singapore into what it is today. Your god's blessing is superfluous.
    7
  683. Thanks Einar coming in to school people on Chinese politics. Their politics is based on consensus and cooperation, not about going at each other's throat. That kind of adversial politics has been proven in the west to be a failure.
    7
  684. Singapore also has "ghost stations", which are stations build along a line that are mothballed because there is anticipated development in the future. This is not a new concept. It is call long term planning.
    7
  685. They deserve independence and freedom from the American empire. PR gets independence, joins BRI and I guarantee within ten years of development and investments, they will become better than some American states.
    7
  686. Don't insult gay people by associating these AH with them.
    7
  687. Yea... The Philippines has always been the "special" kid of SE Asia.
    7
  688. Probably because people are still buying US bonds because the interests are so high.
    7
  689.  @TacticalMayo What, you're gonna nuke the world because you lost your empire?
    7
  690. It's not the age. It's the competency and priorities of the leaders and the system that produces these leaders that determine the quality of the leadership.
    7
  691. ​ @andrefalksmen1264 calling India a democracy is an insult to the word democracy. Cronyism is accurate though.
    7
  692.  @imgr5143  I just described the end stage of capitalism.
    7
  693. I really don't get why Iran will seal off the Strait of Hormuz because a lot of that oil moving through that part goes to China. They just inked a huge BRI deal with China to exchange oil for infrastructure and development. KSA and Iran just made peace under the auspices of China, and a lot of Saudi oil moves through the strait. It doesn't make sense to close the strait because it will only hurt China, Iran and other Arabian peninsular oil and gas exporters. For the first time, in a long time, the Sunni and Shite are on the same side and I don't think Iran wants to destroy that. I don't think Iran will close the strait but the US can come in and do a lot of damage on the pretext of blocking Iranian merchant vessels shipping oil to China. If the US is really foolish enough to blockade the strait with the explicit intent to stop Iranian oil from coming out and deny China, we might be seeing the first time China will face down US in a military confrontation. There is no way China will or can back down an act of war like this, because if they do, that means every choke point around the world is free game for the US. Today it is the Strait of Hormuz, tomorrow it could be the Strait of Malacca, or the next one is the Suez Canal. As much as I don't want to see WWIII happen, I'm kinda morbidly interested in seeing a Nimitz carrier sunk by a DF-21.
    7
  694. Cute. If Crimeans are "civilian occupiers", then what are the immigrants to Isrl, most of them are not even West Asians, who are now living in settlements created by Isrl's occupation of Pal.
    7
  695. This comment is so dumb I don't even really want to engage with it.
    7
  696.  @Driver-ur9mf  Wealth determines the success of a kid far far more than any factor in a capitalistic society.
    7
  697.  @sootuckchoong7077  Until the vassal states have no more surpluses to give, and that might come sooner than expected. Never say never.
    7
  698. American consumers getting hit by even worse inflation is the least of concerns for 90% of the world. Maybe misery is what will finally push them to revolution but I doubt it.
    7
  699. Yes, it's called a planned economy.
    7
  700. The US blockading Iranian oil will not be good for Imperial Peripheral nations too. It's not just bad for China.
    7
  701. The UAS basically mirrors the latter part of the Qing Dynasty. Arrogance, unwillingness or inability to change, corruption, decline in economic strength, internal strife and external threats. The only difference is that the Qing Dynasty did not have as much foreign wars as the UAS.
    7
  702.  @625as-pj5mg  yes the PBOC is the central bank, but the Bank of China, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, etc. are some of the biggest banks in the world and they are still state owned, or at least the state has large control over them. The PBOC does what central banks do, like controlling the monetary policies and money printing. The other commercial banks do what commercial banks do. The difference is that the Chinese government still has a lot of control over the commercial banks, and this control over the vast majority of the capital assets of China, allowing them to move immense amount of capital for national strategic objectives, and to protect the collective wealth of the people from speculation and extraction. That's one of the key point of Marxist-Leninism, and socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Private capital, while big in China is absolutely dwarfed by these state controlled commercial banks. It is why Jack Ma was hammered into the ground (deservedly so) by Chinese authorities because he wanted to create a shadow bank by using Alipay to do commercial banking services while disguising it as an innocuous payment system to skirt regulations. It is also why Chinese government has the power to hammer jack ma in the first place. Essentially, jack ma wanted to coup the Chinese government control of capital. It is the most important reason western capitalists absolutely hate, hate, hate China with a burning rage. This is what they want to destroy, to "liberate" China from.
    7
  703. whyamimrpink78 Maybe, just maybe, instead of saying he has no chance of winning, give him your support so he do have a chance of winning.
    6
  704. That's just capitalism. People are brainwashed into thinking that capitalism is synonymous with free trade (or even just trading) and competition and innovation when the truth cannot be more further than that. Capitalism is about private property ownership(ie. owning the means of production), and having the power to accumulate capital and direct the flow of it by private owners to make more capital for private owners. Which means that anything that promote private accumulation of capital . So tactics like corruption, anti-competition, monopolies, public opinion manipulation, capital owning political power, hierarchical organization of wealth are all fair game. It is also why capitalism is ultimately undemocratic and eventually will lead to fascism when its internal contradictions overwhelm its ability or restrain to keep society functioning.
    6
  705. Singapore is the same way.
    6
  706. In capitalism, you can commodify everything.
    6
  707. You probably should not use denatured alcohol in large amount, say more than 500ml in one setting because most denatured alcohol has methanol in it. That's how they make it toxic for human consumption. Methanol is nasty in large amount and it seep through your skin easily. High IPA like what Jay used here is less toxic than methanol but is still an irritant like what the previous comment said. Too much in an enclosed space and it will still hurt you. Just less so than methanol.
    6
  708. It's democracy for the bourgeoisie of the US.
    6
  709.  @Kunyuk-i1r  yup, it is a plutocracy. A dictatorship of the bourgeois
    6
  710. ​ @K2teknik.  Nah, it can be well-defined. It is just that the definition in the west is deliberately incomplete because it focused exclusively on only one exact type of procedure of democracy and the ideological purity of those procedures (ie, voting) and do not consider the results of those procedures. It simply makes the self-serving assumption that the procedures when used will automatically produce democracy. It merely considers the corruption, perversion of those procedures as minor annoyances and not as a proof that the ideology and practice don't work. It is all ideology and no real praxis, or at least the west pretends the praxis work. The results from these procedures, when hijacked by corrupting capitalist forces ultimately show that the system it engendered is not democracy. It is actually deeply anti-democratic. Of course, it also conveniently automatically dismisses every other form of democracy because as someone said the west is automatically assumed to always be ontologically right, and everyone else is ontologically wrong. That's why the China's full process democracy is dismissed as not democracy when it literally produces results that the Chinese people want and that it allows the Chinese people to hold their government to the fire when they are unhappy. Yet, the absolutely corrupted bourgeois democracy of the US, where money flows so freely and so legally that no one even bothers to be surprised at how corrupted the system is, consistently producing anti-democratic results, is somehow more democratic than China. Heck, everyone keeps saying that the democracy in the US is broken and lobbying is terrible, yet somehow it is still better than China. The only thing the US has, is that they can keep pretending they have the procedure and that the procedure is simply better, without actually proving it is better. In fact, it has been proven to be one of the worse way to practice democracy. Basically, the west is full of BS but it pretends that it is not and demands everyone to believe it.
    6
  711. Doesn't even have to be the west. America's baseball league is only played in the US but they called it the WORLD SERIES. The sheer arrogance. It's like if the English premier League change its name to World Football Champion League. If you point that out, Americans will argue fiercely that they have international players (almost all from Japan) so they can call it World Series. The argument is so ridiculous but they will vehemently stood by it. That's the thing about American culture. They cannot be contradicted because it will hurt their feelings and they will do anything say anything to defend the most indefensible arguments just to avoid cognitive dissonance. Don't believe me? Go start a thread in Reddit about gun control
    6
  712. I think the covid and the real estate problem should be put in proper context. China came out of covid later than the rest of the world but with a death toll per capita far far lower than most of the world for a gigantic country. Yes, covid measure did a number on China's economy but it save potentially millions, if not tens of millions of lives. Those lives if lost could have done far immeasurably damage to China. Can you imagine if Liang Wenfeng died in covid, then we will never have DeepSeek. As for the housing market, it was a bubble built by an overheating market with developers making dangerous bets, and unsound financial decisions. The bubble had to be pop, and China did it on THEIR terms. It is because of what they did, that China avoid a 2008-like financial disaster. If the bubble burst later than sooner, the financial fallout from those bad loans, bad business practices would have been absolustely devastating. The Chinese government did the right and have accomplish what no one has done in history; successfully pop a bubble and managed its draw down and reduce its fallout to a minimum. The objective assessment of situations and rational management of any crisis or preventing the crisis in the first place is the proof of the strategic brilliance and administrative acumen and erudite of Chinese leadership. It is why China has already won this century because no country, no society, no culture can consistently produce leaders of such high caliber and a system that can move with the leadership.
    6
  713. In China, the government works on a public-government feedback loop. Communication between the citizens and the government is given a lot of importance and public feedback have generated real, tangible changes in policies that people can see and feel. That's why the Chinese people felt heard most of the time and why their approval of the central government is so high (local government can be a little hit and miss though). Isn't that basically democracy?
    6
  714. When you have no principles, you can say anything to justify your misdeeds.
    6
  715. So if the US invades Greenland, does that trigger article 45 of NATO?
    6
  716. The US basically acts as the clearinghouses for other countries' surpluses. Yes, they simply do not produce enough real stuff to warrant that kind of borrowing.
    6
  717. They can't get rid of those bases. The last time a Japanese PM got elected on the platform of removing the Okinawa base, Obama essentially soft coup him by refusing to work with him, causing the Japanese political establishment to panic.
    6
  718. Oh that's good. Patreon is a much easier way to support you directly. Subscribed!😀
    6
  719.  @Mick-iv6mk This kind of thinking is why America is on the decline.
    6
  720.  @shikamaruthehokage  He said new players lol.
    6
  721. The Brazilian minister just quoted Deng Xiaoping's famous cat analogy.
    6
  722. Horseshoe theory is when people don't understand what socialism or Marxism actually is.
    6
  723. You could say that with any dam project so why single out the Three Gorges Dam?
    6
  724.  @theblackdog2399  you're looking at it.
    6
  725. These narratives have been going on for some time on the online communities like Reddit. The usual being talking points like China is the biggest carbon emitter, China is building coal plants, they even say the dams China built are destroying people lives because they have to be relocated and areas flooded, ignoring the fact that the US did this long ago too. Many times they remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands for these projects. Often they remove them just to steal their lands but somehow China is the bad guy. But I am also seeing that these rhetoric are beginning to crack as more and more people are countering with per capita emission, and even historical emission. As far as I know, I was one of the first few to post counter narratives to China carbon emission by pointing out the historical emission of the collective west. Ben used the analogy of an arsonist telling his neighbor not to burn down the house. I use the analogy that it is like you have older brothers who took all the inheritance from your dead father and left you with nothing, and then look down on you for working at McDonald's to survive. There is only so much the planet can support, a carbon debt pool if you will, that if we used it up, there is not enough to go around. So the collective west used up all the carbon debt for their industrialization, achieved a high standard of living, continues to support their wasteful lifestyles (American lifestyle are especially, disgustingly wasteful) and then lecture everyone else for trying to pull their people out of poverty using the same accessible, cheap energy sources. Climate change lecturing by the west, and especially by the US is appallingly hypocritical and another insane injustice they have inflicted on the world. Instead of allowing them to put up these theatrical charades, the west needs to be be forced, even at gun point, to pay climate reparations to everyone else.
    6
  726.  @dormedinaDK Ohh goody, then by your logic, we can do all the terrible things the west had done onto the global south, things that I can't even type here because YT actually censored them. LOL
    6
  727. I bet that it is not that US cannot build small modular reactors. The economic math of nuclear energy has been pointing to increasing cost efficiency for decades and that means assembly, economic of scale style way to assemble nuclear reactors, and to do that will require a type of reactor that can be build in a factory and then installed on site. Small, modular reactors have been the proposed solution for that for years and years and it also ties directly into research and design of the next gen reactors like the the gen 4 reactors. The west got complacent and short-sighted with their perfomative environmentalism. They are more concerned with the aesthetic of virtual signalling than practical solutions and the material conditions of the real world. China has none of that baggage. That's why they are winning in nuclear power, like every industry they set their mind to build.
    6
  728.  @keepingittight  Yes, those intermediate range ballistic missiles and hypersonics are nicknamed "Guam Express." They can hit Guam, so they can hit all the military bases that the US has surrounding China, and they have a lot of these missiles already, and they can build more every month. As Ukraine has shown, patriots are not a 100% guarantee interception and you need a lot of them to defend against large salvos, assuming the patriots themselves are not already taken out. At the current rate that the Us is producing patriots, there is no way they will ever have enough or replenish them faster than China can build DFs to hit back.
    6
  729. Deng just applied the Leninist part of Marxist-Leninism hard.
    6
  730. Thanks for pointing out that Chinese investors have been building factories in Mexico to get around the tariffs. But it is very telling that China is investing heavily in Mexico and turning it into the factory of NA. In the end, Mexico benefitted heavily from these FDI from China while China is able to keep exporting to the US in a roundabout way. What is even more telling is that China is not building military bases in Mexico while the US is building more bases to try to contain China. Instead, China is building factories. Ultimately, even with higher prices, Chinese Mexican factories will still likely to more price competitive than US manufacturers so even with higher prices, the American people still benefit from it. Not that you will ever hear them ever admitting that. The American people have long enjoyed cheap goods from China that kept their inflation to a minimum and they really do not appreciate just how much China has done for them. They can only want China as the producer of cheap, low value goods or mid-tier goods. They want to keep the label "Designed in California, made in China" forever. But China does not want to be the cheap laborers for the US empire and the moment they moved up the value chain, the Americans stop being nice. The blatant hypocrisy and neocolonial mindsets of Americans are what's causing this new cold war, not because China is some evil empire. It's time Americans learn what pain really mean when inflation keep going up and they can't just print money to pay for stuff anymore.
    6
  731. "I didn't do it sooner." God, the arrogance.
    6
  732. Fascism is still not the answer.
    6
  733. Well not exactly, but pretty much useless in attacking mainland China because the carriers won't be able to get close enough or risk getting hammered. If your multi-billion dollar carrier carrying thousands of sailors has a 20% chance of getting hit by a really big missile if you move too close, are you really going to risk it? Is 10% acceptable? 5%? THe whole point is to force the US military to have to make such calculations, because in the off chance that they really go hot war against China, a 5% chance might really mean a sunk carrier some time some where during the campaign and thousands of sailors will be feeding the fishes. How fast can the US build another carrier, or destroyer and then train the personnel to man them, assuming they will even have enough recruits. The USN used to enjoy near immunity to attacks from their enemies so they can support this kind of doctrine using large carriers. If you can pound the enemy into dust with impunity without much risks of being hit back, then the only thing you have to concern about is how many fighters you can squeeze onto your carrier and how big your carrier has to be. Now that's no longer the calculation the USN can make and it is driving the people in the Pentagon up the walls.
    6
  734. They had to make massive adjustments. But what Russia proves is that it is possible for a major country to de-westernize your financial system and there are alternatives now.
    6
  735. No, democracy is about producing results that benefit the people. Having choices is a naive and incomplete premise to based democracy on
    6
  736.  @davidmoss2576  The irony is that you don't even have to go back that far to see how national hubris can cause the downfall of a country. China's Century of humiliation was basically the hubris of the Qing Dynasty and its inability to reform, improve, adapt and fundamentally changed for the better. Japan during the Meiji Restoration was the direct opposite, and they beat China at the time when they barely got out of a revolution and still struggling to even do basic things. The results spoke for itself. Now it is the west repeating the same mistakes as the Qing Dynasty: too proud to admit that they are wrong and unable to humble themselves to learn from their own mistakes and from other people who have found success. It's not just the military, it's everything. China uplifted 700 over million people out of poverty and built the most vertically integrated, dynamic economy in the world right now and the CPC still enjoys a fairly high approval rating from its people. Obviously they are doing something right. While America and the west is facing a shrinking middle class, rising poverty and wealth inequality, social unrest, rise of right wing extremism and generally incompetence and inability of their political systems to resolve any fundamental issue. Obviously, something is deeply wrong. And yet we still have people here criticizing China unabashedly and refusing to even acknowledge that, yes they have done something right. Without even that level of self awareness and reflection, the west is basically behaving like the Qing Dynasty at its twilight. History may not repeat itself, but it really does rhyme.
    6
  737. Calling a bourgeois democracy a democracy is a joke.
    6
  738. Free the world from the US.
    6
  739. LOL where did this narrative come from?
    6
  740. The guy with the thin blue line icon think the US is a democracy. Hilarious.
    6
  741.  @rpg1663  Hmm.. 2, maybe 3 years? I seem to remember that you westoids were saying that China will take decades to reach 7nm, if ever. And three years later, here we are.
    6
  742. Lol Americans will buckle under Gaokao.
    6
  743. Because that's all they have.
    6
  744. As a human being? Who refers to himself in that way? Hello fellow human, I'm definitely not a lizard person.
    6
  745. This is why I insist that America is the most propagandized country in the world.
    6
  746. And no one will trust them.
    6
  747.  @kensimmo  no they didn't. Free Hawai'i!
    6
  748. @ That is the stupidest misrepresentation of Greater China I have ever seen. Northern barbarians? What is this? Game of Thrones? If this is what 1.6 billion USD can come up with, I'm sorely disappointed.
    6
  749. Westerners shocked that a government prioritize the 99%'s interests over the top 1% and the long term sustainability, foundation and stability of the country. The Chinese people have suffered a lot in the past and they know this is nothing. Most importantly they know the government is on their side. The 90% approval rate is no joke and the fact that western analysts like these two still do not understand this fundamental aspect of the Chinese economy, government and its culture is why NO ONE in the west like their government and ruling elite.
    6
  750. "There is no explicit quid pro quo..." Yup, I don't think LegalEagle or anyone not in the trump cult is going to buy that.
    6
  751.  @mattiOTX  Ohh just because someone point out how terrible America is, does not make him a bot you dunce. The inability to receive criticism and the defensiveness is part of your indoctrination by your media. The bot here is you. It is also one of the reasons why America is in decline and why it will ultimately lose its hegemonic status.
    6
  752. Since when is the strategy of choosing who to run and not to run is voting manipulation?
    6
  753.  @sonnigchiang4001  TSMC is not producing the most advanced chips in the US. They are not that stupid.
    6
  754. I don't really see a problem here.
    6
  755. He is still looking at it like it's their hemisphere.
    6
  756. You're right. When does the US gets to play the peace loving protag.
    6
  757. More like they have lousy supply chains and overpriced factories building these things.
    6
  758.  @mmukilan4804  Just because you have the appearance of two parties does not mean you really have two parties. Just because you can "choose" your leaders does not mean you really did choose your leaders. Just because your government change does not mean your policies have change. Just because you have the appearance of democracy - conveniently defined by your bourgeoisie, while ignoring other metrics that can be used to measure democracy more accurately - does not mean you have real democracy.
    6
  759.  @smithkenny8034  You can say the same thing about UAS carriers still buying Boeing even though they are having so many problems for a very long time.
    6
  760.  @twowheelsandcroissant  There is nothing wrong with being communists.
    6
  761. It is absurd that the US forbade Chinese participation with ISS. To call it International Space Station without having the second most powerful economy in the world on it is a farce. You might as well as call it America world order space station, considering that Russia is no longer gonna be part of it. The Wolf Amendment forbidding NASA to work with the Chinese on Tiangong is equally ridiculous. The side that is actually hostile and anti cooperation here is America, not China.
    6
  762.  @TurboLoveTrain  I didn't say it is jam proof, I say it is harder to jam. Plus, it is really easy to jam GPS.
    6
  763. They are more worried about losing their settler colony state in west Asia. Israel is used by the US as a destabilising force in the region and as access. Israel being limited in any way, is a limitation on US power in the region. They will never allow the resolution to be enforced, not unless they are forced by the world in some way.
    6
  764. The US has to hit rock bottom first.
    6
  765.  @hiufgterde Maybe, could be faster depending on the magnitude of st*pid mistakes they might make.
    6
  766. Well, I don't despise the Norwegians. Norway should do what is in Norway's interests. Norway has now one fotnhe largest sovereign funds in the world and invested their fossil fuel money wisely to guarantee the future of their nation. If anything, this will be seen as admirable in most Asian countries, China included. Comments like this showed that Europe can and probably breaking away from US dominance. I still think Europe should stick together and act as a united front towards all powers in the world, whether it is China, India, Russia or the US. But each European nation should still make sure their interests are taken care of. Looking at Netherlands and ASML. They should understand clearly what joining US sanctions against China will do to their country.
    6
  767.  @TacticalMayo  This is when an American drops all the pretending of freedom and human rights and democracy and go full imperial. This is their true colors.
    6
  768. There are many reasons why independent paramilitary groups are generally not tolerated in all countries. Roaming bands of soldiers or mercenaries that need to be paid and fed and answerable only to their direct commanders often lead to banditry, or worse in this case destabilisation and coups. Commanders start thinking they should be the ones in control and cross the Rubicon like Caesar did.
    6
  769. Exactly. Every industry that China decided to enter because it has become a national objective, they eventually dominate. With the backing of a mega industrial power, immense talent pools of STEM graduates, and a huge domestic and international market, tere is no reason why China cannot break the duopoly of boeing and airbus.
    6
  770. Chinese cars are really better than everyone else now.
    6
  771. Followed on rumble.
    6
  772. Supposed? Wait, you people actually believed that?
    6
  773.  @Tchernoziuum  I think he meant that other countries can tap into the gigantic Chinese middle income market and grow their own economies.
    6
  774. At least Sean mentions that the closing down of the nuclear power in Germany is mind-numbingly stupid without replacing that energy needs with renewables.
    6
  775. The world needs an alternative to the imf and wall st.
    6
  776. That's why you build in multiple redundancies and have regular maintenance and spare parts. If something is critical, then having one is having none, two is one and if you want it to work near flawless, you put in at least three. That's why these things get expensive.
    6
  777. Maintenance is key. There are metros in Asian countries like Japan, Seoul, HK and Singapore that are more than 20, 30 years old and they are still immaculate. Older, yes and less modern and fashionable but still highly functional, clean, and inviting. China will no doubt follow these traditions of maintaining its public infrastructure for all its people.
    6
  778. Yup, the rising poverty is the primary driver of crime and the degradation of moral values. We can do a little experiment. If China declares tomorrow that if you steal anything under 500 bucks is not a crime, I doubt we will see a lot of people actually stealing because even if the stuff is essentially free, they still won't steal because they don't have to, they don't want to. You see this sort of level of honesty in most East Asian countries, you can leave a laptop in public in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China etc. and you will likely to come back and see it still there.
    6
  779. China cam tell US how it can be done, how to reduce poverty, and it's not like the Americans don't know how. But their system, the neoliberal capitalist system will never allow that to happen.
    6
  780.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Tributary state are no colonies but I think you don't care about the differences and there is no evidence that China seek even this kind of relationships with other countries. China is dominant so any relationship will be somewhat unequal but that does not mean they want to dominate and crush the other countries, it's not in their cultural inclinations to do so. The west, however, has a long history of colonialism and today economic, financial neocolonialism that want to dominate poorer, weaker countries completely and control their economy, foreign policies and internal politics. Even today, the west's hostility to China is because China refuses to bend the knees and be subjected to western domination, not because the west cares about the Chinese people or their well being or even freedom and democracy. China does not have such cultural or historical tendencies and that is just a fact.
    6
  781.  @jfv65  I very much wish you all the luck and power to become a true independent entity.
    6
  782. LOL the Chinese will be the first to tell you why the heck will they want a global empire, they have enough problems at home.
    6
  783. It's called freedom? Hahahahahhahahahahahabahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahah
    6
  784. Ukraine is still losing and the billions have slow down to a trickle.
    6
  785.  @melektaus2906  It will go beyond pissing off your vassals, because if they are literally starving, they might pick up the phone and called Xi and ask for a seat at the table. This might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
    6
  786. The short-sightedness of capitalist mentality never fall short of astounding me.
    6
  787. The only conspiracy theory I believe in is that MLK jr was assassinated because he was moving from attacking racial injustice to a broader, wider attack on economic injustice in America. Given his influence at the height of his popularity, having MLK going up the podium and give another fiery speech on the level of "I have a dream" but for economic justice and socialism might just ignite a revolution in America. And they couldn't have that come to pass.
    6
  788. Concentrating on GDP is a mistake. China is planning for the long haul to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel and increase on renewable and nuclear because that offers far more energy security than fossil fuel since China can make its own solar panel, wind turbines and nuclear reactors while it can source all these raw materials from diverse sources and China itself is a huge rare Earth elements producer. Second, pollution and environmental issues are real problems and China is not virtue signalling here. The reason why China's life expectancy has soared must have a lot to do with improving its urban air quality. Better health = less demand on healthcare = longer life expectancy = happier, more productive citizens. This is a no brainer. Third, renewable and nuclear industries are the industries of the future, like semiconductors and EVs, has only room to grow and expand into. China need industries that are sustainable and can make money because it has to create jobs for hundreds of millions of working adults and only long term, high value, high tech, sustainable industries can provide that kind of jobs. If China truly wants to play the number games like GDP, then all they have to do is attack the financial industries and release capital control and turn its state banks into Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase clones. But that is a short-sighted, ultimately futile and immoral industries that depends on absorbing other countries' surpluses to sustain, which means China will be force to go the imperialism route, just like the US today. China chose not to go down this neoliberal evil path because they are socialists.
    6
  789.  @bballen3097  Putin said protecting the Donbass was the immediate reason why the SMO happened but I don't believe that NATO expansion and provocation and meddling in Ukraine had nothing to do with it.
    6
  790. This is not boring at all, this is very dramatic. A good filmmaker can definitely write it as setting up the defendant for a fall and lead the audience on the nose to that inevitable conclusion. Heck, it's almost Shakespearean if you dramatise it a little under good direction.
    6
  791.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  It is the CPC. Show some respect to the political party that uplifted 800 over million people out of poverty and single-handedly responsible for 25% of the entire world's decrease in poverty.
    6
  792. The US talking about sovereignty of other countries is like a murderer talking about the sanctity of life.
    6
  793. That's why I have come to call America a plutocratic corpo-state regime.
    5
  794. Westerners keep forgetting that China is ruled by the CPC that follows the Marxist-Leninist system. They will always go for expanding the productive forces of the society and common prosperity. The last thing they will save is bourgeois capital class.
    5
  795. With alternatives where they can sell their exports and buy imports. They obviously did not think their way through things.
    5
  796. I thought that's what the 2nd amendment is for.
    5
  797. Don't forget the bill includes arms to Taiwan AND Israel. They will never learn their lesson. They really have no brakes and reverse gear.
    5
  798. Agreed, though solid state batteries have their electrode problems too. We are always chasing the perfect electrode and half reactions pairing anyway. The question really is whether we can scale it up safely and efficiently so it makes practical sense. At grid level, aqueous battery might make sense if it is cheap and easy enough to recycled out the electrode and electrolytes whenever required, but then you can also just switch out cells of solid state batteries for recycling.
    5
  799. It never took off because the EVs you have access to sucks! If you actually driven a real Chinese EV, it will blow your mind.
    5
  800. The lesson here, like every lesson on geopolitics: never be weak to the point someone else can violate your sovereignty without suffering deadly consequences.
    5
  801. I don't think China really mind if Europe wants to re-industrialize. America on the other hand.... I urge you people remember what the US did to the rising economies of its allies that might surpassed US companies. Remember Alstom, Avro, the UK space industry, Toshiba, Hitachi etc. Being America's friend can be fatal. At some point, you guys really need to realize who are really your enemy.
    5
  802. That's stupid and malicious. Just because you don't like animals does not mean you get to put up a rule that is obviously designed to effectively ban all pets in Singapore. 50K caution deposit? Caution for what? Not even tenants renting a property have to pay 50K deposit. Just say you hate people having pets and don't pretend like you care. Virtue signalling hypocrite.
    5
  803. ​ @russellk.bonney8534 The fact that Russia successfully decoupled from western financial system has shown the world that it is possible to create a system outside the western one. That alone weakness western legitimacy and credibility tremendously.
    5
  804.  @OutragedPufferfish Bingo.
    5
  805.  @jesussonofgod6284  If you want to see a brainwashed person in action, ​ @Elanor is textbook example in this thread.
    5
  806.  @HeroDai2448  Again, they also said China has maxed out its metallurgy capability and no way they can produced the turbine blades that comes close to western jet engines. They don't have the techniques or even the machines to do so. And now the J-20 is flying with two WS-15 engines. A few years from now, SMEE will announced they got their EUV machines and I will just go "yep".
    5
  807. Calm down. This is one isolated incident, not a gun crime epidemic. What is important from now on is what Thailand is going to do. If they implement better gun control and better ways to track guns in the country, this might never happen again. If they choose to do it like America, where guns are more important than children lives, ostensibly pretending it is about "freedom" when it is really about a childish people wanting to not be denied their toys, while not solving any fundamental social problems with poverty, crime and racism, then yea, Thailand will turn into another America.
    5
  808. It's the reason why their products are consistently one of the most popular and sought after. O11 series cases are damn popular and these fans are going to be too.
    5
  809. China has already proved it can innovate and innovate fast and creatively for anyone paying attention and not blinded by the western corpo-state media. But it is not just technology and science. China is also innovative in the political and economic theories and policies. The fact is that the Chinese have grown beyond western liberal ideas and rejecting neoliberalism as the next step in economic and political development is a testament to that. They are forging new ways of thinking, new political systems and tackling problems of a middle income and even high income state in different ways than the west. They reject financialization, they reject colonialism, and they reject the paradigm of a few rich and many poor way of organizing their society. The model that US operates on today is simply unacceptable to the Chinese people. They are still hellbent on advancing to the next step of socialism and I say all the more power to them. This is why the China model will win out in the long run because they are in the midst of a revolution against the western way of organizing societies to create a more humane, more fair society. This is why the west, especially western neoliberals are so threatened by China. They are offering the world an alternative way of creating your society that is not based on neoliberalism and it will destroy the west.
    5
  810.  @danhtran6401 After being threatened by the US with NATO expansion.
    5
  811. Shhhh.... They will never admit it.
    5
  812. hahahahahaha how is this not a Dear Leader caricature level of propaganda? I mean, what did she even do? What is she even supposed to do? What legacy? LOLOLOL
    5
  813. Tucker Carlson is still and a**hole whether he interviewed Putin or not.
    5
  814. Wow, Dr. Rockhill is really astute in his observation on how the American empire function; by pretending very hard that it is not an empire. It's all virtue signalling and huge amount of projection, accusing the others first of their own crimes. I took a college course on US foreign relation history as an elective and the professor posed a question asking if the US is an empire. He spent the whole lecture on how the US cannot be defined as an empire. Looking back, I can see that his arguments are mostly semantics and purity tests, and really do not go into the core of what empires actually are and do. American intelligentsia themselves know that the US is a country of contradictions and I find a lot of them are deliberately blind to American style neocolonialism, financial colonialism, and cultural colonialism and a large part of historical contexts that put America functionally, a defacto empire. Like what Debord expounded in his Society of Spectacle, America is an empire of spectacle.
    5
  815. Like what Lu Qiyuan said, the USD has to be understood as an IOU for the US government. Right now, the US government is propping up the US economy with borrowing and paying interest rates, and the USD is that instrument to do so. If it can no longer service that debt to pay down old debts by using new debts, then the USD is just a giant Ponzi scheme that is blowing up.
    5
  816. It really shows how dumb the US is by putting themselves into a corner when they say they will give complete support to the Israel apartheid state. So now netanyahu can just tell blunken and bide to suck it and whatever he wants. The US uses Israel as a colony, as a beach head into west Asia. They use Israel to keep the region unstable and to do many dirty works that they themselves don't want to do. They have cultivated this monster, and have sunk too much costs into it to cut it loose. Now this monster has become uncontrollable and all the cynical benefits they got from propping up Israel won't be enough to pay for the costs.
    5
  817. Trading one milquetoast fascist for another big time fascist does not help.
    5
  818. This is hilarious. German engineering debunked.
    5
  819. Problem is capitalism.
    5
  820. Hahaha, intel is one of the last few manufacturers in the US. Seeing them fail is just so satisfying.
    5
  821. But greed is good, the capitalists says so!! /s
    5
  822. Yes, we know what is the Society of the Spectacle.
    5
  823. Hahaha maybe the US should study how China dealt with its delinquent real estate sector.
    5
  824. On the contrary, the people are very political and they watch their government very closely. They protest and complain and give feedback because they know they will be heard by the government. They just have a healthier version of politics and democratic process than the west.
    5
  825. Singapore needs more land. BRI can help increase land reclamation for even larger port and airport expansions. For one thing, Singapore needs a lot of sand to do that, so why not get the sand from China as part of BRI investments. Pretty sure any real estate created in Singapore will be prime real estate.
    5
  826. And they are proud of it. They keep saying that most of the money is staying in the US to give Americans new jobs, ie money for the MIC. It's actually put forth as a good thing they are spending this money. These people literally cannot get out of their bubble anymore.
    5
  827.  @Lee_303  No, this is capitalism. This is exactly what capitalism does. This is not a bug, this is a feature.
    5
  828. The problem is that the people in Europe who actually controls these countries can still enjoy scraps from the table. They are not the ones who will suffer when the Eurozone truly collapse. They have a get out of jail for free card and they intend to use it.
    5
  829. @mudshovel289  there is also no proof that the US fighters are not more advanced than the Chinese either.
    5
  830. This is not an either/or thing.
    5
  831. Someone is triggered.
    5
  832.  @tom-u8k6y  What you are describing is a bourgeois democracy.
    5
  833.  @MJ123and5  lol, the Chinese political system where they can draw from the population and then test these officials and put them through the paces before promoting them, is why they have such a cadre of highly competent, extremely smart, and very patriotic of bureaucrats.
    5
  834. LOL the Soviets were literally making most of the Firsts in space exploration. First artificial satellite, first animal in space (RIP Laika), first person in space (RIP Yuri Gagarin), first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov), first probe to reach another celestial body surface (Luna 2), first space station. While the US did some of the firsts too like first space docking, first interplanetary space probe, they have been harping on the Apollo as though the Soviets did nothing for space exploration. Americans will LOVE to erase all historical records of Soviet achievements if they could and they certainly have tried.
    5
  835. The line goes up!
    5
  836. No, he is telling everyone not to invite the wolves from the west into our houses.
    5
  837. Yup, all companies are terrible until proven otherwise and have to be proven at all times.
    5
  838. It is true that the US does have a lot of mothballed shipyards. But bringing them up to modern standards and equipping them, hiring the people (if there are even enough qualified people) and create the entire supply chain to reactivate these shipyards is a pipe dream. If the US can't even muster the organization, resources, capital to even re-scale their semiconductor industry up to match even a fraction of that China has, then what credential do they have to say they can do the same for these shipyards to match the capacity of China? At a lower cost, since they want to copy China's model of dual use for civilian and military? Fat chance. This is in the context that China is barely even using the capacity of their entire shipbuilding industry to build their warships. If China gets serious and they are willing to take an economic hit to convert their civilian ship orders to warship orders, they can churn out warships several times faster than what they are doing now. And what they are doing now is already outstripping US, Japan and South Korea warship building. If China really get serious, for every ship US, South and Japan, even Europe can build, China can build a dozen. By the time the collective west can assemble an armada to invade China, assuming that if the collective west did not collapse from economic disaster of full decoupling from China and the world, China would have built 10 times that armada. For every anti-missile missile the west can load up in their VLS, China can build and launch 20 anti-ship missiles at them. This is not even a contest.
    5
  839.  @STzo752  The galactic empire was an allegory of the US empire. The rebel alliance was the Vietnam Minhn.
    5
  840. Lol this white dude is just coping.
    5
  841.  @Mthammere2010  You didn't give them that. They bought the education with out of state tuition, room and board etc., Your country also took the effort of their research because most of the research are actually done by graduate students.
    5
  842. The backups are just sitting there so why not?
    5
  843. All politicians or just one subset of politicians. I distinctively remembered Congress people from other states did more than Texas's own state and congressional politicians. One of them even fled to cancun and then threw his family under the bus when criticized. The US government is dysfunctional because of one particular party. I will let you guess which one.
    5
  844. Hitchens also recanted his views on Iraq and waterboarding. He was not right all the time, but he was willing to change his mind when faced with convincing evidence. That's the sign of a true intellectual.
    5
  845.  @operatorlink  The loan repayment is actually cheaper than rent now. The problem is supply because the last 2 years of covid has halted almost all construction and they are now trying to catch up to demand. That's why the prices are inflated but this is an anomaly, not the rule. Even at 500k, with the per capita income of over 100k, it is still affordable for most young couples.
    5
  846. If western "journalists" and reviewers can dock off points from a game because of the lack what THEY PERCEIVED as a lack of DEI, then I think Chinese reviewers have the right to dock off points from western games for not being inclusive of other political ideologies like socialism/communism, portrayal of toxic individualism and no portrayal of balanced group dynamics, no respect for other countries and cultures and using them as caricature enemies, and promotion of UAS imperialism and lack of correct criticism of capitalism.
    5
  847. Not true. CPC members have to study Marxist dialectics materialism, among other ideas. But it is also why they are so competent.
    5
  848. The Global Majority that has suffered under this financial neocolonial system certainly ain't sad at all.
    5
  849. If the spending actually results in better lives for the people and a sustainable growth in the fundamental parts of the economy like manufacturing, food, energy etc. then spend what is needed to be spent. But the US government spending does not create better lives for their people nor does it create a better, more sustainable economy.
    5
  850. There are worse airports to have a short layover than Changi. You know, like very other airport in the world.
    5
  851.  @rawiyahsphere  Like lying about pretty much every about the US capitalists' rivals. The entire Global South, China, Russia and many parts of Asia.
    5
  852. Yup, the west consume far more resources per capita than the rest of the world. That is an important point to bring up, because it is not just carbon emission, it is nearly every part of human consumption.
    5
  853. ​ @kingsharkoon people like you also say building EVs is much harder than building this and that, and yet here we are.
    5
  854. 6.5 billion is a huge amount for Argentina though.
    5
  855. Imagine Game Science make a game on the American revolution by inserting a Chinese character based on an obscure historical figure that did not really do much, lionize that historical figure, overblown his importance and then use it to pander to a Chinese audience while saying it is "historically accurate". Yea, I think people in the US will be outraged too.
    5
  856.  @davelane9366  That's just a myth. NASA did use pencils and found that it was dangerous because flakes of graphite is an electrical and fire hazards. A company developed a pen that can write in zero-g by pressuring the pen so it can squeeze ink to the ball point and uses gel ink instead of normal ink. The Russian space agency also bought the same pens and they didn't cost thousands per pen because they came to the same conclusion that floating graphite flakes is a disaster waiting to happen. While it is fun to criticize the wastefulness of America's military spending (and rightfully deserved), let's not use false urban legends to do so.
    5
  857.  @ZincFold  Yes, i know that. The hard part will be creating an ecosystem (software, supporting hardware, OS, drivers) around that chip and that will take years and generation of products. But in the field of photonic chips, China will be the first mover.
    5
  858. She is not even practicing subjective morality. She is trying to turn an terrible thing into a virtue.
    5
  859. Remember that the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and China had to swallow the bitter pill and not take any drastic action. The Chinese still remember that humiliation and the lives lost. It doesn't matter if the Chinese might have access to the F-117 that was shot down which is just a conspiracy theory. It doesn't give the Americans any right to attack the Chinese embassy. The US owes a blood debt to the Chinese just as the Israel owes a blood debt to Iran.
    5
  860.  @一个说话大声的中国人  There is no need to use religious imagery in these discussions. Maybe on a moral side, some parts of religion can be relevant but saying stuff like "god made land" tells us that you are a religious fanatic. What land is, is capital, and who control the land is important to whether a system is prioritized for private capital or the people.
    5
  861.  @PhilipBaker-sf4yv  yea, you are religious fanatic so I think there is no need for further discussion. Telling people to repent in this day and age is just cringe.
    5
  862.  @rickjames5998  I'm sure you think OJ is also innocent because he wasn't convicted.
    5
  863. ​ @WangMingGe Agreed. The F-16 was conceived as the Low in the High-Low fighter mix. Cheap to produce and export in large numbers, highly maneuverable for WVR fights, lightweight, easy to maintain (relative to F-15) and can carry limited ammunition to keep costs low and to preserve the platform's maneuverability. Over the years, it has morphed into a multi-role fighter and it is good enough if you are bombing enemies with no air defenses. But going against an integrated, sophisticated air defenses or a powerful air force on the attack, you are going to lose F-16s and lose a lot of them if you stubbornly try to penetrate the defenses or have them go up against more powerful jets with bigger radars and sophisticated BVR missiles backed by ground based radars and early warning support aircraft.
    5
  864. It's the "Late Stage Capitalism power grab bill."
    5
  865.  @sencha99 Americans overestimated their importance.
    5
  866. They already have domestic turbojets, turbofans and turboprops. They are still used to power their most important military jets but the engine makers are now adapting them to commercial use.
    5
  867.  @seraph3761  Huh? What are you yapping about? China and Russia's economies are highly complementary and their trading has benefited both countries tremendously. China, Russia and the numerous Global South nations have both the market and resources, the consumers and the suppliers to fuel their own economic activity. Sure, the EU and the US have a lot of high value, spendthift consumers to sell to, but losing those markets will be hard but hardly fatal. As long as their financial system cannot touch the surpluses of China and Russia trading, there is nothing the west can do to them, and that's the whole point of what "dumping the banks" mean. They just have to create their own financial system to deal with all the Euros and USD they accumulated and never let those money ever enter EU or the US. There is no need to choose to save one or the other. This is a false dichotomy.
    5
  868. YT algorithm is going crazy with the comments removal lol It removed my comment about how that certain country from the western hemisphere just got what it deserve with its miss deeds. This platoooform is such a shi*l for that country.
    5
  869. And they say this is democracy. Meanwhile in China, the government has very high approval rating, deliver results the people want, and has a selection system that elects the best and brightest from the population and only promoting those who have proven themselves with accomplishments as public servants is slandered as "authoritative" and undemocratic.
    5
  870. I have a tiny violin.
    5
  871. There are still lots of people on twitter, Reddit and right here that totally convinced that China only copies, cannot innovate, uncreative, only knows how to optimise, authoritarian, slavish, and lots of tofu dregs, chinesium slurs. The PLARF launch the DF-31AG and for its full course, hit the targeted area accurately and the WSJ hit back with a fake news that a nuclear sub sank at the Wuhan shipyard. Everyone who knows anything knows that Wuhan shipyard don't build nuclear subs and there are no nuclear subs being serviced there. Yet this fake news is treated as gospel even among supposedly expert western military watchers. This kind of mass hysteria and mass self delusions is exactly why the west is in decline. They have created a false reality for themselves to avoid facing the music. It seems like you don't need to be in a sci-fi story to witness mind control and brain being uploaded into a server to live forever in a fake reality.
    5
  872.  @HermanWillems  You take one small point and try to dismiss the gigantic pieces of data. Your argument is like saying the dam is going to break because there is a little more rain than usual while ignoring the gigantic spillways that controls water level.
    5
  873. Mostly military contracts. How very free market.
    5
  874. Thanks for pointing out that Chinese investors have been building factories in Mexico to get around the tariffs. But it is very telling that China is investing heavily in Mexico and turning it into the factory of NA. In the end, Mexico benefitted heavily from these FDI from China while China is able to keep exporting to the US in a roundabout way. What is even more telling is that China is not building military bases in Mexico while the US is building more bases to try to contain China. Instead, China is building factories. Ultimately, even with higher prices, Chinese Mexican factories will still likely to more price competitive than US manufacturers so even with higher prices, the American people still benefit from it. Not that you will ever hear them ever admitting that. The American people have long enjoyed cheap goods from China that kept their inflation to a minimum and they really do not appreciate just how much China has done for them. They can only want China as the producer of cheap, low value goods or mid-tier goods. They want to keep the label "Designed in California, made in China" forever. But China does not want to be the cheap laborers for the US empire and the moment they moved up the value chain, the Americans stop being nice. The blatant hypocrisy and neocolonial mindsets of Americans are what's causing this new cold war, not because China is some evil empire.
    5
  875.  @bekeneel  Well, ally is a euphemism in the west. There is only the empire and there are the vassal states.
    5
  876.  @katong1953  Ask the neocons.
    5
  877. They won't.
    5
  878.  @adamiskandar5107  Agreed
    5
  879.  @JimmyDoyel-by2cp  that's what capitalism is.
    5
  880.  @jbuenaventura7647  They are not paying you anymore, why are you working for free?
    5
  881.  @SamPashmi  Ohh if that's how you define international waters, then the coast of California is international waters. Got it.
    5
  882.  @chriss4592  They are doing something about, warning you to back off or suffer the consequences.
    5
  883. The only saving grace America still has is that the court is still somewhat independent of the other two branches political wranglings. But even that independence is on precarious rocks now.
    5
  884.  @rl-hd5ku  Not when they are being forced into a corner and start costing them too much money. The Fukushima disaster itself was caused by Japan's internal corruption and cutting corners and also using outdated reactor designs.
    5
  885. I will argue the Roman empire, and colonial European empires are also extremely narcissistic societies, but then the UAS really gives them a run for their money.
    5
  886. As long as you are not a dictator, you don't have to be afraid of the US government cutting off your assets? Really? This is the argument? Once I believe that in this argument because I just assume that the west are the good guys. After I grow up a little more, I don't make such a flawed assumption anymore. You have to drink the kool-aid really deeply to still believe that the US government only act with reason and for democracy when they wage economic wars and commit violent interventions.
    5
  887. You don't need to drive away homeless people for an international event if your society and system never produces large number of homeless people in the first place.
    5
  888. China has extremely capable economists trained in Marxist dialectic materialism. They do not need the voodoo economic advise from the world bank or imf.
    5
  889.  @bhtansg  Indeed, I think most old cultures that have long history and experience immense hardship have these kind of cultural DNA. The Chinese are famously long suffering people.
    5
  890. Beetles then. They are the most diverse and one of the most successful insects.
    5
  891. What makes you think the Americans want peace?
    5
  892. I think the Chinese social media is laughing their as*es out if biden really is asking Xi for help on Russia. Who the f*ck does biden think he is? He is merely a bureaucrat chosen by the establishment of a dying empire.
    5
  893. Because it's US Imperialism.
    5
  894. Except that macron is not a socialist and has no socialist appeal to the working class.
    5
  895. They didn't forget the keys.
    5
  896. Here's the deal. China will suffer a lot if tomorrow they ban all exports and imports to the US but they will endure. But the US will collapse completely without Chinese imports and access to China's market.
    5
  897.  @CommonSenses101  The same way we should learn from how the US government screwed over Toshiba and Alstrom. Being America's friend is fatal.
    5
  898. They leased the port. They don't own it. It's basically rental. If the Sri Lakan government wants to break the lease, China probably will only able to take back part of that 1.12 billion dollars. Saying that China owns the port and then make fantastic assertion that this is just the first step to some sort of colonization and military take over is projection, because this is exactly what the US did to Hawai'i.
    5
  899.  @johntse8655  I'm saying China can source the wheat elsewhere. They did by cutting their imports from American farmers and increasing imports from the Global South. But the Americans can't source Ga because it's a byproduct of Al refining. If they don't do Al refining, they can't get Ga and I doubt the Americans are capable of reindustrializing.
    5
  900. It's not weird, it's scientific, it's socialism. Deal with it. The weird economy is western neoliberal BS economy.
    5
  901. If you read their history critically, they never were a country of "freedom" and "democracy".
    5
  902. The US does have a lot of mothballed industrial capacity. The question is whether they can re-industrialize before their economy collapse. The US is blessed in that their lands can produce more yield per acre than many places. They have oil and gas and they still have a lot of coal, along with most of the minerals. The question again is whether they can get these mining back on before they collapse or lose a hot war with China. I think if they are given an external enemy to unify around, they could remove all restrictions and try to re-industrialize. I think China and Russia know this. You don't defeat an empire by invading them first when they are the strongest. You enervate them by making them stretch too thin and wasting resources while you catch up. Of course infighting and lack of focus from a competent leadership (capitalism needs a weak government that is controllable) will add to the pile of reasons why empires fail and the US has all the ingredients. All China has to do, is to bide their time, be disciplined, be dispassionately strategic and not get lures into traps. The US is in decline and self destructing. Patience is the key because the opportunity to end the western dominated system will one day present itself.
    5
  903. Keep mining that copium.
    5
  904.  @shanmugasundaramrajeswaran8737  That is not really a problem anymore. This is the difference between the west, India and China. The Chinese government actually solves problems.
    5
  905. Indeed. In the past, when the F-22 first flown, the Chinese were truly in despair. They were even thinking that they are willing to throw their J-8 in a 8:1 exchange if it comes to defending their country. Their airmen were willing to sacrifice themselves. You cannot doubt their resolve and courage to think about going toe to toe with a F-22 in a J-8. Until they realized that even if they threw 50 J-8 at a F-22, it wouldn't even scratch the paint. They simply can't just throw lives and material away anymore. They need to tech up and create force multipliers. They have to bite the bullet and stay down, work frantically, work until they died on their research to make the breakthroughs their country need to defend themselves. They were willing to be humiliated constantly by the Americans just to keep their heads down, put their shoulder to the wheel and grind grind grind. The 6th gen fighters, the Type 055, the hypersonic MD-22, the Type 003, the DF-31AG are not accidents, or mere copies. They are supported by a nation who looked at their century of humiliation and said Never Again. Americans do not understand a lick of what resolve of the Chinese, when they mean business. Like what Yang Jiechi said at Anchorage, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength, and he mean it.
    5
  906.  @vitulus_  Ermmm *gesture everything broadly.
    5
  907.  @vitulus_  No, it is the only viable explanation.
    5
  908.  @tomdrewenskus8167  It's strategic thinking like this that the westerners keep missing the point. China always think in both long and short terms.
    5
  909. No, mersheimer. The US was never serious about the two state solution. Israel is a settler colony state and a beach head for the American empire. The last thing it wants is a challenger to its colony. It has always been lip service to want a two state solution from the US.
    5
  910. China is still building more 055, hahaha. They deployed four 055s to the SCS. These four ships have combined firepower in anti-ship missiles than probably the entire SE Asia but even then they were targeting us. They were trying to teach the US and Filipinos a lesson.
    5
  911.  @hanawolfgang  That's the problem. The US is still too dominating and they have been getting more and more unhinged the more powerful China becomes. Singapore is now in between a rock and a hard place. We have to balance our appearances between the US and China, so there are a lot of things we cannot say. There is no way the Singapore government does not understand the root cause of this conflict is Israel's genocidal policy against the Palestinians, given the history of the brutal Imperial Japanese occupation. But unlike China or Russia, we can't say that without being targeted by the US and Israel and the entire western corpo-state media. Singapore cannot be branded as anti-semite, even if we know for a fact that opposing Israel's murderous actions is not anti-semitism at all. But we know the west is not interested in the truth so we have to play the game of appearing cordial to the US and Israel. Singapore needs to diversify its diplomatic commitments. The world is changing and it is clear that China will lead the rise of the Global Majority, as the west declines. It will be a multipolar world. If Singapore is to survive and maintain our sovereignty (not being able to tell the truth for fear of retaliation is not sovereign), it needs to look towards China and slowly get off the sinking ship that is the US. But this has to be done subtly and with deftness, and match the decline of the US and the rise of China.
    5
  912. They don't really need to. The Russians can build whatever they want, but that doesn't mean they want to just copy western weapons. They have their own doctrines and tactics, and that means they build different weapons. What is more important is that they know how the missile work (guidance, propulsion, movement, warhead) and so they can decide counter measures. Like if you know what kind of chips, antenna, power supply etc. in the guidance system computer, you will know what kind of communication protocols, the radio power output/input, then you can create a way to jam it more efficiently. That will render the storm shadow pretty much useless.
    5
  913. Find a legal way to steal money? Law and order in the west is a farce.
    5
  914. Liking trade and want peace is not a capitalism characteristics. I will even argue that capitalism is about controlling trade to benefit a small number of capital owning people rather than actually liking trade, and capitalism is ultimately anti-peace because war breeds profits more so than peace, at least in the imperial peripheral.
    5
  915.  @อรุณรัตน์ศิขรินรัตน์  It doesn't matter whether it was the Manchu or the Han who was ruling. What matters was their attitude towards the outside world and ideas and their ability to change and adapt. I doubt if the Ming Dynasty was not taken over by the Manchus, that the Han controlled government would be any better.
    5
  916. Chinese culture is a communal culture. The family structure, the community structure, the people's structure comes first. It is simply a natural thing to do. Socialism is a natural thing for Chinese culture. American culture cannot comprehend this because that culture is rooted in individual fulfillment and individual's interests, individual's preferences and they place the individual above the community. It is no wonder such a society favors capitalism where the individual's power and his ability to garner power and wealth for himself alone is baseline. Chinese culture is about sacrifices and magnanimity. America culture is about self centeredness and selfishness.
    5
  917. Not like you guys have the balls to do anything about it.
    5
  918. As long as they don't drag us into a war.
    5
  919.  Daniel Rodriguez  Which is why SST is not gonna get mainstream until the costs come down, and it won't because you simply can't cheat physics. There is no physical way a SST can match the fuel mileage of a fuel efficiency designed subsonic jet and fuel costs are a huge part of operating costs. Not to mention the maintenance costs of a SST jet will likely make a normal jet look cheap. Honestly, I'm glad the current air travel paradigm is based on fuel efficiency rather than speed. Saving a few hours for 5x to 10x the ticket price makes absolutely no sense. Human civilization has reach the point where we can get nearly to any part of the globe within 24 hours. Any better than that is just icing on the cake and probably required a lot of waste.
    5
  920. Being compared to elon musk should be an insult.
    5
  921.  @amanthamanathunge948  There are many people in Taiwan still drinking western kool-aid. The people in the know, already understand that reunification is inevitable given the current trajectory of UAS decline and Greater China's rise.
    5
  922. Hey, it's the Huawei woman.
    5
  923. When capitalism goes wrong, you get this kind of industry.
    5
  924. This video didn't tell you anything about how to make these calculations, how to apply these calculations and why they are applied that way. Go ahead and make the calculations that tells you how thick the crankshaft have to be using, which material at its thinnest point, if you have take into account a displacement of 5L inline 6 with a stroke length of 99mm, that can survive at least 10 years of usage of at least 200,000 miles. Have the report ready by Tuesday. That's why you go to school for professional jobs.
    5
  925. "there are enough houses and that there are no homeless people." Neolibs scream.
    5
  926.  @newagain9964  The whole point is that America has been indoctrinated since Henry Ford to believe public transport sucks and cars = freedom. So the reluctance of the public to invest in public transport can be traced to car industry brainwashing everyone.
    5
  927. Calling European leaders as mere administrators for the American empire is one of the best bomb you dropped and it is hilarious.
    5
  928. hahahaha, sure why not? Free Texas and while we are at it, free Hawai'i, free Puerto Rico, free Guan. Let's throw in a freebie, free the Ryukyu islands from Japanese occupation.
    5
  929.  @georgewilder7423  The 800 million is not done all on Xi's incumbency but he definitely continued to bring prosperity to the Chinese people since he took office. It is a combination of over 30-40 years of policies and development since Deng's era.
    5
  930. There is a serious danger. The danger from getting clogged arteries from all the delicious street food.
    5
  931. As expect, lots of REEEE in the comment section.
    5
  932. Also wealth inequality level, the amount of capital/savings in the hands ordinary people.
    5
  933.  @ellebarron7112  Basically she's a koch bot now.
    5
  934. You people still do not understand the difference between private property and personal property.
    5
  935. Kenshi OVA Trust and Betrayal.
    5
  936.  @user-yt198  Maybe they are just being cautious. We all know how difficult aircraft manufacturing is, so I understand why they put their numbers at so low. I don't doubt that once they have their management, supply chain and production line up and running properly with enough orders to justify the expansion, their yearly production number will gradually increase. It's the same thing as Chengdu making the J-20. They started off quite low in numbers. Now they are making 100 over per year and will push to even higher numbers in the future. Arguably, a stealth is even harder to build than a commercial airliner in some areas. So I say there is little doubt they will reach the production number needed to fill their orders. The question is what C929 and future variants will bring. I have no doubt that the C929 will be close to 787 and A350 in terms of performance now that they are even making their own jet engines. Maybe not parity but close enough and the price attractive enough to make it a threat. The thing I can see holding Comac back will be how well they are distributed across the world to do service, training and spare parts. Those are not things you can just bum rush.
    5
  937.  @aptmap5181  Stock market is a stupid way to gauge the economy of a country. It is a good way to gauge the amount of control oligarchs have over a country though. When the stock market does well, the rich get richer and the workers suffer. So your benchmark just tells us the plight of Japan's working class is getting worse.
    5
  938. I disagree that it is a "con" of democracy. Singapore simply practice a different form of democracy that emphasized on the ruling party gaining a mandate from the people to govern, instead of working within adversarial politics to gain votes. Singaporeans have voted against the ruling party before and even punished it by taking seats away. Not enough to cause a regime change but enough to send a message to the ruling party's leadership that the people are not happy. It is democracy. It is just more cooperative and willing to take on a more cautious, pragmatic approach to governance between the government and the people. That's why social changes can come very slow because of the inherent caution (not rattling the cage) but ironically huge projects can be planned decades into the future.
    5
  939. Semiconductor is a strategic assets. China has no choice but to go head in to develop their own semiconductor technologies at every level because the west, especially America will not allow China access to these advanced technologies. There have been many naysayers in the past that China can never achieve certain technical know how and they have been proven wrong. There is nothing physically stopping China from getting those tech and they certainly have the money, talent and baseline to develop them. The only thing they don't have is the luxury of time and they are likely going to be always one gen behind the west for the bear future. China has no choice but to develop this. A large component of their defense is going to be AI powered spy satellites which will be vital to completing the kill chain for their long range antiship ballistic missiles. Now that America is blocking China from acquiring AI accelerated chips from Nvidia, it is a matter of national security of utmost urgency for their AShBM to be a credible deterrence against US aggression. They have no choice but to forge ahead. It can mean a matter of life and death for hundreds of millions of Chinese if they cannot stop the USN right outside the second island chain when America turn fascist.
    5
  940. It is a good comparison because it highlights the core philosophical differences between US mindset that focuses on corporate power over society and other countries' mindset that focus on people's power over corporations. You said so yourself, LA is built for car companies to sell more cars. Why should Americans or even Californians allow corporations to dictate how society should function and even allow them to social engineer culture and people. Even green beans casserole eaten during Thanksgiving is a social engineered cultural thing by Campbell soup. Is there anything in America that is genuine and not manufactured by some company or industry to sell more shit? Shouldn't the people be the one to dictate to corporations what they want, like better living quality with better public transport instead of being forced to buy a car and gas just to survive? You literally cannot function without a car in most parts of America. Is that really freedom? Is America a democracy or a corpo-state dictatorship? In that regard, isn't Singapore more democratic than America?
    5
  941. The problem is military hardware is nonproductive goods. You don't make people lives better and people can't use it in their everyday lives or in their businesses, unless you are an arms dealer. Weapons are made to be used to destroy stuff. It by itself does not grow society or its wealth. Defense is different. If you are truly interested in only defending your country, you will make just enough weapons and have enough personnel to do that and not beyond that. Anything more, then you are just trying to sell weapons and that usually means creating conflicts where there could have been peace. If your "defense" capability is beyond what you need to secure your country, then the only thing you want is empire building. Which country is the only one doing that actively now?
    5
  942.  @yusufbest4475  Singapore is still quite moderate especially when compared to America. In Florida, they listed the WWE as essential service while in Singapore they shut down the entire country's McDonald because the company violated covid-19 measures. In America, the country is slave to corporate power, in Singapore, they at least try to hold down corporate power to make it work for the people. Very very different priorities and why Singaporeans don't really see a need to remove the current ruling party.
    5
  943. Free the world from American hegemony. Free Hawai'i. Free Puerto Rico. Free Texas. Free Califonia. Free Okinawa. Free Guam.
    4
  944. Not like you people are going to change anything.
    4
  945. The only silver lining out of this mess. I just hope it doesn't take a global hot war this time for the global order to shift.
    4
  946. You really should not be quoting kurschev, the guy who started the decline of the USSR.
    4
  947. Hahahahaha
    4
  948.  @minervasheryl4748  He is just using an analogy to illustrate the sudden change of the battlefield due to a crucial technological shift.
    4
  949. Hahaha.... I always make the joke that capitalists would literally sell children for meat and s*x if can*ibali*m and p*dophilia becomes legal, to emphasize that capitalism is an amoral system. Never knew that's actually coming true.
    4
  950. It not just about the systemic problems that makes hyper-individualism a ridiculous and harmful ideology, it is that hyper-individualism also fragment people apart to the point that the idea of communal living, true community (not just ideological affiliation and nationalism), and the ability to see structures that grow out of societies, are completely blind to that individual. It might sound cheesy but hearing how hyper-individualism is broken down on this video really reminds me of the ideas developed within Buddhism. In Buddhism, there are usually two kinds of loves, self-love and great love. Self love is fairly self-explanatory, it's about taking care of oneself, your own enlightenment, your own self-esteem etc. Great love, is the kind of selfless love one is able to feel for other people, other creatures, and the community and society as a while and guides one's own actions and thoughts. Capitalism with its hyper-individualism is absolutely antithetical to the concept and practice of Great Love, and I feel is at least a large part of why America is so screwed up at every level of its society, culture and economy. Americans are literally taught to be selfish, self-centered. I call this the Psychopathification of America and contributed to a lot of the systemic problems mentioned here. Capitalism basically turned normal Americans psychopathic. To a Buddhist, this is an evil ideology, it literally makes people commit more heinous deeds that increase their karma.
    4
  951. I saw the click baity thumbnail of Scott Manley's video that has the words, starship failed, starship success as though it blowing up is still some sort of success 🙄. I didn't bother to watch the video. I didn't even bother to read anything about starship because all the headlines in western corpo-state media are all trying to make it sound like starship worked as it blew up. The only video/article I clicked and watch is this one because I know CSS is not going to s*ck musk's c*ck like 90% of the west.
    4
  952. Americans shocked that China can build quality products when China has been making quality products for years. You people literally do not understand how big the world is outside the US. Do you know that the US population is only 4% of the entire world?
    4
  953. Yea, denial is the first stage of grief. The problem is that you guys are still looking at the way the economy works in China through a neoliberal capitalist lens and you are going to make the wrong assumptions on what China will do and the effects those actions will have.
    4
  954.  @whoisthatkidd2212  Yea, and it is a stupid system.
    4
  955. Why not? India has an inferiority complex against China since their defeat in 1962, and Modi is just the kind of person you cannot trust with your back facing him.
    4
  956.  @rinnachi  Yup. I have met many Christians who believe in Jesus and then do the most un-Christlike things.
    4
  957. Yup, you can't have a broker trying to foster peace when that broker is handing knives to one side to stab the other side.
    4
  958.  @peanut0brain  High tech, low price. Common China W.
    4
  959. Hip hop is too small for Kanye. He definitely has some level of megalomania, a fine line from ambition. I think Kanye is not going to be satisfied until he conquers the world. Heck, America is too small for him. There are 3 billion people in East and South Asia. I don't think he will mind breaking into those markets and becoming the king there too.
    4
  960.  @waywardgeologist2520  I'm questioning if the Americans or the west even know how to reindustrialize, or if there is even a real political will to do so. This will not be a project that will give you an ROI in 3, 4 years. Reindustrialization takes a long time and require a lot of investment and likely have to be done on a central, long term planning that has to span multiple admins. Can the Americans do something like that today? Or the west with their oligarchic political establishment? I doubt it.
    4
  961. The EU could have funnel money into solar and batteries 20 years ago. Their solar panel technology were the most mature and they have all the infrastructure to support a transition to EV production. But they throw their money on all the wrong things and missed the band wagon. China focused their energies and capital on developing these industries. Saying that they subsidized their industries misses the fact that yes, EU could do the same too. China has a long term, rational strategy to enhance their industries to move towards self sufficiency while the west only has chaotic, short term tactics to enhance the profitability of their companies that have lobbying power. Is it really that difficult for people to understand the outcome of these 2 paths?
    4
  962.  @Mick-iv6mk Yes, really.
    4
  963.  @elpidiopecasis7979  Ohh what great insight, can you argue why without resorting to western propaganda talking points?
    4
  964. The way I see it is that the US is the most carbon emitting country in history with the Europeans a close 2nd. That historical carbon emission is why we are having climate change, not just the current emission. Climate change has been making these wild fires in recent years more and more insane. This is well known by now. Yet, the US are woefully under prepared for such a disaster and in fact has been cutting corners on their firefighting capability. So when the perfect wild fire strike, fueled by climate change of America's doing, coupled with inadequate firefighting capabilities and short-sighted policies and the cultural and economical cheapness of using wood as building materials, all come together to give the US the karma slap of the decade. This is in stark contrast to the Chongqing fire just 2 years ago where China mobilized huge amount of resources and the people coming together to literally, physically made firebreaks that stopped the fires from reaching the city. Even more relevant is the earthquake in Xizhang that happened almost the same time as the LA fire, and we saw Chinese mobilize their disaster management immediately, reaching the disaster area within hours, and supplies poured in within 24 hours. Tents, firefighting, doctors, medical supplies, heating, all poured into a region thousands of feet above sea level. It's hilarious too in the background of tiktok getting banned and Americans migrating to Rednote, an even more Chinese social media app and finding out that the Chinese people are nice, welcoming and funny. Even worse, they are finding out that the Chinese don't live in an authoritarian hellscape but instead enjoy affordable healthcare, groceries, world class transportation and safety unheard of in the US. People are posting angry and sad videos on the soon to be banned tiktok and on Rednote, saying how they have been lied to all their lives. That the only result the American system has produce is astronomical profits on the backs of ordinary Americans. I find it amusing why Americans still act outraged by how under prepared they are for disasters at nice Katrina, and how their system does not incentivize spending money on things that don't make profits. If people is lamenting now, what are they going to do when the inevitable California earthquake strikes? Good luck America.
    4
  965. 30 years on United? Oh I feel so sorry for you.
    4
  966. Bike lanes definitely can still use more improvements and expansion.
    4
  967. The US will love to plunge India and China into a war. I think Xi and Modi needs to settle the border disputes once and for all to prevent the US trying to screw with South Asia.
    4
  968. The only people who keep saying China is going to invade Taiwan are the Americans. China does not want to invade Taiwan, so long Taiwan does not declare independence. That's the red line. Respect that, and respect the One China policy and nothing will happen and reunification will be done peacefully. It will be like China going to Texas and supporting Texan separatists and encouraging Confederate ideologies for secession and then turn around and say "well Texas is a country now." Ohh, f** that. Let me tell you, any side that forces SE Asian nations to choose a side, is gonna find them choosing the opposite side because if there is one thing SE Asian nations really hate is to be forced to choose sides in a conflict that is none of their business. The more the US government pushes SE Asia, the more it is going to alienate themselves. The more the US acts with arrogance and entitlement, the more it is going to turn off SE Asian nations and its people. One of which is the US keep misrepresenting that China is or want to invade Taiwan. We all know it is not true, we all know what the stakes are, and we are really really tired and pissed off at western disinformation. It doesn't work on us, so STFU and go home and fixed your own house first before coming to threaten Singapore that they "might need make some hard decisions." I think the one who is going to make some hard decisions is America finally acknowledging that China's rise is inevitable and good, and prepare to engage with the world normally as a participant and not as a tyrant.
    4
  969. @@TH-dr1kgHawaii was annexed by the US. It was independent. Taiwan was never an independent country.
    4
  970. If UK is smart, they will invite BYD to build factories there.
    4
  971. China is only a threat because the US pointed a gun at her.
    4
  972. Thailand is not a US ally. But the real funny part is that the US government meddled in Thailand's internal affairs to put in what they think will be their puppet. They ended up more independent than the US would like and it backfired on them. It is funny that Americans still think they are the good guys.
    4
  973. It is really ironic that someone like scholz who began his political career as a socialist leaning young man would become neoliberalism front man in Germany, and opposed China, the only large, powerful socialist country in the world and sided with the neoliberal capital the US.
    4
  974. It will depend on which supplier will break ranks from the US's imposed restrictions on them. Losing the Chinese market has caused many high tech supplier companies immense amount of revenue losses. Not every company can weather such losses like the bigger companies. Sooner or later, we are going to either see China produces its own domestic alternatives or key companies or country break ranks and do business with Chinese companies. Either way, the US will not be able to hold back China for long.
    4
  975. Of course not. Who would want to ride on a Boeing.
    4
  976. There is no god and even if he exist, why should he stand with a people that has committed so many crimes against humanity.
    4
  977. I disagree because I actually understand there is no point in being hostile to a big neighbor to appease another big country far away and have track record of starting proxy w*rs and then abandoning their proxies when it gets too hard.
    4
  978. IIRC, the original economists were all anti-landlords because everyone could recognize that they are parasitic on the economy. They contribute very very little value to the overall economic pool but they extract a lot of value out of that economic pool just by the virtue of them owning private properties.
    4
  979.  @rhodesnd3670  Hawaii was stolen from the Hawaiian monarchy. If you can make the case that Taiwan is a country, then anyone can make the case that Hawaii should be a self-governing country. Taiwan is not an independent country. It is a province of China that is left unresolved because of a civil war. That is the undeniable fact. If you can make that same argument, then the former Confederate States should be allowed to secede from the union again because they were also an independent country that was formed because of a civil war. That is how ridiculous westerners' arguments that Taiwan is a country really is. The double standard and hypocrisy is plain for all to see, and only westerners buy it. The only difference is China wants peaceful reunification strong enough that it allows the US to keep violating its sovereignty by supplying Taiwan with weapons. It cares more about keeping the peace than killing people to get Taiwan. If the role is reversed, the US would have invaded Taiwan to take it back and killing millions in the process. America with its warmongering ways tracks.
    4
  980.  @connorscherer617  It is the opinion of the 80% of the world that does not live in western corpo-state media bubble.
    4
  981. The only to ensure an imperial power stay out of a place is to make sure it literally cannot go there and stir up trouble.
    4
  982. I have been on Xiaohongshu recently and there are actually quite a number of Chinese military watchers and insiders on there. Usually they provide some insider information that is not very crucial to national secrecy which is still fascinating. One watcher was commenting on the recent speech made by the Chinese speaker at UN security council rebutting the US for accusing China of secretly helping Russia war efforts. He said if China is really helping Russia, the situation on the ground today will not be like this. He pointed out correctly that the war was primarily still determined by artillery and of course we all know watching this channel just how woeful western production of shells is. He said he did visit to the Scranton shell production factory before and he was saying that they were able to rapidly open 2 more production lines and scale up from 7000 shells per month to 50,000 shells. He said that Rheinmetall is probably producing 10,000 now and the French add another 7000 per month. He said there is no way to really know how many shells China is producing per month but he pointed out he read a report on the shell production for a military exercise called "Sharp Sword" recently. The report is really just to say that the production line has ramped up to ensure the exercise will have enough shells to use and very casually mentioned that single production is producing 150,000 shells PER DAY. Not per month, not per week. PER DAY. From one production line. If China is really helping Russia by supplying military equipment, the war would be over a long time ago..
    4
  983. Let me guess before I even finish the video: its range was too low because it burned too much fuel during take off, it was a cost and maintenance nightmare because of the number of lift fans and fuel burn, it did not even have the performance to lift it at full load.
    4
  984. An economic war started by the US because they cannot take it that a non western country dares to become strong and developed.
    4
  985. Privatised everything? Americans' breathing intensified.
    4
  986. China handed an olive brunch. China has consistently said it wants peace, it want development, it does not want hegemony and it does seek to supplant the US. China is not the threat, and they backed it up with actions. They supported the US financial system. They bought US bonds heavily during 2008. They exported cheap goods and allow US companies to get filthy rich. They have never taken an aggressive, pre-emptive, unilateral military action against the US. All actions they did are in reaction to the US provocative actions, like literally doing electronic warfare on them using EW assets from their coastlines, sail warships up and down their front door, sanction them to stop them from growing and even explicitly said their president is a dictator, clearly indicating the US will love to see a regime change in China. Worst, the US keep saying one thing about Taiwan and One China Policy, then turn around and violate that principle brazenly. China is not the threat here. The US is the the A grade, flaming as*ho*e here.
    4
  987. You don't understand neocolonialism?
    4
  988.  @jinheedong418  I lived in the US for over ten years, studied at its colleges, got my PhD and even have a minor in history. I even married an American. I say I am well qualified to talk about the US, and I say Free Guam (illegal seizure), Free Texas (stolen from Mexico), Free Hawai'i (stolen from native Hawai'ians), Free Puerto Rico (modern day colony), Free Native Americans and return their lands. The Sioux, the Lakotas, the Comanches, the Cherokees, the Shoshones, they all need to have their lands returned and become true independent countries of their own.
    4
  989. Well, you see, if America does it, that means it is not Imperialistic and it is automatically good. /s
    4
  990.  @couthelloworld  He's being sarcastic.
    4
  991. It's information and damage control.
    4
  992. Forcing the US to pay more for their loans will be a good thing for world peace. The US military is supported by these loans. So if they have to pay more to finance their debts, they cannot use that money to put into their war budget. At some point, the interests on the debts will be too high to support such an exorbitant spending and they will have to cut back their military. Or they cut their welfare to such bare minimum their people will be at rock bottom. Either way, something gotta give and the faster their war budget collapse, the less they are going to be able to threaten other countries with violence and war. The less threatening their military become, the less they are able to enforce their hegemony, less they are able to enforce the USD as the dominant reserve currency, and it will feedback loop into less influential the dollar has. The whole exercise is to force their military down by crashing their economy and the more the world get rid of US hegemony. It will also ultimately benefit the American people because their country is basically hijacked by corporate interests, especially the MIC. They cannot break this stranglehold, which is why their quality of life is decreasing. By crashing their economy, the hope is that they themselves will be able to neuter the MIC and seize their country back. If the American people can actually be in charge, and not the neoliberal oligarchs, it might be possible to create a new world order when the new generation of American leaders can learn to live in a multipolar world. You cannot hope to create a multipolar world with the American oligarchs in power.
    4
  993. You think they don't want to save money? Have you actually see how Americans are trying to survive. Most of them are living paycheck to paycheck, and they are not even spending.
    4
  994. I wouldn't say it made the aircraft carrier obsolete but it made them more vulnerable and that's the point. It forces the USN out of China's immediate coastlines because the risks might be too high. That's the reason why the PLA put so much effort into their missile technology is to be able to threaten the USN and throw off their calculations. A carrier group might be able to intercept 4, 5 even 6 hypersonics, but 10? 20? And not to mention other kinds of missiles, subsonic, supersonic, ballistic coming from all altitudes, all angles, and all directions, and especially that now China has enough spy satellites, long range radars, long range drones to find these carrier groups, and send the intel back to HQ and connect with the PLA air force, rocket force and navy together. If the USN dares to even try something foolish within 1000 km of China's coastlines, the retaliation will be tremendous.
    4
  995.  @Shenzhou.  I do agree with your theme and think that the west has a deliberately narrow view of democracy. Democracy still means "rule by the people". We are just so used to democracy being always practiced with the western liberal democratic process that we forget ultimately, as long as the people can hold the government accountable, it is still democracy, a republic. I think we should broaden our definition and measurement of democracy that include the RESULTS of policies and laws enacted by the ruling government, and the people's satisfaction with the outcomes. Because if we start doing that, I bet the west will not do well with this metric to measure democracy. There is even a Harvard study that look at the results of US government policies and concluded that most of those policies benefit the upper class, super wealthy, even concluding that if you just based on the results, America is a plutocracy, not a democracy. Less than half of the American people have confidence in their government to do right by them because US government policies from local, to state to federal seldom benefit the people and their economic situation. It's where the concept of Occupy Wall St, and the One-percenter comes from. People know that the US government is not working for them. So how is that even a democracy? Because they can vote for anything? Pleasssseeee... On the other hand, there are countries that are ruled mostly by a single party or do not have much opposition but their policies and laws have resulted in tremendous uplifting of their people, and they continue to govern with the public's interests as top priority. The people are generally satisfied with their government's performance so they don't find really a need to vote them out. In other examples, they might have stronger parity of powers within their political system but their people still generally believe in their system to deliver real results so their politics are still less insane and more effective than American politics. I think there should be think tanks in China established to rethink the notion of democracy and redefine it so it reflect reality and results, instead of superficial criteria like having oppositions and adopt an American style political adversarial system as the standard to define democracy. There should be a new metric of measurement: Results of policies / Will of the people. The perfect democratic government should approach 1, because it will mean the policies reflect the people's will and the efficiency of these policies to deliver results. I think America and some western countries will score very low on this metric. Ultimately, that metric will bypass the control that the powerful and wealthy over their country's politics and media (eg. America) and actually show without a doubt who is really in charge in that country. We have to reclaim democracy for ourselves, like how oppressed people reclaim the objects of their oppression and over come them.
    4
  996. ​ @ex0duzz CNA also neglected to point out these disputes over claims in SCS are claims that SE Asia nations made during the time when China was the weakest in the time period after the CPC won. After decolonization of SE Asia and the reestablishment of these SE Asian nations, these nations have a little bit of navy so they went out to stake their claims on these islands when China was too weak to challenge those claims because Mainland China had no navy to do so. Now China is back on the world's stage, they are reclaiming those islands that have been under China's rule or influence for centuries. Everyone drew their own dash lines but somehow it is China's lines that offends everyone. Instead of settling the issue like adults, Philippines chose hostility because it think big bro US will back them. Not even Vietnam wants to go to war over these islands, and Malaysia is happily selling whatever they drilled up or fished up in SCS to China and China is happily buying them. So the only one who has a problem with China's coast guard is Philippines and it is because they choose to be America's lap dogs, not because they are right or moral. China made those claims, SE Asian nations made their claims. The best way is to settle them bilaterally, or as a bloc with negotiations or even through UN apparatuses. China is indisputably a superpower now, and unlike the US has conducted themselves with diplomacy with whoever. It is immensely tone-deaf to reduce China to another third-rate power or an imperialistic power and treat them as such, just because you get brainwashed by western propaganda. China has settled all its land disputes peacefully (even with Russia) except for India because India chose hostility. So it is a FACT that China always chooses the peaceful route as long as the other side is willing to negotiate in good faith. If you choose hostility against China and lose (and you will lose, almost guaranteed in any confrontation), then you squandered the chance to gain a win-win solution and you will be in a far worse position when you inevitably have to negotiate with China anyway. So choosing hostility against China is not only st*pid, it is wrong and immoral against the best interests of your country when diplomacy would have been the easier and more equitable option.
    4
  997. One important point that should be made is the difference between East Asian culture of manhood Vs American. In anime, you will see a quirky thing is that somewhere along the story, the protag will be asked, "what are you trying to protect (mamoru)? Why do you want to be strong?" This goes directly to a large part of East Asia cultures (Japan, China, Korea etc.) is that you are not alone and you derive your greatest strength from service and selflessness. Protecting something or someone is what gives you conviction and determination. In contrast, this is very very different from American culture where media aimed at teenagers tends to be all about bursting out of your shell and leaving everything and everyone behind, including your family, friends and most importantly any social and civic obligations. It is always about what you want, but it is never about what your role can be. Now of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, like the American cultural obsession with military service, but it generally holds. OTOH, in East Asian cultures, the struggle between finding yourself and finding your role in life is always examined in teenage media. It is always a balance between oneself and one's dreams and one's obligations to others. For East Asians, happiness and fulfillment comes from connecting with people, family, friends, lovers and reconciling that with oneself. The individual is part of the collective and the collective is more than the sum of the individuals. It is very different from the toxic, hyperindividualism in America and western culture in general. It is about not being alienated from your community while maintaining one's own individuality. Which is why in most shounen media, the protag usually achieve his ultimate strength when he is with his people, lifting them up while they lift him up. That's why "mamoru" and "nakama power" are troupes in Japanese media. It is through the harmonious integration of everyone's strength and their understanding of their roles and genuine bonds that true power can be achieved. Cooperation and selflessness and harmony are built into East Asian cultures. These concepts are antithetical to American culture.
    4
  998. This is exactly what a multi-billion dollar company always do. You should be scared because they are all like this.
    4
  999. Figuring out what to add to the pile is part of the "fun". "You think we should burn a smart phone for grandma?" "She doesn't know how to use it anyway." "Which brand of car does uncle like?" "He always wanted to drive a Ferrari, we can burn him that?" "Who the heck makes paper Ferrari?" "Ohh there are joss paper Ferraris, it's just not gonna be cheap."
    4
  1000.  @onisuryaman408  Do we also burn wifi routers and modems? And PCs? Hahaha what if they like to play games down there?
    4
  1001.  @a1bells501  London after brexit is just gonna be the money laundering capital of the world.
    4
  1002.  @sociolocomtsac  it has everything to do with the system. And Koreans are not more innovative then the Chinese.
    4
  1003. It's a mess and we all have the front row seats to the fall and decline of the American empire. I'm grabbing a second box of popcorn. Who's coming to the lobby with me?
    4
  1004. It's not that difficult to see through these contradictions and understand the forces that give them forms, if you apply dialectic materialism. Or even that confusing and bewildering. It is the natural result of a imperialistic capitalism hegemon trying to dominate the world and keep people under its control. These contradictions and hypocrisies and double standard must arise from this system, and the only way to keep it from creating severe cognitive dissonance among its acolytes is to ensure they can doublethink expertly.
    4
  1005. It's interesting that I am also seeing comments on Reddit saying that this election is for mayoral seats and is primarily focused on domestic policies and politics. While this is true, one cannot decouple domestic evaluation and foreign policies completely since a lot of what is happening internally in Taiwan are affected by outside forces. This might not fully indict the current ruling party's foreign policy, I doubt Taiwanese went to the polls completely detached about external factors this time.
    4
  1006. I think instead of saying the Chinese EV makers are eating your lunch, it will be more appropriate to say that you stop making lunches, and believe that people will just keep lending you money to buy the lunches because you forced them to do so.
    4
  1007. If you are explaining Russia's position then you are making excuses for Russia? Really? This is the level of thinking in Europe now? Yea, the west is screwed terminally.
    4
  1008. Western mind blown.
    4
  1009. Reagan was the one who make sure the pie gets shared among fewer and fewer people. I wouldn't quote anything from him about being cooperative and sharing.
    4
  1010.  @sonarbangla8711  I think you people underestimate deliberately just how terrible the US government is by itself.
    4
  1011.  @peaceleader7315  You don't really understand how the Chinese think.
    4
  1012. It's how scientific socialism actually works.
    4
  1013.  @HermanWillems  lol
    4
  1014.  @gregwang8628  I'm pretty sure he meant the Americans.
    4
  1015.  @billykulim5202  Europe can stop the pain if they abandon the policies set on them by the Americans. But they don't have the balls.
    4
  1016. Damn... That post stall maneuver.
    4
  1017.  @stormsj  That's the thing that westerners are chronically ignorant or deliberately refused to understand on how China looks at the Taiwan issue. I think it's deliberate because they are terminally unable to accept that China is doing great and is innovative, creative, dynamic and powerful. So of course they are going to control information flow. If those Americans who like to denigrate, insult and look down on China will to visit Shenzhen one day, they will either be shell-shocked, or gibbering in terror. "The white man is not on the top anymore!!!" Th thing is China doesn't NEED Taiwan to keep growing and progressing. What Taiwan represent is a wound that have not been healed. It's a political issue, not an economic one. But the Chinese are in no hurry to reunify with Taiwan and they ultimately don't even need TSMC. All China really wants is peaceful reunification and they can wait 10, 20, 50, even a 100 years to do that. But everyone and their dogs in the west talk like China can never have advanced chip technology without Taiwan or the west. Taiwan is a small little province. If you really know China, then Taiwan really is more like a 2nd rate, chronically mismanaged provincial backwater. All US sanctions do is solidify China's conviction and determine, and accelerate their progress because they can centrally planned to focused on project deemed as strategically important. Now you just force China to push their best and brightest to come up with innovative solutions to solve intractable problems. And everyone who bet against China from succeeding on their national project always lose.
    4
  1018. The empire will always try to preserve its core by harvesting its semi-pheripheral, the vassals when it cannot harvest the peripheral anymore. Good luck vassals.
    4
  1019. China should boost local consumption but it should never let go of manufacturing. It can diversify more into service sectors but it must never allow financialization of its economic. The financial sector must be subordinated to the productive sectors. It should stay merely as a facilitator of more useful industries. It just never be given anymore power than that. Anyone who dares to try to circumvent this, must be dealt as though they are the enemy of the people because their corrupting influence is poison to society. No to neoliberalism. No to financialization. No to unproductive, immoral financial shenanigans. No to democracy wrecking ideologies based on greed and selfishness.
    4
  1020. I just buy from the least offensive, least anticonsumer company and Nvidia and intel are two of the most egregious companies out there. AMD isn't perfect but I don't like to reward evil behavior with my money. To me, it doesn't matter how good Nvidia or intel are.
    4
  1021.  @Lionheart1188  Trying to earn that 1.6B? LOL
    4
  1022. You are in this spot because of capitalism. The politicians are terrible because that's what capitalism do to any political system.
    4
  1023. What gives America the f*cking right to kill Chinese industry? What right does America think it has in the first place? Ask that f*cking question first.
    4
  1024.  @neorenjie Aye, it's a diplomatic language. The FM has to be very careful with his words.
    4
  1025. Because they are all vassal states of the American empire. Vassal states do not have the call to make its own foreign policies. They can make a few unimportant decisions, but the fundamental decisions are made in DC.
    4
  1026. @Rippinkitten18  They just cancelled almost all their soy from US and it nearly crashed the US agriculture market lol And like you said, everything else they can import from other places. That new megaport in Chancay, Peru is exactly for that purpose.
    4
  1027. Lol I wasn't.
    4
  1028. The Americans gutted you out and you can't compete against the Chinese in cost and quality. It is little wonder Europe's industry in every area is in decline. If only Europe is not a collection of vassal states of the American empire, you might have some independence on charting your foreign and economic policies.
    4
  1029.  @lancewood1410  Yea, pretty sure that was sarcasm because it is mimicking how Indians like to talk in social media to boost India's reputation. "We are gonna be the next superpower!" They love to count their eggs before they hatch.
    4
  1030.  @swaroopdarbha208  I'm not sorry to burst your bubble because I like to put down racist people but Chinese papers are now published at higher impact journals and also getting more citations than everyone. Also, when you factor in the papers published in other languages than English and across wider selection of journals, Chinese universities' research output and quality made them occupy 6 slots in the top 10 ranking. Like what Kevin is talking about. China's scientific dominance is already here.
    4
  1031.  @fffinisher6298  Wrong take. Just because something is bad, you don't have to bring in other stuff that is not relevant to it. Are you saying there is no systemic racism because it is quite obvious to anyone who live in the system experienced it. If you think about it, cynical pandering thinking that it will make money is a kind of systemic racism.
    4
  1032.  @陳柏廷-u5p  Apparently then he was also a terrible researcher not to "calculate" the dosage required. Even if his intention was to give JC liver cancer, that is still a crime that can result in death, and it is pre-mediated. Which means no matter how we look at it, this is straight up murder or in the very best case attempted murder with immense bodily harm.
    4
  1033. "If we do it, that's okay" is how Americans think.
    4
  1034.  @Lynkaeus  did you just put RMB and weaponized in the same sentence just so you can accuse china being bad? Lol this is just pathetic
    4
  1035.  @rujotheone  I think the most obvious way is to keep the USD in your own commercial banks. China used to keep USD in the PBOC and reinvest them in buying US treasuries. To buy these treasuries, the USD has to flow back into the US financial system (ie. Wall Street). So instead of doing that, they set up their OWN banks to deal with the USD they have, and from other countries trading and dealing in USD. So with their own financial system, their own fintech like CIPS, they can safely move huge amount of USD which are all legal tender without ever letting them flow back into Wall St. If what Kevin says is right, China is basically setting up a second USD financial system for clearing USD. This means they can take in USD in deposits, escrow them, trade using them, invest using them, loans made in USD etc., and Wall St and the US government will never know where and how these USD are being moved around since these trades are never done in the US or Europe or in any western affiliated financial institutes.
    4
  1036. I'm from Singapore, I say if the Europeans want to kill each other, let them. If the Europeans are spineless enough to be used by the Americans in their proxy wars and be drained of their wealth, industry and tech, let them. If the west refuse to learn from its past mistakes and seek wisdom elsewhere and is now on the path of self-destruction, let them. It couldn't happen to nicer people. We are doing fine here, working with everyone, being friends with everyone and always seek peaceful win-win scenarios, always seek prosperity for all, and reject all the mentality spectrum domination so beloved by the Europeans and Americans. Don't come and ask us for help for something you did to yourself. And if you come seeking to plunge our part of the world into war and chaos, and want to dominate us again, we will side with the side that reject that.
    4
  1037. No one gives a crap about zelensky at Shangri-la.
    4
  1038. Well they are growing vines and making good wines in Shaanxi now hahaha
    4
  1039.  @simonshen8478  I don't think you actually understand Marxist-Leninism if you think there is a purity test for it.
    4
  1040.  @davidrenton  You make a lot of claims without any thing to back it up and some of it are just outright wrong.
    4
  1041.  @Paulmnl  That's just bull. This is international relationships, every country will record these phone calls for posterity, analysis, record keeping and of course to hold the other side accountable. You are just p_ss philippiness got caught lying.
    4
  1042.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  You obviously did not listen to anything Sean said in this video or you are being deliberately obtuse in bad faith. Either way, it just prove your opinions are bunk.
    4
  1043. LOL China would have gotten done in under 2 years and on budget.
    4
  1044.  @tezzo55  Because you really do have a high school level understanding of the human condition. Just like that guy you agree with. It's okay. China already showed the world what actual cooperation looks like and the potential it can unleash, and people are taking up their model over the west. And the fake positivity and trying to appear nice are also high school level of falseness. It's such an American way to behave.
    4
  1045.  @Hyrodeniamandibulata  lol good luck. You're gonna need it more than the Chinese.
    4
  1046. China is globalising with the Global Majority and deleveraging from the west. So yes, they are globalising and decoupling at the same time.
    4
  1047. I think the anti-China capitalist propaganda is a far far far worst problem than some YouTubers who likes to show that most western corpo-state media reports are little more than lies and disinformation. The corpo-state media agenda is trying to start a war with China, those YouTubers who live in China and like China is trying to stop the disinformation that will start that war. They are not even in the same level.
    4
  1048. They really think China is going to invade its own province. As long as Taiwan doesn't declare independence, China won't do anything about it. They have all the time in the world to wait out Taiwan for a peaceful reunification. The only people who are saying there is going to be a war across the strait and even clamoring for it are the Americans.
    4
  1049. There is a problem. You can't find any Made in America goods 😂
    4
  1050. Terrible title since Singapore does the same thing for its MRT lines with "ghost stations" that are there for future development. CNA using western narratives to attack China is absurd and obsequious. No respect of Singapore sovereignty as the country's news network. Bootlickers are going to get kicked eventually.
    4
  1051. I should point out that Singapore is actually a hidden socialistic country. The real estate is almost all public housing and the government controls housing like a Marxist-Leninist system. They have control over nearly all the land on the island. They can build public housing anywhere. The public housing has many restrictions to prevent speculations, one of which is forbidding companies to buy and own any public housing. If anyone is interested, they should put the Housing Development Board of Singapore and the rules for buying, selling public housing. It's basically socialism.
    4
  1052. Stick your head in the sand and ignore all your problems. Sounds like republican voters.
    4
  1053. Don't forget to factor in total historical emission. The combined CO2 emission by the collective west (including Japan and South Korea) far outstrip China and way way way ahead of the rest of the world. We wouldn't be in this mess in the first place if the west stopped emitting so much carbon way back then. They had the chance to stop emitting so much. They had the capital, and the technology to make the switch. It would have been painful but we wouldn't have used up all the carbon debts if it were not for the west's, especially the US, irresponsible usage of fossil fuels. If the west really was all about equality, freedom, democracy, justice and fairness for all people in the world, they would have force themselves to transition over to renewable and nuclear before the 2000s, and we would have far more carbon headroom for the developing countries to use cheap energy to develop. They would have also help the developing countries leapfrog over to renewable and nuclear after the initial development was done. But they didn't do that. They CHOSE to keep using cheap energy to sustain their decadent standard of living and now they want the rest of us to cut back and stop developing because the world is on fire. They can go F themselves.
    4
  1054. Europe's own destruction is hilariously tragic. What's even more amusing is the fact that they really believe they are doing the right things, while their "friend" the US are hollowing them out of their industries and transferring vast sum of their remaining wealth by selling them expensive energy. When you have friends like America, who needs enemies?
    4
  1055.  @larryc1616  Tesla might not even exist.
    4
  1056. It's good for the Global Majority of the planet.
    4
  1057. It's the overemphasis on these wonder weapons, which is a PR campaign, that caused such a sensation in western media when a tank got destroyed. Sensible people with a cursory knowledge of military and logistics know that a single tank destroyed doesn't make a difference. They will also know sending 14 tanks into such a conflict also makes no difference and is pointless tactically or strategically. But most westerners are not sensible and quite ignorant about how the world actually works. So this kind of propaganda, and its failure has huge impact on their psyche.
    4
  1058. China is already too big, too well developed, too strong to be contained and sanctioned. It has the largest industrial capacity, the biggest cohorts of college graduates of all levels in the world, an established R&D environment in every field of science and tech, and even humanities, a burgeoning economy with the largest middle income population in the world, and is the largest trading partner with most countries in the world. It cannot be contained because China is already highly integrated in the world in economy, science, diplomacy, military and is member of various large cooperatives and organizations. No matter what kind of things you deny China, they will just go around and buy it from other countries, or developed it on their own or jointly with other countries. US trying to contain China will be trying to contain an ocean when you are a lake. All China have to do is wait and not make any dumb mistakes, and given their history for the past 20-30 years, they are not likely to do so. Sooner or later, the capitalistic imperialism of the collective west, especially America is going to create a massive blowback from the rest of the world. A critical mass of discontent among the world is going to reach a boiling point as America will keep taking more and more draconian measures against any rising powers challenging its hegemony, and that critical mass is going to be backed by a weakening American empire along with the increasing power of the countries they are trying to suppress, and we are going to see the world turn against America. How it will proceed is unpredictable. Maybe a world war where the world goes to war with America and whatever allies it has left, or America collapses under its own weight. But the end result is that America will fall and loses all the privileges it currently enjoys.
    4
  1059. China does not practice colonial mindsets or methods like the west.
    4
  1060. It is not that difficult to see where the hate comes from. US politics has always been based on neoliberal ideologies, that the US government must have hegemony over the world and the corporate institutions form the backbone of US economy and power. That hegemony allows the US government, and by extension American corporations, to act with near impunity. They have done so since the end of WWII. You could say the Chinese government is doing the same thing but it is actually not that relevant. What is relevant is the thought process behind advancing and preserving American hegemony: they know if America loses that hegemony, American corporations will be relegated to second tier institutions. They will have to compete on equal grounds with the Chinese and they will not be able to enjoy the power, prestige and command over the world's economy and thus unable to exploit other countries and peoples with impunity. Losing that power, even the possibility, is driving the corporate world of America insane. That's why you see so much hostility from western media and the US government. They don't want to lose that power to exploit with impunity and they know that they themselves can be targeted fro exploitation and RETALIATION from their victims if they cannot control everything. I think most Americans can get used to a multipolar world where they are not automatically by default being catered to. But some Americans, especially conservatives and the power with wealth and power, a multipolar world is nightmarish. Imagine an American billionaire arrested in Ghana for exploiting the country and subjected to Ghanian laws, because Ghana has the economic strength to resist the US government. from China's backing. The victims of American exploitation and meddling will have the power to prosecute the Americans responsible for it, and there is nothing the US government or the west can do about it because if they tried to intervene like they did before, the collective economic and military might of the new bloc of nations lead by China will block them. That is the core of their hatred. They know a strong and an increasing influential China will deny them that power.
    4
  1061. Equality is not the right way to think about this. The true victory are cooperation, mutual respect and taking care of each other's interests. A rising tide raises all boats is how we should be thinking.
    4
  1062.  @bayareaartist999  China uplifted more than 700 million people out of poverty. That alone invalidates everything you can said about China. You morons really think mere industrial espionage is going to create one of the most dynamic and vertically integrated economy in the world just goes to show how worthless your opinions are. Which is even more rich considering the west stole from the rest of world to create their own prosperity. You standard of living is built on the foundation of the capital your ancestors stole from the entire world. Trillions and trillions worth of capital transferred into your countries and you have the audacity here to come accusing other countries of shit that you have done far worse. F*** off.
    4
  1063. I have a very small violin. That's always the 2nd amendment, so if USians are really so individualistically awesome, then they should do something about their predicament.
    4
  1064. If you actually understand how western media works, you will understand that your free speech means nothing and you are already heavily propagandized and indoctrinated. Censorship is actually very prevalent in the west, it just comes in different forms. By combining selective silence, cherry picking, bullshit throwing the western media has effectively censor anything they don't want their citizens to see or to think about. They don't need to overtly censor anything or control your speech, they just mislead you and make all of you so confused about the reality of the world that you are effectively neutered, nerfed. The internet is dangerous for China, not because it is freedom of speech or some nonsense you tell yourself that you have. It is dangerous because they don't want their own people being affected by western propaganda like you are. I bet you either never heard how the US blew up Nordstream or how much dumb shit has been injected into your brain that you think otherwise.
    4
  1065. I'm not expecting China to save the world, I'm expecting competent countries to now take this chance to diversify their economy from catering to the west to catering to China and other parts of the world. There are still big markets out there and now is the time to shift towards them, and away the sinking ship that is the west. The next few years will not look good but for the rest of us, it is survivable. The Global Majority still has a lot of room to growth. But for the west, this is ringing the death knell of them. They will have to readjust their economic systems if they want to survive for the long haul.
    4
  1066. That's actually smart. The equipment without manpower is useless, and this cannot be used to threaten the sovereignty of the Norway. Also, equipment without people using it means it can be seized by Norway to be used against the US if the need is great enough.
    4
  1067.  @leihtory7423  You can make 7 nm nodes with DUV, it's just harder and has less yield. But there is also no reason why China cannot build EUV tools. It's just a matter of time. Even then, China is not just trying to replicate old tech, they are also blazing new trails with other forms of electronics. They are doing quantum computing, photonics etc. Some of these cutting edge tech will bear fruit in the future and we don't even know exactly what these new frontiers will bring.
    4
  1068. The cheering in the background during the commentary is so obnoxious. I wonder if a rocket fails in China like spacex, will western corpo-state media be so generous with their assessments.
    4
  1069. China has a lot of room to pump money to stimulate their economy and consumption. They have the highest trade surplus in human history.
    4
  1070.  @kirstencorby8465  Yup, it is a form of Pascal's Wager. It's more of an attitude of "why not heck not?"
    4
  1071. The US still produces a lot of food but most of that is controlled by Big Ag anyway.
    4
  1072. That's why you have to prove yourself with real accomplishments as you move up the ranks in the Chinese government. Every minister in the Chinese government are highly competent and accomplished. Anyone of them has the capability to govern a huge country. If they have been born in another country, and if the system allows them to reach their full potential, they will be national heroes.
    4
  1073. Huh, ships not affiliated with Israel and other Israel supporting countries do not seem to have any problem going through the Red Sea. Isn't it the obligation of any country to do anything to stop a suspected g-cide? Seems like the Ansar Allah is just obeying the Geneva Convention.
    4
  1074. It's actually more than 800 billion in 2023. They will hit the trillion mark within the next few years.
    4
  1075.  @f1aziz  The US financial system is the one controlling our trade, so yes it has a lot to do with the rest of the world.
    4
  1076. That's not a disadvantage. A lot of research and tech are developed by foreign nationals. The ability to welcome everyone and brain drai other countries is one of the reasons why the US has such a huge lead in tech. China is also welcoming to every talent that wants to come and work and live in China. They know that this is how you get new blood and new ideas.
    4
  1077. Well, any ceasefire agreement that Russia can accept will have to have that security guarantee built into it. Which means Russia will want to the power to hold the west accountable for any shenanigans they might pull. Maybe something like if they found out the US is trying to subvert Ukrainian internal politics to push them towards NATO, Russia will have a method to ensure that Ukraine can't do that.
    4
  1078.  @fromtheoutside37  Ya, and your opinion is wrong.
    4
  1079. You don't need cutting edge chips to make military hardware. The most advanced chips are for AI, data and consumer market.
    4
  1080. The west are never sincere about addressimg human rights violations because they are always highly selective in their applications. Mostly it is applied along the line of whether a country is dominated or friendly to the west, or unfriendly or refusing to bow down to their world order. That selectiveness, on top of their own human rights violations and often ad hoc, hypocritical, "do as I say, not as I do" manner of application of these rules make their protests against any human violations a cynical attempt to undermine rival countries. At best, it has to be viewed with extreme suspicion. The west doesn't care about human rights, as they already treat it as a diplomatic weapon. So everytime I heard someone talking about human rights violaty, especially from the west, I roll my eyes and dismiss anything they have to say.
    4
  1081. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    4
  1082. India shouldn't be goading on Taiwan - China relationship. The Taiwan question is very similar to the Goa question and India (rightfully) invaded and took back Goa when the Portuguese refused to return it to India. Back when India demanded Goa's return, the West also stabbed India in the back and supported Portuguese colonial hold on the region and the local separatists waging insurgency against India. Taiwan has been part of China for a long time, and it is an unresolved civil war and does not involve anyone else. If India wants to argue for Taiwan's independence, then perhaps they should return Goa to Portugal.
    4
  1083.  @SeanFooGold  Good. A den of snakes and thieves. Their discomfort is my entertainment.
    4
  1084. And that printed went into raising all these asset prices until it burst, and the taxpayers are left holding the bag. It's brilliant if you are a capitalist.
    4
  1085. These predictions were great because the people who made the predictions used well-proven fundamentals to extrapolate their predictions. In hindsight, it is perhaps not surprising that these predictions turned out to be true. But to make such an ingenious insights require strong foundational expertise on a subject topic. This holds true for all sciences and really, all human works. Professionalism counts, expertise counts and not all opinions are created equal. Some opinions are better than others.
    4
  1086. I'm not one for conspiracy theories because once you get into it, you can become irrationally obsessed with finding patterns that are not there. That being said, the west and especially the US government has a proven track record of meddling in other countries' internal affairs, one of which is to sow chaos, create instability for regime changes. This happened to Iran to Mossadegh's government and we all know what happened since then. It has also been used in numerous Central and South American countries. The sudden appearance and the "mascot-like" A4 paper theatrics is very suspicious indeed, even without the whole accent thing. As far as I can tell from youtubers who live in China, protests there tend to be more spontaneous and lack organization partly because the CPC is very good at letting people's steam off and controlling the social media so highly organized protests are rare. Whether you agree with this policy is beside the point, because this seem very contrived and that should be a reg flag for false flag operation for any observers. It may or may not be a false flag op, we just have to keep an eye out and ear to the ground and not irrationality override logic and dispassionate objectivity. In any case, the slow move from zero-covid is likely to accelerate to opening of China, even if it is just to prevent the west from exploiting a potential source of social unrest.
    4
  1087. "And Slim just left the building" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg I'm dying.
    4
  1088. I thought you westerners really like the Indians. You can sell your sh*t to them.
    4
  1089.  @aranisles8292  Cope some more. Vanis is still right.
    4
  1090. Lol CBA comment session is populated by CIA stooges.
    4
  1091.  @Jake-dh9qk  Like the Eight Nation Alliance bullying China during the century of humiliation.
    4
  1092. They already won.
    4
  1093. If the western media says the sky is blue, it is probably a good idea to step outside and check it yourself.
    4
  1094. Ahh the Philippines, spoiler of SE Asia.
    4
  1095.  @tstcikhthyss  The fact that you have to clarify showed how confusing and unwieldy the imperial system of any kind really is.
    4
  1096. LOL
    4
  1097.  @KS-PNW  The democrats never said that, that's the inaccurate part. The libertarians definitely want everything I described. Most of us are not stupid and ignorant to their designs.
    4
  1098. ​ @Liboch  Yes, but the fact that almost the entire world defies the US is a sight to behold. If this was 30 years ago, heck, even 20 years ago, this sight would be unthinkable. It really points to the waning power of the American empire. Singapore should take very serious note about the decline of American hegemony and its moral standing among the world and adjust our foreign policies accordingly. Depending on the US to do the right and respect another country's sovereignty as they get more and more desperate to hold onto their hegemony will be a fool's errand. Last thing is that while Singapore is very westernized, the government must take into account that even though our Muslim brothers and sisters are generally quiet and mostly respect and trust the government's direction, there is no way that behind closed doors, at the dinner table, or even at the hawker table, they are not displeased with the way the white American, mostly Evangelical Christian extremist hegemony is unaliving their brothers and sisters in Palestine. The Singapore government must be aware that Singapore's sovereignty extend to all citizens and if a large portion of the citizens are not happy with the foreign policies, then they must adjust accordingly to reflect the will of the people or else risk becoming delegitimize in the eyes of the citizens. I'm sure a lot of non-Muslim Singaporeans feel the same way about what's happening in Gaza. This is a clear and gross violation of basic human morality and it doesn't matter how much the US threatens us or how much money we make with Israeli companies or buy their military tech, it will be for naught if those deals will results in deep divisions and displeasure from the people.
    4
  1099. Exactly.Why do people think de-colonialization happened so quickly after WWII? Partly because the UK was finished as an empire and no longer had any real power to maintain it, partly because their colonized subjects witnessed the cravenness and incompetence of the British (and Europeans in general) in protecting them which gave rise to a new wave of nationalism and agitation for independence.
    4
  1100. The Israeli trade and some western trade are threatened. The rest of the WORLD trade is doing fine. Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and many countries' ships are sailing through the strait just fine. Maybe people should ask why.
    4
  1101. The rest of the world doesn't need rescuing by China throwing money at this problem. China is already rescuing the world by slowly destroying the western hegemony. The west is not the world. Why will China bail out these toxic companies who committed economic terrorism and financial fraud, that western vulture capitalists invested? Why should China use its own hard earned taxpayers' money to help those people who seek to do them harm.
    4
  1102. What's central planning? Hahaha
    4
  1103. CEOs are the cause of misery in the west.
    4
  1104. It is intellectually dishonest of Sullivan to say that it is the assumption that opening trade will benefit everyone when it was clear from the beginning the only people who will benefit from globalization are the ones who can move capital freely and own the technologies and means of production. The common people who barely have much capital and only have their labor to sell are only going to benefit from this liberalisation of the world economy marginally in cheaper consumer products. They won't be able to accumulate capital themselves, at least not on the scale as the capitalists. The capitalists, especially the neoliberals know this instinctively and they created this myth that it will benefit everyone through propaganda and dishonest intellectualism. They know they can gut everyone. The system is working as intended. It was never intended to benefit the common people, the working class.
    4
  1105. But but but my rainbow armband!!!!!
    4
  1106.  @connor1414  No, not really. The Soviets wanted to defend their borders from known fascists in Finland at that time.
    4
  1107.  @connor1414  There are Nazis in Ukraine. There were Nazis in Finland. But Putin has said it time and time again, protecting the Russian speaking people in Donbass was the pressing issue, the long term issue has always been Ukraine abandoning neutrality after the Maidan coup. The west are not always the good guys. Heck they are seldom the good guys from the POV of the Global Majority.
    4
  1108. It's a capitalism issue. The people interviewed all said roughly the same reasons why the Japanese are not having more children: not enough money, interferes with work, both parents work, though the women taking of the household is still a cultural relic from the past. In other words, the lack of stability and security, especially financial, and way way too much work, that ultimately make people not to want to get married and have children. It is the relentless pursuit of profits in capitalism that shaped the society into what it is today. The companies demand more and more from their workers, while paying less and less to maximize profits, all the while producing all sorts of distractions (so many things to do in Tokyo) that just alienate people. The interview with the two ladies is very revealing: one wants to have children but not get married, the other wants to get married but not have children. Both scenarios is about trying to wrest some control over their lives that have been taken over by work, and distractions (ie. alienation). The interview with the two guys really brings home the point: more work, less pay, less sex, kids are financial burdens. This is caused by capitalism.
    4
  1109. Don't blame him, he is trying to earn from that 1.6B pot.
    4
  1110. Because research (ie publications and citations) becomes prestige, and prestige is one of the most important criteria when you finally have to job hunt. The difference between having a degree from an Ivy League college vs a state college is tremendous when you are looking for a job. Prestige is, as unfortunate as it is, a heuristic for hiring managers to make up their mind on the worth of your degree and thus your perceived ability when looking through hundreds of job applications. The Harvard applicants are going to go on the top of the pile, even if you had a great time at your no name state college and was taught by great teachers and have done numerous undergrad research projects, and you are a well balanced, hardworking person with interesting hobbies, wonderful personality and leadership qualities. Like it or not, Chinese students understand the practicality of having that name on their degree, which is why in order to stand out among millions of students graduating every year, they need to get into that few selected schools. Tuition costs? Quality of teaching (an unmeasurable criteria)? Student life satisfaction? Type of classes? Exposure? Nah, those are all pointless. That school name on your degree is what open doors in your life and Chinese students, and east Asian students to a certain extent understand that deeply. It's the difference between being a grunt for your life or get into the C-suite, and no one is going to wager that on frivolous criteria. It is why the world is so shitty.
    4
  1111.  @k.scottphillips8933  No, that's actually capitalism. You have been fooled to believe that there is this mythical utopian capitalism.
    4
  1112.  @TheBarbahaba hahahahaah nobody says that in China. 40 years ago, maybe. Now? Nah the Chinese love their country.
    4
  1113. Haha, China is not 10 years away from the most cutting edge chips because they are 5 years of leapfrogging the current chips.
    4
  1114.  @rustygates3367  Those technologies were supported by a standard of living and excess that is in turn supported by colonial plundering for the last 500 years. This is simply the world rebalancing itself to where the center typically lies, which is in East and South Asia. China has been playing catch up and now is leading in 57/64 critical technologies and 30% of the entire world's manufacturing output, and is increasing building a financial system that counters the USD system, which will give the world a much needed alternative. China is already outputting tech today that will revolutionize the way our economy, culture and society will be organize. This century will be defined by what comes out of China, not the US. And they did it without resorting to western colonialism style plundering. You still think this is 1990s. Laughable.
    4
  1115. If he can stop it, but doesn't want to, he is no god. If he wants to, but cannot stop it, he is also no god.
    4
  1116. They probably can defend against a few missiles, but not against a saturation attack like having dozens and dozens of missiles coming at the fleet. If 5 hypersonic missiles will get shot down, then launch 10, 20, 50. You just need a few to get through and the USN will have a very bad day. And China has a lot of these missiles and they can build a lot of them in a hurry.
    4
  1117. China is the only country that I know of, that actively, explicitly said that common prosperity, distributed development and poverty alleviation are their top policy priorities, and they prove that by executing policies towards those goals. China is not on the paper the richest, as this video will talk about the flaws in using GDP metric, but the Chinese people are richer than the Americans because they can save money, they can invest, they can accumulate capital and they can have a good life. That's real wealth.
    4
  1118. No, you don't. Capitalism is inherently hierarchical and anti-competitive. You people only talk about free market and competition when you know you can dominate. When you start losing, you go for protectionism. Hypocrisy and delusions are built into capitalism.
    4
  1119. It's going to come down to whether India is willing to come to the negotiation table in good faith. China can always wait for India to get serious wanting to resolve the border issues.
    4
  1120. The Europeans ARE vassals and their politicians are no more than colonial administrators.
    4
  1121. The Chinese government plans for 100 years into the future, and their priority is the revitalization of the country, the long term sustainability of its economy, delivers prosperity and promises to her people. To do that, they have to consider the longevity of that industry, the benefits it can bring to the people, the jobs it can create, the potential for developing new technologies from that targeted industry, the long term environmental impact the industry has, the benefits it bring to society, etc., not just ROI. It is why China will emerge dominant in the long run, because it is not just interested in the ROI within the next 3 quarters, it is only interested in building a sustainable economy and prosperity for ALL, not just for the rich and powerful.
    4
  1122. Here is an easy way to dismiss conspiracy of scientists trying to suppress existence of these crytids; whoever discover a new megafauna as bombastic as the yeti, bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster beyond a shred of doubt, will be one of the most famous scientists ever lived. No scientist is going to suppress the discovery of new, previously unknown megafauna.
    4
  1123. But what if your country is a corporation?
    4
  1124. The material reality exert itself on the Europoors.
    4
  1125. You guys have return to be a colony of the American Empire, so don't expect this to continue.
    4
  1126. Stealthily creating money to buy each other is such an absurd concept. It's like trading virtual items in an online game using virtual money created in the game and then pretend that it is a real economy. It is also insanely immoral.
    4
  1127. ​ @fdjw88  That's not as fool proof as you want to believe. Yes, a lot of those debts are owe within America and a large portion is owe to other government apparatus. But no matter who hold the debts, they still have to be repaid with interests when they matured. You can certainly print money to inflate it away but that inflation also means the actual value of the interest that the American people are trying to make from lending the money is also gone. Which means in the end, no new capital is really generated, and the American people are left to prop up the inflation. Ultimately, you can't escape the fact that debts that are not backed by real things like commodities and produced value are not real. You print money, you inflate it, you are just passing the burden to the creditor and if the creditors are American people themselves, you are just destroying their capital and the American people get poorer holding onto American debt. Somewhere, some time, someone will left holding the bag. This will just make life even harder for the American people because the value they produced and invested in their own government's debts are diluted away, stolen by corporations (mostly non-productive industries like MIC and healthcare) which benefited from charging high prices for their goods and services on the government that took on these debts in the first place. This is the kind of thinking that convinced me that America is on the decline and it won't bounced back because the Americans themselves do not understand or refuse to understand the hole they are digging themselves into. In the end, you don't deserve the standard of living that you enjoy because you don't produced enough useful stuff to justify it. Eventually, you will have to pay for it, probably with generations of stagflation and social chaos and exploitation by your own oligarchs. It will be sad, but it will just poetically just.
    4
  1128.  @bhrdwja  Ohh look it's a CIA bot.
    4
  1129. No war but class war.
    4
  1130.  monipenny408  don't be racist.
    4
  1131. China and Russia are also producing social scientists and the humanities. The problem is not who graduated with what degrees. The problem is the number of quality graduates.
    4
  1132. The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of people to steal from and to exploit.
    4
  1133. NFTs and crypto being damaging to the environment is actually the secondary harmful part of the whole shitfest. It's like saying bleeding is a really bad consequence of being stabbed to death, while avoiding talking about the death part. Crypto and NFTs are self contained speculative instruments that were created for no real purposes beyond acting as a speculative instrument. That is why the people who advocate these shit are almost exclusively rich techbros who know they are at the top of this speculation pile or naive, stupid and maliciously nihilistic poor techbros who brought into the whole edifice as a get rich quick scheme. It is a new kind of pure scam not unlike the birth of Ponzi scheme.
    4
  1134. Deterrence only work if you show the other side what you are capable of, so they factor it into their calculations. The Chinese announced things like this to let the US know.
    4
  1135.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Nah, that's exactly how westerners think.
    4
  1136. Hahahahahaahhaha
    4
  1137. All this talk about moving money from one market to another, in order to chase basis points and no one ask the most important question: what value has all these generated for society, for the countries and for the world? Did we get more food? More housing? Better healthcare? Increase in research and development of useful technologies? Better transportation? Better entertainment? More tourism? More financial security? More capital for the workers to retire on? No, nadda, no real, usable valuable has been generated. It's just exchanging one inflating market with another inflating market. This is nihilistic dystopia.
    4
  1138.  @bodybag22  Gaining air superiority is the most important part of any opening moves in warfare today. Air to air combat and its cousin suppression of air defenses are always going to be relevant. Lose the air, and you lose high ground and you lose the war. Stop talking about things you do not understand.
    4
  1139.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  hahahahahahaha.
    4
  1140. This video is depressing. We are basically financing US transgressions against all of us. We are giving them money to fund their military that they will use against us if we ever step out of line. Freedom, democracy. I spit at their fake morality.
    4
  1141. And a lot of luck. Like being born in the right family.
    4
  1142.  @jggouvea  I know, I know but we have to start somewhere.
    4
  1143.  @xw8462  I like this new excuse of the UAS becoming a loser. It's not manufacturing, it's "craft". Hahahahaha since when was Harley a cottage "craft" industry, it has been a manufacturer for a long time. They just make loud, lousy bikes that only Americans like.
    4
  1144. "That's crazy, how do you do that?" It's western narrative manufacturing. It is hilarious that westerners is indignant at their own academics and media lying when the rest of the world has been the victims of western narrative manipulation for decades. You really believe everything you are told about China? Lol
    4
  1145.  @phatbeatsbadnews2724  They did stop US coups.
    4
  1146.  @JigilJigil  China already dominate nearly all chip making and they are going to reach parity within the next 5 - 10 years or so. To say chips will be made elsewhere other than China is wishful thinking. They already won the competition. You just have not seen the full effect yet.
    4
  1147. India is always the weakest link, more so than Brazil and South Africa because India can be convinced by the west or backstab BRICS.
    4
  1148. The westerners think the rest of the world are stu*pid. Ohh you think only you people know how to play the economic war games?
    4
  1149. Who is going to do the investigation and prosecution and mete out the punishment? The US government? LOL
    4
  1150. Business is absolutely about ideology. It's about which ideology you use to run your economy and China uses Chinese modified Marxist dialectic materialism as its basis while the west uses neoliberal capitalism. It is becoming clear that China's model and economic philosophy is superior.
    4
  1151.  @spartancrown  There was no forced transfer of tech. It all part of the deal for doing business in China. You don't have to sign on if you don't want to. China bought those techs with their labor.
    4
  1152. Calling the post WWII an age of compassion is so Americo-Eurocentric. Post WWII world was not very compassionate to South America, Africa, and Asia. They continue to suffer under European colonization, and then dismantling of the old colonialism and then being driven into neocolonialism of IMF, World, the USD dominance, CIA destabilization, regime change, color revolutions and deliberate suppression of development for the Global Majority. This Age of "Aggression" is just the late stage capitalism's inherent contradictions coming to a boil and we are no longer able to ignore it. Add to the fact that the rise of the Global Majority, especially China, the resurgence of Russia, the growing independence of the colonized and suppressed countries like the BRICS, and other nations, the contradictions are becoming sharper and sharper with each passing year. Age of indifference? That's just the next step of globalized capitalism moving into the rent-seeking, harvesting mode. The western liberal capitalist oligarchs are panicking as they scramble to decide whether to keep trying to suppress the Global Majority or join them. Uplifting 800 over millions people out of poverty, creating policies that are people-centric, based on common prosperity and then connecting the world in a vast trade network so the world can be lifted by a rising tide, the age of compassion did not end in the west. It shifted to China. Everything that is happening in the west today is predicted by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao and other Marxist thinkers. The fact that almost all westerners, even intellectuals like Dr. Murphy cannot see it is exactly why they keep getting it wrong in the 21st century and why the west is in terminal decline.
    4
  1153. You probably want to look at Chinese EV for your next car, because in the next few years we might be seeing the collapse of Japanese and German brands.
    4
  1154. Sean, everything in America is perception control. Americans and the west in general, are the most brainwashed people in the world. They still think Ukraine can win, they still think they are the good guys. They still believe China is going to collapse anytime now.
    4
  1155. "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" -George Carlin
    4
  1156.  @mandrews1245 Most Germans know English and most places can still communicate with English. If they are willing to learn the local languages, the world is literally a German technologist's oyster.
    4
  1157. @as123ferrdi8  see, you still think like a thief.
    4
  1158. Don't forget that Singapore is a major financial hub for international trade in SE Asia.
    4
  1159. Well reality has a Chinese bias.
    4
  1160. The empire harvesting the vassals to prop up its own zombie economy at the twilight of the empire. A tale as old as time.
    4
  1161. Having no alternative, and then having the guy who controls the system deliberately smashing any alternative is FORCING everyone to use it.
    4
  1162. India still simping for Israel in 2023 is unsurprising at all.
    4
  1163. Just like African, Chinese, Arab, Latino capitalists won't save us from capitalism.
    4
  1164. The US is a very low bar to clear.
    4
  1165.  @dt_2  I thought that was the UK? Lately it seem like India is eager to become the 51st state of the US.
    4
  1166. The only people who believe China is collapsing and want China to collapse are westerners or westernized people who drank the kool-aid
    4
  1167. This is just capitalism at its purest. I don't know why USians are so hung up about it. You people love capitalism.
    4
  1168. The problem with the USD is not even just you might get sanctioned though that's a huge problem. The more likely problem you will encounter is you run out of USD to settle your USD denominated debts, often taken up as part of the debt trap scheme foisted on countries because they had no alternatives. Between the BRICS bank and platforms such as mBridge, the erosion of western financial neocolonialism is real, and the US really really hates it. It is the only true power they have left and they need to preserve it so they can deficit spend, to preserve their other power - the military. And of course, to prevent a social fallout if they ever have to go into austerity.
    4
  1169. The wrecking of Japan's economy is why being America's friend can be fatal. America will allow you to grow, but only under their control and always that the America stays at top. What the US had done to Japan, is exactly what is being done to China. Except this time, America is going to find that China is not a pushover like Japan.
    4
  1170. I thought only the Chinese copy the west. So beside the DDGX, the US is copying China's strategy. How ironic.
    3
  1171. Because EU nations do not have leaders, statesmen or politicians. They have colonial managers.
    3
  1172. Let me get my very small violin.
    3
  1173.  @danl5592  Or Gibraltar. Time to return that to Spain.
    3
  1174. The only thing the US oligarchs and their political elites understand is pure, unadulterated power. Sooner or later, the US is going to confront China in west Pacific. The PLA sinking the entire Pacific fleet is the only answer.
    3
  1175. For BYD, this is trivial. They have already making their own chips.
    3
  1176. I'm more interested in the billionaires that were on that call with the police chief. We should also be making a list too.
    3
  1177. Does it cost three times as much as a Chinese train and about the same quality? Germany has no more cheap gas. It is not a competitive country anymore.
    3
  1178.  @ce1834  Yes, quality from China. Like it or not, China has reach industrial capacity and quality as Germany. Their products are cheaper and on par with western goods and often actually surpassed them.
    3
  1179.  @ce1834  LOL the costs of goods from Germany are 3 to 5 times the costs from and not really that much different in quality, To say that they can't get their stuff certified in Europe is obviously a political issue, not a quality one. Germany is not competitive anymore. You are just coping.
    3
  1180. No, I'm done with this. Russia feeling threatened is a legitimate concern for the international community to consider. If you disrespect another country's national security, they should have the right to defend themselves. War today is not merely waged on the battlefield. There is economic war, psychological war, cultural war, political war. NATO expansion into Ukraine is economic and political war of domination. A country's economy is the country itself. The state threatened is threatening the country itself. You cannot threatened people and not expect them to defend themselves. The west has forfeited any moral high ground to justify anything when it seeks to include Ukraine into NATO and destroyed Ukraine's neutrality. The west, and especially Americans put the knife on the throat of Russia using the hand of Ukraine. Russia is fighting a war of self defensive against western political and economical domination. If China really did build a base in Cuba and place intermediate range nuclear missiles there, the US will invade Cuba. So let's not pretend that this is Russia's fault. The reason why the neocons and even most of westerners can behave so arrogantly is because they think they are untouchable. No one is untouchable. Not forever.
    3
  1181. Saying Putin imprison journalists without mentioning how the west routinely shut down journalists who said the wrong things and gagged them from mainstream media is hypocritical. Just because the west does censorship more subtly does not mean they are the paragons of truth. I will say their methods are far more sinister and insidious because they give people a false impression that they don't do this pull this kind of BS.
    3
  1182. Listening is not good enough. The US and its vassal states need to back off from meddling in Africa. They need to stop using "freedom" and "democracy" as pretexts for meddling. If the west just f*ck off, everyone will be better off.
    3
  1183. Reminds me of that Australian comedy show where the minister in the show was asking if the generals are really asking for 300 billions over 10 years to build up the Australian military to defend their trade routes from their biggest trading partner, China. It basically foretold the AUKUS. Great move Australia, you are spending half a trillion for a few nuclear subs to defend against the country that buys and sell you stuff the most.
    3
  1184. Bad ideologies rot your brains. Not all of them are bad, but the bad ones all have a common denominator. They demand blind obedience from its adherents, like the western liberal capitalist ideology.
    3
  1185.  @Ullr-el3pu  LOL is this satire? I can't tell anymore.
    3
  1186. This is just sick. Our money that we generated is stolen by America to feed their own economy.
    3
  1187. He shouldn't have listened to bojo and settled with Russia a peace treaty, not allow NATO to expand into Ukraine and maintain neutrality back in March 2022 and probably get even more concession out of Putin by giving Russia the security guarantee it desperately needs against an existential threat from the US. Instead, he sacrificed thousands of Ukrainians for nothing and is still losing. The only silver lining out of this debacle is that this proxy war is breaking the American empire and its European vassals so they cannot go and stir up more mischief elsewhere. Imagine if the US instead turn Taiwan into the actual "Ukraine" and provoke a war with China.
    3
  1188. As nixon once said, make the economy scream.
    3
  1189. Make us your vassal state, America senpai. uwu
    3
  1190. I think China and Brazil should start programs to let Argentinians seek political asylum. Of course, only after a thorough vetting process.
    3
  1191. I honestly don't know how he can win against the most powerful propaganda machine ever created.
    3
  1192. President Xi does not need to be on his best behavior because China has shown unparalleled restraint, discipline and grace in the face of US provocation and acts of war. The one that needs to be taught a lesson is the US. And the rest of the world recognized that there is only 1 China and it is the People's Republic of China and the island province of Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China. Any lesser country would have gone to war with the US. As much neutral as Mr. Freeman wants to be, he is still trying to act like China is just as bad as the US. There is no wolf warrior policy, it is China asserting its rightful place as a great power on the world's stage. This kind of mentality just shows everyone that the west is not serious about sharing the world, is not serious about diplomacy and is not serious about adapting to a multipolar world. They still think they are the ones who are more right than everyone, when the fact is that the west is the side that have caused most of the problems, death and destruction on non-western Global Majority. This shows those of us living outside the west that the only way for the west to finally STFU and actually be humble and conciliatory and be a normal part of the world is to completely crush them in all aspects. Full spectrum domination on the west from the Global Majority. Force their own medicine down their throats for 3 generations and re-vamp their educational system to educate their latter generation of the truths of western crimes against humanity and dismantle their corpo-state media.
    3
  1193.  @erwin5760  Yea, we usually just call it Asia Pacific if we are referring to the region from Russia in the north all the way to Australia in the south, because it is literally Asian side of the Pacific Ocean.
    3
  1194.  @arthurpasseri4590  lol you think you are free?
    3
  1195. Western media is only concentrating on China's real estate because it is the part they know they can spin that China is collapsing. We must look at what the western corpo-state media says as much as what they don't say. They don't want people in their own countries to catch on what China is really doing; transitioning it's economy for the future. Because the obvious question will be asked by people who lived in the west who are a little smarter and a little less brainwashed: why can't we do that too? Why are we still doing the same thing over and over again and not even changing the conditions and premises? They will realize China can do that because in China, the political power rest in the CPC and they have the mandate of the people, not in the hands of billionaires. They will realize China can do this because it is still a socialist country. That's how you get revolutions.
    3
  1196. The WESTERNERS are surprised, not all of us. We who live outside the western corpo-state media bubble always know China cannot be underestimated and a domestic 7nm node is just a matter of time and probably sooner than we expect. Tge WESTERNERS and their media are the ones who is tooting their own horns saying that the sanctions have destroy China's high tech industry and the Chinese are all sheepie and and stupid and only know how to steal tech and never able to create anything new or innovate and all slaves the seeseepee and Chairman Xi and they eat babies or something. Sure, western industry insiders know better but they are not the ones controlling the media or trying to get reelected in the midst of a global recession and a war. So yea, we are not surprised at all. Maybe a little at how fast they got here. Remember that 3 years ago when Huawei got sanctioned and China lost access to the most cutting edge lithography machines, we all thought that they are at least 10-15, maybe even 20 years behind. And now they are merely 5 years behind the most cutting edge node. Every time the west tried to cut off China from something, everyone predicts they will be generations, decades behind. Then, they launch their own rockets, then their own heavy lift and now they have their own space station. 20 years ago, everyone think China's domestic jet engine industry is 40 years behind the west, then they shrink that to 20 within a decade, then to just one generation within another 10 years. Now they have the WS-15 that can allow the J-20 to supercruise and is only is behind western engines in lifespan. People who bet against China always lose.
    3
  1197. I got this video on my recommendation and I'm pleasantly surprised that the commentators here are clear minded and objective enough to give China its due credit for succeeding in being competitive. And to shut down morons who still uses dumb talking points to attack China unfairly.
    3
  1198. I just find it amusing that Christians are so adamant about the finality of their belief system when it is clear that it was an evolved system and that none of it is really based on some unyielding truth. I will respect them more, if they just admit that their scripture is not some ultimate arbitration of truth and reality. Instead I find their blindness and arrogance to be off putting.
    3
  1199.  @doujinflip  LOL that's not even remotely true. The fact is that they have already won the EV market and they did it themselves while the west flounders all over the place. They don't need inferior western knowledge and tech and they have plenty of capital.
    3
  1200. You can just summarize it even better and say it's called capitalism.
    3
  1201. It's "mini-er" than the o11 dynamic lol.
    3
  1202. Crimes are more a wealth inequality and poverty problem than racial equity. Don't fall into the trap of racists that only blame crimes on skin color and refuse to look at the fundamental problems of poverty in a society. Remember not too long ago, Chinatowns in America were also hotbeds of criminality, so are Asians just more prone to crimes? Singapore sure does not prove that right. Singapore is strict on crimes but the low rates are more a consequence of an wealthy, equitable society more than draconian laws. This is something racists refuse to acknowledge. Crime rate back in the 60s in Singapore were also very high. In fact, Singapore's independence was because racial riots and tensions. Just look at the neighboring Malaysia which has a terrible crime rate statistics and it is poorer, more corrupted government and less wealth and social equity even though both countries became independent only a few years apart.
    3
  1203. I really wouldn't use a right wing black dude for quotes.
    3
  1204. It is hilarious seeing how the Europeans have committed economic suicide for the worst friend in existence: America. The US provoked a war in Ukraine, destroying Europe's access to cheap energy, then turned around and demand they send weapons to Ukraine, while selling them gas at far higher prices. Then the US turned around and did a American First policy and gutted Europe's industrial capacity, while the European are still buying US treasuries that fund the subsidies and tax breaks that artificially make US more competitive for investment. Europe, you are as stupid as a doorknob and as spineless as a snail. Your "friend" is robbing you blind and you are still talking about freedom and democracy.
    3
  1205. Rules based order means the Americans made up the rules and order everyone around.
    3
  1206. It is true that the US is baiting China constantly. The fact that the Chinese leadership held firm and refused to engage, showed a level of consistency, rationality, discipline and patience that is simply incredible. This is why China is rising and the US is declining. The quality of leadership in China is far far higher than in the US.
    3
  1207. Russia didn't invade Ukraine. They were protecting the Russian speaking Ukrainians from being g-cide.
    3
  1208. The west, as usual, will cherry pick data points for their own narratives. They keep saying China is going to collapse, and that China's population is declining will also lead to its collapse. But they deliberately ignore graphs like this that show that the real estate is being deliberately imploded to make way for high tech, high value and sustainable industries like semiconductors, renewable and nuclear energy, EVs, etc. They also deliberately ignore the fact that China is adopting automation robotics at a ferverish pace, and investing heavily in robotics (another high value industry) that is now bearing fruit. Not to mention they are investing in the tool making industries like lithography, solar and wind power tools, 4th gen nuclear power designs, batteries maunfacturing, hydrogen generation, etc. This is the superiority of a system where the government can control the capital and have the power to do centralized planning for years, to move them where the country needs it the most, and to develop industries where they will never be developed if left to private sector to do so. This is how the government can create a dynamic economy and crush any rent-seeking behavior that takes value and capital out of the productive sectors and hoard by capitalists. This is how they break the cycle of boom and bust by de-leveraging and reduce capacity where it is over-built and reinvest that capital and capacity elsewhere before a bubble pop by itself and hurting millions of people. Capitalism cannot accomplish this, it has to "self-correct" during a bust cycle, destroying lives while the rich get richer and then repeat itself again.
    3
  1209. The US GDP is mostly based on virtual economy in financial gambling and useless things like weapons. You take away the financial market that are beyond normal healthy banking activities, the weapons manufacturing, the healthcare costs, and the stock market inflated with printed money, its economy is far far smaller than it appears. You're telling that a company like Huawei and BYD that are dominating their industries, producing high value, high tech products have lower market cap than Tesla and Nvidia? That alone should tell you how fake the numbers coming out of the US are. Very few industries in US is based on the real world. That's why everything is so puzzling at first glance but if you look at it objectively and count only actually useful things like factories producing useful consumable products, farm that produce food, useful services that generate value as the real economy, then everything is clear. The US economy is fake, it is inflated with fake money, and inflated numbers. It's not that difficult to understand it once you have some class consciousness, and well versed in Marxist economics.
    3
  1210. All the tactics proposed by the Times is predicated on the basis that the US can do whatever they want, and everyone will just have to swallow it. Well, that day is obviously over.
    3
  1211. Ohh I was told by the western corpo-state propaganda media that Vietnam hates China and totally will fight China on US side. How strange they will give a red carpet welcome to the Chinese president. Could it be that western corpo-state media lies? How dastardly. They will lie? How shocking. Well, not that shocking.
    3
  1212. While stock prices can be an indicator, it is hardly the best way to measure economic health. Lifting 800 million people out of poverty and unleashing the potential of these 800 million people is what really made China strong today.
    3
  1213. Seems like the biggest winners are the Chinese citizens who now has access to housing at a cheaper price and less upfront burden. If China can stimulate the economy by ensuring the Chinese people are the ones buying up these unused homes, it ensure that most of the capital borrowed will flow into the hands of the people and stay there as their asset prices, which will inevitably raises when the real estate market stabilizes. This is a completely different approach from the 2008 where the banks were the ones bailed out and the homeowners were left holding the bag and had to foreclose, and further exacerbate the loss of wealth in the middle class, increase in homelessness, increase in instability of the society. I find that China always finds a way to maximize the benefits to their people and everything else, whether it is the rich, companies, anything can be utilize to bring an outcome that is equitable to the people. Their incentives are completely different from the neoliberals and neocons that control the west.
    3
  1214. China took a long time to catch up on jet technology too, and they also missed deadlines. It's the reason why the first batches of J-20 were still using the older WS-10 engines. But they did eventually produced the WS-15 which is roughly parity with the F-119 and just behind the F-135.
    3
  1215. Okay, that is a good looking shirt and tie combination.
    3
  1216. F*** off. No one in Singapore wants your pointless, bullshit antagonism. Don't tell Singaporeans what they are supposed to think, you arrogant POS. They are far smarter than you.
    3
  1217. Hahaha guess who is the biggest builder of LNG ships.
    3
  1218. I have a very tiny violin.
    3
  1219. The three pillars of the UAS empire are financial, cultural and military. One cannot truly understand how the UAS controls another country and threaten others' security without understanding how the Bretton Woods, neoliberalism financial, the IMF, world bank and the USD system work; how cultural dominance, traditional and social media work; how the military "alliances" and the MIC works, and ultimately how all of this combined to allow the UAS reaped colonial and imperialist benefits. The most obvious benefit is the fact that the UAS can deficit spend to the moon, print money like crazy without causing hyperinflation, while able to inflate away its debts. For now. It is also why China is the UAS empire number one enemy because only China has the power to break this unholy system. But really what the UAS empire is most afraid of, is what if China's ascendency will allow China TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE to the UAS instead.
    3
  1220.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  you can start by reading Marx, and stop listening to what western economists say Marxism is.
    3
  1221. China didn't take American jobs. Your own countrymen outsourced those jobs, and you get cheaper products in the end anyway. Still whining about "job losses" is pathetic and shortsighted. Don't blame the Chinese for being able to make the same things faster, more efficient and cheaper. It also smack of self centered arrogance as though only Americans deserved to have jobs, the rest of the world should just get stuck in poverty.
    3
  1222. That work culture where you have no life is not sustainable either. Unless the company is willing to work shifts, the hardest workers in the hardest working culture are eventually going to burn out.
    3
  1223. Which is why a militarized commercial jet-liner is a bad idea.
    3
  1224. And risk being taken away at a whim? Remember tiktok and Russia?
    3
  1225.  @yaoliang1580  That's fair. If India is serious about settling disputes, I'm sure China will be more than happy to settle that so they don't have to constantly worry about it.
    3
  1226.  @Ilyak1986  Your society has to have the ingredients to produce a person like LKY.
    3
  1227.  @SuperGuangdong  Hating China has bipartisan support. It is one of the many things that both sides actually agreed, like giving more money to the rich and making sure American stays capitalistic. The Democrats will not be "his". They will eviscerate him like they did with Bernie.
    3
  1228.  @somjrgebn  The power of BRICS is that the countries are its own suppliers and consumers. They collectively own a huge amount of essential food, minerals, energy and have the industries to turn them into goods and services and they have multi-billion population that can use them. The strategies of integrating their economies together and play to each other's strengths is the model for multipolarity moving forward and the west either are too dumb or too self-absorbed to understand it. And even if they do, their system, culture and societies have locked themselves into this colonialism mindset. Yes, they will eat themselves because their mindset is that of domination and thievery. They cannot figure a way to transition to a multipolar world where they have to contribute as much as they consume, and it will ultimately spell their end. My popcorn box is filled.
    3
  1229. Why will Russia do something they don't want when they are winning? The problem with the west is that they are so arrogant that they think everyone will automatically do something against their interest because they order them to do so.
    3
  1230. The fact that China has created the fastest growth, industrialization in human history and lifting 800 over million people out of poverty and there is NO Nobel prize in economics laureate showed just how fake the Nobel prize is. This use of clustering on an industrial scale is succeeding so well, that any western economist that came up with this idea would have been showered with prizes and that government with effusive praises. Yet we are being brainwashed to believe that Chinese scientists cannot innovate and only know how to copy and the See See Pee is the most evil regime in the world. The hypocrisy of the west is disgusting.
    3
  1231. How brilliant can you be if you are trapped in the neoliberal capitalist bubble and only know the capitalist economic system and even believe dogmatically that it is the best system ever? Best and brightest in America saying anything mean jacksh*t to me.
    3
  1232. They are willing to take 300 billion to lose their financial empire. It really is k*lling the proverbial golden goose. These neolibs and neocons are st*pid as f.
    3
  1233. Hahaha, the Ansar Allah are not bothering Chinese or Russian ships at all because they were not supporting the Israel regime in their genocide of the Palestinians.
    3
  1234. Hey don't insult the bidet. At least it is useful, it cleans my butt!
    3
  1235.  @MrBrax  lol, no one can match the immense suffering the UAS empire has brought to the world.
    3
  1236. Every method of fish farming is going to produce a lot of waste. I think the solution here is to be able to move the fish tanks around, so it doesn't have to stay in one place and load one area with too much fish waste and collapse the local ecosystem and degrade the water quality. It is a roundabout way to simulate these fishes "swimming" across the ocean, except they are on a ship.
    3
  1237. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    3
  1238.  @vincesiy1403  Fascist always starts off that way.
    3
  1239. trump doesn't think anything. He follows whatever is the most convenient thing to do. If anything, he is good at sniffing out the most weaselly way to gain power and shield himself from the consequences of his mistakes and crimes.
    3
  1240. @apophisxo4480  lol, the problem with your rant is that nearly every problem in the world can be traced back to the US causing shit everywhere.
    3
  1241. It's sheer incompetence to try to pressure another country's leader to do something publicly, only to have it rebuffed. Olaf really thought that publicly trying to pressure Argentina is gonna work. It's bullying tactic and it backfired on him.
    3
  1242.  @unavailableusername9694  They can't reload their VLS missiles when underway, and even ammunitions cannot be easily transported onto the carriers.
    3
  1243. It's not just West Asia countries that are exporting the most oil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Russia are all major exporters and they are all more friendly to China than to the west.
    3
  1244. Singapore is one of the most diverse countries in the world FFS. We literally had violent racial riots in the 50s and 60s. When people say "it only works in non-diverse country" I can imagine LKY looks at him with disappointment because "non-diverse" really means "wouldn't it be nice if the country is all one color skin, one culture, one religion." Singapore is what it is today because the Chinese, Malays and Indians and all others who migrated there chose to work together as one people and made all the necessary sacrifices with that the iron discipline LKY spoke of. LKY would not have tolerate such a pathetic and whiny attempt at xenophobia and racism dogwhistling.
    3
  1245. Even if Cuba and China do establish a base on the island, that's still Cuba's right as a sovereign nation. This is on top of the US having the Five Eyes spy network and the hundreds of bases around the world.
    3
  1246. It's not propaganda when it is the plain truth.
    3
  1247. The people who live in that certain western hemipshere country are not going to learn anything until they lose a very big ship to a very big thing coming in at mach 10. HAHAHAHA this is the only combination of words that can get past this website's auto delete function. What a joke...
    3
  1248. Is it the government or the corporations or the capitalist system itself that screwed up America? Saying it's the government's fault for destroying America is on the level of thinking that is like saying you should build ships out of wood because wood floats and steel sinks. Shallow and not very useful.
    3
  1249. Err... no one is an ally with the US except the phillppineess and we all know that's because bong bong is a US puppet. China is not aggressive. They make claims now that they can back it up because back then they were not a naval power since the fall of Qing dynasty. They have historical claims there because China always had a presence in the SCS. Every country will make claims on any piece of land that they can. You can either go to war or negotiate. Since the signing of the Indonesia's initiative last year, China and every SE Asian country now has a framework for bilateral negotiations to settle any claims and dispute in the SCS. All except bong bong because the US is telling bong bong to choose hostility. When everyone is able to do something peacefully and you are the odd one out, then the problem lies with the phillioppiness and the US, not with China or the rest of SE Asia. No one in SE Asia wants a SE Asia NATO because no one wants bloc politics and ideological divides to create unnecessary tension and China respect that. The only ones who is not respecting SE Asia's sovereignty to want peace is the US and the west who are trying to start wars and conflicts in this region so everyone goes down with China. We know what the US is trying to pull, and so does China. So no, there won't be a SE Asia NATO, they won't be a SE Asia bloc that will be hostile to China because China gives us no reason to. Everything you have heard about how China is aggressive and SE Asia is worried are literal lies and misinformation because I live here and no one wants war. No one think China is being aggressive. Everyone knows their roles and place. If SE Asia nations truly think China is a threat, then the Quad and AUKUS won't just include the Us, UK, Aust and India. It would have include SE Asian countries because we would have requested to join. But we didn't, and that should already tell you that SE Asia countries have a neutral or friendly relationship with China. No one here really wants to join your little bully club.
    3
  1250.  @anilin6353  No, the entire world has recognized that Taiwan is part of China under the One China Policy because it is an unresolved civil war that outsiders has no business meddling with. The only reason the US is disrupting the status quo is trying to contain China, and it has proven it is willing to plunge entire regions into war to do that. The US is willing to get millions killed to preserve its hegemony. SE Asian nations do not want US meddling in Taiwan-China internal affairs.
    3
  1251. Hahaha kelllog is basically telling Americans to eat cake.
    3
  1252. So the most advanced foundries are now in East Asia. We see if Intel's Alder Lake will finally start catching up to AMD/TMSC. How the turntables.
    3
  1253. The US is a threat to SE Asia.
    3
  1254. My next card won't be a nvidia if that make any difference.
    3
  1255. China is a democracy. Let's stop this BS that it is not.
    3
  1256. trump also assassinate Soleimani that almost provoke a war with Iran. I don't think trump is as restrained as you make him out to be.
    3
  1257. The decades of atrocities didn't shame you first?
    3
  1258. It's really too bad. It is cheaper than the o11 dynamic but the cost I could save will have to go to get an sfx PSU, which will bring the total cost higher than the original. Then I have an extra PSU not doing anything.
    3
  1259. CNA is a Singapore media company and it is shameful how they use western corpo-state media style of headline writing.
    3
  1260.  @redlizerad8268  "Even the US had to copy some technology before it got to where it is today" lol that's a gross understatement.
    3
  1261. This is not a video essay, this is a whole dissertation.
    3
  1262. Let's not even talk about China. There is literally a country with a population ten times the size of Australia just north of it and the Australians are too arrogant to engage properly with it.
    3
  1263.  @Trace-l7k  I like your modern remix of fascism is capitalism in decay.
    3
  1264.  @markstrickland8736  Seem like they are doing fine after peace returned.
    3
  1265.  @joelturley4847  Yes, a dictatorship of the proletariat. Get it?
    3
  1266. South Korea is a company masquerading as a country.
    3
  1267. Using someone's else money to pay for your investments and projects, and then walk away embarrassed when it didn't turn out well is the capitalist way.
    3
  1268. Ukraine's attacks are pinpricks. It won't matter. Now China not importing wheat from the US will be huge considering how much money the mid west made from farming.
    3
  1269. The world needs EVs and renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions and we need it fast. It's not overcapacity when you are fulfilling a very much needed demand. Heck, I say China is not producing fast enough because we are already in a climate crisis.
    3
  1270. Late stage capitalism is giving them plenty of reasons to be pessimistic.
    3
  1271.  @TeohLieongChuan  so you can't print food.
    3
  1272. That's the thing. They need to keep real money flowing into the crypto space so the techbros and rich ratfuckers can cash out even more. They will drain everything in society into this space that they control, that they already have complete control so they can fully exploit everything in the real world by controlling it in the virtual world.
    3
  1273. This is why China has the three red lines type of regulations.
    3
  1274. The music is not necessary.
    3
  1275. It is nauseating to still hear an America talking about the US wanting to spread democracy, as though they simply just want to bring freedom to everyone. First that assume that the US is indeed brining freedoms and democracy. No it doesn't, it bring captialism and nowadays, neoliberal capitalism. Democracy is always a very distanced second, third priority at best. Most of the time, it brings death and destruction and oppression. Second, it makes the assumption that only the western system is democratic, as though the Chinese is not a democracy, it Cuba, or any non western liberal system. That's BS. China is a democracy, so is Cuba, so is Vietnam. If we want the west and especially the US to be able to exist peacefully, the west needs to drop their self righteousness and convenient definitions of democracy and accept other forms of governance and systems as equally valid. They need to shift their thinking from that they are the only moral arbitrators to they are just another system. Or else, f*ck off.
    3
  1276. Yea, the US still has nukes.
    3
  1277. You can't trust the GDP numbers coming out of the US. They actually put in the rent that new homebuyer would have paid, if they didn't buy a house as part of the GDP. It's insane. They are padding the numbers. Also, the financial sector does not produce real things. They just move money around and create all sort of financial boondoggles. The MIC is not real industry because they do not produce anything useful to society. They only produce things that are not consumable by the public. Healthcare is also not a technically productive sector because ultimately it is just trying to delay most deaths and even then, it drains the savings and income of most Americans. The real industries that produce things that the public consumed and can be exported is not really that much or doing very well. America is a zombie economy propped up by sucking in the surpluses from other countries by selling their bonds because of the artificial demand of the USD.
    3
  1278. Europeans being forced to sign unequal economic deals (treaties) with Mexico is just poetic justice.
    3
  1279. So they basically admit that their prosperity is based on exploiting other country's cheap resources and labor. And they think this is gonna go on forever?
    3
  1280. The US military explicitly said that poverty is their way to drive recruitment because desperate youths are willing to risk life, limb and mind to have a shot at life. This is disgusting, immoral and telling.
    3
  1281. Now let's not get ahead with ourselves. China will build it in a shorter amount of time, on budget and it will last longer.
    3
  1282. ​ @misterhill5598  And it is only a refueling station for their ship patrolling the area for antipiracy. It's not really even a full fledge military base.
    3
  1283.  @xueueux  Yes, and it is an ongoing tragedy. This is one of the problems of American culture. They create problems but they never have the sense of responsibility to solve them, mostly because it is not profitable to solve problems.
    3
  1284. It's very healthy for the 1%. That's the whole point of capitalism.
    3
  1285. Military spending is not real growth because humans can't eat bullets or sleep in tanks. Every missile, every warship built is a hospital, school, apartment not built.
    3
  1286.  @Ray-ov4jl  he is a second hand commentator. His opinions would definitely guide future historians' research but there are enough first hand data to let any good historian understand exactly how the west fall.
    3
  1287. So you also believe that the balloon is a spy device and that the Chinese government eat babies?
    3
  1288.  @Iraia_Roberts  Which one is stupider? An imagined threat with you biggest reading partner who obviously is not doing the things the media are accusing them of doing (remember the western corpo-state media lies about everything on western geopolitical rivals), and spending more than a quarter of trillion on pointless weapons, OR just not mind other people's business and trade peacefully with them? As for NZ media, they all report the same thing taken from the same unreliable sources which are probably falsified by the US anyway. Independence reporting? Hardly. If you think that NZ should decouple from China because of the Uighur problem, which you have no way of knowing whether it is true unless you are willing to listen to China and the people living there. I mean actually listen to them. Or destroy your own economy for a lie. Do you also believe that Iraq had WMDs? Do you also believe that the Russians blow up their own pipeline? Or that this Ukrainian war is truly unprovoked? Do you also believe that China is a dystopian communist totalitarian nightmare hellscape where people are oppressed and dying? Yea, 100 million Chinese every year leave China to go and work, play, study in other countries and willingly go back home to a dystopian nightmare and not a single one defected. You believe all that? So many contradictions, so many paradoxes and yet here we are, you are still believing whatever the corpo-state controlled media tells you.
    3
  1289. Seem like the increased debt just happened during the height of covid. If the debt was taken up to save lives and keep the economy afloat, then it's worth it. As long as NZ fundamentals are good and they are producing goods and services people want, they can make those money back.
    3
  1290. The west has grown so sure about their moral righteousness that they have decided that their ends justified the means. That's how you know they are morally bankrupt.
    3
  1291. "Even if it leads nowhere" You have no idea how China works. Unsubscribed.
    3
  1292. I don't think they can get anymore frugal. Most of them are living paycheck to paycheck, with credit card debts up to the ceiling and some are even withdrawing from their 401k for emergency funds.
    3
  1293. It's capitalism. Capitalism create the perverse incentive to make profits at any cost. What's more profitable than to make people hook on something that they are evolved to crave. Pure sugar was extremely rare in nature and when our ancestors found it, it was always a huge boost in energy and that could mean survival instead of death. Out bodies are evolved to crave energy sources and to efficiently store as much energy as possible because our ancestors never know when they will come across an abundant of food. We were not meant to feast on sugar like that. Nor fats or huge amount of meat. We weren't even meant to be able to eat immediately when our stomachs is empty. But capitalism doesn't care. What's makes profits comes first, and nothing is more profitable than exploiting human weaknesses, whether it is food, smoking, emotions, and desires.
    3
  1294.  @robertdlucas7418  If you are a scientist, you should also know that trying to reinvent the wheel is also extremely difficult when you are literally block from getting the wheel. Also, if you are a scientist, the actions of the US should be disgusting to you.
    3
  1295. It's not impossible. It's still the colonial mindset that the west has to be at the top and the only way for "freedom" and "democracy" to flourish is for the west to dominate in a unipolar world. But they are getting desperate so they keep coming up with these half-baked ideas to sanction and put tariffs on China. When we study just a bit of US economic history, we will see that it has always practiced protectionism for most of its history until it got industrialized and can compete against the rest of the world. Post WWII when the US remained the only industrialized, developed country untouched by the war was the period that the US became obsesses with dominating other countries' economies and then through globalization, financial sheningans and a gigantic military to guarantee it will always be the winner in any free trade agreement. The rest is history.
    3
  1296. Chinese EVs are build to great quality while being cheaper to build. So their EVs are better than western EVs and cheaper to buy. Caresoft Global, a company that specialized in maunfacturing research tore down a BYD Seagull and conclude that if this car is imported into the west, it will pose an "extinction level" threat to all western car makers. China already won, the west is just burying their heads in the sand so they don't have to admit it.
    3
  1297. Western globalization is facing a crisis because they can't compete not only on Chinese soil, but everywhere they meet Chinese companies. Globalization is very much alive in the rest of the world and they are all welcoming Chinese investments and trade.
    3
  1298. What a lot of westerners do not understand is that China might lag behind traditional semiconductors, they are the leaders in photonic chips. Accel is not only a combination of analog and photonics, it is designed especially for AI acceleration. Most commercial chips are designed to be multi-functional, like the CPU are design to do many different kinds of stuff but does it at an acceptable rate. Even GPUs, which are designed for graphics acceleration are still designed around doing multiple types of graphics acceleration like drawing, ray tracing, polygon generation etc. Therefore, most chips are not optimized for just one function. Chips like Accel are designed from ground up to be highly specialized in image processing and AI, which is partly why it has such high efficiency. Plus combining photonics and analog electronics reduces the energy consumption tremendously because you don't need to keep the electrons flowing to make the chip work; the laser light does a lot of the heavy lifting. China's lead in photonics is also why they are also leading in quantum computing which can be based on photonics electronics. You cannot sanction a country that has everything it needs to create new technology. It's foolish and futile. All you do is force China to stop taking it easy and push for the frontier.
    3
  1299. If they shot down 14 out of 17 drones, that just mean the Russian simply need to send in more than 17, and how many AA missiles or ammo do they have left?
    3
  1300. Exactly. This is as much on America as Israel. The political establishment in America wants this, in spite of AIPAC.
    3
  1301. Foreman is really the worst kind of black man to his race.
    3
  1302. @_SamUSA_ LOL you are literally lying.
    3
  1303. There are still a lot of westernized Singaporeans still thinking that the US empire is better than China.
    3
  1304.  @plasmapizza2504  So he is honest about being a bad person, how is that pleasant ?
    3
  1305. I wouldn't want to sit in an American train. It's gonna derail soon enough.
    3
  1306. @@user-cp1nr9ob5w Like the US cares about any other places' economy when they bring "freedom(tm)" and "democracy(R)". I say Free Puerto Rico. They can join BRI and get actual investments that will get them infrastructure to develop their country.
    3
  1307. WTF is even bidenomics? This is the guy who said nothing fundamental will change if he got elected. It's just the same neoliberal bullshit packaged in another way. It is all they know, it is all they can do.
    3
  1308. An extra dimensional place where everything is pure and clean and where magical and powerful wise beings reside, ready to help you achieve nirvana? This will make an awesome fantasy novel.
    3
  1309. France is not at war with Russia, but the west will not allow Russia to win ehh? Sounds like Macron wants to have the cake and eat it too.
    3
  1310.  @msimon6808  ​ @AQuietNight You people are like a broken record, just keep repeating the same falsehoods again and again.
    3
  1311. "Who would have do that? That is an evil plan." Mam, the American has been enacting evil plans before most of us are even born. You don't think the current neoliberal world order that have kill millions and enslave millions more in its economic and financial systems is not evil? Come on, who are we kidding here.
    3
  1312. It's not just the colleges that might breed Marxists. It's tiktok now. That's why they want to ban it.
    3
  1313. It's to remind the UAS empire that East Asia still has China's nuclear umbrella so don't get too cocky.
    3
  1314.  @testingmysoup5678  They never had to fight a peer adversary.
    3
  1315. I think supporting the Chinese government is the most powerful carbon offset project you can do, since they are the ones who bring the highest amount of investment in green and nuclear energy and already replanted a forest the size of Belgium and using that to fight desertification.
    3
  1316. As Marxists said, the material reality exerts itself whether you like it or not. I don't even really need to watch this video to know what's going on but I did it anyway to boost Sean's views.
    3
  1317.  @Horinius  And removing inconvenient whistleblowers.
    3
  1318. I just find it ironic that everything you said about Bolivia and Burkina Faso are exactly what China and the CPC did for the Chinese. And yet in this thread, people still cannot believe that the Chinese government today can be a force for good. If you are reading this, and you can believe that the western MSM has brainwashed Americans and the west into believing that capitalism is good and socialism is evil, why can't you believe that the same media has lied to you about China, its people, its culture and its government.
    3
  1319.  @SS-ko2lt  It will make borrowing easier for some loaners but I don't think the Chinese regulators will allow just about anyone to access these credit.
    3
  1320. I think you just point out how the US government conducts its foreign policy; pure unadulterated narcissism of both kinds.
    3
  1321. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    3
  1322. Spoken like a barbarian.
    3
  1323. Ten years ahead is generous. Building a nuclear power plant in the US might take up to 20 years, which means that unless the US is building a new gen plant today, it is 20 years behind. More when you consider how far US is behind in commercializing 3rd gen reactors, much less 4th gen ones.
    3
  1324. Germany can always take out a loan from the IMF, and privatized their entire country. Sell off all their assets to American companies. This will give them the economic boost and unleash the mythical free market and capitalism efficiency and beat China at manufacturing! It will totally work!! Do it, Germany take out a 1 trillion loan from the IMF. DO IT!
    3
  1325. At this level of competence, it is obvious that the replicas maker can make the exact same quality as the original maker. The only problem is they don't have the same prestige so they can't sell at that price to justify the same level of quality control and embellishment. Like the replica maker used a curb regulator to save costs, not because they cannot make a free sprung version. It also proves that whoever made the replicas already have a strong technical knowledge of high quality watch movements and they will also able to create their own unique movements if they have the money to pour into R&D. There is no way the people who reverse engineered these movements do not have ideas of their own. The only reason why Swiss watches are still selling at such high price is the prestige and branding, not because their technology or capability to create new movements are unsurpassable. The Japanese proved that long ago. The Chinese will eventually make their own luxury brand watches that they can sell at exorbitant price and have all the bells and whistles as their Swiss and Japanese counterparts.
    3
  1326.  @YtubeUserr  Ah so if the PLAN new carrier operates a war game 500 miles off the coast of Canberra, that will be fine with Australia?
    3
  1327. This is one thing I thought about American cultural arrogance brought upon by their cultural hegemony. America has been the tastemaker, the cultural movers, they were the market to be targeted. China's rise is taking that away from the Americans and I think that is going irk them more so than all the freedom talk. When the world is moved by China, what is fashionable in China, prevailing world views shaped by Chinese culture and that is realllllyyyyy going to piss the Americans off.
    3
  1328. Americans and many western countries have shown us their priorities when it come to human lives and the "economy" during the pandemic. Grannies have to be sacrificed for the billionaires!
    3
  1329. Duerte didn't pivot to the US.
    3
  1330.  @TheRealFOSFOR  Wow that is insane amount of money just for heating.
    3
  1331. My rule of thumb is that whatever the western corpo-state media says about a part of the world, whether it is Russia, China, India, an African or south American country, I just assume the opposite is true. Seems to work most of the time.
    3
  1332. Hahaha DOGE is cutting essential government jobs and they don't even make a dent to the deficits. These are not even departments that cost a lot to run when compared to social security, Medicare/Medicaid and of course the gigantic military industrial complex. DOGE is basically a surgeon that cuts off tiny pieces of tumor that has spread and ignoring the big one. Even then, if they go after SS and other welfare benefits, the last things that are making poor people living in the US still somewhat possible, then they might be saving the financial part and unleashing destruction on the social part. If the country is paralyzed by rampant social unrest and maybe even a revolution, money becomes pointless.
    3
  1333. And China learnt that lesson. Like in War Games, the only way to win is not to play this sick game. No one wants a new Cold War but we can all see, even the Europeans can see that America is the one trying to start one. What China is going to do from all these messaging, is that they acknowledge that the US is coming for them, so they will no longer ONLY seek diplomatic resolutions, but will also use harder techniques. But they will also not get drawn into a debilitating Cold War, so they will continue to be open and build deeper diplomatic ties with other countries, even the Europeans. The only way to win a Cold War is to not get suck into it like what the Soviets did and keep building ties and blocs with everyone everywhere. America might be able to contain China if China retreats completely and become isolationist. But it cannot contain the entire world. China now is the number one trading partner with nearly every country in the world and its economy can only keep becoming more and more developed, its cultural influence spread further and its diplomatic ties deeper. On the other hand, America is in constant political chaos and social dysfunctionality and its economy is built on a house of cards. Somewhere along the line, something gonna give, a pillar is going to collapse and America will find itself more and more isolated as it start to lose friends left and right. This time around, America might just find itself surrounded by unfriendly people because more and more countries are getting fed up with their foreign policies and past crimes.
    3
  1334. Having the most number of billionaires is not a statistics I will boast about.
    3
  1335. This is why the US want to amend the non-weaponization of space to specifically said no WMDs. This implicitly means that OTHER weapons are fair game, as long as they are not nukes. US launching anti-satellites satellites, perhaps armed with space launching conventional warhead missiles can thus target other countries' satellites, like the ones mentioned here. Of course, the US is free to copy Chinese electronic warfare satellites and the same kind of ki__-chain system, IF they have a working anti-ship hypersonic missile that can match China's ones. It is perhaps poetic justice because back in the late 90s, the US sent EW planes to fly up and down China's coastlines to spoof China's radars, giving them false signals and making the Chinese believe they are under a massive attack. It caused the PLA to scramble hundreds of jets to intercept these incoming jets only to find out they are "ghosts". It was the US way of humiliating the Chinese and to tell them that they can't match US technologies and tactics. After that, the Chinese became adamant at fast tracking their technological advancement in military and especially in Electronic Warfare. That was the era of China's rapid expansion of its military and going through reforms and doing lots of experiments - like that whole series of destroyers before they settled on Tuye 052 series and 055. Now the table has turned and the PLA has some of the most formidable EW suites for both defense and offense, and they are putting EW even on satellites. It might come one day, that it is the US military getting their radar spoof and they have to scramble their jets only to find out the Chinese have fooled them..
    3
  1336. @kaimanyu586  Yup, shadowbanning, shadow removal of comments are extremely common. Some comments are even removed within 30 seconds if it has certain trigger words or phrases or expressions. It doesn't always work but it works well enough to filter out the comments that usually goes straight into the core of western hypocrisy, failures and double standards. There has always been virulent censorship in the west, and part of that censorship is to convince people there is no censorship. It's subtle, and very insidious.
    3
  1337. Even with cheap energy, China is not stopping its efforts to decarbonise. They have installed more solar capacity in 2023 alone than the entire history of the US. They are using the cheap energy to prop up their renewable energy industry to ensure they can have sustainable energy output way way into the future. This kind of shrewd scientific based planning, foresight and the political ability to execute these policies are not seen in the west. Which is why in the long run, China will prove its model superior to the west.
    3
  1338. Finance is the last bastion of the US economy. That's why it is still looking strong. For now. China does not want the RMB to become the world reserve currency like the USD, and that's understandable. To become the reserve currency, they will lose capital control over their own currency and become like the USD. They want to use finance to expand their productive forces, not to let finance BECOME the dominant GDP generator. They don't want to turn their finance into a casino like Wall St because they are still communists. That's not a bad thing.
    3
  1339. The problem with the west is their deep colonial culture. They have seek colonies, and domination over other peoples that they cannot imagine any great power will not seek the same kind of domination through a colonial mindset. So they assume China is coming for them because if the US don't dominate, then they must necessarily be dominated and their way of life will be destroyed like the way THEY DESTROYED other people's way of life. The hypocritical part is that they have wronged everyone in that forum and they have the audacity to come and lecture us. They have wronged the Chinese, they have wronged the Arabs, they certainly have wronged the Iranians. And yet they think what they did is right, and that everyone else is wrong and so they can spin anything into whatever that makes them feel they are right. Just go look at western media, their forums. They really do not understand how wrong they are. It's their worst nightmare to be colonialized back by those they have dominated. That's why they will never cooperate with China to build a new world. They literally cannot imagine a multipolar world where everyone has a seat at the table. Their culture does not permit that image. YT also tried to sensor this comment.
    3
  1340. I think at the time when a government is most popular, the leaders should be thinking about their replacements. Now that you mentioned that both Labor and Shoigu are already very long serving ministers and wants to retire, it is both a good and bad thing. Good is that they feel confident in the country's trajectory to want to retire and have no desire to stay in power. Bad is that Russia will be losing two highly capable ministers and there does not seem to be juniors to replace them that will give the people the confidence that there will be a continuity of the competence shown by the senior ministers. Now is the time for new blood to take on more responsibilities to train them into taking on these awesome roles.
    3
  1341.  @wazukyan7696 He literally say that in the west the media is all about the stock market, all the time.
    3
  1342. Kissinger is a criminal but he is not wrong on this one.
    3
  1343. I think Putin will throw out an olive brunch. It is the west that have driven themselves into a diplomatic corner with Russia. Putin can always keep his options open and it makes him look like the one trying to resolve the war and the west are the ones trying to prolong it.
    3
  1344. A young country can be very mature and an old one can be unreasonable. No one is going to say that the European countries are young but they are as unreasonable as the US.
    3
  1345. If you have to insist your country is the best in the world, your country aren't the best and probably not even among the best countries in the world.
    3
  1346. The west is already at war with Russia when it supplies weapons to Ukraine and explicitly pursuing a hostile policy of dominating Russia even before 2022, when they caused the Maidan coup.
    3
  1347.  @MrSpiritmonger  The fact that you say that show you know next to nothing about this tech.
    3
  1348.  @MrSpiritmonger  It's way more complex than shipping a self contained machine.
    3
  1349. How to have peace in Ukraine? Easy. Stop threatening Russia and give them what they want to feel and be secured. Ohh does that put a damper on the American empire? Well, too bad.
    3
  1350.  @cheng-haowang1202  I think it came from that woman who just visited China when Huawei dropped the P60. She basically said the US will drop sanctions if China stop its high tech semiconductor R&D. The US government is so arrogant that they literally think that this is an acceptable term to impose on any country, much less on China. Oh wait, they did impose this kind of humiliating, unequal restrictions on other countries and killed their industries and keep them subjugated, like Canada (Avro Arrow), France (Alstom), UK (entire space industry), Japan (entire electronics industry). Unfortunately for the US, China is not a vassal state of the American empire.
    3
  1351. The way I see it, is that a population that can be duped into voting against their interests on such a massive scale is a liability to any international group. EU losing UK is bad for sure, but if you think that UK is like texas or florida, both states that are economically fairly good and populous in US but are cancer on political stability and progress because of how stupid their people are, it might just be better to lose UK just so EU will not be hampered on trying to federalize or implement any progressive and sensible policies that will ultimately be better in the long run. UK is USA lite anyway. Does the Europeans really want US style of corrupted, psychopathic, hyper-capitalism to be trojaned in through UK? I don't think so.
    3
  1352.  @timpellemeier587  that's so stupid that I'm not sure how to rebut you. Debts is not the terrible part, it is trying to turn national debt into a "commodity" that MMT is trying to do so that the UAS empire can borrow endlessly, is the terrible thing.
    3
  1353. Anything to not have passenger rail in America. The fact that we already have near perfect solutions to mid-range intercity traveling available and we still refuse to adopt them and instead insist on somehow making cars part of moving people, just goes to show how indoctrinated and dominated by corporate propaganda America really is.
    3
  1354. It's very cereal okay. So take this cereally.
    3
  1355.  @Matthew_Loutner  If the US government cannot deficit spend, it will be pretty much fatal.
    3
  1356. So the main problem with Taiwan's politics is that they are ruled by the descendants of Japanese collaborators. It is as though Germany today is ruled by descendants of the Nazis or that the French by the descendants of Vichy regime. Oh wait a minute....
    3
  1357. The US does not have the industrial capacity to do that. Or it will have to expand it by using money it doesn't have. The ongoing de-dollarization will ensure that doesn't happen, which is great for everyone.
    3
  1358. Or someone has to lie to him to get him out of the office.
    3
  1359. If we don't laugh like it'san absurdity, we will have to cry like it's a tragedy.
    3
  1360.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Then you are not sovereign.
    3
  1361. Right? It is as though putting weapons near someone's home that can reach in and threaten their safety is a provocative action. But somehow if the west does it, it is freedom of navigation and to protect democracy but if someone else does it, it is a national security threat. How is this any different from the hypocrisy of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the US placed missiles in Turkey that directly threatened Moscow and that was okay, but when the Soviets did the exact same thing in Cuba, suddenly that's not okay. To all Australians, this is a simple message. If you want to brandish your sword in front of another person, then be prepare to have the other person brandish his. If you can't take the heat, then stop provoking China. Sell your stuff, buy their stuff and everyone's happy. They don't interfere with your internal affairs, you don't interfere in theirs.
    3
  1362. International law doesn't work because the west make it not work.
    3
  1363. It's always projection.
    3
  1364. You can start be reading Marx, then Lenin, then Mao.
    3
  1365. The fact that westerners can think multipolarity in Asia is a bad thing only betrays their inherent colonial, imperialistic and racist tendencies. The west must fall.
    3
  1366.  @geraldkohar  Indeed, this is a recorded call that China is part of, and they have the right to do whatever they want with that data, especially if they want to use it to expose the other side for lying. These people instead of concentrating on whether it is a leaked call, why not address the far far worse problem; a leader of a country openly lying and then gets called out by another country.
    3
  1367. Let's be honest. Who exactly are we invading using this? It maybe true that a single gigantic plane might improve strategic logistic by making fewer trips and higher throughput per trip. the question really isn't that the army needs such a lifter. The question is whether the army can get where it needs to go at the right amount of time. C-5s and C-17s can already transport the largest possible type of cargo like MBTs. They just need to do it more times, and they can do it likely with more redundancy and better surviability and land at rough airstrips. The Pelican will likely require immensely long and well-built runways so unless the army or marines can capture airports at the beginning of an invasion, it might not be usable. Such a project will not give the military or even civilian users meaningful increase in capability, on top of the likely enormous costs. If speed and throughput is really the problem, the AF and army might as well as just order more C-5s or C-17s. Heck, if they really want to, they can lengthen the C-5s, change to more powerful engines and restart production and now you have a lifter that can transport even more tanks at one go. For civilian side, will it be able to reduce the cost per ton per mile compared to current jets in the fleets? Probably not. There is a reason why we never found a need for more than one An-225. Whoever in the army came up with the requirements in the first did not really think their way through. This is a solution looking for a problem to solve and that is never a good start to any project.
    3
  1368.  @kevinj2412  It will hurt his western exceptionalism ego.
    3
  1369. She believes trump's words. Oh dear... JFK and trump? Haha.....
    3
  1370.  @tezzo55  You have a high school level understanding of the human condition.
    3
  1371.  @linusschmutz3985  Doesn't look like it.
    3
  1372. @user-hz6fj9xy4y This is the kind of cope that signals just how desperate Americans are at trying to deny reality. The more you say reality bending stuff like this, the more I know you are going off the rail.
    3
  1373. Manufacturing consent is what they are doing. They are not strategizing because these people have no idea how to run a country or a military operation. The US are led by public opinion manipulators, which is why they keep coming up with stupidly terrible ideas.
    3
  1374. Singapore has Tamil as one of its official language because it has a large Tamil population migrated from South India, not because Singapore recognize Tamil Nadu as an independent nation. That's such a weird reach.
    3
  1375. Doesn't seem to be a problem in China though. Could it be they have a superior model than the US neoliberal capitalism?
    3
  1376. Oh no. Let me take out my tiny violin.
    3
  1377. The existences of alex jones and infowars and breitbart and even fox news are an indictment of the rot that is the American system and culture. The only saving grace out of this fiasco is that the lower courts in America can still operate functional enough that people like alex jones and the fascist far right cannot hijack it and turn it into another SCOTUS. Let's see how long this will last.
    3
  1378. China's growth is slowing but they are not in recession like the rest of us... bUT aT WhAt cOsT?
    3
  1379. They literally tested it last month and have tested the same system on land for years.
    3
  1380. Hahaha and people in America think elon "the brat" musk's boring company is a big deal.
    3
  1381. Also, if you care that much about a free Taiwan, then you should care about a free Hawai'i, free Guam, free Puerto Rico, free virgin islands. Heck, throw in the free confederate states while we are at it.
    3
  1382. Dr. Akpome has the clearest idea of what neocolonialism is, what western media actually does and what the US hegemony is trying to protect.
    3
  1383. Let them. Let them spend so much on the military until it destroy their economy irrevocably.
    3
  1384. I lived in Singapore. We do not want a war across the Taiwan Strait and it is increasingly glaring that it is the Americans provoking a war.
    3
  1385. It will be a mistake to believe that China can only play around packaging and interconnect, that they won't get to the cutting node. Heck, they might leapfrog that with new disrupting technologies like photonic chips.
    3
  1386. The blood tests stuff is not an AI problem, it is the funamental chemistry problem. Blood is very complex fluid and analyzing it often require very sophisticated instruments and trained personnel. The labs have to pass Good Lab Practices standards so their results are believable. AI can help with the analysis in the lab to increase throughput and thus productivity but to do the sample processing and data acquisition in a portable machine, and then send it to an AI data center to process sounds like Theranos. It may be possible in the future, but not right now or even in the near future.
    3
  1387. How are they really going to do it? With paper money? And they have to make a profit because of "good business sense"? Mark Fisher is right, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism in the west and that poison is rotting their minds. One day, the west is going to decide if keeping people alive that cannot maximize companies profits makes "good business sense" and decide that mass culling of "useless people" just makes "good business sense", and I wonder what Kevin is going to say.
    3
  1388.  @CulturalXplorer19  I think he is just trying to say don't get cocky because "pride before the fall", that sorta thing.
    3
  1389. That's like standing with the British when India fought for its independence.
    3
  1390. Because they ran out of ideas.
    3
  1391.  @aaronsmyth7943  Ask the Chinese together what they want.
    3
  1392.  @Talemuse  Even for last mile travel, Singapore can still use a lot of improvement on cycling infrastructure. One more person cycling is one less car on the road and one less passenger on the bus/MRT. It is still a win to have good cycling infrastructure. Think of it like a walking extender, so you can cycle for a longer distance to do more things without ever needing a car or bus. If commuting cycling takes off, it is likely more showering facilities will be built to accommodate cyclists.
    3
  1393. If there is one thing that characterizes the fall of most empires, is that they overstretch their resources, economically, diplomatically, militarily trying to preserve their hegemony. They also became absurdly delusional about their own empire's strength, so don't bother asking Americans. They are mostly delusional about their country. They still believe they are the good guys. There is a point where the camel's back really do break and bad things would come in waves. Waves that the empire cannot endure. I don't know how long the fall of the American Empire will take. After all, the western Roman empire took decades to decline and fall. Chinese dynasties were the same. But it is undeniable that the American Empire is in decline. How fast it falls will depend on the folly of its leaders and the fragility of its society and economy, none of which looks good. What's going to happen when the most warlike country, most bloodthirsty people start realizing their empire really is falling. The US military is still the strongest in the world and they have thousands of nukes. What is going to happen if they sail an aircraft carrier to Changi Naval Base and demand that Singapore sanction China or else? Is that so unthinkable today? Also, that YT play button looks good in the background. At least someone is doing better than the western economy hahaha.
    3
  1394. Good.
    3
  1395. That's stupid. What you want is peace. A stalemate only benefits weapon sellers and that's the point.
    3
  1396. The US never admitted they lost the war in Korea and had to settled for a frozen conflict, they never admitted that they lost in Vietnam, or in Afghanistan and accomplished nothing worthwhile in Iraq (except enriching the MIC and oil companies), and they certainly never admit the Syria is a stalemate. Why will they ever admit they are losing Ukraine.
    3
  1397. They are not merely stealing the 300 billion. The money will likely either be used to generate interests that they will take, or use to pay their own western MIC for weapons. I doubt much of it will really go into rebuilding Ukraine since it is unlikely that the money will be transferred to direct Ukrainian government control. It will like be sitting in western controlled financial institutions where the US can directly control how the money is used. No way the US is going to give up 300 billion to Ukraine.
    3
  1398.  @keithgainey7853  China is fine with the way things are. It's your country's oligarchs and their political cronies that is trying to destroy China.
    3
  1399. The main challenge to the US reindustrializing is the neoliberal system itself. Reindustrializing might make the US more secure and competitive but it makes less profits per dollar of capital invested. That alone will freeze up any attempts to rebuild the US into a normal country instead of a rentier country.
    3
  1400. Why are youtubers still "confused" about actions taken by western countries that are hurting themselves just to get at China? This is a war where the imperialists are trying to hold onto their power by any means possible. This is exactly the kind of dumb stuff they do when their empire is falling apart. Nothing confusing about it.
    3
  1401.  @billinsf88  The people of China is not happy with him.
    3
  1402.  @ggttuuxx  Yea, corporate stooges are different from servants of the people.
    3
  1403. God, I love the drips of sarcasm.
    3
  1404. LOL, not when you understand that the interest payment alone is now higher than the war budget.
    3
  1405.  @vanhocwong6689  Sure, that's not a bad rate, until you realized that it is a hot potato and you can only hope it won't burn your hands before you can collect.
    3
  1406.  @f1aziz  What's in it for the rest of the world?
    3
  1407. No, they don't want to get mixed in that mess. It's not their fight and they are remaining neutral. Testing your weapons in a war that is not your own? You know who thinks like that? Bloodthirsty, selfish cruel westerners who work in the MIC think like that. Are you one of them?
    3
  1408. Really? I have lived in America for years and Americans keep telling me God is on their side. Heck, they keep invoking God Bless America. So whose side is god on?
    3
  1409.  @BlessAllKC  Your copium.
    3
  1410.  @Tethloach1  It depends on how you look at luxury.
    3
  1411. Agreed. Semiconductors is just one sector and it gets all the attention because of the US sanctions. China is also transitioning across the board into sustainable industries like renewable and of course EVs. Machinery, especially high tech research stuff, engines, aerospace and space are also other sectors getting pushed. Agriculture is still a big thing because of food security.
    3
  1412.  @isoboy2125  I like the dictatorship of the proletariat. Because I'm a proletariat.
    3
  1413. Singapore really need to be deprogram from western narratives. All of you sound like lackeys of the UAS empire media. It sounds like you all wants to go to w__ with China on the behalf of the USians, like those uktrainians.
    3
  1414. Hahahaha Germany.
    3
  1415. Ohh it has it's priorities very straight. The ordinary people are just not in those priorities.
    3
  1416.  @tonysu8860  By the time you see them on IR at the horizon, it will be too late.
    3
  1417. It's amusing to see people can lie so blatantly with "facts".
    3
  1418. The US and Israel are wrong and China is a peace broker nation. The west does not have an alternative to BRI because they neither have the political will, nor the culture to sustain decades long multi trillion dollar investment in the imperial pheripheral. Their goal is maintaing their neocolonialism, not help the Global Majority to succeed.
    3
  1419. Good luck Germany. If you can do it, great. But with the competency of the current cadre of western politicians, I doubt they can do it.
    3
  1420. Ebikes are already a mainstay in many parts of China.
    3
  1421.  @jaihindersingh  🤣🤣 I'm going to always assume that you are being sarcastic.
    3
  1422.  @barnabusdoyle4930  You're missing the point. The country of the USA, whether it is private or government, the system itself, the culture itself, the society itself, the people itself, cannot build a HSR. The country itself doesn't know how to solve that problem and the way things are done there also make it impossible to solve these problems, culturally, socially, politically, economically. Arguing about whether it is the government or private companies' fault is like arguing whether shooting someone dead, or cutting their throat is less or more bad kind of murder. It's still murder.
    3
  1423.  @barnabusdoyle4930  He's being sarcastic.
    3
  1424. Look like you might be on your way to 200k subscribers this year. Keep trucking.
    3
  1425. Europe is in a mess. They don't know what they want, what they should do, because they have been taking orders from the Americans for so long, they no longer know what to do if the puppet strings are cut. That's why they are so schizo; saying they can't be vassals of the US, and OTOH, saying they need to be closer to the US and NATO is the only thing protecting them. This is a sign of vassals panicking that their suzerain might abandon them and they will have to take real charge of their countries, be responsible and held accountable for their incompetence and crimes, instead of being mere administrators for a Kafkaesque empire. Good luck Europeans. You're gonna need a lot of it.
    3
  1426. This whole Yasuke thing is orientalism and cultural appropriation at its worst. Imagine if Ubisoft makes a Chinese AC.
    3
  1427. At nearly 100 billion surplus earned in a month, the entire west needs Chinese money. But they are too racist and hegemonic to admit they are beaten.
    3
  1428. The easiest way for the EU to enforce sanctions on Russia will be to just stop importing oil and gas completely. They should really do that because this is suppose to be a battel between good and evil, right? So we cannot compromise with the devil, therefore, EU should just stop importing any O&G and that should hurt Russia more than anything. Like what nike says, Just Do It, EU.
    3
  1429. This is exactly why China is so adamant at creating their own alternatives within China and to maintain the Great Firewall. Like what Ben Norton said, China is the most sovereign country in the world because it has completely secured its media and data from western interference.
    3
  1430.  @dertythegrower  it is the most undeniable illustration of a person that has ran out of ideas when all he can castigate you with, is the language you used to talk with him because it is the only form of communication he is capable of. This is not the flex that you imagine it to be.
    3
  1431.  @bbcnn9917  LOL it's call adblock.
    3
  1432. Trying to protray that China is trying to absorb Russia to create some sort of Greater China is again such a despicable way of thinking that it can only come from a western think tank sick minds.
    3
  1433. It's all about hegemony. The US is unable culturally and politically to accept that they cannot dominate the world. The capitalist model demands total domination of the world to ensure its inherent contradictions will not lead to its downfall, contradictions that are more pronounced today than ever for a long time. Ukraine is about trying to dominate Russia, and Israel has always been about dominating west Asia. Taiwan is about dominating China. Everything is quite explainable when you put it into the context of hegemonic control by the US.
    3
  1434. Everything Kevin said has been planned and executed years ago by Chinese leadership. Meanwhile, the US can only react to the world being changed by China's rise. They have no plan, no vision, and no strategy because their system is fundamentally reactionary and exploitative. They only know how to maximize profit extraction, the people do not have any imagination or vision to go beyond that MO.
    3
  1435. We heard the Arab voices. The ones not listening is the west.
    3
  1436. Haha great analogy.
    3
  1437.  @sophiaelayne9984  That's simply the truth. Whether you believe it or not doesn't matter. Your sentiments don't matter.
    3
  1438. Whatever rules are convenient for their system, and detrimental to everyone else.
    3
  1439. Wow you still think that China cannot create its own 5G capable chip?
    3
  1440. We don't need a better version of capitalism. We need China to continue the revolution.
    3
  1441.  @allanpoecn  Still, I'm sure the SK government siding with the US (not like they have a choice lol) does not help with the reputation of Korean products in China.
    3
  1442. LOL China is going to mass produce these floaters and out compete everyone.
    3
  1443. True. But we like to pretend we are not bullying less powerful nations when we are doing so in the open, so we can pretend we have the moral high ground when we want to criticize our rivals when they do the same. Hypocrisy is built into western culture.
    3
  1444. The US is the one provoking war in this region and China has no choice but to respond to this threat. Don't make it sound like China is the one threatening the region.
    3
  1445. Sure, they can inflate the debt away but most of the debts are still hold by Americans and intergovernment agencies like Social Security. Inflating the debts away will mean inflating the wealth of Americans and the institutions away.
    3
  1446. Western sanctions ironically made Russia stronger because it finally forced Russia to stop deluding themselves that they can be part of the west and made the painful transition towards Asia and the rest of the Global South. They also proved that this pivot is actually viable and even better because they found willing partners and buyers of their exports and sellers of what they need without all those strings attached. The most dangerous conclusion for the west from this successful decoupling of Russia from the west is that IT IS POSSIBLE to do so. This means that finally there is a light at the end of the tunnel for the majority of world that has been exploited by the western economic and financial systems. This is fatal to western hegemony.
    3
  1447. Democracy is a threat to bourgeois democracy.
    3
  1448. They want to set up China to be the evil mastermind that helped Russia supply it's military. The language is very clear they are setting this up as some sort of axis of evil narrative.
    3
  1449. Hype sells as much as sex nowadays. She didn't have a prototype because she didn't need one. She just have to charm and manipulate people's impressions and emotions to get them on board.
    3
  1450. SE Asians top priority is peaceful development. We are far less taken in by western propaganda and narrow, hypocritical and often disrespectful and self-serving interpretations of freedom and liberty. Which is why the whole furors created by the west over Ukraine, and over Taiwan are viewed with suspicion. We know that the expansion of NATO was the primary driver of the Ukraine war. We know that the US is just using Taiwan as a pawn against China and Americans couldn't care less about the lives of Taiwanese. This region is not unfamiliar with colonialism, imperialism and western interventions. So despite being wary of China's stronger assertive in the region, SE Asians are not about to jump into bed with the Americans to counter China. We just want peace, and the side that is provoking war will elicit a distasteful response. And we know the US is the primary driver of the tensions in SCS.
    3
  1451. I find it hilariously hypocritical of Christian authorities warning people of Manicheanism being deceitful and enticing, when Christians routinely use deceit to spread Christianity.
    3
  1452. Do you really have to ask?
    3
  1453. The western financial system is already at the beginning of the end. Freezing Russian reserves and then taking the interests of earns is already stealing from the Russian people. If they really seize the assets, then it is just a further level of stealing. No one should be putting their capital in places where the holders can just steal it whenever they want to screw you.
    3
  1454. The US dominated for so long is partly due to inertia. Yes, the US was irresistible and still is in some extent, but there is also a lack of impetus to de-dollarize because it is easier to go along with being oppressed and paying a tribute with your surpluses than to go up against the American war machine. Until recent years. The US being so irresponsible and arrogant is causing a lot of consternation for the world and the inertia that hampered de-dollarize has now melted away. It is now imperative for countries, especially the ones which are targeted by the US to de-dollarize as quickly as possible. So in a twisted way, I want the US led west to seize Russian assets because this will push the fence sitters to start their own de-dollarization. There will be no more excuses to waste time not protecting your assets.
    3
  1455. Lol it's gonna show up on the black market somewhere with the serial number scratched off.
    3
  1456.  @fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617  That doesn't make any sense. You don't make an interceptor using a delta canard config. Delta canards are natural highly agile config that balance between speed and maneuverability. The Eurocanards have always been designed to be multi-role fighters with air dominance as the primary role. Saying J-10C is a poor copy of F-16 also shows you have no clue what you are talking about. We can dismiss your opinions summarily.
    3
  1457.  @artiefakt4402  It's a fact from the exercise. You don't have to like it but it is a fact so suck it up.
    3
  1458. If you start giving the Chinese credit for their innovations and daring experiments, you are going to get a lot of hate.
    3
  1459. I think it is a reflection on a society when its businesses need to put in so much extra security just to function, and the mentality of its people when it is simply a matter of fact that they should have done so in the first place. I like living in a country where I don't have to worry about this sort of stuff.
    3
  1460. Doing a PhD is a serious commitment. I wish all the best. Alway keep writing, don't stop writing, it's my only advice for your PhD.
    3
  1461.  @SamMiller-x4f But.. but... bidenomics!!
    3
  1462.  @brianmurray1395 Because that's the only thing they can focused on so they don't have to think about other stuff that they don't want to think about. They have no solutions for the other problems, but they do have a "solution" for the "Russian question". Ask yourself. When was the last time the UK or the US have come out with an innovative, creative and intellectually honest set of reforms that address all the underlying systemic problems of both countries that are slowly rotting them from inside out? That will require political will, inspiring leadership, real statemanship and a very high level of competency. Look at the cadre of politicians the west has now. Do you think these people have the capability to reform the west? Who are we kidding? So what do incompetent people do when thrust into a situation they simply can't handle? They revert to the most hard line way of doing things, smashing that one problem until it goes away and ignoring all the problems they are incapable of solving. While they keep lying to themselves, and others that they are solving problems.
    3
  1463. I have been to a BYD showroom. Oh their cars look great.
    3
  1464.  HalfPintPutler  Hawai'i is a country, free Hawai'i, free Guan, free Puerto Rico.
    3
  1465.  @aritakalo8011  Small, numerous littoral boats and land based missiles are exactly the Chinese defense doctrine right now to deny USN access to Chinese shores. It is quite effective for a fraction of the cost of what USN paid for its blue water navy. Plus subs too.
    3
  1466. It also reduce a lot of pollutants being breathed in by the passengers waiting on the platform. There are actually a lot of microparticles produced when the train wheel grind against the tracks. Those particles cause the metallic, noxious smell that you can detect in uncovered, underground metro station, and it is bad for your lungs.
    3
  1467. You mean the bourgeois and the proletariat.
    3
  1468. The point is not whether the water is safe. It really is still not safe because no one knows what will be the long term impact of releasing the water will be. How about the other radioactive nuclei that has far longer half-lives and also can be easily bioaccumulated? They are choosing this method to get rid of the water not because they are 99% sure it will be safe for the world. They chose this method because IT IS THE CHEAPEST. When you dealing with so many unknown factors, the wisest course is to take the safest way, to err on the side of caution. That's not what we are getting from TEPCO, or the Japanese government and the western backers. What we are getting is they want to cut corners and cheap out and not pay for their own mistakes, of which the first was not building adequate defenses for Fukushima Daiichi against such a tsunami. Because they also cheap out there too. They are cheaping out because that's what capitalists always do: find the cheapest way to get rid of problems and let society deal with the consequences. It is now obvious that the west and their allies cannot be trusted to do proper science and to be truthful. They are committing the same kind of fraud they accuse other non-western countries of committing. That is why I find them dumping the water into the ocean to be absolutely hypocritical and morally disgusting.
    3
  1469. "Never built first stealth bomber..." designed like a bigger version of the Ho-229 which itself was not radar stealthy anyway and could never be radar stealthy, no matter how much Horten wanted to believe it was or people getting sucked into this myth want it to be true. I love the graphics, I love the effort but good lord... this is just terrible.
    3
  1470. The greatest innovation that came out of the west is the capability to make insanity sounds sane.
    3
  1471. LOL. They can't even save themselves. Eurozone is down in freefall economically. If history is any indication, it will be like the IMF and World Bank "investments" (aka Debt Traps).
    3
  1472. He is being sarcastic.
    3
  1473. The fact that you can say the J-20 is not as maneuverable as the F-22 is enough to dismiss the credibility of this channel. It is obvious these dudes do not even understand the sophisticated aerodynamics of the J-20 loose coupled, straked, multi-vortices delta canard, and its vortex coupled all moving tails. If this is the level of thinking these so called US military watchers, it is little wonder why the US is falling behind.
    3
  1474. Haha your segue to your sponsor can match Linus.
    3
  1475. Seems like Argentina is going to be in for a few tough years.
    3
  1476. We all know why Marxism is banned in American society, culture and academia. A population that understand Marxism and has strong class consciousness will not tolerate the current capitalist system that dominates the US today. Marxism is banned in the US because it is a direct threat to the people who hold all the power in the country. Let's stop mincing words.
    3
  1477. After traveling around the world, the only places that can surpass Singapore in terms of living quality, and city design are a few European and Asian cities. Singapore will definitely be in top 20 list of best cities.
    3
  1478.  @DarkSideChess  No it is not. You are just used to fahrenheit. In Celsius, -20 is omg this is cold as hell, -10 is damn cold, 0 is freezing, 10 is fridge, 20 is nice room temp, 25 is quite warm, 30 is pretty warm, 35 is god damn hot, and 40 is WTF! There is no confusion. But I can also tell you that 40 is nice shower temp, 50 is lukewarm water, 60 you can slow cook meat, 70 and above is scalding hot, and 100 is "you make tea" boiling water.
    3
  1479. Because if you don't have development, you don't have the luxury to consider anything else.
    3
  1480.  @agnidiptahomroy8656  It's just imperialism.
    3
  1481. @polyfenes USA: We can't beat someone in something, so let's pretend our way has always been better. This kind of attitude is why we are going into decline.
    3
  1482. Yes, China will be losing out by dumping US treasuries but China is also well known for taking temporary pains and sacrifices today, for future benefits. That benefit is to de-risk itself from holding so much treasuries from a country determined to start a war to contain and destroy China. The US is no longer a partner, or even a friendly rival. The US is now a hostile entity to the people of China, and the CPC must take appropriate actions to protect the country.
    3
  1483.  @rustygates3367  hahahahaha okay, believe whatever you want. The real world doesn't care about your delusions.
    3
  1484.  @rustygates3367  hahahahaha, it is amusing to see how brainwashed you people are.
    3
  1485. It's not just Russia recovering. China is also recovering faster than the west. Another YT channel that focused on economics, pointed out that the export for China has grown by 7.1% just this quarter alone and that the PMI has risen to 53 from 49 previously. PMI is the measure of manufacturing orders and pricing and anything above 50 means the country's manufacturing is growing. I think all western countries including Japan and South Korea are experiencing a contraction of PMI. China growth is not even driven primarily by domestic consumption but by the aforementioned growth in exports. It means even in a slowing global demand, people around the world are still buying more Chinese goods than western goods, so it's a double loss for the west. China is still facing a lot of problems but their foundation is strong because they have a dynamic and highly diversified economy that dominates nearly every industry, science and technology. So they have plenty of capital, plenty of industrial capacity, plenty of skilled labor, plenty of scientific output and now have secured enough food and cheap energy for their growth. When you look at China's fundamentals, all the other problems look very solvable, whether it is the real estate (which the Chinese government deliberately pop), semiconductors, or anything else.
    3
  1486.  @zander2541  Exactly. What can be more DEI than representation from the natives themselves, who have all the resources to make a product uniquely catered to that culture that's authentically follow not just at the skin level, but also at a profoundly deep level that places the mindset, thought processes and philosophies of that culture to the forefront without western dilution and shoehorning.
    3
  1487. Russia's military is not even the strongest in Eurasia. The PLA is far more capable with more resources and more advanced assets and US is till trying to provoke China using Taiwan.
    3
  1488. The proper name is Communist Party of China, not the Chinese Communist Party.
    3
  1489. "but because we are in an economy that needs things to constantly expanding" See, that's the problem. Why create an economy that needs to constantly expand. For whose benefits? Certainly not for the common men and women.
    3
  1490. Well, did you ask it's opinion on the Reign of Terror?
    3
  1491. It's kinda funny that you use the analogy of foreign policy to show why setting boundaries does not always work, considering the US government foreign policy is the most arrogant and narcissistic yet.
    3
  1492. The US is basically demanding China to sacrifice their friendly relationship with Iran by ordering Iran to stand down. This demand on a country that is famously non-interventionist which based its foreign policy on mutual trade and equal treatment, will be so monumentally stupid and arrogant. The US really thinks it can order China around like how it orders its vassal states.
    3
  1493. Here we gooo!
    3
  1494. This comment is why America is declining. Most Americans don't even live in reality and almost all of them know next to nothing about the outside world.
    3
  1495. China is NOT SUPPLYING Russia. China is TRADING with Russia. FFS.
    3
  1496.  @DesertStateInEU  This is the stupidest, most insidious and most toxic capitalist-indoctrinated take on transportation in Europe ever.
    3
  1497. Sean, you cannot pretend you do not understand why the US is so obsessed with China. They are obsessed with China because China is the preeminent power that can break their neoliberal world order they have enjoyed since crooked nixon and Alzheimer reagan. They are scared sh*tless at the prospect that they cannot dominate the world economy and dictate to everyone what to do, and loot, exploit, pillage and commit violence and unspeakable atrocities to the world as they see fit. Their worst nightmare is seeing that they will be held accountable for their exploitation, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Imagine one day that we get to try a US president, or congressman at the ICC and hang them for war crimes. They know if they do not control the economy as it is today, that reality will come for them sooner or later, and I bet it is sooner. So let's stop pretending the US actions are unfathomable. They are panicking because they know if they become weak enough, we will come knocking on their doors and demand justice. They are going to nuke China before they allow that to happen. They will kill hundreds of millions of people before they allow that to happen. All the debts and bonds and whatever do not matter if we are all dead, and you better believe that the neocons will do it.
    3
  1498.  @victorluke5816  lol, you are repeating a dogma, like a religious person saying that his religion is this or that, when in practice it does not do all those things. This is basically capitalist fundamentalism.
    3
  1499. They can always go back to digging resources out of the ground and sending them to industrialized nations for manufacturing. You know, like what they did to the Global South for centuries. A couple of generations of digging until their hands bleed, their lungs black, their rivers, lands and air poisoned and their children hands chopped off for not meeting mining quotas should teach them some humility.
    3
  1500.  @iamgreat1234  Thailand to Britain: "I'm not going to be a cannon fodder state and die for your little war with the Japanese. Fuck off."
    3
  1501. Hahahahahaha, really?
    3
  1502. Everyone missed the point in this comment thread. It's really simple, if the US drop its aggressive stance to want to contain China and to preserve its hegemony at any costs, there will never be a need for the USN to test if it can defend against a hypersonic missile. The ball is really in the court of America to stop being a douchebag to China and keep poking the dragon. China simply does not want the west to dictate how they should run their country and how they want to do their foreign policy. No one wants anyone else to do that to them anyway. As long as America backs off from trying to turn the west against China, they have absolutely no beef with America. The US government is the one that fires the first shot in trying to contain China and label it as a threat to the world (which most people in the world will disagree) and engaging in economic warfare against them. So all I see is China trying to protect itself and not end up like so many countries being f**ked up America.
    3
  1503.  @tombranch2261  Since when did they threatened to invade a nearby island and proclaiming itself the owner of an entire region. I think you are mistaking China for the US, who actually invade a nearby island (Cuba) and failed, but also invaded many other islands (Hawai'i, Guam, Philippines etc.) and proclaims the entire western hemisphere as theirs (Monroe Doctrine). Are you sure you are not projecting or just plain old hypocrisy and lack of self awareness?
    3
  1504.  @CalvinK300  Yes, we can always hope cooler heads prevail.
    3
  1505. Buy what local hahahaha.
    3
  1506. India shouldn't be goading on Taiwan - China relationship. The Taiwan question is very similar to the Goa question and India (rightfully) invaded and took back Goa when the Portuguese refused to return it to India. Back when India demanded Goa's return, the West also stabbed India in the back and supported Portuguese colonial hold on the region and the local separatists waging insurgency against India. Taiwan has been part of China for a long time, and it is an unresolved civil war and does not involve anyone else. If India wants to argue for Taiwan's independence, then perhaps they should return Goa to Portugal.
    3
  1507. It is amazing how Ansar Allah has push the west's economy to the brink. The funny part is ships from countries not supporting Israel are going through the blockade unimpeded so this is essentially a economic sanction on Israel and their supporters. It is also funny how western politicians and media can switch their narratives at the drop of the hat from calling for Hamas destruction when it becomes clear their own pockets are getting burned because of Israel The only way to stop is Israel is for the US to stop supporting the apartheid state and all this talk of peace is pointless if the US does not stop its unconditional support for Israel.
    3
  1508. The guy just explained the most fundamental part of Buddhism with the concept of impermanence.
    3
  1509. Where does the corruption and lack of accountability come from? If you understand why China's infrastructure is top notch, you will understand why India's is not.
    3
  1510. Why is it baffling. They are defending their settler colony ethnostate. That ethnostate helps to advance US Imperialism by keeping west Asia divided and constantly on flames.
    3
  1511. Even if they stop the war tomorrow, beg Russia to sell them energy, the Russians are never going to sell them on the cheap anymore. Europe has been taken for a ride by the UAS and they have been harvested by the UAS imperialists to prop up that zombie economy. Europeans are basically cattle to the USians.
    3
  1512. Becoming strong enough to resist the collective west, and then creating an alternative system that will decrease the power of the system the collective west imposed on the world is helping Cuba and Venezuela.
    3
  1513.  @userlo5254  ukraine is the furthest from being democratic. The current regime was literally installed by a US coup. Have you not listen to nuland's tape?
    3
  1514. We are not stupid. The real debt traps have always come from IMF and World Bank and western vulture capitalists. This is not going to be any different, even if we assume that it will go beyond just talk talk.
    3
  1515. China is "deleting America."
    3
  1516. ​ @basook6116  I don't disagree with you. I just want to point out that a vibrant society needs smart people to take on every kind of role. We need physicists and we also need sociologists and philosophers. But yes. there is typically less market demand for social science and humanities graduates. The people who studied society, culture, economics, are essential to help us shaped our society correctly according to that society's values. We need conscientious, moral, intelligent truth seekers to tell us how we can make our society better, more fair, more happy. You might feel gender studies in the west is "wokeness" but it has helped normalize LGBT. In the past, western societies used to chemically castrate gays and beat them up. Even recently, there is a transgender person murdered in school. The hatred is insane. Every society has their own values, their own moral barometers and their systems and cultures. Maybe the western way for dealing with these social issues are not suitable for your society but we need these people to figure out what works for our society, and we need them to be smart, empathetic and moral and still quite a number of them. These people who dedicate their lives to studying societies and cultures should be respected.
    3
  1517.  @tinaforbes1059  Chelsea Manning also revealed American war crimes and she sacrificed her freedom for it.
    3
  1518. Investing in BRI, buying assets elsewhere and reinvesting into the country are all better options to use the surplus than to buy US bonds. It's basically lending money to the US which has very clearly shown with its actions and words that it will looooove to destroy China and keep it poor forever.
    3
  1519.  @gracesutton1359  Have you watch the video where Linden spoke? Chinese people go to town halls all the time to voice their concerns, feelings and complains. The party officials would literally sit there for three hours listening, taking notes and ask follow up questions about the citizens' complains and concerns. Then they go back and implement policies based on these things. If the officials botched the job, the Chinese people will make their displeasure known the next town hall and those officials' careers are probably over. You don't get more democratic than that! The fact that you automatically assume a single party is less democratic and less free is a wrong assumption.
    3
  1520. No men? There are always women and children. What part of "to the last Ukrainian" do you not understand?
    3
  1521. ​ @stephenmorello2688  Unfortunately, few people will switch their purchases for principles. If AMD is really cutting into nvidia's market share, they will drop prices to compete and take less profits but maintain dominance and wait for the next opportunity to scalp consumers.
    3
  1522. The deep infiltration by the US into the highest levels of European politics is exactly why China put so much emphasis on information security and sovereignty, and to root out foreign operations and influences.
    3
  1523.  @alleung42  Just because you sunk your life savings into crypto and is panicking to get out does not give you the right to spread that kind of evil around.
    3
  1524. They have never met a competitor as rational, objective, smart and strategic and huge as China.
    3
  1525. Russia has every reason to believe that Ukraine joining NATO is targeted at Russia. If Cuba joins a military alliance set up by China explicitly to counter US, we will have Bay of Pigs the sequel faster than you can say "hypocrisy!"
    3
  1526. They killed MLK because he was going to turn from speaking on racial injustice to social/economic injustice. I It was well known that MLK thought and expressed that social conditions of black people cannot be divorced from the economic injustice suffered by the poor and powerless. They killed him because they feared a revolution on the social order of he ever started talking about why people are poor. It's one of the few conspiracy theories I can believe in.
    3
  1527. It seems the only way for the west to accept the sovereignty and agency is to show up at their door step with overwhelming military might and tell them to sit down and shut up.
    3
  1528. Agreed. From what the video said, the Chinese scientists used a combination of software and hardware tricks to improve signal to noise ratio of their detection. It seems like what they are doing is to use multiple radars and very fast switching of pulses, maybe even multiple bands, to hit a stealth aircraft from multiple angles, then use sophisticated software to stitch together all the information into a coherent picture. It is clever no doubt and will likely work if the radars sites are positioned well, meaning they can effectively defend a huge area. They might not be able to defend all areas, but definitely the most important sites. The system only need a general outline of the F-22 or F-35 and its speed, altitude and heading to launch interceptors whether they are SAMs or AAMs. Once the interceptors get near the aircraft, probably with mid-course correction too, it can turn on its own active searcher whether it is its own radar, or IR or even both. Within a short enough distance, no stealth can defeat an active AESA radar even if it has a small radar head. Then it becomes a numbers game. To penetrate this area, you probably will have to launch more than just 1 squadron of stealth jets and more than likely, some of them won't make it home. No longer can the US military penetrate Chinese airspace above important sites with impunity and that will put a dampen on any attempts at belligerency from the US. If the US is really d*mb enough to go hot with China, barring a nuclear exchange, there won't be a lot of F-22s or F-35s left in the initial salvos, much less the 4th gen fighters. Can the US afford this? Can the US even build and train replacements fast enough? I doubt it. Then the deterrence has worked.
    3
  1529. They just reveal another 6th gen and they also just launch the Type 076. China is cooking.
    3
  1530. Capitalism says no.
    3
  1531. The fact that so many people still think that the McD case was a frivolous lawsuit goes to show how powerful and insidious corporate propaganda is.
    3
  1532.  @georgebrantley776  I lived there. I don't have a twisted view on Americanism. The twist one here is your culture. That's why you can't solve any fundamental problem, that's why you are in decline and that's why you cannot understand why countries like Singapore and China are so successful.
    3
  1533. India is like the perpetually underachiever who is afraid of losing its place even further if other people join the class. At least in BRICS, it can still be number 4 or 5. In BRICS+, India will be number 10 or 20. What a disappointment.
    3
  1534. I don't think there is a specific word that exemplify a society being made, either deliberately or unwittingly more and more stupid, less and less intellectual and wise, reducing self awareness, perhaps even made more narcissistic to the point of self-delusion. There are words like stupefy, stultify or even dumbing down but none of them really captures the right meaning of what is really happening. Stupidification, and stupidisation do the point across...
    3
  1535. We really need to take back the word democracy from the west. Bourgeois democracy is not real democracy and they have hijacked the word for long enough.
    3
  1536.  @msimon6808  I think the "with Chinese Characteristics" can be easily characterized (hah) into a single priority: put the interests of the people first. Once you have that, everything you do falls into the right place.
    3
  1537.  @msimon6808  You have no idea how any of these system work.
    3
  1538. Every reason trey given is entirely plausible like misidentification since some of these crytids Bebe described have very similar analogs in other identified species. I also like to imagine that there really are still species he saw and we never seen again since his descriptions are so plausible and totally in line with our current experience with deep sea creatures. A long fish with lots of fangs that's has hanging bioluminescence pods and also light dotted along its length. Totally possible.
    3
  1539.  @briggstondade4986  All the BRICS countries have to do is to trade bilaterally among themselves using their own currencies. Their market, both as suppliers and consumers are so huge that anyone who wants to opt into their economies has to start following their rules. That alone will cause immense damage to the US financial hegemony.
    3
  1540. All China have to do is raise export tariffs of all goods exported to the US by 20% and the American economy will evaporate overnight. Blockade China's oil and gas? That will be the best way for the world to turn against the US. Good god, why are you people so monumentally stupid.
    3
  1541. People need to read Marx. This is not new.
    3
  1542.  @keepingittight  LOL Indonesia and Malaysia will never allow US aggressor planes to land on their territory. As for TW, the day they let US jets attacking Mainland China use their airbases is the day of reunification.
    3
  1543. Because they still holds a lot of power and can do a lot of damage to us.
    3
  1544.  @shere-lingkraus-yao7373  Taiwan has a way. Remain neutral and keep the status quo but work towards reunification. The American elites will sacrifice Taiwan to attack China, so the Taiwanese people have a choice, become a pawn for the US to be sacrificed at anytime and has a history of never respecting the interests or freedom of its vassal, OR become part of a winning team who are culturally far more similar to them, who are friends and family and see them as such, who genuinely do not want senseless bloodshed and destruction and who has been infinitely patient with an intolerable situation. To me, the choice is quite easy to make.
    3
  1545. Bingo. All this BS is about white people getting anxious they won't be on top anymore and they are afraid that the things they have done to the rest of the world for the last 500 years will come back to haunt them. They cannot envision a world where all cultures, all races can work together and not interfere with each others' internal affairs, and they are afraid this time, they will be the ones being colonized. Everything they do is a projection of that colonial mindset, and fear.
    3
  1546.  @angryonion9550  They did. It's called WWII, and pretty much capitalists have been killing non-capitalists for decades before and after the war.
    3
  1547. Any discussion about the USD system must include how the USD is recycled back to the US as US treasuries and bonds. This is how the US steal every other country's surplus production. Every time you import something to the US, they exchange it with their paper fiat money that they can print out of thin air. Then you have very few choices about what to do with the USD you now have. You can use it to buy other things or you use it to buy US debts to ensure its value is not devalued by inflation. But now you are fully subjected to US monetary policies. If they want to inflate their debts away, they print money and your bond or T-bills can become worth less than before. There are many levers they are pull to screw any central bank holding USD but the main points are that the US exchange real goods/services for fiat money, and that your value you earned with your labor, your resources is locked into US financial system and you are subjected to their whims and their interests which often do not aligned with yours. Just look at Russian assets being frozen and properly will be stolen by the west. Everything about the USD system is immoral and reduce your country's sovereignty. We use USD because we had no choice, the entire world was trapped in this system. The US has also proven for many years that they are very irresponsible with the way they steward the USD when treasury secretary John Connally saying to the European finance ministers that "the dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem." Now, we have alternatives which ironically Russia has shown is possible to choose. It's an extreme example of de-dollarization but we all don't need to de-dollarize to this extent, we just have to diversify away form using USD for trade. There is an inflection point where the demand of the USD dropped to the point that the selling of debts require higher interest rate to attract buyers to the point the government cannot service this debt anymore. Then, the whole house of cards is gonna come crashing down. Don't forget that a large part of the US military's budget comes from this incessant borrowing and it is now going even higher. It is the US military might that is now enforcing the rules of using the USD for trade and even now they are losing that effectiveness because the UKraine war is not going well for the west and there is no way they can invade and regime change China. In the past, they can show up on your doorstep, accuse you of being anti-democratic and against "rule based order" (whatever that mean) and regime-change you. Now they can't do it to the most powerful countries like China, Russia and even India and they are all moving towards de-dollarization. None of the old underhanded tactics worked anymore but they keep doing it. It is a matter of time when the BRICS figured out a system that is equitable to all sides for trade and then offer that real alternative to the world. With the BRICS controlling both the supply (minerals, energy, agriculture) and demand (huge huge markets), they literally can create an alternative market, system that do not require the west at all. At all.
    3
  1548. It should obvious by now to anyone paying attention that everything the US said and complained about China is done in bad faith. It is malicious and should not be trusted. Overcapacity? It's just mean the US cannot compete and want to kneecap China's industry. It's not about trade fairness, subsidies or whatever.
    3
  1549. The last video was depressing. Thanks for the good news.
    3
  1550. You cannot discuss carbon emission without stating an important fact that the historical emission of carbon is mostly done by the collective western imperial core countries. Because if you don't, then you are excusing the environmental crimes of the western imperial core countries and putting all the environmental burdens on the developing countries. Americans get to heat and cool 2000 sq feet house 24/7, drive big SUVs and jet around the country for Thanksgiving while Africans, Asians and South Americans have to scrunge up a living and barely emitting any carbon because they are so under-developed many don't even have access to steady energy. A completely lop-sided view point and only serves western corpo-state media propaganda.
    3
  1551. Ohh shadow banning me eh
    3
  1552. Escaping the west by inspiring to what the west is? By wanting to be the next American empire?
    3
  1553.  @justinwhite2725  Yup, and the internet brought to a whole level of destructiveness, magnitudes more destructive. The tulip bulb was a relatively new phenomena in recorded history about mass hysteria and mania and bubble speculation. Now we know all of that and we still do it. Which is why Dan said there are all those history books that already warned us about this kind of bullshit.
    3
  1554. They literally stole over 300 billion of Russia's money. How do you trust after that?
    3
  1555. Are you surprise that the American empire uses double standards and is hypocritical? I thought the war would have educated Vietnamese not to trust the Americans.
    3
  1556. The only way the US will have a better relationship with China, or with the entire world is that their nose is so bloodied that they have no choice but to admit defeat, do away with their desperate hold onto their hegemony, and behave like a normal country without the whole American Exceptionalism BS. As long as Americans still think it is their divine right to dominate the world, there will never be peace coming from the US. They will always be mischief coming from there.
    3
  1557. Liberals and fake progressives always turn to fascism and authoritarianism when push comes to shove. They will always protect capital owners in their countries, and for the US that includes all their overseas interests. The only side that has historically fought the fascists without any reservations was always the socialists/communists.
    3
  1558. If the EU wants to save its billionaire class by forcing China to build factories and sell at a premium to European citizens, then that's their choice. If Chinese companies keep competing against each other in China and that translate to savings and lower inflation for Chinese citizens, then that's their choice too.
    3
  1559. Maybe China should also take a page out of the US playbook and stir up trouble in PR, TX, HI and several places that have separatist movement. How about the Native American reservations? It's literally an ongoing genocide. Their culture is being erased and their population dwindling. The Americans already believe in Russian bot farms anyway. But I don't think China will stoop to that level.
    3
  1560. @GuilfordHancock-wr7ss Well, they have all the cotton they ever need to make the gun powder 😂😂
    3
  1561. I am beginning to find Sean pretending to be confused by the UAS need to be hegemonic and dominant to the point of self destruction to be amusing. It's watching a capitalist trying desperately not to reach the logical conclusion that the problems caused by a capitalistic, racist and colonial minded society is indeed caused by capitalism, racism and imperialism. This performative dance is also a defining feature of a desperate capitalist trying very hard not to inadvertently prove the Marxists right.
    3
  1562. Remember that 3% "tax" is used to fund US military, which is then used to make sure you keep paying that 3%. The whole thing is a protection racket.
    3
  1563.  @MuantanamoMobile  How does a single shot take out 4?
    3
  1564. South Korea.
    3
  1565.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Those will not be commercial products for a long time and quantum computing is not really just about making faster computers.
    3
  1566.  @user-yt198  You might be right. Chinese engineers and industrialists are usually very good at leapfrogging technological steps and hurdles. especially when they master the basics and the government recognize their industry as a national strategically vital one. So we might even see C939 with this kind of design you described.
    3
  1567. The US doesn't have any credibility as a peacemaker for a long time. West Asia is the way it is today is precisely because the US has been stirring sht up now and then to prevent any power rising there that they cannot control.
    3
  1568.  @johnsmith1953x  You do realize that China and Russia are the two top gold producing countries and Russia has one of the largest gold reserves in the world, second only to Australia.
    3
  1569. That's his job. The only time an ambassador will reveal his stance and his country's position is when speaking to another country's leader and the situation demands clarity more than obfuscation.
    3
  1570. Ohh I was bombarded with news that Europe has so much gas right now that the price of LPG momentarily drop below zero, and is hailed as a triumph of western independence from Russian energy.
    3
  1571. You can have different results doing the same thing if the starting conditions have changed. It should be the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing under the same conditions over and over again and expecting the same results.
    3
  1572. If we are really fair, then the CPC should be given the Peace Prize and the Economics Prize, considering the incredible restraint they show when deliberately provoked by the US into a conflict and the fact they uplifted over 800 million people out of poverty and eliminated extreme poverty in China. Which western economist has created an economic system that have achieve similar results? None. And yet, we don't see Chinese economists and politicians winning the economics and peace prize.
    3
  1573. China is building their EUV lithography machines. Look up Tsinghua University's steady-state microbunching electron laser, a new evolution of the free electron laser that can produce EUV light. This technique is very different from ASML EUV which uses tin plasma to produce the light but can be miniaturized enough to fit inside a machine size of a bus - easier to transport on a plane. SSMB is a particle accelerator technique which means it require huge floor space to sit on and it cannot be easily dismantle and reassembled elsewhere. But it doesn't need to. It just need to produce the EUV light and this technique produces to produce EUV light that is far brighter (more intense), more "pure" (better monochromaticity) and more coherence than ASML plasma method. Because each SSMB particle accelerator can produce very intense EUV light, they can be split up to feed multiple lithography machines. So on the factory floor 2 or 3 SSMB particle accelerators will be able to power dozens of lithography machines while giving them superior light sources. No one in the west is even starting on this kind of technique, much less even to build one. Considering now that SMIC has advanced its patterning techniques so much, that they can produce 5 nm,and probably very soon 3 nm chips on DUV, then the other technologies like optics, robotics, immersion techniques must also be very mature. The last piece of the puzzle is the EUV light source.
    3
  1574. 20 years ago, they are 50 years behind in tech. 10 years ago they are 25 years behind. Now they are only 10 years behind. Do you see the pattern here?
    3
  1575. De-dollarization is short term pain for long term benefits. We are humans. We have brains and imagine future scenarios based on our current knowledge and foresight. De-dollarization will ultimately benefit the world in the long run, even the US because it can become a normal country instead of an empire.
    3
  1576. Honestly, there is no point in trying to influence US politics because no matter who becomes president, they are all neoliberals.
    3
  1577. blinken's and yellen's performance in China is not only demanding China to stop doing something because it is not in the interests of the US, it is also saying that China must stop doing all that, so the US can in turn use its advantages in finance to turn around and attack China and Russia. So they are telling China to stop doing what is successful, and so as to let the US to destroy China. It is mindbogglingly arrogant and is only credible if you drink the western media kool-aid that China is this evil evil country that needs to be stop at all costs even if it is to tell them to stop something that is against their interests.
    3
  1578. Prof. Wolff did not add that China is also helping to fund the US military which will be use against the Chinese people in the future by buying US treasuries. The amount of interests the Chinese made from lending the money is nothing compared to the value the US government gets by sucking up the surplus value produced by the Chinese people and then to use that money to fund a gigantic military that is threatening China. That is why China is actually now rapidly divesting itself from US treasuries. THey have sold or not buy new ones for years now and putting a large portion of the cash into gold or investment like the BRI. The main purpose of a country central banks is to preserve the value of the capital earned by the country's people. They buy US treasuries because that's the main thing you can do with the USD the country holds, so as to prevent losses from inflation. They have few choices. But this has also been discussed on this channel.
    3
  1579. So the US are allow to conduct economic colonization but if China buys some countries with the surpluses they earned by producing goods and services with real value, ohhh suddenly it's bad.
    3
  1580. This is also where the incompetence of biden really shows. You are not turning your back on Ukraine by settling with Russia and guaranteeing Russia's security concerns. You are also not turning your back on Israel if you allow Palestine to form their own state. In fact, those will be the wisest moves because the more the war drags on, the more likely Russia will steamroll Ukraine and by that time, Russia will be the one dictating the terms to whatever is left of Ukraine and it will be in the worst possible negotiating position. Similarly, restraining Israel so a permanent solution of Palestinian statehood will stabilize the region because the Palestinians will have their own country and they can actually operate like a country, and you will earn the trust of the Arab nation. Israel will just have to learn to live with a Palestine nation. The fact that they refused to even entertain these options just showed how emotionally uncontrolled and stupid they are.
    3
  1581.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  I don't asking a neoliberal why they are so afraid of losing their hegemony is a good use of my time.
    3
  1582. The chart at 4.50 is why China is now focusing on high end manufacturing that adds more value than medium and low tech industries. They won't give up on the lower end industries, but they also want higher value industries, for self sufficiency against sanctions and to out-compete the west. This is where the west is trembling with fear. This is the last bastion they have, high tech industries, and R&D. This is why the US sanctioned China; to prevent China from achieving self sufficiency in high tech, high value industries because if it finally does it, the west and the US are done for.
    3
  1583. America fell out of favour in just 12 years because the American system is ultimately still based on neocolonialism, economic coercion, financial colonialism and media manipulation. Dealing with the US and the west in general as a Imperial peripheral country is like living with an abusive spouse. They beat you up, take your money to drink and gamble away, then convince everyone that you are the abuser and you deserve it. It is little wonder that China can upend all this with a little genuine sincerity. It's like receiving kindness after being abused for years. Having shelter, food and picking you up and keeping you safe and say what they meant and do what they say. No BS, no manipulation. And Kevin, you are here still asking why these countries fell in love with China.
    3
  1584. That's not socialism.
    3
  1585.  @ashfield1425  What you said.
    3
  1586. Yellen and the US action really show that the problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of people to steal money from.
    3
  1587. It just means there is now severe excess in real estate capacity. Excess capacity should be cut to allocate the resources to elsewhere more usful and productive.
    3
  1588. White patriarchy really is disgusting and soulless. They want to control everything and still want to commodify and exploit anything that can sell, so they have more for themselves and less for others.
    3
  1589. America is in decline and part of the reason is Americans unable to face reality. If you live in a distorted reality, how are you you going to solve any problems?
    3
  1590.  @asdf30111  Well, you make more laws against that of course!!! Problem Solved!! NEXT!!! JFC, that was so stupid it's like hearing a person say humans can fly unaided as long as we ignore gravity.
    3
  1591.  @80130723  They haven't won a single war since WWII. They just left because they can't break the resistance of the locals and then flip around and call it a win.
    3
  1592. Famous last words from 500 years of colonial plundering.
    3
  1593. You have this completely backward. What China is practicing is Marxist-Leninism and the first stage of socialism towards communism. China has a centrally planned economic policy and a decentralized execution of those policies at provincial, city, town and local level. It is a hybrid socalist system where the CPC hold the ultimate power over the capitalist and allow certain level of free market economy. Of course there is free market in socialist theories, of course people traded, of course there are still some private property. The fact that you attribute all the socialistic market control theories to capitalism is hilarious and just goes to show how ignorant the common westerner is. Bailouts are capitalistic because it is essentially support capital class at the expense of the working class. Get your theories right.
    3
  1594. This whole obsession with "full spectrum domination" and not showing any weakness has its roots in colonialism and the colonizer mindset. In that mindset, the only paradigm is either you dominate or you will be dominated. The last 500 years of western history and culture is in itself dominated by this kind of thinking, despite all the hoo haa about democracy and freedom, it has always been conditioned the west is the only side that gets to decide who gets the democracy and freedom and what is right and wrong and thus what is acceptable and not acceptable. The whole democracy and freedom thing has morphed into this monster that is now used by the west as a weapon, an ideological weapon for propaganda and to create excuses for war against its rivals.
    3
  1595. It's interesting about the education landscape. Kevin from Inside China Business pointed out that a lot of high impact research are now being in Chinese and other open source publications. If you count these sources on top of the traditional journals used to measure scientific output and quality, Chinese universities quickly shot up to occupy the top 20 spots in world rankings. The west are blind to development outside the west and they will pay for that blindness and arrogance.
    3
  1596.  @ryoannazuk949  China is not losing out to the US on software either.
    3
  1597.  @tooltalk  Those components are produced in China too. And Chinese companies can now produce them by themselves too.
    3
  1598. Potential means nothing when you have a dumb system.
    3
  1599.  @muhammadriskyramadhan1725  SE Asian nations like yours, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and even Myanmar, have dealt with China long enough to know that the Chinese leaders are usually very calm, disciplined, patient and rational actors and they don't want war. As long as the Filipinos do not cross the line of no-return, China is always willing to wait for them to come to their senses. After all, what China has a lot is time and money. Their rise to superpower is inevitable. The ones running out of time to stop the rise of China are the Americans. Sooner or later, any number of the contradictions and unstable elements inherent in the US and the collective west will force them to retreat from our region, and the Philippines will be left holding the bag.
    3
  1600.  @Thyalwaysseek  Yea, YT doesn't like certain kind of words.
    3
  1601.  @djtan3313  Indeed. A Society of Spectacle, as predicted by Debord.
    3
  1602. The way I see it is that the US is the most carbon emitting country in history with the Europeans a close 2nd. That historical carbon emission is why we are having climate change, not just the current emission. Climate change has been making these wild fires in recent years more and more insane. This is well known by now. Yet, the US are woefully prepared for such a disaster and in fact has been cutting corners on their firefighting capability. So when the perfect wild fire strike, fueled by climate change of America's doing, coupled with inadequate firefighting capabilities and short-sighted policies and the cultural and economical cheapness of using wood as building materials, all come together to give the US the karma slap of the decade. This is in stark contrast to the Chongqing fire just 2 years ago where China mobilize huge amount of resources and the people coming together to literally, physically made firebreaks that stop the fires from reaching the city. Even more relevant is the earthquake in Xizhang that happened almost the same time as the LA fire, and we saw Chinese mobilize their disaster management immediately, reaching the disaster area within hours, and supplies poured in within 24 hours. Tents, firefighting, doctors, medical supplies, heating, all poured into a region thousands of feet above sea level. It's hilarious too in the background of tiktok getting banned and Americans migrating to Rednote, an even more Chinese social media app and finding out that the Chinese people are nice, welcoming and funny. Even worse, they are finding out that the Chinese don't live in an authoritarian hellscape but instead enjoy affordable healthcare, groceries, world class transportation and safety unheard of in the US. People are posting angry and sad videos on the soon to be banned tiktok and on Rednote, saying how they have been lied to all their lives. Good luck America, y'all need a revolution.
    3
  1603.  @cawheeler27  I say it is an independent country, so it's an independent country now. I'm just applying the same standards and rules invented by the US government and its corpo-state media. Free Hawai'i, free Guam, free Puerto Rico.
    3
  1604. Well, I might consider buying us treasuries if it hit 7-8% 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    3
  1605. Don't forget car companies profits.
    3
  1606.  @dbatesdob  You are less than 10% of the world.
    3
  1607. The US military does have a formidable logistic and supply chain; if they fight a second rate military like China in 1960s. If they really try to fight China, even if they surround the country with hundreds of bases, they wont be able to keep those bases and the logistics lines open once the missiles start flying.
    3
  1608. Putin started off quite pro-west and even wanted to join NATO. It is quite a feat to turn a country that is somewhat friendly to you into your worse enemy and then force all your rivals to have to join hands to defend against you. The arrogance, tone deafness and sheer ignorance and stupidity to achieve that within a decade.
    2
  1609. "We investigate ourselves and found nothing wrong with ourselves" It's basically how American police operate after every police brutality or murder incident. Why will anyone be surprise that America will release a human right reports where they gave themselves and their vassal states high marks and denigrate all the others?
    2
  1610.  @terrypandi88  Ohh you mean lifting 800 million people out of poverty level of human rights violation? Or killing black people for being black level of human rights violation?
    2
  1611. Because real power lies with the capitalist class, the billionaires and their cronies, including the politicians and executives in companies. That's why you don't get competent politicians because they are chosen based on ideology and loyalty to the capitalist class, not by merit or loyalty to the people.
    2
  1612. Lack of compassion and empathy is the result of decades of indoctrination into the sociopathic ideology of virulent capitalism. It permeates everything we act. The real culprits, the ones who actually control the politicians and the media are the capital holders. So just say it. Say it. Ohh I forgot free speech does not matter anyway since we screamed all we want, we don't get to make any of the actual, important, consequential decisions. That is by design.
    2
  1613. Dramatic music in a documentary about engines. Really why do you people always feel the need to dramatize everything? Do you really think audiences cannot enjoy an informative documentary on its own merit without resorting to cheap techniques to drum up dopamine release?
    2
  1614. The reason why Americans want revenge is because they never truly suffer the consequences of their transgressions so they think they have the right to vengeance in a situation that they provoked. That's why they don't see tripwires as essentially absurd because they look at it as a political tool to galvanize American public for blood, and not a possible mistake for inevitable conflict.
    2
  1615. The world know that for a long time. It's just we couldn't do anything about it until the UAS screwed themselves by financialize their economy and the rise of China made it possible to create an alternative to the UAS world order.
    2
  1616. US politicians and leadership have always been like this - say one thing at this moment, and then contradicts themselves in the next. They also like to say one thing openly, and then go do another, more nefarious thing opposite of that they said. They are extremely ignorant and incompetent because they are elected by popular contest and popularity usually comes in the worse forms like racism, and demagoguery, not by merit. Trusting the American empire to do anything right and moral is futile. They will always do what is in their interests and their interest is domination over the rest of us, including Singapore.
    2
  1617. Should China support texas's road to independence?
    2
  1618. The walls are closing in on the western elites and their old ways, their true colours are showing.
    2
  1619. We should be prepared that the US will go rogue and drag all of us into a conflict we cannot afford to be involved in.
    2
  1620. Not only that. China is a rising threat because they DARED to become strong and prosperous without gaining the permission from the US to become strong and prosperous and controlled by the west. HOW DARE THEY RISE TO CHALLENGE US?! Is how the plutocratic class in the west is reacting to China's rise
    2
  1621. The US GDP is mostly based on virtual economy in finance and useless things like weapons. You take away the financial market that are beyond normal healthy banking activities, the weapons manufacturing, the healthcare costs, and the stock market inflated printed money, its economy is far far smaller than it appears. That's why everything is so puzzling at first glance but if you look at it objectively and count only actually useful things like factories producing useful consumable products, farm that produce food, useful services that generate value as the real economy, then everything is clear. The US economy is fake, it is inflated with fake money, and inflated numbers.
    2
  1622. Why should China attend an event with a country that is openly hostile to it, and acting like their crimes are actually good deeds. Will you attend a prom where your bully and his clique has torture you for the entire high school and then set you up to make you look like the bad guy while they act like they are the good guys? I wouldn't. Plus China is on the rise and they don't have to give a flying f*ck to the west until they are ready to act rationally, logical and in good faith. Until then, it is a waste of time and effort and diplomatic energy to talk to the US. If the US really wants war, China will defend herself and China will not be a pushover. The problem with the US is they think they are untouchable so they do whatever they, say whatever they want and suffer no consequences. No one is untouchable. So be it.
    2
  1623.  @Kiskaa-  A vassal state should not bark too loudly without permission from your master.
    2
  1624.  @anthonyk423  Wah you big white man got big cock!!! You so smaht!! Yes, yes you are right!! US debts no problem. US has big cock, can borrow money to themselves because of big cock, big brain!!! You so smaht, you should keep doing this!! Don't change anything, big smaht, big smaht.
    2
  1625. As I said many times, and everyone can plainly see, it is the west that drove themselves into a corner diplomatically and militarily. They thought they would crush Russia using Ukraine as a proxy and there will be no need to consider any terms, any POVs from Russia. They severely miscalculated because they were too arrogant to see that pushing Russia to war will be a huge mistake. Russia is fighting for its national security, its existence and its economic interests and its national dignity not to be subordinate to the US. They severely miscalculated that China, India and the rest of the non western world will not sanction Russia and will continue to trade with Russia, allowing their economy to continue and decouple from the west. Instead of crushing Russia, they force Russia to finally take the painful road to cutting it's unbilical cord to the west and turn to Asia, and Africa. Every the west set out to do against Russia backfired on them, and they are in a much weaker position than they were before 2014. Not to mention the strategic joining of China and Russia ensure that the west will never be able to subjugate either of them. They driven themselves into this corner and they don't know how to get out of it because they never have to face the consequences of their folly until now.
    2
  1626.  @chrisj2502  Yes, annex means stolen. Like how empires steal lands. You just admit that America is an evil empire that goes around stealing land and coercing other countries.
    2
  1627.  @FoxyCAMTV  I think Texas should be returned to Mexico since that is also stolen land.
    2
  1628.  @L98fiero  It's not surprising to me at all. They teach their kids that America is not an empire because they don't have colonies, only "territories". They obfuscate the truth with shifty language, self beneficial definitions and outright lies but they lie with such straight poker face they learn to believe their own lies. They create their own think tanks and "investigate" themselves and the rest of the world and gave themselves high marks while denigrate, misrepresent and slander other countries. Yea, as though a country with 800 military bases around the world (another fact they conveniently ignore or spun as "protection" for the host country) is not an empire.
    2
  1629. India always coming in to spoil the bunch. They have no real action plans and no goals beyond horse trading with everyone and anyone. Their relationships with other countries are purely mercenaric, Machiavellian and transactional. They want to be strong like China but no vision on how to do it, no theory to apply and no political will or stability to execute any long term plans. India is not interested in creating an equitable world. It is interested in trying to take over US place as the world's number one bully-hegemon. But it does not have the political will nor the leadership quality like China has, to embark on truly ambition plans like alleviating poverty, build a truly high tech industry and self-sufficiency and even massive projects like BRI, and SCO over decades. It wants all the glitter of the west but none of the substance. India is the perpetual underachiever wastrel of Asia who is too trashy to reflect on its own inadequacies so it tries to bring down its betters to its level.
    2
  1630. That's the insidious part of American corpo-state media proapganda. It is a form of censorship where the facts and truths are buried by continuously repeating the lie that contradicts those facts and truths. They always publish retractions or actual facts with very very small exposure, then vastly overexposed the lie. That way they can say they did say the truth as a form of plausible deniability when it is very clear that they are promoting the lie. Then they can parade around, saying how free their society is. If your media outlets are repeating the lie 1000 times while you say the truth only once, you are not practicing freedom of speech, you are practicing public opinion manipulation and censorship. It is one of the most disgusting parts of American culture.
    2
  1631. This is quite expected.
    2
  1632. But you see, the US got a new missile cobbled from an old missile, so now people in the west think they can take down China. The level of western intellect is just crap.
    2
  1633. Looks like the CIA bots are out working.
    2
  1634. They also start having a problem with China when China starts moving into high tech, high value maunfacturing which is supposed to only belong to white people countries.
    2
  1635. It's quite funny because Putin defending biden is just him trolling biden because in a way, he is belittling biden by appearing to have to defend a senile old man. "Be kind, he is an old man. Who doesn't make mistakes, I made mistakes too," is not a defense, it is trolling.
    2
  1636. You are the only one I know that pronounced ASEAN correctly.
    2
  1637.  @steven4315  Apparently it doesn't work 😂
    2
  1638. The US did that for Europe through the Marshall Plan. But American policy makers are ultimately still racists, so they don't give a shit about developing the Global South, except to dominate and extract resources to feed western industries. What they want is Europe market, and resources from everywhere.
    2
  1639. Common prosperity forms the underlying ideological foundation of China. They are not virulent capitalists and are very willing to share tech and even build industrial capacity in other countries. Unlike the west, which ideological foundation is still colonialism despite all the noble talk about freedom and democracy. When push comes to shove, the west always seek to dominate other countries completely and undermine their sovereignty in favor of overtime or convert control.
    2
  1640.  @Pappy214  Those are all different things. But yes, most of what you learn about communism in the west are wrong and that includes Mao. As for Hitler, you are probably miseducated too the cause of the Third Reich, which is actually capitalistic in nature. Hitler would not have risen if he was not supported by the bourgeois in Germany, and the capitalists ALWAYS support fascism when push comes to shove. The west is the most propagandized part of the world, and you people are so deep in it, it will have been hilarious if it is not tragic.
    2
  1641. The US foreign policy is basically telling China to stop helping Russia so it can destroy Russia, and to cripple itself to protect America's economy. Then after they destroy Russia, they will turn around and destroy China and they expect China to sit down and take it.
    2
  1642. Déjà vu the Kurds.
    2
  1643. Dirt? They are all vassals of the American empire. That's the dirt
    2
  1644. A lot has already been done, you are just choosing not to see it. BRICS Pay, BRICS clear, M-Bridge, New Development Bank, etc. etc.
    2
  1645. America is touchable right now. Give it another 20 years and we can revisit all the war crimes committed by the US government.
    2
  1646. China is the existential threat to the plutocratic bourgeoise elite in the west. They are probably the only power in the world left that can break neoliberals stranglehold on the world. The neoliberals are deathly afraid of what might happen to them if their hegemonic control is ever broken. This is life and death to them because if they ever lost that control, especially the media control, we will be waking up from our propaganda induced stupor and we will start eating the rich. Literally and figuratively.
    2
  1647. It's how amateurs do things. It's office politics on the world stage. This kind of childishness exhibited by western leaders is why the west is in decline.
    2
  1648. So Macross?
    2
  1649. Their problem is not that they are women. Their problem is that they are the US empire's stooges. So are macron, scholz, starmer, yoon and kishida. Are those women too?
    2
  1650. And people in the west are complaining about how China is exploiting Africa.
    2
  1651. Good government policies? Are you telling me that the neoliberal myth that everything the government does is bad is actually a myth and not a real thing? I'm shocked.
    2
  1652. If America did not try to expand NATO to Ukraine and engineeres the Maidan coup, Russia wouldn't have to defend itself.
    2
  1653. This is where I very much disagree with Kevin. China is winning precisely because they are not a Christian nation, which comes with all sorts of ideological baggage and corrupted thinking. They are winning because they are the best practitioners of Marxist Leninism, a fact that Kevin still don't want to admit.
    2
  1654. Hm... sounds like western propaganda. How much does the CIA pays you?
    2
  1655.  @theministryofdecolonizatio6480  Yea, a 100 billion could easily fund low cost public housing in several major cities, that can give the homeless a chance to have a place to live in. Of course, that will take a lot of political will to go against "socialism" and to restrict the sale/rent of these homes to the most needy at a very affordable price. To the US culture, to the brainwashed Americans, such a public housing project will be like celebrating the coming of Satan.
    2
  1656.  @dormedinaDK  Russia is winning and that's just factual.
    2
  1657.  @scroopynooperz9051  This kind of immorality and arrogance is why we have to take down the west. You people are literally the bad guys since the end of WWII, and now you are not even hiding it.
    2
  1658. France still ended up with a hung parliament so nothing is probably gonna get done because Macron's side will likely unite with Le Pen's side, because the capitalist always side with fascist when push comes to shove. But the fact that the left can gain so many seats showed that the underlying conditions caused by capitalism that cause people to move towards socialism are gaining relevance again.
    2
  1659. Because your leaders are trying to make you hate the Chinese and their government so as to prime you people for a confrontation. A confrontation that benefits no one except trying to preserve western neocolonial hegemony.
    2
  1660. The country that can replace China is obviously China. Doh.
    2
  1661. Bingo.
    2
  1662. Ah yes, the Philippines, the "special" kid of SE Asia.
    2
  1663. LOL the Japanese can't even build the HSR in Indonesia while China build theirs at a later date and completed before the Japanese does.
    2
  1664. Annnnnnddddd here comes the 1.6B slander bots.
    2
  1665.  @ce1834  Fact of the matter is that Chinese trains are now world-class in terms of safety, performance, and costs. More and more countries are preferring Chinese trains and contractors because they are cheaper, and they get shit done faster and on-budget. And Chinese EV is raising so fast it is overshadowing the entire automotive industry. They have captured the future of EVs, and they are building HSR everywhere for everyone. This is not cope, this is reality. You are the one coping as German chancellor and his entourage went to Beijing to beg for trading opportunities. The one that is coping is you and the entire west. And it is honestly amusing to watch.
    2
  1666. Yup, the first thing I ask about Ground News is if they actually show news articles and opinions from China or Russia or even the rest of the Global South. If it is just a competition between western corpo-state media outfits, it is just a extreme right vs slightly less extreme right. It's useless if it cannot supply translated Chinese and Russian news, and their state media is just as valid, maybe even more truthful and valid than western corpo-state media.
    2
  1667.  @Optimaloptimus  They are not struggling to make WS-15 work reliably, lol. Now you are just coping.
    2
  1668.  @CarbonicHolyPally  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    2
  1669. They don't want to make it clear because China is only a threat to the neoliberal world order, not to Americans. The neoliberals are also a threat to Americans because the last 30 years of neoliberal policies from both sides of the aisle have left the US deindustrialized and the middle class decimated. If you think about it, dismantling the neoliberal world order and move towards a more equitable world through genuine cooperation and respect and equal treatment, is actually more beneficial to ordinary Americans than the status quo. That's why they are never clear exactly why China is a threat and everything they did say does not add up.
    2
  1670. I think the fact that the Chinese government DOES take care of its people is impressive. How many governments can say they do that and actually did it? Certainly not the US government.
    2
  1671. Now that's a fun fact.
    2
  1672. Exaggeration that we pretend is substantial criticism? Lol that what western media does tomChina all the time.
    2
  1673. Maybe it was just no one thought a person would be so dastardly to do something like that in the first place.
    2
  1674. China will always practice an independent foreign policy in that they will never want to be dragged into a conflict caused by someone else they are closed to. However, that independence also means they know full well where all this will eventually lead to; NATO led by the US against China. They ain't stupid and the recent announcement by NATO saying they can steal Chinese companies assets in the west is just another signal of where this is going. That's why President Xi said the future for China will be full of "stormy seas", a Chinese idiom describing uncertain times.
    2
  1675. Collimating, focusing, redirecting. Lots of reasons why the laser has to bounce off many mirrors. The engineers know full well that every reflection is energy loss, so there must be a good reason why they have to add a mirror in the path of the laser.
    2
  1676. I dunno, being a hero doesn't put food on the table.
    2
  1677. The US is the authoritarian one, the dictatorship of the corporations, of the bourgeois.
    2
  1678. Taiwan is not a close neighbor because it is part of China. China has more historical claim to Taiwan than the US has on Hawai'i, which I remind you is acquired through an illegal coup and referendum. If the Union would not allow the Confederates to secede, and reabsorbed them after the Confederates lost, then China has the same right to not allow Taiwan to secede and reabsorb it.
    2
  1679. It's all factored in because they put the flow meter at the fuel line, so everything that uses any energy from the engine is accounted for.
    2
  1680. China's problems are easier to solve than the US because ultimately China is still the manufacturing superpower. Their economic foundation is sound. They can still produce their way out and their technological adoption to increase productivity is far more eagerly done there. It is also easier to encourage spending with money YOU HAVE, than to force more spending with money YOU DON'T HAVE. China can adjust their way out, because they still have many levers to pull and the government still has the commanding height to make those needed adjustments. The US is out of levers to pull because they have pull all the levers so hard, the handles have broken off.
    2
  1681. Hahahahahahaha, injury of their own making.
    2
  1682. Did you guys know that they did all that as a employee owned company?
    2
  1683. The collective west has about 18% of the population of the world and yet thinks they have the right to tell everyone else how they should live their lives because their system is soooooo moral and great.
    2
  1684.  @view1st  Too many selfish, arrogant people control the US, and they don't even care about American lives. Why will they care about Chinese lives to stand down from a nuclear war?
    2
  1685.  @micheleemcdaniel389  In the context of constant slandering against China and the racism against Chinese, not so much.
    2
  1686.  @phatrick8848  No, actually they don't. If they do, they wouldn't have allow the country to fallen into such a sorry state.
    2
  1687.  @aycc-nbh7289  why not? Balkanizing the US might be the best way to ensure the American empire will not rear its ugly head ever again. If the Americans salivate over balkanizing other countries, then I say they should have a taste of real consequences and be balkanized because of their incompetence and arrogance.
    2
  1688. The west is in terminal decline but they can't help themselves not choking on their own false sense of superiority.
    2
  1689. Pascal really hit the nail just right on western propaganda. The west is really notorious for how effective its propaganda machine is. They have nearly break the axiom that "you can't lie to all the people all the time," or at the very least, lying to nearly all westerners all the time.
    2
  1690. Deliberately putting military bases near civilian centers knowing that they will be targets is basically using human shields on a city wide scale. The barbarism is beyond the pale.
    2
  1691.  @kevincheung436  His words are actually very reliable. Xi said exactly what he meant. It is the US that frequently lies and do one thing while saying another. Worse, they twist every word from other leaders and peoples to create even more lies.
    2
  1692. Like everything else in the west, it is about PR. You do one thing, or create one excuse and you use that as a narrative and overwhelm the public discourse with their media control and power. Russia advances on all fronts and gaining momentum but because uktraine did this small thing, suddenly the tide of the war has turned. It is the same thing with the US trying to revitalize its domestic industry. They promised 50 over billion on the chips act to force TSMC to move to the US and even then did not give out all that money that was promise. Lots of that money that goes to intel get used as stock buybacks anyway. In the end, the effect of the "investment" is far less than was said. But they can use this as a narrative and using their media to control the public's opinions and make it sound as though the US is gonna win. Meanwhile, China invested 250 billion in their domestic chip manufacturing capability with huge effects on the ground but most people don't even know about that. China is winning the chips war that the US started and westerners barely know that because they have been fed crap.
    2
  1693. It is possible under Marxist-Leninism.
    2
  1694. As by design in a full capitalist system.
    2
  1695.  @HowMoneyWorks  That's just a system that is unable to deal with "disruption" to public interests.
    2
  1696. If everything is a national security issue, then nothing is.
    2
  1697. So Buddhism.
    2
  1698. The evolution of the antichrist sounds like a bad shounen power creep manga.
    2
  1699. This is just the way the west has been doing things for 500 years of colonization.
    2
  1700.  @jeffhedrich3551  Bingo, only when we are referring to the entire western hemisphere. When we are referring to the people who live in the UAS, we should call them USians.
    2
  1701. Well, that's your problem. BRICS welcome all as equal members in trade. Neoliberals, whether they are in the US or France are not interested in trading equally with everyone.
    2
  1702. Jakey boy is smart enough to recognise that the current neoliberal system is a disaster for the US hegemony, but as a disciple of that system, he can only prescribe more neoliberalism but with more direct authoritarianism. These people are not geniuses. They are moronic ideologues.
    2
  1703. When you set out to dishonestly portray a country, you can turn any data point no matter how positive, into a negative. On the flip side, when your agenda is to lionize a country, you can turn commiting a gen*cide into them defending themselves.
    2
  1704.  @hongli9358  Please don't include Singapore in this bullsht.
    2
  1705. Anything is better than the USD now. Let's not forget that the USD system is forcing us to exchange real value goods for worthless pieces of paper. We are making stuff so Americans can consume it. We are giving Americans the privileges to get free stuff from us. Yes, the USD is in shortage around the world and making trading difficult and that's actually another reason why the world needs to dedollarize. You can't reply on the US to treat the USD responsibly because they can export inflation to your country or steal your assets, and giving free stuff to the Americans to consume just so you can get pieces of paper is both unsustainable as a system and deeply immoral. Worse, you are basically paying taxes to fund their military to come and oppress you. The USD has to go and it must go..
    2
  1706. Sounds like you guys should have work closer with China to solve local problems and not wait for a far away "friend" to come to your aid.
    2
  1707. No one outside the brainwashed west believes the ughur nonsense.
    2
  1708. Singapore does what is in Singapore's interests and it doesn't want to choose sides because it doesn't want to get involved in some stupid ass fight between US and China. That's not in Singapore's interests. It doesn't want to be put in an impossible situation from either side and who can blame them.
    2
  1709. Israel does all these things not just because they are mad, but also because they are arrogant, comfort in the fact that they will never be punished for it. We all know that no matter how the ICJ rules, the US will never allow any intervention by other countries to stop Israel. Israel knows this and is given carte blanche to do whatever it wants. That's why the masks have fallen off and they are going full in.
    2
  1710. Written guarantee from the west is as worthless as a shit stained toilet paper.
    2
  1711. It's working very well for the 1%.
    2
  1712. The irony is that common Americans are working themselves to death to enrich the already insanely rich 0.001%. They are working very hard, just not for themselves.
    2
  1713.  @kanucks9  What a dumb take. They develop their real estate because they needed infrastructure so they invested in developing the capacity to build things. They had a purpose to it. Now the priorities have switch and they have excess building capacity, so they want to pared it down and invest the energy of the economy somewhere, and to prevent a bubble from popping uncontrollably, so they did something about. Your take is completely backward, and smack of bad faith.
    2
  1714. @@kira-le9qr Yawn... if you stop watching western fake news, you would have know those "ghost cities" were planned for influx of people coming to the cities to find work. Those buildings are filled up now. Be better. Stop watching western corpo-state media propaganda. China is winning because they can plan their economy and steer it in the right direction. The US is losing because the neolibs are sucking up all the capital. Cope.
    2
  1715. The funniest part of the Pew study is at the bottom were two SE Asian nations that both support China.
    2
  1716.  @bryandimery6509  Not unless they have been brainwashed.
    2
  1717. I think the 2nd phase will never come and should not come, given that the CPC has proven beyond any shadow of doubt that their system, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics has deliver prosperity, strength and rejuvenation of the Chinese civilization beyond anything the previous dynasties has ever achieved. Over 800 million lifted out of poverty and the elimination of absolute poverty, the urbanization and industrialization on the humongous scale that China now produce over 30% of all value in manufacturing, the housing of hundreds of millions, world class infrastructure the most amount of electricity produced ever, the greening of deserts, the taming of the Yellow River, laying down over 50,000 km of high speed rails, leading today up almost all the critical technologies and scientific output, increasing the life expectancy above the US, all because the CPC won the civil war. There is no way the mainland Chinese will accept the ROC form of government where the politicians are literally descended from Japanese collaborators and they are throwing chairs at each other in parliament. There is no way Taiwan can gain independence today, even if they are willing to go to war. There is no way mainland Chinese will accept Taiwan's independence even if they had to take the island province back by force (they will rather really really not to do so). There is also no way the US (or any European power) will survive a direct kinetic confrontation with China in West Pacific or the economic devastation, and there is no way Japan will throw its own people into the seas to help Taiwan. There is no way any SE Asian countries will participate in that mess. Also, the PRC is a democracy, so this whole wanting to turn China into a democracy is moot.
    2
  1718. If you are right that the Americans have pressured zelensky to launch the offensive asap, then it is a classic American diplomatic trap. No matter what the outcome is, the US will not be hurt by it. If Ukraine loses the offensive, they can just say it is either Ukrainian incompetence, throwing them under the bus or that they actually need more weapons/support and the collective west is not doing enough. If the offensive goes through, then they can spin it as the superiority of the west. Either way, the US cannot lose in PR because it is zelensky and Ukraine taking the risks and the Russia getting screwed by this offensive. It's underhanded as hell.
    2
  1719.  @cg5648  How do you broker peace with Israel when their policy is slowly genociding the Palestinian people into non-existent. Why don't you mention that, huh? If Israel stop its genocidal policy today, it will still enjoy protection from the US and make peace with every Arab country. But if the Hamas stop today, the Palestinian people will not exist within the next decade. That's the actual reality.
    2
  1720. Capitalists disagree with your statement. Prepare to be reindoctrinated by watching MSM.
    2
  1721. Well that's dumb.
    2
  1722. Stop saying it doesn't make sense. It makes perfect sense when we admit that the US is an empire, and the EU, Japan, South Korea, the collective west are the vassals.
    2
  1723.  @johnk2347  Ask your plutocrats, your oligarchs.
    2
  1724.  @gaoxiaen1  That's not the point and you know it.
    2
  1725. Europe is going to seize Russian assets. So what if the west does the same to Singapore? What is the Finance minister doing to ensure Singapore's reserves in western banks, the people's money, the country's money that we earn through blood, sweat and hard work is not stolen by the west?
    2
  1726. They are trying to shift blame for the failure of Ukraine war. The west is never to be blame for any failures.
    2
  1727. Unlike the western imperials, China will not launch an attack without an airtight case of aggression from the imperials.
    2
  1728. Yup, it's fascism. Just admit it, American conservativism, both your garden variety republicans and alt-right, libertarians are closest fascists. Unadulterated drive for power for power's sake, informed with the surety that they (whoever they deemed is part of them) are destined, and should rule. Fear based politics is just the means to an end, and the end is power.
    2
  1729. "Market economy" is a dog whistle by the neolibs to open your country's economy to being invaded by western MNCs. Now that China has built up its industrial base, they have their own powerful MNCs, the west cries foul when they can't compete and potentially will be taken over by Chinese MNCs like how they did to the Global South. Utterly shameless. Why don't you people do the same? Because that will be hypocritical, isn't it?
    2
  1730.  @ryanm9371  Most profitable railway with striking workers by paying them next to nothing, and derailments everyday. You people can't even maintain your own railways. Take your outdated, cruel and stupid American ideology on how the world should work and shove it up the place where the sun don't shine.
    2
  1731. I'm just clicking this video to support Sean's channel but I'm so disgusted with the way Argentina is self destroying that I don't really want to hear more about that sorry country. The Argentinian people are always going to pay the ultimate price for becoming a colony of the US hegemony.
    2
  1732. Neolibs don't think long term. They only think how much profit they can make in the next 2 quarters.
    2
  1733. ASPI hmmm... Isn't that the shitty think tank that lie about China's Xinjiang region and the Uighurs?
    2
  1734. Yea, the problem is republicans think fascism is the best way to make America great. If you want to see mushroom clouds over Beijing and Shanghai, vote for the GOP. Not saying that the Dems are much better because they are just corpo-state lackeys with less bad social issue stances. They won't nuke China but they will still try to fight China believing it is about freedom or whatever civil religious bullshit they can conjure up.
    2
  1735. It also signals that the G20 is getting more and more irrelevant. The G7 will most likely use the G20 as a soapbox to hammer their propaganda. It will be dog and pony show that will give the western corpo-state media a chance to belittle and insult Xi and Putin. Anything Xi or Putin said will be cynically used as ammo for more insults. Then they will declare victory over the "forces of authoritarianism". It will be like playing chess with a pigeon. So why put the dignity of both countries on the line to attend this obviously phony exercise.
    2
  1736.  @Duesre  The fact that you think trains are an attack on cars already showed how deep your indoctrination by the automobile industry goes. It is not the train that might attack cars (as though having public transport is a bad thing), it has always been the automobile industry attacking public interest, public goods like trains, buses etc., just so they can create a condition where everyone has no choice but to buy a car. Then they brainwash you into thinking that being forced to fork over your hard earned money using the most inefficient way of transporting people is "freedom", which is a word that has lost all meaning in America.
    2
  1737. Asking questions about Taiwan? Lol, you mean DeepSeek is giving you answers that are actually the truth, rather than the western narratives (IE. Lies) and you are thinking it is censoring.
    2
  1738. Considering that there is still the 1.6B dollar army out there trying to slander everything Chinese and to push western narratives, I wouldn't trust anything you say when your responses here are very very targeted against China's internal politics.
    2
  1739. As Marxists always say, the material reality will exert itself on all these contradictions.
    2
  1740. And they say capitalism is efficient. All this do is waste money, effort and time as society moves from one con to another that tech bros and billionaires keep throwing out. All they do is suck up money and the leave behind a wreckage of bullshit gadgetbahn, if it even gets built.
    2
  1741.  @Hystericall  That's why they refused to "reinvest" them into US bonds. If the money stays in HK, they can't be illegally seized.
    2
  1742. They will just find another way around it. Plus it really shows the hypocrisy of the US, especially the Dems because they left the Gazprombank in the swift to allow the Europeans still able to buy some Russian gas. And now they deliberately close it off before trump gets into office to throw more wrenches into the Ukraine war.
    2
  1743. If the IMF denounce it, you are probably on the right track.
    2
  1744. I can tell you that Christians are very very much responsible for most of the most devastating and cruel wars in human history.
    2
  1745.  @Maris_S28  50k deposit is obviously trying to ban all pets. He expressed his views. I expressed that I find it disgusting. No one in good faith trying to solve a problem will propose such a non-solution.
    2
  1746.  @JMBJMB-dv5ys  Ohh so if China flies near Canberra in international airspace, that's okay? After Australia panicking so much when the Solomon Islands sign a deal with China that is none of Australia's business? Hypocrites.
    2
  1747.  @allancheli  You mean western belligerents.
    2
  1748.  @normanquimpo1475  for an illegal sanction
    2
  1749. The ones who refuses to talk seriously here are the US and their cronies, not China.
    2
  1750.  @malcolmmyself9653  Adam Smith also castigated the landlords, and the rent-seeking system that feudalism operated under. No real economists (except the current cadre of western corporate stooge economists) will ever say rent-seeking is great. And yet here we are, being brainwashed into believing that this system that has hollow out the prosperity of the working class and transfer the wealth upward is the best system ever conceived. Marx had been right all along.
    2
  1751. Lol Edward Snowdon literally revealed years ago how the NSA spy on everyone through UAS technologies. Cisco is literally found to have backdoors installed in their routers numerous times for years. Putting bombs in tech is not freally that are fetch if you think about it.
    2
  1752. Living on credit cards to buy life necessities is never going to be sustainable. Americans will have to ask themselves, how come their productivity has increased so much and they work such long hours and they still never have enough to spend. Where is all their money? They can start by reading Marx.
    2
  1753. This is not possible to do in the US under their current system and regime.
    2
  1754. They could have just find a Mediterranean to play the role of a person of phoenician descend.
    2
  1755. There is nothing left for the capitalists to take away from the people anymore.
    2
  1756. The US is no longer in a position of strength to dictate to the world how things will go.
    2
  1757. LOL this is not socialism. It is the furthest away from socialism you can get short of just enslaving people.
    2
  1758. Having a taste of your own medicine can be quite bitter. The US is not superior because it is the best country. It is propped up by brain draining talents from all the around the world with false promises and seductive media.
    2
  1759. How did this happened? Precisely because the US is a capitalistic country.
    2
  1760. Is this all going to be autopiloted because I don't trust people who can't even drive on the road to pilot a flying vehicle.
    2
  1761. It reminds me of Kishore Mahbubani's answer during a Q&A session to a western reporter. He said if China is so terrible and their leadership is so stu*pid and their people so repressed, then the west has nothing to fear. So why say China (or Russia) is a threat when they are supposedly going to collapse any time? This is how fas*cist propaganda work. The enemy is both weak and strong; weak enough to denigrate, insult and hope to overcome but strong enough to feed the fear of losing to them.
    2
  1762. Launching a huge campaign at a time when you have barely enough force to hold onto your borders to "raise morale" is putting the cart before the horse. Also if one side is already winning, throwing a hail Mary is not going to bring them to the negotiation table or give the losers any more leverage. You're right that propaganda and indoctrination are more influential than just plain facts and objective analysis. That is why western media (and the Hasbara) is so adamant at controlling the narratives. Without narratives, this house of cards would have collapse long ago.
    2
  1763. If the US government and American culture allows self reflection, the US wouldn't be in this quagmire today in the first place. This new Cold War with China and Russia is part of that inability to self reflect, and the arrogance that comes out of being unchallenged for a long time. The US does not have a long term national strategy that is logical, rational and objective based on the reality of geopolitics.
    2
  1764. Well, they do have all those guns that are supposedly there to defend themselves against tyranny. They are actual tyrants in the DC and Wall St. but they are so distracted and brainwashed they keep using those guns on each other. They have the power to overthrow the government and take the vultures at Wall St. off their executive suites and punished them in the streets. They can do that tomorrow but they won't because they are fed by nationalism, hyper-individualism and selfishness and oppressed under a capitalist system that is extracting more and more from them. Most of them are one emergency expenditure from complete collapse. No way they can organized even a proper protest that can push even the tiniest economic reforms, much less a revolution.
    2
  1765.  @eoinoconnell185  they didn't go woke, it's just people don't want to join up anymore because even with all the benefits, it's still sucks.
    2
  1766. In one of the Civ game, The Mall is the American civilization's special building. They know their god is consumerism.
    2
  1767. Exactly. Russia is also entitled to their national security. If the west refuses to even acknowledge that Russia's security is a legitimate concern, then Russia do not have to acknowledge western expansion right to their doorsteps. The west need to back the f*ck down and stop thinking that their way is the most right, most moral and thus must be imposed on everyone. It is not the most right, not the most moral nor even the most honorable. Stop this pretension that it is about freedom and democracy because western interventions and expansion of their influence on other countries have rarely resulted in real freedom or democracy. It will even be farcical to say the west stands for freedom and democracy when their system is obviously capitalist hegemony. The freedom and democracy are window dressing meant to placate their population. When push comes to shove, the capitalists always has the last say in any western country's policies and laws. That is not freedom or democracy. We also need to stop this nonsense of framing this war as legitimate fight against tyranny. Russia's security concerns are legitimate, and should be respected. The west is not free or democratic and their interventions are seldom for freedom and democracy. They have no moral high ground to present themselves as such. The Ukraine war is started by the west when they disrespected Russia's security concern. It is a proxy war for western, especially American domination over Russia and is not fought for freedom and democracy. Whether Russia is winning or losing this war does not dispel that the west has acted in bad faith and not for the interests of the Ukrainian people. The question will not end with the Ukraine war because so long the west and America especially, thinks it is some sort of divine right for them to impose their world order on everyone and disrespect other countries' positions and seek to dominate the rest of the world, there will be another proxy war like this one. If and when the Americans start a war over Taiwan, and rope the Europeans into it and if the Europeans really followed meekly behind their masters, they will be in for a nasty surprise. If the west really push China into a war, and China finally stop restraining itself, the people of the west will be punished for their transgressions. And the rest of the world will watch.
    2
  1768. It's not impossible, it's Marxist-Leninism, it is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
    2
  1769. Turkey may want to join BRICS but is turkey a good fit into BRICS. BRICS is about economic cooperation and creating an alternative financial system to remove the risk of using Western financial institutions. Turkey is still a member of NATO and that might be a Trojan horse into BRICS. What will Turkey do when it is in BRICS when the US bribe them to disrupt BRICS?
    2
  1770. Thank you for finally mentioning that sprawling is not going to help lower environmental costs. Even if the house is low cost and environmental friendly, you still need roads, pipes, sewers, electrical lines and other amenities to get to the sprawled suburbs. It will not be difficult to see how a single stretch of road serving 50 families is far far less cost efficient than serving 500 families and businesses in a medium density mixed use development. Suburbs are bankrupting American cities because the amenities brequires to upkeep them has to be subsidized from elsewhere. It is a stupid way to house people and build cities.
    2
  1771. More like top many incompetent politicians and not enough competent ones because it is the corporations where the real power lies.
    2
  1772. 250k seems like a lot. If that's the case, Germany will run out of people within a few years. 25k is a more likely the answer and even then that's a huge number of people for a country with 83 million people.
    2
  1773. It's not that difficult to see the train wreck from a hundred miles away if you keep your eyes clear and your mind rational. Everyone outside the west, and many inside the west, at least those who are not drinking their own kool-aid knows milei's policies are monumentally stupid. Sean did us a service by condensing it for us just how stupid it is.
    2
  1774. HAHAHAHA what exactly will trump do, or what ideas can they come up with that will make things not worse than it is now? What possible radical ideas can come out of the trump team that wouldn't screw up things? Mr. Mersherimer is still operating on the assumption that somehow America is still a functioning country, that no matter how bad it is, the SYSTEM will prevail. Make peace with China and Russia? Cooperate with these major powers so a clear peaceful stance can be established among all major powers that is mutually beneficial? Because that will be the only way out for the US and the collective west. But can anyone imagine that Adderall ridden, semi senile, self serving, sniveling and utterly unscrupulous trump will do that? FAT F**KING CHANCE.
    2
  1775. USians athletes doped at 6 times than Chinese and that's just what they can catch. So why don't you go complain about your master's sins before coming to darken our doorstep.
    2
  1776. Why will Russia blow up their own pipeline that they have put in money to build, and the fact that they can just turn off the gas any time they want without needing to damaging the pipeline at all.
    2
  1777. One of the most defining characteristic of a dying empire is overstretching their imperial control and constant wars to maintain their hegemony. Whether or not the constant wars are just windfall for the MIC is really now beside the point. It is clear that something gotta give in the American empire, either the debt becomes unserviceable or the rest of the world is strong enough to stop giving the empire their surpluses. Then, the collapse will truly hit.
    2
  1778. Of course the parents first, because now they are her/his parents too. What a silly question from a Chinese POV.
    2
  1779.  @TimE-er1kn  No, that's just capitalism. This is just the logical conclusion to capitalism.
    2
  1780.  @obob6309  There are already important things of consequences happening, it's just not going to hit the west instantly. But the more they try to hand wave it away or hide it by soft censoring it, the more you can bet that the people in power are panicking.
    2
  1781. I will take these reports with a huge grain of salt. Until the PLA actually announces the existence of these weapons and that they are deployed, which means it work, I wouldn't put much stock in it. Everything else is speculation and has some agenda to them. Either these are trying to fearmonger to get more funding for the MIC or just being click baity articles. But the DF-21 and DF-ZF are real. DF-27 is still mired in mystery so everything about it is still speculative. Hypersonics are important but using them to hit a carrier is still no easy task. The most important point is that the possibility of hitting a carrier with ballistic and hypersonic is now very real because the entire kill-chain (detection -> target -> launch -> guide -> hit) set up by China is very real. That mean the USN cannot operate with impunity even within the second island chain anymore because they have to make the calculations that under certain conditions, the carrier might be very vulnerable. In the past, the USN did not have to make such calculations but now they are forced to. That's the real game changer. But I will argue there is an even more important point. That is the Chinese strategists at PLA are already thinking beyond what the west has been doing. They are crafting new doctrines, new strategies and new tactics. They are now the ones who is shaping the future of warfare, not chasing after established western doctrines anymore. That's why we are seeing more and more weird and crazy ideas coming out of China in terms of future warfare because they are also now in untested territories. Shaping the future is no longer monopolized by the west and that's not just in the warfare. China has become the global taste maker, the global mover in all the most important parts of our lives, and it is driving the west crazy.
    2
  1782. That's the problem with western corpo-state media. They put out these unrealistic dumb stuff for propaganda so much that people there no longer have any idea how this stuff actually works. Russia has one of the largest air forces in the world and also some of the most sophisticated integrated air defenses. To beat that, you will probably need hundreds if not thousands of fighters and/or bombers to sweep the battlefields, and be prepared to lose a lot of them to attrition. With the way Russian defenses are set up, you will need thousands of missiles, probably millions of tons of bombs to crack, along with hundreds of thousands of infrantrymen, supported by thousands of IFVs and hundreds of tanks to really attack effectively. Whatever the west sent to Ukraine is a fraction of a fraction of what they will need to attack these defensive lines. Ukraine does not have the manpower even if they draft every able bodied male into the war. Even then, these kind of preparations will take months, if not years to finish. There is just no way Ukraine can do this realistically after the initial battles have nearly clean out their military and equipment. There is no way these things can be replenished in weeks or months, and no way the west will commit all their assets to Ukraine. It took them years, decades to accumulate these military equipment. The counter-offensive is a fool's errand because Ukraine has driven itself into a corner politically, diplomatically by aligning with NATO and letting the US used it as a sacrificial pawn against Russia. Now it cannot negotiate with Russia for a conditioned armistice because it no longer has any control over its own politics anymore. The best strategy for Ukraine was never, ever get into the situation where Russia feels it has to do something drastic to protect its national security interests in the very first place. Now he is going around Europe begging for scraps. I mean approaching the Swedish for Gripens is just getting sad.
    2
  1783.  @stephaniehale946  That is such a stupid and loaded question to ask. You are as arrogant as you are stupid. Trying to get credit for other people's achievements as though being the same nationality somehow will elevate you, just goes to show how pathetic you are, and prove my point.
    2
  1784. How about China does not want to attack Taiwan because they don't want to kill their own people.
    2
  1785.  @kennyyodune1727  Yup, the more hush the western corpo-state media is on something, the more you can bet it is a huge deal among western elites. This is how western corpo-state media does censorship.
    2
  1786.  @HeroDai2448  it’s not that big of a deal. They are years behind and they can’t produce 7nm nide and even if they make them, TMSC is decades ahead of them since they will already start shipping high-end EUV machines. Yea, people like you have say this kind of bullsh*t for years. And they always have to eat them.
    2
  1787. Then the fault lies with the government and hospitals. They shouldn't have exploited the doctors to the point they have no choice but to strike. Utter disgrace.
    2
  1788. Just because they don't repeat brainrot western corpo-state media this one time does not mean they are a mouthpiece for the government of Greater China. Heck, CNA toe the line of western narratives all the time. Just look at their one sided reporting on Gaza right now. The fact is that the west knows Ukraine is not going to win (duh) and is now doing damage control to push away all the blame and responsibilities for starting this senseless, bloody war by provoking and threatening Russia through using Ukraine as a proxy.
    2
  1789.  @macrosense  It's not capitalism. The fact is that the state controls capital and not the capital controlling the state. That is by practice not capitalism. Capitalism will never produce this level of results.
    2
  1790.  @monsjohnson8832  the people of Tibet, Xinjiang and HK are doing better than ever. Everything you hear about these places from western media are literal lies. This is exactly what Pascal and Michael are trying to say. The west has nothing left except to use every tool in the box to bring down China, including slander, and lies.
    2
  1791. ​ @monsjohnson8832 Except that everything you are fed about Tibet, Xinjiang and HK are lies, slander and deliberate misrepresentations from western media. This is exactly what I mean that the west has driven themselves into a corner culturally and politically. The western elites have deemed Russia, China and every rising country that challenge their hegemony as a threat and they have to invent the threat. But the problem is that the threat is not real, but they have rile up their people to the point they cannot accept that these are lies, and that other people have the right to reject westernization.
    2
  1792.  @Mick-iv6mk  it is telling that westoids will ignore everything horrible happening in the west just to throw shade at China's growth while deliberately also ignoring that China is moving into a new phase of development. This kind of self indulgent delusion is why the west is in terminal decline because westoids don't even live in the real world.
    2
  1793.  @LukeL685  I doubt that electricity is cheaper in the US than in China, considering that China now has cheap oil and gas from Russia and Iran and inked favorable locked-in deals with Qatar and UAE for energy supplies for decades.
    2
  1794.  @maxpower8429  That's no longer the case. They might want to go to school there, but fewer and fewer people, especially those from middle income nations will leave after they completed their studies. Most Chinese, which made up the majority of international graduate and undergrad students are not staying. They are bringing their knowledge and skill back to China.
    2
  1795.  @LukeL685  You're not wrong, but I think gas is quickly becoming one of China's big energy source. There are still a lot of ICE cars on the road in China so they have to secure a steady source of petroleum.
    2
  1796. I don't think they need or want 10 carriers. They just need enough to defend move out to 2nd island chain and to defend their lines of communications. Each carrier is exorbitant to build and maintain even for China and it is a waste of money that can be used to build uplift more people out of poverty and to invest in productive things.
    2
  1797.  @442484184  The west does not like China but 14% of the population is hardly representative of the world community. More than ever, the rest of the 86% kinda like China, which is really the reason why the west feels threatened; they can't exploit everyone else anymore to benefit the western imperial core. Heck, they are losing the moral grounds and ohh god do you know how whiny they become when they can't lecture everyone else without us retorting back. The west better recalculate and get comfortable because it won't just be China telling them to STFU, it will be the entire Global South. They can try to go to war with China and they will find they won't have any support outside the western bubble.
    2
  1798. That's because even as a scientist, you are not immune to capitalist cultural hegemonic brainwashing and indoctrination.
    2
  1799.  @Mel_Gerrard  China is practicing the beginning steps towards communism. State capitalism and socialist meritocracy is them trying to industrialize, get rich, get strong enough that they can't be intervened by western capitalists, and get connected with the world enough they cannot be sanctioned anymore. Then they will slowly transitioned towards communism.
    2
  1800.  @davidjacobs8558  You have no idea what China is.
    2
  1801. No, capitalism ruins everything.
    2
  1802. The longer the war drags on, the more delusional the west becomes, the more I am convinced that for the rest of the world to progress, at some point the hegemony of the west, economically, culturally, politically and militarily, has to be crushed. The west is incapable of living in reality, and that delusion, reinforces and fueled constantly by their capitalist corpo-state media can only end up at one place; war with all the rising powers that is challenging that hegemony and the world order they have build for themselves and benefit tremendously at the cost of the rest of the world.
    2
  1803. I think there should be a new way to measure democracy: the relative distance between a de jure democracy and a de facto democracy. De jure is that on paper and procedural, a country can be democratic, but if it is not measure with de facto democracy. De facto democracy will measure: 1. the policies that people desire gets enacted vs. policies they don't want or don't care for, will indicate power distribution among the population 2. wealth inequality that indicate how wealth is concentrated, 3. poverty level indicates how fair the overall system is able to redistribute wealth and give prosperity to all, 4. combined 2 and 3 will give us measurement of the utilitarian level of the policies that helps distribution of wealth 5. achieving basic living standards: including true access to education, housing, jobs, savings and retirement, healthcare etc., 6. labor union power measured against corporate power, pervasiveness of unions and whether unions have enough power for negotations 7. imperialistic tendencies of the countries' foreign policies 8. media independence from powerful influences including government and corporations, to examine the level of propaganda that skewed toward powerful elites, both state and private. 9. measurement of the citizens' information bubble derived from covert and overt propaganda and indoctrination - true measurement of freedom of thought If you start measuring democracy in the de facto manner, I will bet a lot of money that the US will drop in democracy ranking tremendously. The current way these metrics are measured is absurdly skewed toward de jure democracy that serves to put western countries on a higher moral pedestal that they do not deserve and these fake moral high grounds are weaponized for diplomatic imperialism from the west. Also, take note that non of the defactor democracy measurements are measuring concepts and system implementation. The results are what matters, and it doesn't really matter what system you used to achieve democratic results - ie. policies and results that benefit the most people possible and keep abuses from the wealthy and political elite low. We will have classification like True Democracy (maybe some Scandinavian countries will qualified) where both the de jure and de facto measurements are high; Superficial Democracy (US, UK and probably most of western Europe, even India) where de jure is high but de facto is low; Practiced Democracy (China, Singapore and some other prosperous countries with stronger dejure authoritarianism) where the de jure is low but de facto is high, and Undemocratic (usually failed states) where de jure is low and de facto is low.
    2
  1804. The problem with the western (or really it is America) worldview is still trying to contain China and preserve its hegemony. A very simple question: whose hegemony? Is it the hegemony of the people of the west? Or is it really about the hegemony of the capital ruling class and their political lackeys? Why does every question has to asked in the terms of China being the threat? Threat to who, really? China is not interested in regime changes, it is not interested in exporting its model and forcing it down your throats. They are not going to meddle in your elections, they are not going to come and demand that your country form a German Communist Party, or a Polish Communist Party, or a French Communist Party. They don't care. It is only interested in its own economic rise and strength so the last two hundreds years of suffering and humiliation will not happen again. You are now dealing with a political elite that consist of highly rational, consistent, extremely intelligent statesmen. They are not stupid asses like ted cruz or MTG. If you work with China, they are more than happy to work with you because they will always want to seek a win-win situation. But if you keep thinking that China is a threat and must be contained, then that is no more than the same colonial mindset that demands that only the west must remain on top. The hypocrisy and double standards applied to China are shameful, if the west can even feel shame. China's rise is inevitable and guaranteed at this point. The only question the western world has to ask themselves: are they going to go off the cliff with America to protect American interests, or are they going to finally f*cking grow a spine and adapt to a multipolar world where the center will be in Asia.
    2
  1805. Colonialism and Christianity. It came from colonialism and Christianity.
    2
  1806. This really reminds me of what David frum in one of those mask off moment said that if conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy. It is also true that if the US establishment becomes convinced it cannot control themselves international institutions and international laws to suit their agendas, they won't abandon their agendas, they will reject international laws. We are seeing that becoming more and more glaringly obvious with each passing day.
    2
  1807. The British Empire looted over 1 trillion dollars from India, and that's just India alone. The entire west has looted immense amount of wealth from the rest of the world for the last 500 years of colonialism. Maybe it is time for them to pay it back.
    2
  1808. More like millennials in the US don't want to fight if they can avoid it, because we all know war is a racket in the US. The people who joined the military are either brainwashed or have very few choices in life.
    2
  1809. It is glaring now that we can confirm that biden is not controlling the executive branch anymore. So no one really knows who is making these decisions.
    2
  1810. Unfortunately, it does not look like the decision has any teeth. It just ask israel not to do gen*cide and report on whether it is doing gen*cide. It's like telling a mu*derer not to mu*der people. ICJ has lost all credibility even when it rules against israel. Unless the court actually orders that there should be a UN peacekeeping force to be deploy to stop israel forcibly, israel (and the entire west) will just ignore this. In the end, who is going to enforce all these orders? China? Russia? The US? LOL. Who has the power or have the willingness to force these orders on israel? The only thing that is useful is that they are formally, officially saying israel and the west are probably committing gen*cide, and blowing up the west's moral standing and show the blatant hypocrisy of the west, and in turn implicate the west especially the US in this crime.
    2
  1811.  @hyhhy  Exactly. Yes, a government that can print its own money cannot technically ever go bankrupt, but to build an entire economy around this concept is bogus, even immoral. That's like trying to build an airplane based on the fact that water flows downhill. Sure that technically shows us the existence of gravity but it ignores everything else like aerodynamics, material science, propulsion engineering etc. The only reason why Americans use this to justify their spending is to bury their head in the sand that the value of a fiat money has to be backed up something real, and in modern times, that's backed by commodities and services that generate real utility. The US simply does not generate enough utility or value to justify their money printing and they hold it up by sucking up everyone's surplus value for the privilege of using their money for trade. And if you don't play ball, they knee capped you. In other words, it's a fricking racket.
    2
  1812.  @grimaffiliations3671  REEEAAAAALLLY? They sure don't behave like what you are saying. Like nearly everything in the west, it's saying one thing and doing another.
    2
  1813.  @grimaffiliations3671  The entire US economy IS STILL INFLATING. What are you going to tell us next? That the nearest star to Earth is Woolookooloo? The Eiffel Tower is built by aliens? And there is no poverty in America? Nevermind, the material reality will exert itself soon enough. Talking to you people is pointless now.
    2
  1814. Every dollar of bond China buys today is a dollar DC can spend on building its military for one day they will sail across the Pacific Ocean to murder Chinese. Every dollar they spend is a dollar they can use to buy bullet to put in Chinese people. This is no longer about economics. This is war and the US already started it. Why should China keep helping the people who want to kill and destroy them. Mark my words, if China's plans to de-dollarize works, the Americans will be desperate enough to do the unthinkable. They already did it before, and they have complete control over its media to sell nuclear bombs over Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhou to preserve American hegem... ohh sorry "Freedom(TM)" and "Democracy(R)". This century's Nazis will be Americans and they are going to murder 10 times more people than the Nazis ever did.
    2
  1815. Hard disagree on government spending. US government spending is inefficient because it is spending way too much on defenses and being gouge by the MIC for it. It also kept dipping into Social Security making it insolvent. If the US government were to spend those money on building up the country, infrastructure, roads, railways (which are hopelessly under maintained and killing people), ports etc. Heck, they can solve the Flint MI pipe problems with the amount of money the Pentagon spent in maybe less than a day. Maybe you are just trying to make a point but I think you are doing people a disservice if you just said government spending is inefficient without adding some disclaimers to that obviously false statement.
    2
  1816. If you look at what the plaza accords is, then you will know that the US being a benign hegemony is a sick joke.
    2
  1817. Right to the point. Well said.
    2
  1818.  @SeanFooGold  Hahaha ya. But the irony could be that breaking the west might be the way to save us from the climate crisis, considering how wasteful their societies are.
    2
  1819. The US crushes its inflation by crushing its own people by forcing a recession and lowering wages and increasing unemployment. And other countries' people as well. It is as stupid as it is cruel.
    2
  1820. China uplifted over 800 MILLION of their people out of poverty, and the US says that the CPC is the most evil government in the world, while the US government and its wealthy elite continues to create poverty in the supposedly richest country in the world.
    2
  1821. Whatever they can send to Ukraine will just be attrited away by the Russians.
    2
  1822.  @earlysda  So what if they copy shit. The way I look at it, the rest of the world "stealing" tech from the west is just the great balancing, it's reparations for all the wealth and lives stolen by western imperial and economical colonization, exploitation and domination. The west is "innovative" because they have surplus capital to put into research and development and create instituions that allow their people to work in high standards of living. Standards of living that are built on looting from their rest of the world. The world is just coming to get their debts paid.
    2
  1823.  @earlysda  Then you agree that the west is evil. Thanks! This kind of brainless platitude makes talking to western ideologues like you meaningless, because you are essentially saying that when the west stole from the rest of the world, that's okay because that was a long time ago, even though the effects of those thefts are still felt today (ie the unnaturally high standard of living in the west, and the poverty of the looted countries). But the thefts (or more correctly reparations) are the evil deeds. That's self-serving hypocrisy and IMO more evil.
    2
  1824. This is just the 1st step toward communism and they are already hitting the ball out of the ball park.
    2
  1825. Good. The west needs to be punished.
    2
  1826. Nope China is not doing that. So somehow letting Phillippinee willy nilly claiming anything they want is not illegal and hostile towards China, or other SE Asian countries? This is the kind of double standard BS that people with a modicum of geopolitical understanding can see right through.
    2
  1827. It's not their territory
    2
  1828.  @idkhowtoputacorrectname  stop watching western propaganda BS and read historical facts first. Don't insult our intelligence by saying those were legitimate Philippines territory.
    2
  1829. The only reason why the US is not officially in a recession is that they have been sucking up their vassals' surpluses and manipulating the numbers. For the majority of Americans, recession is already here since 2023.
    2
  1830. Yup, western corpo-state media refuses to talk about why Hamas existed and did what they did. They want the conflict to start on Oct 7 and wants all of us to conveniently forget what has happened to the Palestinian people for 70 over years since 1948. But it is not working because more and more people and countries are speaking out against Israel gen*cidal policy against Palestinians. You don't have to approve of Hamas, but you cannot ignore the fact that Israel caused all this in the first place.
    2
  1831. Whether nuland was pushed out because of political machinations, it doesn't justify the war crimes and the injustice of this war. Letting her do what she wanted so her mistakes will catch up to her at the sacrifice of thousands of lives is a big reason why the US empire needs to be neutered. I really hope people can see this clearly.
    2
  1832. It is mostly because the US forced all its vassal states to use the US financial system to park their surpluses and use USD for trade. So the US gets to control its vassals' economies through monetary policies, and is it rally that surprising that the most selfish, self-centered culture in history will choose to hollow out its vassals' economies to prop up its own zombie economy? This is what happens when you hitch your wagon to a tyrant.
    2
  1833. Yuuuupppp, Tsinghua University's experimental steady-state microbunching free electron laser is being built now.
    2
  1834. Because they think they are untouchable and they are also morons. This is the ultimate expression of privilege, same thing as the 1/6 terrorists getting pikachu face shocked when teh feds come knocking down their doors.
    2
  1835. Because the west is protecting Israel, and the US can hurt Singapore more than Russia can.
    2
  1836.  @yaoliang1580  Which is why it is essential that China and India settle these disputes once and for all through diplomacy, because any loose ends like that are invitations for meddling from foreign powers wanting to create mischief.
    2
  1837. How did SZ happened? Central planning.
    2
  1838.  @Jay...777  ohh yea, wouldn't be surprised one day if it was revealed that Google was using its language model AI to censor comments that spoke out against western imperialism and capitalism. You also get shadow banned too We already know they are actively demonetarizing and reducing exposure of content they don't like, especially non western perspectives and anti-imperial content like this channel.
    2
  1839. Yea, but that will contradict his "dictator" comment earlier and he can't appear weak now he has an election coming up lol. Especially not against the number one enemy the entire American political establishment have railed against. hahaha this is the problem with western style of adversarial and popularity contest style politics is so stupidly self-destructive. He has to be a demagogue and say things that catch people's attention, or distract them from looking closer at something you want to cover up. So you have to sometimes say stupid sh*t to stay in the news cycle. biden calling Xi a dictator is a classic case of him trying to stir up sh*t for his waning popularity because the people listening to him are already conditioned to hate China. They are forced to stay popular over prioritizing prudence and strategy, so they keep saying these things that can rile up people or that they like to hear but is often strategically unsound. So eventually they drove themselves into a corner. That's why the reporter asked that question, because it is a "gotcha" question and it's good for readership. Western politics is full of these childish, d*mba*s moves and counter-moves that do nothing except wasting time and energy. Worse, they think that's political freedom. Nah, that's just stupid.
    2
  1840.  @lorainejones41  Yup, the US DOES NOT CARE about Taiwanese lives or their well-being. The island is simply a pawn they are using to poke at China, trying to lure it into a war just like Ukraine. They think that China really only want to dominate just like them, so surely they can be baited into a self-destructive war where the US and its crony vassals can use the excuse to attack China. Western neoliberal, neocon mentality and worldview based on Machiavellian domination cannot fathom international cooperation and win-win foreign policies. But China knows this and unlike Russia, is in a far better position economically and for security. China does not need Taiwan to secure itself, though it will definitely break the first island chain and it does not need Taiwan to become an economic superpower. It is already an economic superpower. Taiwan is an emotional issue and while emotions can be dangerous in politics, it can also be tempered because China does not need Taiwan materially to succeed. So the US is not getting the result it wants, and they are the ones being materially threatened by China's rise. They are the ones far more desperate than China to start a war because 5, 10 years down the road, the US will be even weaker and China even stronger. This is inevitable.
    2
  1841.  @rico14  I think bad people abuse power when they have it. Power actually seldom corrupt but it always reveals the kind of person you really are. And bad people are produced by bad incentives in the society and no system produced worst incentives than capitalism which only prioritize profits above everything else. It incentivize greed and powermongering and sociopathy above every other trait. That's why countries like the US keep producing bad leaders who abuse their power because they always draw their pool of leaders from the plutocratic class, the rich Americans who are the most selfish, self-centered, self-aggrandizing, self-fellatioing, narcissistic people in the world. That's why the US government is so dysfunctional on the surface. It is dysfunctional if you are a normal American human or a normal human from elsewhere. It is not dysfunctional for an American or western inhuman plutocrat/oligarch. It works very very well for them. The incentives in countries and societies like Singapore and China to a large extent are completely opposite. That's why they produce leaders that are opposite of the US/western ones.
    2
  1842.  @lkkoh777  Ahh but you see, your election are not validated by their self-appointed standards so it is invalid. Westerners are as arrogant as they are ignorant.
    2
  1843.  @zhcultivator  The problem with your statement is that LKY was not an autocrat.
    2
  1844. ​ @_Urahara_Kisuke_  Indeed. LKY was one of those rare individuals who was a true leader. Those who followed him into his government and built this country were themselves highly intelligent and ambitious. But they followed him willingly even when they disagreed with him vehemently because he was able to convince them of his vision, of his leadership and of his passion. He was not above being a passionate man, even though in many interviews he gave, he always seemed calm, collected, composed and very very sharp. But when he was on the campaign, he was fiery, he was passionate. And he convinced a country that he would everything in his power, with his life to build this country. He convinced them that he combined both intelligent, rationality and passion. I remember watching old videos of him at town hall meetings where he was on fire, he was blasting his opposition, he pointed out their inadequacies, he put forth his visions, his ideas and he punctuated his speech with fire. He was very charismatic, and empathetic. That was the time when PAP had not proven themselves to be the prudent, rational and highly intelligent and competent party. He convinced a country that was just a few years ago had violent racial riots, religious tensions that he can lead all of them fairly, equally and rationally but also with passion to common prosperity. Why should the Malays and Indians gave him their votes. He was Chinese! Worse, a twinkie Chinese (yellow on the outside, white on the inside, his mandarin and dialects were terrible) and he was able to convince those dialect groups, tribalistic Chinese to follow him. LKY was not a dictator. He earned the trust of his fellow colleagues, and he earned the trust of his countrymen and from there he proved his leadership and earned the admiration and respect from everyone. If he was a dictator, he didn't have to do any of those things. He didn't have to possess any of those traits. He didn't have to use words and the power he imbued in those words to convince people to follow him. He could have just beat up his opposition with his authority. This is why I don't care much for western opinions on other countries' leaders anymore. Their assessments are typically either ignorant, simplistic, self-serving, culturally insensitive, or done in bad faith.
    2
  1845.  @peppergirlrocks  And did it well because they didn't turn their country into a western puppet.
    2
  1846. Pascal, I know you want to bring balance to your guest list but this might be one of the worst guests you ever have. The US is a benign hegemon? Is he serious?
    2
  1847.  @karlsonchee2701  Yea, you're right, biden is a dictator.
    2
  1848. Haha the REAL real estate crisis is in the US, not in China.
    2
  1849. Pretty much. I find that people siding with joe exotic to be kinda screwy. Even despite the "documentary" obvious attempts to paint Carol Baskin in a bad light by suggesting that she killed her husband and that she is an enemy to joe exotic, the amount of really screwed up stuff joe exotic and the people surrounding him all did is beyond the pale. Normal people don't think and act like these people do. They are immature and chronically dysfunctional people that you wouldn't even think about bringing home to meet your parents. These are not heroic people fighting against a system or was set up by nefarious actors. No, they did it to themselves. I guess the sheer disastrous ways they handle everything in their lives and their "I don't care" attitude and do whatever that pops first into their screwed up brains that can gratify them instantly appeals to certain segment of the population. And of course, Baskin outmaneuvering exotic at every turn probably does not sit well with the same type of people. If you identified with joe exotic so much that you really think he is blameless, you really need to examine your values.
    2
  1850. China economy cannot be analysed the usual ways by western economists because they have a strong central planning control. The real estate sector has been a target by the Chinese government for some time. They WANT the real estate sector to cool down. They WANT to move the economy away from real estate and into high value, high tech industries. And they are willing to take temporary pain to readjust their economy on a national scale to make it more productive and more healthy by focusing it on more useful and sustainable industries. China will come out stronger and healthier after this readjustment by reducing over leveraging in the real estate sector and excess capacity and into high value, high tech sectors. This is the power of the Chinese way, and western economies and system cannot hope to compete because they cannot do such things. They cannot arrest and pop bubbles. They cannot readjust their economies. They are at the mercy of the market and capitalists.
    2
  1851. So an APC?
    2
  1852. hahaha, it's the same thing with the Philippines daring to break their agreement with China not to send building materials to that decrepit ship. They did it anyway thinking papa america will come to their rescue. Instead their "special forces" got water cannoned and arrested by the Chinese Coast Guard, creating their own humiliation. America does not help their proxies. You are cannon fodder for America's interests, nothing more. It's the same for ukraine, it's the same for the phillpiness, why wouldn't it be the same for argentina? Look at how America treats its own vassals in europe and East Asia.
    2
  1853. I have seen BYD showrooms in SE Asia, oh they know what they are doing in terms of marketing.
    2
  1854. Whether we like it or not... No, we don't like it at all.
    2
  1855. Lol this reads like a bunch of bots talking to each other.
    2
  1856. The US: you are not welcome to cooperate with western space programs. China: fine! We'll build better ones, with blackjack and hookers!
    2
  1857. Well, that's the thing. Uplifting your citizens out of poverty through policies, industrialization, urbanisation, education, etc. is a profoundly grand strategy.
    2
  1858. Wall street losing their minds usually mean it is good for the oppressed people around the world.
    2
  1859. Bad growth is still bad growth. Financial speculation and war are not growth. The finance sector and the MIC are not real economy.
    2
  1860.  @americanexile  I don't expect westerners to be convinced that not all people are thieves and colonizers and think like the west
    2
  1861. The electoral college, not to mention the American corpo-state media will destroy him. He's not going to be president.
    2
  1862. The west might well be one entity for the most important stuff. The Europeans, Japanese and Koreans are basically vassals to the US. Until they have proven to have a spine to decide for themselves what they want, and dare to breakaway from the US, their foreign policy will be dictated by Washington. Then we might as well as treat them as one entity.
    2
  1863.  @somjrgebn  western freedom of speech until you criticise the liberal capitalist system.
    2
  1864. The same media has been telling us that China is going to collapse in all kinds of inventive ways for the last 20 years. So why wouldn't they lie about how great the US economy is?
    2
  1865. When western media does not talk about the cause of a crisis in some country and keep hammering the current situation, 9 out of 10 times, the cause of the crisis is western imperialism and meddling. Why is El Salvador in this situation in the first place? They have a neighbor up north who thinks it is their right to do whatever they want to El Salvador.
    2
  1866. The US is not the world's biggest economy. It is however, the world's most toxic and false economy. It's finance, MIC, entertainment, IP hoarding, and healthcare industry, none of which are productive things. People are living paycheck to paycheck, they are not saving anymore because they simply can't, and they are neck deep in debts they probably cannot pay back.
    2
  1867. It's not east vs west. It's the west vs the rest.
    2
  1868. Ignoring and even slandering Gonzalo Lira, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange in order to make the west look good and everyone bad while going insane over Navalany is insincere BS we have come to expect our of the westoid spehere. But this gives them another way to spin that the west is the moral superior while everyone else is bad, while of course conveniently ignoring or spinning away all the terrible things they have done and are still doing. The double standards of western media and western leadership are plain for all to see. This is why China doesn't really talk to the US anymore because they know everything they say and do is trying to screw China. They will lie and cheat about everything so you can't trust them to do anything unless they are forced to. It is why no one really take the west seriously anymore unless we know they are forced to do something by circumstances of their own making or by us.
    2
  1869. A lot of regulations only happened after a terrible crisis. Evergrande is going to be one of those stories you will learn in textbooks about why things are done in a certain way in China.
    2
  1870. The difference between the west and China in how they view and used AI is that in the west, they want to use AI to replace human workers to cut costs to increase profits, find ways to exploit people's vulnerabilities to brainwash them and make them spend more money they don't have, meanwhile China uses AI to improve efficiency, productive forces and find practical solutions to pressing problems that can improve the over all well-being of the people. They are not trying to replace doctors, they are trying to make doctors' work easier and more efficient, and decrease costs that translate to better results and less financial burdens on the people This is why China is not afraid of AI because they will use it to improve people's lives. This is also why the west is afraid of AI because they all know it will be the rich and powerful that controls these AIs and use them against the interests of the people.
    2
  1871.  @bilalafzal7442  You really think the UK will arrest him lol
    2
  1872. Only capitalist pigs will think reckless spending and not saving for rainy days is a good thing. Chinese like saving, and that is ultimately better than spending everything. Because a spendthirft society only encourages rampant consumerism,and in turn encourages an out of control capitalist culture that place consumption above all us, creating a dysfunctional soceity that we are all seeing in America and parts of Europe right now. Consumerism has been studied for a long time in western social sciences and the conclusions reached is that such a culture alienates people, creates useless competition among the working class (keeping up with the Joneses/Kardahsians) and enervate the morality of that society. It normalizes toxic individualism and makes people think only spending money and getting material things is the path to happiness. Worse, it brings the capitalist psychopaths that manipulate the public into spending beyond their means, into power. I encourage people to read up on the life of one of the most evil persons ever created by the American capitalist culture: edward bernays. That's what America is, and China must not replicate such decadence. Revenge spending is an insane and shortsighted and destructive concept and should be vilified. Revenge spending is one of the symptom of the rot that lies at the center of American culture, the fact they can even come out with such an absurd concept. Spending to make yourself feel better is a shit concept. Savings is GOOD. Savings means redundant capacity. Saving means resilience. It is a concept that capitalists hate with a fervor because a saving society means they cannot loot that money. But a saving culture is a culture that emphasizes on moderation, on restrain, on foresight and that will translate into a culture that emphasize long term health of the society, and not short term quarterly gains. That is a society that endures, that flexes, and become stronger. And capitalists HATE that. They WANT those trillions locked up in Chinese people's bank accounts and they HATE that China's socialistic, cautious culture is too resilient to their manipulation.
    2
  1873. It should also be noted that Confucius established his philosophical baseline in an age of strife - the Spring and Autumn Period. His take on why societies and counties failed is eminently on a non-spiritual side. Other than the Mandate of Heaven, there was not much tradition of using the divine to determine why the world was this way or that way. There are no angels coming down from heaven carrying messages from god, or if Zeus felt peckish that day and decide to punish some mortals for some offenses from long ago. It was just not a big thing in China for these kind of divine intervention on that spiritual level. Instead Confucius opted to look at the human conditions more in the practical and organizational aspects. He wanted to create a foundation at how good governance can occur, ask why states failed, why people revolt, and why bureaucracies fell apart, not about pleasing gods. Pleasing gods comes later when good governance is establishment - aka having the Mandate - and not that pleasing the gods give good governance. You get the Mandate by being a good king/emperor, you don't get it by pleasing Heaven first. Good governance is pleasing to Heaven. Everything in the Analects is based on the idea that big concept on the state level - government, the bureaucracy - comes from good foundation of small concepts like the family unit - father, mother, children, uncles, cousins, neighbors, community. The concept is a vertical integration of orderliness - father takes care of family, children take care of their parent to the King takes care of the country and the peasants take care of state. If everything happens according to this moral set of values, orderliness will emerge, then everything will fall into place. Hence why there is such an emphasis on concepts like justice, filial piety, moral righteousness, education because these are what he thought forms a strong foundation to the family unit, and thus to the country unit. There is nothing remotely spiritual as in the supernatural intervention or god pleasing in this viewpoint. Even ancestor worship is a form of ritualized reinforcement of humility, that one must remember the past wisdom to govern the future. It is however very logical and very practical in its mentality, and approaches and provide one of the first complete thought processes on how a state can operate on a gigantic scale. It is probably why the Han dynasty adopted Confucianism and it became the bureaucratic foundation and thought process of China like what Christianity and the concept of sin did for the west. Creating a good, sturdy and just bureaucracy is the point. Creating order out of chaos through human agency is the point. This is a very crucial viewpoint.
    2
  1874. Everyone knows the world is shifting away from the USD? Well, I think the western world is still very much in their own world about this.
    2
  1875. Do you really think we are three year old kids?
    2
  1876.  @brianliew5901  LOL you really think we are stupid.
    2
  1877.  @brianliew5901  We are on no one's side except our own, and especially not on your side. You westoids just don't get it.
    2
  1878. Funny enough is that it is actually true. The treasury issuing bonds rampantly while the feds maintain high interest rates is actually screwing up the financial markets of the world.
    2
  1879. Why shouldn't China have the right to push the USN out of the first island chain. That chain is literally on their doorstep, why should they not secure it for their safety and trade routes? Why is the USN sailing warships up and there those coastlines? To protect US allies or to exert pressure on China and bully them? Reminding them that the US can kill millions of Chinese anytime the POTUS wants to? You think that makes the world a better place? A more peaceful place? By constantly threatening China, a country that is nearly 18% of the entire world? Who is the US really protecting? Their oligarchs' interests or really the world's interests? It is clear to any reasonable, non-brainwashed person that the US is the provocateur here, trying to maintain its hegemony against a rising China, against a rising Global South and Asia. The west and its intellectuals really thinks the rest of us are idiots. If China is weak militarily but strong economically as a rival, the US would have invaded and destroy China long ago and put in their own puppet dictator. Y'all know that will be what would happen.
    2
  1880. I find it hilarious that Americans can be so outrage that they characterize Macron as a backstabber, when it is the US that constantly backstabs everyone. The taste of your own medicine sure is bitter. Even then, Macron did not backstab America, he simply says it is not in the interests of France or the EU to keep following the US off the cliff. It is the US that shot his own foot.
    2
  1881. Heck, Russia wanted to join NATO but was rejected. The US was never serious about making real peace with Russia after the Soviet Union was illegally dissolved. The neocons hate the Russians and their game plan has always been to completely subjugate Russia and keep it down forever.
    2
  1882.  @iriemon1796  Ohh you really think that this SMO was unprovoked?
    2
  1883.  @iriemon1796 If you are going to talk about broken promises and violating rights, then the west broke their promises first and Ukraine has been violating the right of the Russian speaking population in the East way before the SMO. But of course, you don't like that part of the story.
    2
  1884. Because there are no real socialists in the west. They have been destroyed by violence and propaganda and brainwashing long ago. This resurgence of left politics in France remains to be seen if they are even going to implement Marxism, which will definitely be considered an apocalyptic move by French capitalist political establishment.
    2
  1885. China can crank up production so fast and increase their quality so quickly because it is a centrally planned economy with decentralised execution, aka Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a modification of Marxist-Leninist model.
    2
  1886. As compared to the Us way where they ge*cide people they don't like, invade other countries, meddle in other countries' politics?
    2
  1887. Like what Jeffrey Sachs said, you can be democratic (if you can call America democratic), but ruthlessly imperialistic abroad.
    2
  1888. The world has been lost since the end of WWII precisely because the US was able to dominate most of the world.
    2
  1889. It should be noted that Japan copied a lot of western tech during its rise post WWII and it was that mastery of technology that allowed them to manufacture high value products, a domain that the American always insist is theirs. It is only because of Japan's technological industry rise that put them in the crosshair of the Americans. During that time, the American media also went into a frenzy slandering the Japanese with the typical "they took our jewbs!!" angle. It even lead to significant anti-Japanese sentiment which culminated into the murder of a Chinese American when a couple of automaker factory makers mistook him for a Japanese. Sounds familiar?
    2
  1890. The CIA is going to use the cartels to attack these industrial parks.
    2
  1891. The next China will be China.
    2
  1892. Just like Chiang kak sek.
    2
  1893. International law is still very much important to everyone who cares about it. You just have to separate out those who don't and apply a different standard to them.
    2
  1894. Don't forget Niger is cutting off France from their uranium.
    2
  1895. China can probably build that quarter of the cost, with half the time and last twice as long.
    2
  1896.  @felipeiglesias  LOL cope.
    2
  1897. It's like food from other cultures, Americans will Americanized every group in the world so to consume the propaganda easier.
    2
  1898. Your puns and jokes are killing me.
    2
  1899. Sometimes I wonder if Sean is really very smart or he is very tunnelled vision because he focused primarily on economics, finance and see the world only through these narrow lenses. Canada becoming the 51st state of the US is not a deal, it is annexation. I don't if he understands what annexation actually means. Granted that Canada is a vassal of the US empire in all but name, but at least they can maintain some semblance of sovereignty and independence. Demanding another country to willingly surrender and become part of an empire is not a deal, it is literally declaring war on that country. You know, like missiles flying, tanks rolling, gun firing war, millions dead kind of war. No country, no matter how meek or weak is going to submit to another without a fight. Sean, why do you think countries like China, the old Soviet Union, even North Korea have nuclear weapons, and why Iran wants one. Because they are willing to use it to ensure their sovereignty. Economic pain is pain, becoming a state of the US empire is death.
    2
  1900.  @Emphasis213  They tell you that attacking other people and forcing neoliberalism down their throat is defending America.
    2
  1901. The only side Russia will negotiate is with the US because they are the ones controlling Ukraine.
    2
  1902. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" George Carlin.
    2
  1903. If you have a self centered, selfish streak, you are not going to fit into any East Asia countries.
    2
  1904. "China's planned economy is actually overtaking them ever since China joined the World Trade Organization" Guys, you heard it, Sean finally acknowledge Marxist-Leninism.
    2
  1905. Non functional democracies like Argentina and the US are not so fun. Functional ones like China is the bee's knee.
    2
  1906. You can't keep thinking in western thought process. BRICS is clearly not trying to create a single reserve currency. We are now way beyond that because the US has proven that a single reserve currency will eventually lead to corruption and abuse of that system by the currency controller. BRICS "currency" will likely be a basket of currencies that offers different advantages and disadvantages and that no one country can just use the exorbitant privilege of a reserve currency and print endless cash without suffering consequences. The single reserve currency concept is outdated and obsolete.
    2
  1907.  @ignatziusturret5641  lol cope
    2
  1908.  @rogerstarkey5390  And they don't want to. Why waste all these resources on warships when you can build more houses for the masses. The PLA expansion is always reacting to US aggression, ever since the 80s.
    2
  1909. Sounds like the NED is going to be suddenly very active in Hungary and we are going to hear how Prime Minister Orban is just absolute the worst person to ever lead Hungary and we should totally sanction them for gen*cide.
    2
  1910. Bad for developers' profit, good for everyone. Yet again, Kevin I don't see a problem.
    2
  1911. I think we can all make the calculations that will predict this outcome if we are objective, rational and not brainwashed by Israel and western corpo-state media. More importantly, if we are not bought up by the Israel lobby. The Russians, the Chinese, everyone sitting on the UNSC can make the same calculations. It is the US that can't.
    2
  1912. This is why they are so afraid of China welcoming exchange American students to China.
    2
  1913.  @Magsasaka-kami  NOPE. The "international" community is mostly western propaganda in the west and some more westernized countries. It does not constitute more than 20% of the world. The fact is that the Global Majority has had enough of their hypocrisy and lies. The recent prosecution of Isntreall at the ICJ, the Global South not refusing to sanction Russ, the continuing de-do__arization efforts worldwide, the stronger voices coming out of Africa and South America voicing opposition to the western led world order, and fewer and fewer people believe in the "rule based order" and supporting the One China Policy should give you people a few clues on what the real sentiments of the world is.
    2
  1914. Exactly. The hypocrisy and cherry picking of facts to push a narrative is what the US has been doing to the rest of the world. Now they are applying the same underhanded, cynical tactic on the EU and it is just hilarious seeing the thieves eating each other.
    2
  1915.  @peterfireflylund  Your comment is literally the reason why China is winning on this front and multiple other places. This video literally just told you that they have done their own R&D on every level of solar cell production to the point they don't even need to buy western machinery. They are building their own equipment which now outperform their western counterparts. The only thing they are slightly behind is polysilicon purity, which they will eventually catch up. Their solar cells are now cheaper, better, made faster than the west. They already won and you still think they are mere IP thieves, cheap labor and polluters. The ironic hypocrisy that resulted out of the west failure to take China seriously in gaining high tech manufacturing capability is anti-free market, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom good ol' tariffs to protect our own industries. Put your money where you mouth is and admit that they are better than us and start taking them seriously. People like you is why west is in decline; stupidity and idiocy masked by unearned confidence and fed by racism. Keep underestimating them, they love that mentality.
    2
  1916. Oh, you know that the corpo-state media in America is going to find some ways to twist this as a good thing and clueless Americans are going to believe them.
    2
  1917. It's not the same, it's worse.
    2
  1918.  @adr2t  The city of some podunk sh*thole ain't printing its own currency. If these towns and cities start going bankrupt, it will spread the contagion because the banks who hold these municipal debts are gonna die, and the local economies are gonna die and they all need rescuing from the DC, which itself is already drowning in debt. It's gonna be every man for himself because that's how America thinks and operates. It's gonna be real bad.
    2
  1919.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  Just because they are ethnically India does not mean they care about Indians or the Global South. kamala harris was oppressive to minorities when she was a prosecutor because she wanted to appear tough on crime and that appeals to white people. You think she gives a rat's a** to India? You think sunak or whoever the ceo of the world bank gives a sh*t to the poor, downtrodden and exploited people of the Southern Hemisphere? Nah, harris, sunak, and whoever in the power in the west, they are PART OF THEIR SYSTEM. They will kill Indians just as well as Chinese, or Nigeriens or Brazilians. They will protect the neoliberal capitalists (mostly white people) in their own country before they protect you and me. India won't see a shilling from the UK so long the west stands. Until you march an army up to the steps of Westminister, put the PM of UK in chains, they don't care about you beyond how to exploit India against China. These people are monsters, and you don't deal with monsters by appealing to their feelings for their ancestral lands. India needs to stand with China, stand with the rest of the BRICS+, with the SCO. It is the only way to break them, and obtain real justice from the west.
    2
  1920. TMSC moving production to the US is not a guarantee that the US will not conduct its own industrial espionage or poaching of talents to build its own domestic cutting edge fabs. If it comes down to Intel vs TMSC patent or industrial espionage war on US soil, the most likely outcome is going to be Intel winning on the legal side simply because microchip fab tech is a national strategic asset. The US can always "nationalize" any company on its soil through more indirect ways. TMSC moving its most cutting edge fab onto US soil might just be a little less risky than doing it on China's soil.
    2
  1921.  @xiawilly8902  No, he is telling the actual reality of history. You are the one fed with the distorted history served as propaganda. Dude is literally giving quotes from official unclassified documents about and you accuse him of giving you a distorted history,. Only western media indoctrinated and trained people can literally deny reality when placed in front of their eyes. America is truly the most propagandized and brainwashed country in the world.
    2
  1922.  @tomokinariyuki185  Sure, everything contrary to western lies must be see see pee propaganda.
    2
  1923. What a lot of people do not understand is that China has digital sovereignty. They have equivalent apps for every western one and more. This means these companies operate in China, is subjected to Chinese regulations, keep their data in China and thus able to block off most of western propaganda and manipulation.
    2
  1924. China didn't divide Europe. Europe divided itself by some countries becoming US lapdogs while other resist vassalization.
    2
  1925. Yup. The US is a corporation pretending to be a country.
    2
  1926.  @gflaubert3423  Mexico is constantly being threatened by the US. It has been kept weak because of US policies so don't try to make it sound like you people are good guys. As for supply chain, what supply chain? What is America producing today that people want to buy? Financial boondoggles and weapons maybe. Ridiculous delusions. But it doesn't matter. The material reality will exert itself soon enough.
    2
  1927. 100k per person that are mostly given to bankers and financiers to earn more interests. It's a vampiric economy.
    2
  1928.  @grimaffiliations3671  Ohh right, like we don't know that. We ain't talking about the bonds itself, we are talking about the interests.
    2
  1929.  @KawiJunoJasper It's the Americans and the Philippines is joining them because they either believe the crap the Americans are feeding them or they think they can one-up China with America backing them. China is not the one provoking anything. If the Philippines is sincere, they wouldn't be siding with the Americans to stir up trouble in our region. No one in SE Asia likes what the Filipinos are doing. Because we all know the US is trying to use SE Asia countries as proxies against China and they want us to throw away our lives, our economies to preserve their empire and none of us are taking the bait, except the Philippines. They want to turn SE Asia into another Ukraine, and they are trying to do the same with Taiwan and honestly all of us are p*ssed off at how monumentally st*pid the Philippines is.
    2
  1930. Err... no one is an ally with the US except the phillppineess and we all know that's because bong bong is a US puppet. China is not aggressive. They make claims now that they can back it up because back then they were not a naval power since the fall of Qing dynasty. They have historical claims there because China always had a presence in the SCS. Every country will make claims on any piece of land that they can. You can either go to war or negotiate. Since the signing of the Indonesia's initiative last year, China and every SE Asian country now has an accelerated framework for bilateral negotiations to settle any claims and dispute in the SCS. All except bong bong because the US is telling bong bong to choose hostility. When everyone is able to do something peacefully and you are the odd one out, then the problem lies with the phillioppiness and the US, not with China or the rest of SE Asia. No one in SE Asia wants a SE Asia NATO because no one wants bloc politics and ideological divides to create unnecessary tension and China respect that. The only ones who is not respecting SE Asia's sovereignty to want peace is the US and the west who are trying to start wars and conflicts in this region so everyone goes down with China. We know what the US is trying to pull, and so does China. So no, there won't be a SE Asia NATO, they won't be a SE Asia bloc that will be hostile to China because China gives us no reason to. Everything you have heard about how China is aggressive and SE Asia is worried are literal lies and misinformation because I live here and no one wants war. No one think China is being overly aggressive. Assertive? Sure. Aggressive? No. If SE Asia nations truly think China is a threat, then the Quad and AUKUS won't just include the Us, UK, Aust and India. It would have include SE Asian countries because we would have requested to join. But we didn't, and that should already tell you that SE Asia countries have a neutral or friendly relationship with China. No one here really wants to join your little club.
    2
  1931. Oh wow, seem like YT is heavily censoring this thread.
    2
  1932. A lot of central banks are stockpiling gold. Heck, even Singapore is stockpiling gold.
    2
  1933.  @harrisonmcdowall2794  You left out the part that the Union defeated and conquered the Confederates anyway, slavery or not. Funny how you glance over that.
    2
  1934.  @Tethloach1  What kind of colonial nonsense mindset is this? The US made the world and so it can paternalistically determine who is allowed the responsibility to handle their own disputes?
    2
  1935. Yup China didn't ruin Europe. Europeans ruined Europe, and they mostly did it because they are following the US off the cliff.
    2
  1936.  @nikolatasev4948  Exactly. Just like US has supremacy in the western hemisphere and we have maintain that through the Monroe Doctrine, China want to their own sphere of influence. China is a gigantic country and will always be a regional great power and in order to even defend themselves adequately, they have no choice but to gain that sort of regional control. When people complain about China gaining influence in the region, they are essentially saying China has no right to defend itself. Who is ever going to accept that.
    2
  1937. How will they understand anything when everything around them conspire to keep them in the dark about how the world actually works. Go ask an average American what socialism and capitalism is, and they will tell you socialism is when government do things and capitalism is when people do things. Their understanding of the world is like a three year old. How do we expect them to vote, or even to be aware of anything?
    2
  1938. It's not like China's biggest banks are invested in western CREs anyway. They are mostly state own banks and they have their hands full on their own real estate. They don't play this kind of games. Their goal is to ensure the most vital and strategic industries get the credit they need to grow, not to speculate the money of the Chinese people on western economic casinos. But if private Chinese banks get burned because they want to invest in over-capacity sectors like western capitalists, the Chinese government ain't gonna bail them out lol.
    2
  1939. The US also flew their EW plane up and down the coast line of China and beam electronic warfare signals into China, causing the PLAAF to have scramble huge number of their fighters because they thought they were being attack en masse. It turned out to be fake signals but it was obvious that the US was trying to humiliate and bully China. The US still flies spy planes regularly up and down China's coast to look into China's mainland. How are these not provocative actions designed to bully China?
    2
  1940.  @eightsprites  Yes, it would because the American economy is financialized and built on boondoggles. The growth is artificial and not organic. It's not based on producing useful, real useful goods and services. It is propped up by huge amount of QE that "trickle dpwn" to bullsht jobs and bullsht businesses. It is the neoliberal capitalism. That being said, many Americans depend on these bullsht jobs and businesses to get their income, to buy food, pay mortgages, education, their cars that they are forced to buy to survive, etc., etc. It's not their fault entirely that their livelihood depends on these zombie economy.
    2
  1941.  @ListerTube  Then the big business will get bailed out after the small ones died and the big ones get hit. Then they will take that bail out money to go buy out these small businesses that failed. You know, the money that will be borrowed and have to be paid back mostly by ordinary Americans and the shrunk small businesses. It is a sick, immoral and evil system. This is a financial channel but even Sean and some people here can see that this system is simply not sustainable, nor is it fair and moral. If you want a definition of evil, the American neoliberal capitalist system is it.
    2
  1942. This is why China is building their own commercial jets.
    2
  1943.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Yup, it is very clear that the US is suddenly friendly to PH because it wants to use PH as a pawn against China. They don't really care about the long term interests of Filipinos and from the looks of it, neither are the Marcos family. Philippines, you will reap what you sow.
    2
  1944. So they took a far worse deal from the Americans rather than a very good and fair deal from the Chinese. I don't believe a word from Filipinos or Americans that this is about "freedom" or "democracy". To throw away such a good deal that the extra money would have help develop PH smacks of corruption and other unsavory attitudes, like racism.
    2
  1945. They are already plundering Europe by further de-industrializing it.
    2
  1946. McCoy's language regarding Afghanistan "falling" into the hands of China is misleading, even insidious because he still wanted to paint China as a great evil empire, using imperialistic terms to describe China's actions and developments. How much does China have to prove that it doesn't want to dominate the world like the US did? Western intellectuals simply cannot divorced themselves in thinking in powermongering mindsets. Just hear the way McCoy describe what China is doing in Africa, still in the language of the oppression because he simply cannot see that China's way of mutual respect and common prosperity and development with African nations as anything but imperialism in the context of western powermongering ways. It is in this kind of interviews, the language used by westerners and their thinkers that betrays the fundamental characteristics of their culture, that is of domination and racism. Westerners cannot see the world except through the lenses of domination and racism. Disgraceful.
    2
  1947. I think with each new metro project, there is a large incentive for local governments to outdo the last metro project so they get more and more luxurious.
    2
  1948.  C YX  Old but well maintained, I presume? Everything new will eventually feel old after you have been through the same station for the hundredth times. But it is the maintenance that is the most important part. If you don't spend to maintain, even the most awesome infrastructure will wear down and become old and dilapidated. In the end, that matters is that a metro carries as many people as possible in the fastest and most efficient way while keeping itself clean, user friendly and inviting. The problem with metros like London Underground or the NYC subway is not that they are old, it is that they are not maintained and updated periodically because their respective cities de-prioritize infrastructure that serves the people. Instead they prioritize make rich people even richer, and of course cut taxes for these rich people making it even harder to do even basic maintenance, much less infrastructure updates like new rolling stocks, or putting in screen doors that has become standard in many metros in Asia. Although it has to be said that the London Underground and most of Europe's older metros are still well-maintained even as they are less updated. American public serving infrastructure on the other hand is deliberately not well maintained to save money to give tax breaks to the 1% and it shows.
    2
  1949. It's interesting when the US war crimes, violate human rights and being aggressive in other country's backyard, everyone says it is defending freedom. But when other country did anything good, defend themselves against aggression and assert their sovereignty that is them being too aggressive and violate human rights and should be overthrown.
    2
  1950. bots bots bots bots bots
    2
  1951. Carrot and stick only work if the person wants the carrot and is afraid of the stick. China is neither of those things. America has painted itself into a political and economic corner. Politically, it has be put up the façade of fighting against "authoritarian" China to keep the brainwashed Americans afraid enough to support him, and yet economically it cannot go without China's economic might to keep the goods coming and the bonds flowing. That's why they behave like a schizo patient, asking China one thing and then backstabbing China in the next instance. They have taken the worst possible strategy because their system, culture and society are based on capitalism and it is all about profit driven motive, manipulation and exploitation. A capitalist society produce only leadership that cannot strategize, nor plan for sustainable, healthy economy, nor able create wealth by not exploiting others. The root of America, and by extension the west problem has always been capitalism.
    2
  1952. The west knows exactly why China is doing it this way. They know this is the correct way to protect the interests of the public. The problem is western political system is not created to protect the public's economical and financial interest, its top priority is protecting the capitalist oligarchs' interests. Which is why when it comes to choosing what to do they always bail out the capitalist class first. They are not stupid, they know the same theories on economic and finance. They just chose not to do the right thing.
    2
  1953. It's even funnier when Italy and the Netherlands are sending a frigate each with no personnel. Which means that the US is free to come and get the frigate, if they have the sailors to staff it. Canada is sending 3 staff officers which is even funnier. Israel's gen*cide on the Palestinians has less support than what they have hope for. The Holocaust card is not really working anymore when Israel is the one doing a new Holocaust, and their actions have cause more anti-semitism that what actual anti-semites can create.
    2
  1954. I find it amusing that you glossed over the fact that sugarcane plantations used slaves and are some of the worst places to work in. But I guess we are talking about biocontrol and not politics.
    2
  1955. This is what de-dollarization looks like. As you said so yourself in a previous video, China is quitting the US financial system and creating their own. They are taking dollars out of the US control and breaking the USD recycling system. They are protecting their hard earned money from US thieves and aggressors. Every dollar they take out of the US is a dollar they can guarantee will not be used to build weapons by the US MIC to unalive Chinese people. Every dollar they take out of the USD recycling system weakens the ability of the US to exert its imperial control. China is melting out heaven's justice.
    2
  1956. Especially now the French are driven out of Niger.
    2
  1957. Yes Bangkok is so great until you have to drive around lol.
    2
  1958. "The only thing that was important is making sure your narrative was strong and prolific." Ohh so Drake's propaganda is basically US foreign policy and media.
    2
  1959. All this tells me is that the entire world has too much excess production capacity.
    2
  1960. For helping the neoliberals in the US and Europe hold onto their hegemony.
    2
  1961.  @eddynjoya6255  Yup, the problem with these underhanded interference and interventions all over the world orchestrated by the US and Europe is that the people responsible are never held accountable. Bush and Cheney are still free men and they murdered a million Iraqis. Worst, they are shielded by the obsequious western corpo-state media that output propaganda using the most twisted logic to deflect blame from the west and the vilify and slander everyone who refuse to bend their knees to western neocon hawks and neoliberals economic hitmen. Until we start arresting these western war criminals and try them in courts and start putting them in front of a firing squads, they will continue to operate with impunity.
    2
  1962.  @beegonee  He's being sarcastic, didn't you see the eyeroll?
    2
  1963. You can start a revolution.
    2
  1964. The West Asia is always on flames is not because the US could not solve these problems. It is because they are using the neocolonial strategy of dividing the Muslims nations and put them against each other while dominating them in economy and on their internal affairs where ever it could. It is very evident when another superpower like China that has the intention and is serious about creating peace in West Asia came in and within months broker a peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran. So peace in West Asia is possible. If it is not achieved for decades, then the only conclusion is that the powers that has been meddling in the region does not want peace. THE US DOES NOT WANT PEACE.
    2
  1965. Most of the world is against western hypocrisy and NATO provocation. Grow up.
    2
  1966. It is the classic when you have so much privileges, equality looks like oppression. This is what white Americans felt when other minorities demand a fair shake. Now the US is accusing other countries of being anti freedom, anti democracy when they want to de-dollarize. It's hypocrisy at its finest. And I can't wait for the day when karma bites the US.
    2
  1967. They still see it as a hostile move even when president Xi visited France.
    2
  1968. The most insane part of this fiasco is the amount of brainwashing the republican and the corpostate media has done to America that there are still a lot of people believing that the Jan 6 coup attempt is not a seditious act.
    2
  1969. The immigration problem only exist because American foreign policy dictated by neocons and neolibs has kept other countries poor and exploited. The wars have created huge number of refugees. All of these problems are created by the US, by your system, by your oligarchs whether they are in the MIC or oil or other industries. Building a wall without changing the core issue of why there are so many refugees and poor people in other countries will not help.
    2
  1970. China doesn't interfere with another country's internal affairs. They will work with anyone in power. It's not China's fault that the military junta is in power. Stop trying to blame someone else for your problems.
    2
  1971. America first has never been about American people first. Let's not delude ourselves that the America first politicians will enact policies that will help ordinary Americans.
    2
  1972.  @fannyalbi9040  There won't be a doraemon in Japan. If Doraemon is gonna be invented in real life, it will probably be in Shenzhen.
    2
  1973.  @QuattroSG  Well, he didn't say anything about winning. A sacrificial pawn can still start WWIII.
    2
  1974. Lol, the collective west is basically an extension of the American empire.
    2
  1975. Just read between the lines. The more positive western corpo-state media report on something, the more suspicious it is.
    2
  1976. Haha like everything in China, you can't use the same standards as in the west. China's slowdown is still >5% growth. Heck you can't even use the same economic theories they used in the west because China literally does not function like the west. They rejected neoliberal capitalism, they have their own way and by all metrics is doing far far better than the west.
    2
  1977. It is rich from the west castigating Russia for not renewing the grain deal, when the west especially the US is always sanctioning multiple countries. These countries are literally destroyed economically and even have famines. So them saying that Russia is going to cause hunger from the number one causer of hunger is beyond hypocritical.
    2
  1978. A new system won't emerge in the US without blood shed. The neocons, neolibs, and their rich sponsors will not give up power without a fight.
    2
  1979. If India is going to be the next economic superpower, then they do t have to keep saying it
    2
  1980. They want to use Vietnam like a pawn as they use Ukraine against Russia.
    2
  1981.  @ucngocnguyen8938  China is never going to demand that Vietnam follow them against the US. They are non-interventionist and anti-bloc politics. But the US has a long history of demanding its allies to sacrifice themselves against American's foes. Then they throw them under the bus when it becomes inconvenient. Vietnam should make friends with everyone and maintain its strict neutrality and China will give you a thumbs up and say "bruh, that's awesome, you do you". But one day, the US will come knocking down your front door and say if you are not with them, you are against them. I just hope when that time comes, Vietnam has the courage and strength to stay the course.
    2
  1982. China is not a hegemonic power nor they want to be. This is the problem with western intellectuals. And to say the US benign in its hegemony ignores all the internal interferences from the US, albeit in a more subtle way than overt interventions in the Global South. Look at the plaza accords, look at how they infiltrate the internal politics of western countries, look at how these infiltrators are pushing policies that harm their own countries and propaganda up US foreign policies. Saying that China will just repeat what the US did is always the blind spot of the west. I'm sorry Pascal, this prof is a moron but if you invite him to speak to showcase how moronic western intellectuals are, then you have succeeded.
    2
  1983. Yea, that's has been indicated for loyal wingman or weapon, even EW purposes. The J-20 is a large platform so the PLAAF will probably want upgrades and capabilities expansion in the future.
    2
  1984.  @mushroom11g55  You want them to reinvent the wheel and risk falling further behind and risk their national security for your approval? Let me ask you. who the f** do you think you are.
    2
  1985. Free trade is always contingent on that the west will dominate the victimized country's industry and economy. Now that the table is turned, their true colours are showing. The west has always been hypocritical cheats and only obey rules they made up or that are convenient for them.
    2
  1986. After EVGA left and the price manipulation to keep increasing base MSRP beyond inflation, I won't be buying a nvdia card in principle. Doesn't matter how great they are, I won't be supporting a company wanting to adopt a anti consumer, anti public, anti social, apple like business model.
    2
  1987. Freedom from fear, freedom from hunger, poverty, freedom to be safe are actually subversive ideas in the UAS, because these are freedoms that their system is unable to provide. Heck they can't even guarantee the freedoms that their own narratives promote.
    2
  1988. Capitalists are very good at claiming credits when they don't deserve and shifting blame when it is their fault. China is practicing Marxist-Leninist system with their own modifications. Go read Marx, Lenin, Mao and even Stalin before you claim this is capitalism.
    2
  1989.  @rdistinti  Oh really?
    2
  1990.  @rrai1999  so you are essentially saying that China should be doom to poverty forever, because there is no practical way to industrialize and developed without some pollution. The fact is also that China is now doing most of the heavy lifting in fighting climate change, which I remind you, is primarily caused by historical emission of the US and Europe, is lost to western duplicitous double standards. They took away all the atmospheric allowance for carbon by their reckless industrialization and irresponsible emissions that continues to even today. Yet somehow, the developing world is supposed to shoulder the blame for it by remaining in destitute while receiving little to basically useless "help" from the west to modernize. So I don't care about your virtue signalling when you try to blame China for pollution when they have tried their best to fight the most debilitating scourge of the human kind, and they are also now at the forefront of fighting pollution and rejuvenating their environment that did pay the price for development. And to say that they don't care about the environment is the kind of brain numbing hypocrisy and misrepresentation of situation that makes anyone who has a shred of critical thinking and principles to doubt the moral fortitude of western culture and society. This kind of self-serving virtue signalling without considering the wider context and the bigger picture is why the Global South take the west's lectures about human rights, morality, ethics and the environment less and less seriously and looking for China for leadership. We no longer care what you have to say, because everything you have said are lies.
    2
  1991. It is also different in their priorities, which puts common prosperity first, and it gives them the mandate from the people, the mandate of heaven if you will, to rule accordingly. That why they can do this to companies like Evergrande, because the people want them to do this and they know they are not beholden to the shareholders of these companies.
    2
  1992.  @manolexing68  Ohh no... anyway.
    2
  1993.  @ColoniaMurder20  That's literally how the US conducts it foreign policy. Are you sure you are not projecting?
    2
  1994. Russia cannot allow NATO in Ukraine. It will be an existential threat.
    2
  1995.  @kartikjain547  Bro Ted Bundy didn't murder those people.
    2
  1996.  @offred6013  Saying China is an open air jail is like saying lemon juice is not sour while pucking your face drinking it. Stop lying.
    2
  1997. If the people don't get what they want or need from their government, then it is not a democracy no matter how much you call it one.
    2
  1998. It's such a childish thing to do, and so American. All about appearances, drama and theatrics.
    2
  1999. Western corpo-state media is trying to convince people in SE Asia that Vietnam and China are now totally enemies because Vietnam raise the relation status of the US; to the same level that China is already at for years. They are also trying to convince everyone that SE Asia countries with coastlines in the SCS hate China because China is "aggressive" and laying "unreasonable" claims. Yea, no one has a problem with that, and it just take some negotiations to settle long standing disputes that was never resolved for decades. Only the phillippinees is playing this game with China because they like to su*k Daddy America's c*ck.
    2
  2000.  @qu.andoiz  You are right that Vietnam should choose to side their own interests and be friends with everyone. China will not ask Vietnam to choose sides, except on the side of trade and having normal, peaceful relationship. The US however, will eventually come and force everyone to choose a side, and if you choose wrong, their carriers will show up on your front door.
    2
  2001. Putin is a master troll. We all know there is no way the EU will accept that offer and dangling that in front of them knowing they have to reject it is going to piss off at least a few EU citizens.
    2
  2002. Well, I do come from a multicultural, multireligion, multiracial country Singapore so I disagree that multiculturalism is necessarily a bad thing. But our multiculturalism is based on mutual respect and social harmony and friendship so I'm not going to criticize Hungary for not wanting the same thing nor force it down the throats of Hungarian people by castigating them because that will be disrespectful. It works in Singapore because we social engineered people to live, work together through quota policies in housing and education and that wouldn't work for other countries and we accept that as part of our lives and the result is that we can live together in harmony. Multiculturalism in Europe seems more like virtue signalling than actually living up to the standards of multiculturalism
    2
  2003. The US is going to start some bad shit when they get really desperate, and they are going to deserve whatever is coming for them.
    2
  2004. No, DO NOT BASH LABOR RIGHTS. DO NOT BASH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. This has nothing to do with wanting better working conditions. This is about the incompetency of the US government backing out their subsidies and the fact there are simply not enough skilled engineers and the contractors there suck. If you want to be a corporate slave then go voluntarily give up your labor rights and go work 80 hours a week until you die while getting paid less than a dollar a day while your family starve. I won't accept that, no one should. TSMC is not the hero here. They are as exploitative as any corporations in the world and they will squeeze you like a lemon and take everything from you if they could. Never, ever, ever bash labor rights, the people's power and the yearning for a better life. Those desires are what created the CPC, won them their civil war, and uplifted 800 million people out of poverty.
    2
  2005. Because paper is all they have. They don't have the productivity and industries to export their way out of this hole they dug themselves into.
    2
  2006. What exactly does the US think is going to happen? First, they branded China as enemy number one, and then begin a campaign of slanders, rumors, provocations and attacks, all designed around trying to bait China into destroying itself over Taiwan. The problem is that the American mind cannot fathom how China can endure such indignity and kept their cool. If China is ruled by the type of people that rule the US (IE the oligarchs and their political cronies) they would have invaded Taiwan and sprung the trap. But China didn't. China did not make such an elemental mistake and it is driving the US crazy. Now they want to make up with China? After the cynical attempts to destroy China? Outside the western corpo-state media bubble, everyone can clearly see that it is the US that is provoking a war over Taiwan, the same in Ukraine. No one buys that Xinjiang, Tibet and HK bullshit, much less that the Americans care about Taiwan's freedom and its people. It's like a school bully that keeps on poking you, slandering you, insult you, spread rumors about you and then have the sheer audacity to turn around and ask you to loan him some lunch money. Any person with any self esteem will demand the bully to apologize first before loaning him money. Or else, why even pick up the phone when it is clear that the US is insincere and aggressive.
    2
  2007. Modi is right wing capitalist. He fits nicely with the people in DC.
    2
  2008. They sleep very well. And now they want to provoke a war with China, the country with the most industrialized economy, and is already most advanced in tech in several critical areas. Meanwhile, the west can't make enough shells for Ukraine for a conflict that Russia did not even fully commit all their resources. Yea, you might be able to intercept 1, 2 or maybe 4 hypersonic missiles. Well, how about 50, 100, 500, or even 1000 missiles coming in from all direction, from all altitudes, hypersonics, ballistics, air launched, land launched, ship launched, sub launched? Can you defend against that? Because if it is an all out war, barring a nuclear war, that is the kind of industrial capacity that China can bring to bear. The 7th fleet will be at the bottom of the ocean, along with CdG, QE/PoW and all other prides of the west. Also, the war in Ukraine is caused by the west. Russia reacted to a clear and present threat after 2014 coup. You pushed other countries' redlines, especially one powerful enough to resist you, and you expect no consequences? The arrogance and delusion of the west is witnessed here when they can say the Russia is the one who caused the war. We outside the western corpo-state media bubble see the truth quite clearly.
    2
  2009. While the success of Chinese companies should be noted, it should also be known that Fast Fashion is terribly wasteful and polluting business model. You make tons of cheap clothes then sell it to people that wear it a few times and then off into the dumpster they go before it's already out of fashion that quickly. While there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, this business model is really really bad way of consuming products. I suggest people go over to Mina Le to check out why Shein is just terrible and represent the worst aspects of capitalism.
    2
  2010. All warfare is based on deception. Pretty sure Sun Tzu said that. Anything can be "stealthy" if the enemy did not look at your direction.
    2
  2011. And the US kneecapped the Japanese with the Plaza Accords and destroy companies like Hitachi and Toshiba, leading to 20 over years of economic stagnation and the Lost Generation. Look up at what they did to France's Alstom. With a friend like the US, who needs enemies.
    2
  2012. The west continues to underestimate China. This is just another natural development of the a country with the largest industrial and R&D capacity. Everything in China is bigger, twice, 3 times, 5 times, 10 times than the west. The only people who are not surprised by this are those who live in China and those who lived outside the western corpo-state media hegemony.
    2
  2013. American prosperity is built on financial sheningans, imperialism, neocolonial exploitation of the Global South and the subjugation of its "allies". This is just karma.
    2
  2014.  @EngineeringFun  Doesn't matter. The Chinese will replicate them. Also, just because some Americans companies created some of these tech does not give the US the right to deny China access to this tech. To deny them access to this tech is to declare that China does not deserve to enjoy these tech, does not have the right to prosperity. You are essentially telling the Chinese that they are subhumans. Trade wars is not so benign. They are acts of war.
    2
  2015.  @michaelkeudel8770  TSMC is still the leading fab in the world, so if they have problems with building a facility in the US, I'm more inclined to believe the source of those problems lies with the Americans. That, and the Americans are trying to force tech transfer and steal TSMC's trade secrets. So maybe these problems could be TSMC trying to protect itself from Americans. Wouldn't be the first, or the last time Americans steal tech and destroy competition through unfair practices. Pretty sure once the Americans feel they have sucked TSMC dried, they will use Taiwan as a sacrificial pawn to try to bait China into a war. This is just the way Americans operate.
    2
  2016. A long history of doing that way before the country was even founded.
    2
  2017.  @dragonknightleader1  The student debt loans are the results of a predatory financial system and treating college like a business. So you got it backwards. Don't blame the students who are told they need to go to college to get a good job. Blame the system that will debt trap 18 YO into a multi-decade loan and a cruel system that keep increasing college costs. I don't usually blame the rank and file Americans for the quagmire their system has produced because their votes don't matter. The US is not democracy. Sure the Americans are too used to their wasteful spendthrift lifestyles but there are also plenty of Americans who are living honest lives but are living paycheck to paycheck. They are as much victims of their psychopath neoliberal capitalist system as much as us. The debts should go away because it shouldn't be there in the first place. All it does is to make the capitalists even more rich and does nothing for the society. Remember the ordinary Americans have more in common with us that our own to their oligarchic billionaires.
    2
  2018.  @dragonknightleader1  Of course, right. It is the immorality of the debtor, so you don't have to examine foundational, fundamental problem with this system. The US is in decline and a big reason for that is the inability of its people to self examine its own mistakes and flaws.
    2
  2019.  @theredmenace6428  No, not really. That will be like saying Puerto Rico is a country or the French Guiana is a country.
    2
  2020. And when China has completed its own ecosystem and start churning out chips, their costs and efficiency will likely be far better than Korea, Taiwan and the US. The collective west are creating their own worst competitor by sanctioning them, considering that China was happily buying their chips prior. They were only putting in a moderate effort at creating their own semiconductor ecosystem before the sanctions, contend with optimizing and competing on the back end, less lucrative part of semiconductor industry like making >28nm chips and packaging chips. Now it has become a national, strategic effort to achieve full self-sufficiency and the coffers have open to the most creative, hardworking researchers and companies in the industry with a mandate to achieve parity probably within this decade. They have even re-prioritize their economy and allocating capital and resources from heavily leveraged real estate sector. They can re-engineer their economy on a scale that no country can even come close to doing and they will succeed. No one can stop China now. American leadership will go down in history as the stupidest and murderous in this century, up there with the likes of Nero, Leopold of Belgium.
    2
  2021. The problem with the American society and culture is that they are more interested in the spectacle than reality. That's why all these desrisking, friendshoring or whatever are all performative BS. The American culture has become a shallow, hollow shell because the delusion is more comforting than reality and since reality hurts, no one wants to "vote" for it.
    2
  2022. That's because western liberal bourgeois democracy is not real democracy.
    2
  2023. You know guys, shilling for one fool against another fool is not really the flex you think it is.
    2
  2024. You can install DeepSeek on your own PC and run it locally without ever sending your data or queries to other places. Saying that there is a data security concern is as empty as saying "think of the children."
    2
  2025. He was a crook but he was not wrong. Chinese leaders care deeply about the well-being of the Chinese people and security of their country. Why shouldn't any leadership do that? That is not to say that they don't care about their Marxist-Leninist approach to economy and governance but they apply that mostly within China. Their foreign policy has always been non-interventionist because they know they can't control the world and frankly they aren't interested in it. Their attitude is if you want to be communist, well good for you and they will call your comrade. If you want to be a capitalist, well that's a shame. But as long as you are willing to trade and treat them with respect and fairness, they are wiling to work with you with respect and fairness, and they have proven it time and time again on their foreign policies and projects like BRI and BRICS, SCO etc., despite western corpo-state media's constant untruthful spins. If you want to learn from China's success, they are willing to teach you but they will always say you have to find your own way to suit your own circumstances. If you threaten China, they will try to make peace but they refuse to be bullied. It is a very rational, respectful and agreeable approach to international relationships. They won't demand that you change your ways, your lifestyles, your economic system, or your politics to deal with them. They won't attached unnecessary political strings to their loans and partnerships. They are certainly not interested in dominating you or take your economic rights to your resources and land. They can always just buy stuff from you as long as you are willing to trade. They also expect the same from you. It is not difficult to deal with China. All you have to do is be honest and fair and take their long history into account and don't try to denigrate, humiliate, and look down on them. No one today is in any position, strength or moral standing to denigrate, humiliate and look down on the Chinese people.
    2
  2026. If the western corpo-state media says the sky is blue, I will suggest that everyone check out the sky for themself.
    2
  2027. I have to disagree with Wolff on the definition of socialism. Social democracy in the west is not really socialism. It's just regulated capitalism where some concessions were given to the proletariat. The bourgeoisie is very much in control. They are still the dictators.
    2
  2028. Everything has gone according to how Deng saw it. China kept her head, be cool, be composed, keep grinding, keep learning, keep innovating, and most importantly, keep quiet and not make waves and act like small, be underestimated so they don't trigger massive reactions from the west before they are strong enough.
    2
  2029. And they want the rest of us to follow this liberal democracy system.
    2
  2030. Because you can make all kinds of interesting particles using a particle accelerator. Photons are just another particle in particle physics, so why not.
    2
  2031. Exactly. We have to also ask the fundamental question. Why should China's influence be countered by default, while US's influence is then by default should be expanded? That default assumption that China must be countered smack of arrogance because it automatically assumed anything China is doing must be bad, evil and immoral. The flip side is that anything America (and the west) does must be good, righteous and moral. So much so, that if a country take China's side, it must be because something nefarious have happened. It is such a self-serving, self-indulgent way of thinking that the arrogance is actually amazing. They literally cannot fathom that people can reject them based on their merits, or the lack of, and their terrible historical track records. This is 1984 Orwellian level of brainwashing where a people's imagination has become so limited that they cannot imagine anything outside the little garden set up for them to play in.
    2
  2032. The US government pays 2.4 billion in interests, while China's economy just made 100 billion in trade surpluses. If we count actual trade deficits on the US, it will probably be even worse. Somehow we are supposed to believe that China's economy is collapsing and they are the bad guys
    2
  2033. America has always been hypocritical throughout its entire history. When it was industrializing and could not compete against the British Empire, it kept its tariffs high. When it is the only industrialized country post WWII that was not destroyed, suddenly it likes free trade. No one does double standards, hypocrisy, false, self-serving narratives more adeptly than Americans. The rest of the world cannot wait to see the fall of the US financial neocolonialism.
    2
  2034. It's how the west does censorship. They will never explicitly banned information, but they will keep hammering the "correct" narrative until it dominate every aspect of a typical westerner's information feed. The facts about Taiwan and Mainland China are never explicitly removed from their ability to access them, but no one in the west actually does it because they are so flooded with the "alternative facts" that it doesn't matter. It's very subtle and deceitful. When you understand the insidiousness of western propaganda machine, you will understand that China was right to erect the Great Firewall.
    2
  2035. Most of the military aid money stayed in the US but is given to the MIC that gouge the government while actually producing very little. The US cannot even produce enough shells to replenish Ukraine, much less out producing Russia. And yet the US taxpayers are paying premium prices to these MIC companies and they can't deliver. If that money were to be spent on infrastructure, it would be a far more productive use of the money because that will actually grow the economy in the long run. Instead, it is handed over to the parasites at LockMart, Raytheon for nothing. All it did is launder taxpayer money into private money and using thousands of lives to do so. Weapons do not build societies, it does not make things people need for living. Every bullet, every shell every missile is a waste, and the MIS still can't do their job. It is a disgrace.
    2
  2036.  @ex0duzz Thank you, this is some very much needed context.
    2
  2037. China is building its first photonic chip manufacturing factory. In terms of application and practice, China is leading in photonic semiconductors.
    2
  2038. I like how people can talk about war, destruction, blood, slaughter, death as a financial statistic. Maybe that's the problem with this kind of westernized thinking of reducing everything in life into figures of money. Children are getting slaughtered by the US empire but hey stock and commodity prices. How about them gold prices? I appreciate the analysis but it is ghoulish.
    2
  2039. They are not looking at trajectory and trend because they are trying very hard to ignore the obvious: China is catching up fast which mean they have far more R&D capacity and capabilities. Once China catches up, it will zoom past the west and start putting up an insurmountable lead against the west. They are really trying very hard to ignore this reality because it is the nightmare scenario of westerners, especially their neoliberal capitalists and chicken hawk neocons. They have been oppressing everyone outside the western imperial core, they are deathly afraid that this time, it will be their turn. Maintenaning the technological edge means economic edge means more power. More power means they get to oppress other people. Less power means they are the ones that get oppressed. This is how westerners think. They can only think in zero-sum which is why they always keep saying competition is good, which really means they dominate, you suffer. Cooperation, common prosperity, win-win are simply not in their political philosophy. That's why they are so desperate to destroy China.
    2
  2040. It's only a problem when you insist on making China an enemy. Trade properly with China and there will be no problem. This is not about national security, it's about politicians in DC fearing they will lose their hegemony to order other countries around so they are doing everything to destroy China.
    2
  2041. Freedom of choice in currency is beside the point when your country is being sanctioned and the enemies are at the gates. You can either help propped up the rubles so your country can defend itself economically, or die an ignoramus death if the economy crash and the Americans start eating your babies for lunch.
    2
  2042. Oh yea, that's what China is doing, and they are also dominating the EV industry. This video has aged like milk.
    2
  2043. American military is really good at making plans for public viewing but they know that going to war with China will be a complete disaster, ending with a DF-21 slamming into the deck of a US carrier. We know that the pentagon planners have done many many simulations and the best case scenario is a temporary phyrric victory that will be unacceptable to the American public.
    2
  2044.  @L98fiero  Totally agree. Boom and Bust cycles are a product of capitalism with its inefficient allocation of resources that prioritize profits over stability and long term health of the economy. After the Bust, the capitalists buy up everything and ramp up production as demand comes back, but the people are poorer for it. The Boom comes and they start over producing and overleveraging. The capitalists will see the coming bust and they will deleverage, or use the government and taxpayers' money for bail out during the Bust, and the cycle repeats itself. Every cycle, the people get poorer, while the rich gets richer. We have gone through several recessions since the 80s with the 2008 the worst and the outcome for the common people after every Bust is worse than the previous Boom. A responsible society, with a responsible government and a system that can govern the economy properly will not allow such shenanigans to happen in the first place.
    2
  2045. This video really encapsulate the core propaganda message of the US government. Around the world, in forums like reddit, the most oft thing you will hear is "I'm not against the Chinese people, I'm against the Chinese government or CCP." There is a concentrated effort to separate the Chinese people from their government, to convince them and the rest of the world that the villain here is the Chinese government, not China. It is a convenient excuse and a clever tactic. By separating the Chinese people from their government, you can achieve a few things. First, it give us the possibility that you can cause chaos in China by making the Chinese people raised up against their government, and it doesn't matter if the Chinese government really do deserve to be overthrown. The goal is to sow the seeds of doubt that all the results achieved by the Chinese people and their government is not real, or not enough, or that someone else can do better without considering who that someone else is. Second, it makes America look more reasonable, because there is always this prevailing idea that the government is automatically bad, and it is just the people being oppressed. We seen this kind of framing many times, when America is preparing to coup another country's government. It doesn't matter whether the government really is bad, or that the majority really hate it, or even if the government is illegitimately elected. It gives American actions a plausible deniability that they are helping the rebels to overthrow a oppressive government and they will keep hammering the propaganda that the government is bad (read: against American interests). Third, it gives its own people the satisfaction that they are doing the right thing, that America stands for what is right and went to liberate a people that needed liberating badly. It prevents normal Americans from examining more closely whether the adversary government really deserve such a drastic intervention from the US government. They give indoctrinated Americans who are already brought up to distrust authority a convenient reason why the intervention must happen and to give themselves a pat on the back. It worked many times, and now they are preparing the American people and the world to absorb the idea that intervention and containment of China is the "righteous" thing to do. It is sinister, it is evil and people like pompeo will lead America down the path of ruin. It is not that pompeo doesn't understand China. It is that he is preparing America to confront China for the sake of the American ruling class (ie the super rich and powerful) to not lose their hegemonic control over America and the world. Mark my words, like Lord Farquaad, they are very willing to sacrifice common American lives to preserve their hegemony.
    2
  2046. Pretty sure the west will shit up about rule based order the moment a DF-21 slam into the deck of a US carrier that threatened the Chinese people. It is increasingly clear that the west only understands the iron fist of power, and they have to be humbled and then punished.
    2
  2047. The west does not have freedom of speech. The fact that content creators and narratives that run counter to the official narratives are shadow banned, delisted, deprioritized, hidden and often just outright censored proves that there is no freedom of speech in the west.
    2
  2048.  @xw8462  China does have nukes but China will never use its nukes first, but only for deterrence. Which means the US can do a lot of damage to China and the world if they feel they have nothing to lose, because they are losing their hold on the world and they will rather destroy it than let it go, in some crazy "good Vs evil" mindset. Remember that the US have not renounced the first use policy, and even if they did, there is no reason to trust them.
    2
  2049. Because the stock market of the US is mostly a speculative crap that so pumped up by printed money funneling in. You're telling me that Huawei has lower market cap than these American companies tell us everything you need to know about how fake that stock market is. This is why the Chinese government don't care about the stock market because beyond raising cash for companies and for steady growth of a company, everything else is pretty much speculation and do not generate real value, real useful things in the real world.
    2
  2050. Geriatric STDs, financial boondoggles and asset bubbles are not growth.
    2
  2051.  @rickeywheeler7804  It is near another country's airspace and having military asset there is provocative. It's like having someone pointing a gun at your house from the road. Standoff weapons range also mean that any western military asset near another country's border must be treated as a clear and present threat. Moreover, the collective, which Australia is part of, support the atrocities now happening in G_z_, which means we must now treat all western military as potentially dangerous. China has the right to defend itself against potential harmful actions from people who support g-cide
    2
  2052.  @rickeywheeler7804  Putting military assets in "international airspace" just outside another country's airspace is a threatening posture. If you are going to use "international airspace" as an excuse then you are no different than a bully spreading rumors and slandering your victim and then saying you didn't technically touch them so they have no right to defend themselves by punching you in the nose. In civilized society, that behavior is a dick move.
    2
  2053. Macron fall is spectacular. From a Europe independence advocate from the US to a du*mba**.
    2
  2054. Except this time, there will not be a Plaza Accord 2 to destroy China's economy.
    2
  2055. This is the fundamental problem with the west. Their idealism, and I don't mean being earnest or bright eyed idealistic. I mean their propensity to believe their ideology can overwrite reality, so much so they are willing to believe anything and anyone who validates them. You can lie the west and they will believe you if you validate their beliefs. This Ukrainian mining hoax is just another example.
    2
  2056.  @paulperry7091  While the entire supply chain is within a 5 miles radius from the factory making iPhone in Shenzhen. People in the west really do not understand the complete ecosystem they have in China. This is not just about 1 factory, or a few factories scattered across the entire country. This is an entire supply chain ecosystem found within a city when you can source anything and everything at any volume right there, at any kind of speed at any level of quality. This is unbeatable.
    2
  2057.  @larryc1616  I blame capitalism.
    2
  2058. Come on, the policies might be bad but the science behind vaccination is iron-clad.
    2
  2059. Indeed. There are ways around India's shortsighted and self-serving intransigence. It doesn't even need one commodity, it can be a basket of essential commodities that can represent the wealth of nations that can be used for trade. BRICS was formed at the height of the exuberance of the Global South and Asia finally breaking out of their shells to oppose US led western dominance, thinking that the commonality of being oppressed by the west could result in long term common interests and strategic goals. But if India's memory is so short they are willing to climb into the bed of their rapists for petty short term gains, then they will reap what they sow when other nations refuse to deal with India in good faith. India is like a kid who grew up abused and is now dancing in strip clubs for the same kind of people who abused her for greenback singles. Cheap.
    2
  2060. Or here's something radical. How about we stop the g-cide going on now.
    2
  2061. Elected officials in the west do not seem to do any better.
    2
  2062.  @adam-k  So what. Not that any elected officials in the west is doing their job well. All this has prove is western style democracy is at best incompetent, at worst deliberately malicious and anti-public interests.
    2
  2063. Here is the reality. A black man walking down the street in a small Chinese town might get curious stares. A black man walking in an American town, especially a sundown town, will get killed. The US is not even worthy of being compared to China.
    2
  2064. You can certainly balance the budget by removing all welfare and entitlements, and increase taxes on 90% of the population. Dew it, America.
    2
  2065. Don't forget it also includes money for Israel and Taiwan. They just don't learn
    2
  2066. Can you trust China. Why not ask this question on another country that is slowly sliding towards Christofascist corpo-state? Can you trust United Christofascist corpo-state of America?
    2
  2067. Saudi just annouced they will join mBridge and sell oil in currencies other than the USD, while China sold off their US treasuries and is setting up their own financial system to handle their USD without needing to ever recycle those USD back to US government. This system will likely be imitated by other countries and might even start placing part of their USD earnings into Chinese financial institutes and so do not need to lend the US government money. Which also mean Chinese financial institutes can loan money in USD and there is nothing the US government can do because those USD is circulating outside the US and uses non-US financial institutes to process. China is literally defanging and de-imperializing USD Oh, and Thailand wants to join BRICS. WTF is Singapore doing.
    2
  2068. This is just hilarious. The candidates are going to be trump Vs biden. It's like choosing between a cyanide laced horsesht sandwich and a sarin doped bullsht sandwich.
    2
  2069. Maybe Brian should consider posting to Bilibili.
    2
  2070. Ohh FFS, stop saying it doesn't make sense why Japan will follow the UAS into oblivion. They do it because they are a vassal of the UAS empire and they have no real sovereignty over their foreign policies.
    2
  2071. Australia and Philippines are puppet states and puppet states will bear the consequences of being puppets for an empire.
    2
  2072. State controls capital, not capital controls state effectively make China a socialist state, not a capitalist one. State capitalism if you will, has been theorized and debated by Marxists for many years as a possible stage to jumpstart an economy before it can move onward to communism. Even Lenin had theorized this and provided a framework to make it work. That's why the CPC is known as Marxist-Leninist with modification from various theorists including Mao own theories, aka Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Even today, socialism into the future is a heavily debated and researched subject in China because it is the only big country that has successfully practice ML theories.
    2
  2073. Don't forget that the GDP numbers coming out of the US cannot be trusted. They are using some BS like counting the rent that could have been made if a new homebuyer did not buy a new house but instead kept renting. It's bizarre how they justify putting that into their GDP. Think about it, if they can do that, what other BS shenanigans are they doing. That's not even counting the fact that most of their most "valuable" sectors are essentially not productive industries, like finance, military and healthcare. The real value of American's economy is actually far smaller than it appears.
    2
  2074. Expanding the MIC in Europe will just create another monster to feed. It will incentivize Europeans, just like the Americans to create more conflicts around the world. We should be spending less on defense and take that capital and spend it on industry and growth. Capitalism really has the most perverse incentives.
    2
  2075. It is rich that jd vance is saying that Germany should not be de-industrializaing because Germany is de-industrializing because it followed US foreign policies in opposing Russia and let their own pipeline got blown up.
    2
  2076. I find it really hilarious that the F-16 is still touted as a weapon that a modern integrated air defense capable country will be afraid of. If you are bombing people with no SAMs and fighters, then sure F-16 will be an excellent weapon. Against a country with long range, over the horizon, radar stations, early warning, S-400s and Su fighters with big radars and BVR missiles, it will take a few hundreds F-16s to even make a dent and expect to lose a lot of them and the pilots in the battles ahead. A dozen F-16s will not make any difference at all, even if they are used strictly for launching standoff weapons against ground targets, and then fly the hell out. Haha NATO is not even thinking of giving them F-15s. Or F-18s. Well, the US stopped F-18 production, both the original and super version, so they don't have spares anyway.
    2
  2077. The Filipinos overthrew a corrupted dictator that is killing their country. They didn't have democracy when marcos was in power. You have it backward, Mr. McCoy.
    2
  2078. For a lot of people who blame wokeness, it is not having LGBT people in the military that is the problem. It is the declining society, that lowers the standards of recruits which in turn forces the army to lower their standards, and an empire stretched too far and its rulers too greedy. There are perfectly good gay soldiers who have proven themselves and given distinguished crosses, bronze stars, purple hearts etc. Leonard Matlovich was a recipient of Medal of Honor and he was gay. Don't blame wokeness, blame your oligarchs and their political lapdogs for getting the US into this quagmire in the first place. Point your anger at the real enemies.
    2
  2079. Religion kinda a dirty that is associated with blind faith and lack of free will. For most part, yes. Especially the doctrines and practice of Abrahamic religions.
    2
  2080. "We're gonna go build our own financial system. With blackjack and hookers!"
    2
  2081.  @evolvedape3341  That doesn't mean it will never be used again because relations between Germany and Russia always has a chance to normalize. Blowing it up is to ensure that it will indeed never be used again and the only side that benefit from the pipeline being destroy is the US, where a friendly relationship between Germany and Russia will undermine US control over Europe. Blowing up the Nordstream make sure the economic ties between Russia and Germany are severed to the detriment of both peoples, and the benefit to the oligarchs of the US.
    2
  2082. The revenue Russia is earning is not just there to fund the SMO in Ukraine, it also allows Putin's government to have more options to do things domestically. In the recent Putin's address to the country, Putin actually devoted a large chunk of it with a lot of proposals for improving domestic economy, building things, supporting the Russian people's welfare etc. The Russian people obviously like what they are hearing, that even through a war, their president is not neglecting improving things at home and he can do that because Russia is making money hand over fist. It is little wonder why the voter turn out is so high and support for Putin is so strong. Who knew diverting money to domestic infrastructure building and welfare, making lives a little easier for the people will improve your popularity.
    2
  2083. Now this is one heck of a historical revision.
    2
  2084.  @chtrvra  That's not what is happening. You are literally lying about the situation.
    2
  2085.  @FlyingTiger1989  This is such a dumb take. What makes you think if a tragedy will to happen at a Chinese airport, it will have worse responses than the Japanese one? You are making an assumption for which you have absolutely no authority nor anything to back it up. That's pure racism. Also, using a disaster to attack another country is low. But I have come to expect Americans to hit below the belt because they have no sense of dignity, principles and honor.
    2
  2086.  @henryyong5974  These figures are all independently verified. Plus you trust western media that lies all the time? That create a propaganda campaign to vilify Chinese vaccines at the cost of lives. That actually openly funnel money to their media by law to slander China? That lied about their covid numbers revealed by their own officials. Heck, they lied about every war they got into. You will believe them over China?
    2
  2087.  SivalinPuthery  They popped the real estate bubble and deliberately deflate property prices to reduce speculation and make housing more affordable. This is one of the bravest thing a government has ever done. Sure, they need to rebalance the deflation down but at least the Chinese people can afford housing now. Maybe you should stop drinking that capitalist kool-aid for a while.
    2
  2088.  @kubhlaikhan2015  No, they don't.
    2
  2089. It's not true that the US is a free market economy. They subsidise the oil, coal and big ag, and big pharma all the time. Not to mention preserving the surplus recycling machine that is Wall St. with the unconditional support and bailouts. The US is a "socialized" country in that the US government intervenes greatly in the market. It is not socialist or even democratic because it always intervenes on the behalf of the capitalists to their benefit. A country that keeps enacting anti social, anti public policies cannot be called a democracy, even if the people can vote for their leaders. Because the system ultimately is not in control by the people, for the people and their interests.
    2
  2090.  @flyinkiwi01  China has never stop merchant ships from doing legitimate business in the SCS, so on top of being a hypocrite, you are also a liar.
    2
  2091. Evolution does not even work that way either. Just because an organism looks seemingly unchanged over the eons does not mean it stops "evolving". Evolution rate depends on the selection pressure. An animal that looks unevolved is not less evolved, it just evolve to fit its niche so good it does not need o change much. And it is a mistake to ascribe a sense of progress as though mammals or even humans is some Freiza's final form or Cell's perfect form. For that context, I think religion has the same thing too. Just because a religion is more conserved does not mean it is more primitive or savage, or whatever thinly veiled racism anyone wants to tag onto that religion and their adherents. Shinto is also a tradition with strong animism built into it, are we going to classify modern Japanese as primitives?
    2
  2092.  @Heidi332K  No, not really. Chinese investors went in and pour a lot of money to check, and they have already mostly pulled out. Whatever is there is not worth the trouble digging up.
    2
  2093. The Chinese are not interested in creating an empire. They are not western people.
    2
  2094. EU demanding China to export less so their own industries can survive is like a murderer asking that you cut your own hands off so you can't protect yourself while he kills you. Who will be stupid enough to do that. Added to the fact, that China can no longer be bullied by westerners like the century of humiliation. The sheer arrogance of being on the weaker position making reckless demands on the side that is in a stronger position. White people arrogance is legendary.
    2
  2095. They really think the Chinese and the Russians are stupid and will just keep taking it.
    2
  2096. 20, maybe even 10 years ago, the west would have gotten away with this. The fact that the Globally Majority can even levy these accusations against Israel and the west is already a huge signal of the shift in world order.
    2
  2097. Fundamentalists are always gonna fundamental.
    2
  2098. Working with China will imply that the Chinese are right and they are equal in their systems, cultures, society, and values to the Americans. I think the Americans will rather burn the world than to admit that.
    2
  2099. Mexico can't. Do you want the US to invade and regime change Mexico?
    2
  2100. And by destroying the western neoliberal elites. That's the real reason why the US has become so hostile to China.
    2
  2101. Whenever an American talks about freedom, I look behind the scenes. The more you say that this is about freedom, the more I find your points suspicious. The way this is making Americans panicking is that CBDC can potential allow forex exchange and bank transactions that completely bypass SWIFT and the dollars for trade.
    2
  2102.  @JR-ng9yo  uhh uhhh you don't get to rewrite history. China settled all their land disputes with everyone, even the Soviets. They didn't settle it with India because India negotiated in bad faith and then got greedy and wanted everything for themselves. Zhuo Enlai back in the 60s asked India if they wanted to just do a land swap by drawing the borders at where each of them claimed. China take some, India take some and that would have just settled the issue. India was the one who refused and said they wanted everything, even beyond the lands drawn by the colonial British just because they thought they could bully China. They invaded the Chinese claimed lands and lost. OTOH, China didn't invade their claimed lands. And now they had nothing and they are still being spiteful about it.
    2
  2103. @yazmeliayzol624 Do not defend the violent apartheid state of Israel. You think the evil ones are dispossessed who use slings to defend themselves fighting a US funded military?
    2
  2104.  @johnsmith-cw3wo  India does not have the refined supply chain that China has created that enabled such efficiency manufacturing, nor do India has the political will and stability to create one in the future.
    2
  2105. Because at the baseline, their entire culture still revolves around colonialism. They have to think their system, their culture, their people are better than the rest of us, even though they seldom live up to the ideas what they espoused. Racism and self appointed exceptionalism are ingrained in their mindset. They cannot, and will never see anyone other than them, and those willing to destroy their culture to assimilate into theirs as better than them. At the end of the day, they will always turn to fascism when under stress because the capitalist system demands it. Marshal Zhukov once said "We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it."
    2
  2106. There is no way Taiwanese went to the polls not thinking about what the DPP is doing with regards to Mainland China. China is the largest trading partner to Taiwan, any conflict or tensions with China will inevitably affect domestic affairs as it already has with America hollowing out TMSC. Even if the Taiwanese people strictly voted based on domestic issues, it is still a huge indictment on the DPP's ability to deliver results to the people, and that will inevitably be tied to their competence in navigating the complex issues with China. If Tsai can't handle things at home, how will she be able to handle things with China, and with the US behind egging war on. All you are doing is mining copium.
    2
  2107. Cyrus, I think all those who watch your channel knows that the debate between totalitarianism/authoritarianism vs democracy/freedom in western media is a bogus exercise designed to distract most people in the west from the simple truth that there is already a deep authoritarianism in the west. Corporate control and authority in the west is near absolute. When we talk about how social media in the west is "free" in that people can spend as much time as possible on them is a superficial representation of liberty. You are free to eat as much salt as you like, but if are gulping down spoonfuls of it, no matter how tasty it is, you are killing yourself. But for the salt industry, they would love if everyone over consume salt in their diet. Western social media is nefarious and malicious in their own ways because they are driven primarily by profits and most importantly control over the narratives that the plutocratic class wants people to believe in. That is why I find the term state media to describe Chinese media to be hypocritical, because in the west, barring a few media outlets, are all controlled by a few corporations. It is far more accurate to say that the media in the west are almost exclusively controlled by the Corpo-State system. They are a form of state media, the corpo-state media because at this point, the state and corporations are functionally the same entity. This is what you could have said but I understand that you will probably get shut down even by shitheads like piers morgan the moment you try to correctly characterize western media as corpo-state media and social media in the west are far more controlling subtle, far more insidious that any forms of propaganda machines out there. The most hypocritical part of this interview is that everything that feckless MP said are done by the west on their own citizens and on others. You and al of us know just how much double standards the west practice everyday. Saying one thing, doing another. Admonishing others to do one thing, and they themselves go ahead and do that same thing themselves. The US wanting to ban tiktok is no more the same reason that China banning western social media, they are afraid of losing control over their citizens' minds. But for the Chinese, they know just how destructive western social media is to the local population, they banned them because they know that the west will use their social media to sow chaos at the detriment of normal Chinese people, all the while characterizing these as agitation for freedom. The US government uses these tactics all the time for coups and chaos. For the US wanting to ban tiktok is because they are afraid of their people starting to get ideas that will go against the capitalist plutocratic class, considering just how terrible conditions are on the ground for most Americans today. The motivations from each country is completely different even if their methods are similar: China wants to protect its people, the US wants to protect its plutocratic hegemonic control over the west. The only difference between Chinese authoritarianism and western authoritarianism is at least the Chinese have a lot of say in their government and what they want tends to come through eventually, but the common citizens of the west do not have any control over who becomes the CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, the board of directors of the companies and how they ultiamtely plutocratic class. They don't even really have control over who they elect into their government. Western freedom is a sham based on superficial appearances and distracting Orwellian language.
    2
  2108. When China sees its own real estate bubble emerging, it took steps to deleverage the real estate developers, and put in security that the homebuyers and suppliers and workers will be the first ones to get bailed out. The US does the exact opposite when dealing with any crisis, mostly created by their own financial and plutocratic class. This is why China is superior in delivery realm democracy to the people.
    2
  2109.  @Coeurebene1  No, the US is the largest colonial empire today. The Native Americans are still colonized and still slowly genocided by the US - a good reminder to everyone reading that the Nazis learned how to genocide people from the way the US genocided the Native Americans. The Hawai'ians still has no independence. Puerto Rico is still a US possession. So is Guam. The entire Louisiana purchase is colonial. In fact, the 13 colonies were land stolen from the Native Americans. Even more, the "states" of Europe, Japan, and South Korea are all colonized militarily, economically and financially. The only thing left is their superficial independence but when the master cracks his whip, they all whine like bitches and fall in line. They are vassals. not real countries.
    2
  2110. Well ChatGPT is on the internet, so it's fair game lol.
    2
  2111. Singaporeans keep forgetting that the US does not play fair. Using their media to portray a false impression of another country is what they do in creating colour revolutions. You think this won't happen to Singapore because we are friendly to them? They are a declining empire getting more and more desperate each year. Do you really think they won't interfere with Singapore's internal politics through the use of proxies like this traitor they interviewed, and then use its media power and covert operations to fund separatism, terrorists, and other malcontents to stir up chaos in Singapore and then coup the government? You people are naive. Do not trust the Americans. They have a long history of destroying countries, even entire region and plunging millions into abject chaos and suffering just to advance their own economic and political agendas, and they don't like non-white people no matter how ang moh your accent is.
    2
  2112. No. A vassal state has no sovereignty.
    2
  2113.  @RobertLindsay-cu1qd  Free Hawai'i
    2
  2114. Haha the US copying China. But I doubt they will have what it takes to go through with it. The moment they see a chance to exploit someone, they would. The moment they think they have dominated someone, they will start exploiting them. It is going to be like the IMF all over again.
    2
  2115. The developing world is trying to protect itself from US aggression, not to de-couple from the west. The BRICS setting up an alternate financial system is an act of defense, driven by the weaponization of the USD and the western financial system and the increasing hostility of the US against all developing powers that will naturally eroded US hegemony. The western media keep trying to portray these developments as nefarious and that Russia and China is some evil axis cannot be further from the truth. It is the US belligerency and their desperate attempt to preserve the neocolonialism of the American empire that is causing these countries to react defensively.
    2
  2116. Sounds like incels trying to act like big boys.
    2
  2117. And the US wants to start shit with China, and dragging its vassals along for the ride.
    2
  2118. This is the movie of the year. Glad my popcorn is nice and hot
    2
  2119. @plasmapizza2504  because at the end of the day, he still support US imperialism which has unalived hundreds of millions of people.
    2
  2120. You are not being honest too. Blinken came to China to threaten China to stop trading with Russia, not easing travel between the US and China. Heck, they just put China as do not travel on the state department website. Easing travels? My foot.
    2
  2121. Hes already begging China to renew the swap. They say scratch a lib and a fascist bleeds. But I will add a the adjective moronic in front of the word fascist.
    2
  2122.  @joshuawark4347 Ahh the no true scotsman.
    2
  2123.  @daniels.3062  Yes you are. The western corpo-state media has brainwashed them. Any referendum held is invalid.
    2
  2124.  @daniels.3062  obviously rigged elections and brainwashed people.
    2
  2125. Meanwhile, China's Unitree robots were dancing and spinning handkerchiefs at their Chinese New Year show.
    2
  2126. Is "baffling" the right word to use when everyone knows who did it, but refuses to admit it? It's not baffling at all, which suggest confusion. It is very clear who did it. The entire west refusing to say it is not baffling, because it is a conspiracy.
    2
  2127.  @AQuietNight  Saying his policies are erratic is like saying gravity makes you float into space. Sean literally just told you exactly how the Chinese government policies are saving their people and promoting prosperity for all, and the fact that it has been working and still working already blast your baseless assertions out of the water. It's logical, rational and politically sound. But westerners are not interested in facts. They are interested in what protects their ego. So believe whatever you want to believe, because the material reality of it will eventually exert itself on your deluded reality and no amount of repeating those lies like a prayer is going to make it go away. When you are homeless and starving, while the Chinese are enjoying their prosperous, safe, secured lives, you can die of starvation while chanting "Xi Jinping's economic polices can be erratic and undependable," and you won't be missed.
    2
  2128. Anyone noticed how delusional the Israelites are?
    2
  2129.  @johnliew3437  Yup, the US is trying to turn SE Asia into another middle east to try to destabilize China. The US view everyone as cannon fodder for their hegemony.
    2
  2130. @gg-petite Younger Americans, especially Millennials and Gen-Z are rediscovering socialism and they are the most liberal generation at the same age of their parents and grandparents. The refusal by the biden regime to forgive the predatory student loans is already a very sore point for them. Don't count them out. The oligarchs in the US cannot help themselves but to squeeze and squeeze. The American people are losing their savings to inflation and withdrawing them just to survive, while they are racking up in credit card to buy everyday necessary things. They are not spending on buying luxuries. They are trying to survive. This is unsustainable. Something gonna give.
    2
  2131. How should the US respond? They can always nuke China if they know they are losing this new Cold War they imposed on the world. Also, China is not the one causing trouble in West Pac. It's the US trying to stir up sh*t. We in SE Asia can see it as clear as day. So all this US talk about China's WMD and human right abuses are irrelevant. In fact, the US is more likely to commit human right abuses and war crimes in West Pac than China, so let's stop repeating western bullsh*t propaganda here okay? What the US is doing is literally economic warfare. They are saying that because they feel threatened, they have the right to destroy China's economy and the livelihoods of the Chinese people, and to cause economic distress on them. Let's just think about this just for a moment. Who the f*ck gives the US the right to do this to any country on their own arbitrary standards for securing "freedom(R)", "world peace(C)" and their own "national security(TM)"? The way the US uses national security as a justification to destroy another country is like a white cop shooting a black unarmed teenager running away from him because the cop said he felt threatened. If China does this to any country, western media will be calling it an act of war and beating the war drum, because it is WAR. So you just casually quoting an American saying the US can do this or that to destroy China leave a very bad taste in many people's mouths.
    2
  2132.  @tonysu8860  LOL China is not threatening anyone who come and do business in good faith. Those countries which are "threatened" by China are following orders from Washington to use underhanded tactics to provoke China and cross red lines, while using their media to portray themselves as the victims. The perps pretending to be the victims; it is the most innovative thing that came out of Americanism and is also the most disgusting thing to come out of that barbaric ideology.
    2
  2133. This is why we cannot move toward green energy without breaking the west first. They are the ones who have created this whole mess. We could have worked together to tackle the climate change problem and slowly ramp down fossil fuel consumption. But nooooo, they have to go and start a war in Ukraine by forcing Russia's hand. And now they want to start a war over Taiwan.
    2
  2134. Lol the IMF is controlles by the US. You're right, this is just posturing to prove that the IMF is independent.
    2
  2135. Are you telling me the west is stealing techniques from China? Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
    2
  2136. Sensationalism in western media in order to portray a caricature version of something foreign, in order to diminish, condescend foreign culture? I'm shocked! Shocked!
    2
  2137.  @Breno_Henrique_2004 It has never been a good sentence. It is a partisan sentence spoken to invoke irrational emotions so you don't have to think things through. Americans like to delude themselves that their myths and stories and moral sayings represent universal values or even useful practical ideas but they are just childish musings that they use so they can stop having to think harder.
    2
  2138.  @Breno_Henrique_2004 That's fair. Cheers.
    2
  2139. LOL China ALWAYS has a plan and their plan is ALWAYS based on reality on the ground, long term sustainability and a long road map towards socialism. China never say anything just to say something.
    2
  2140. Biden kept saying that the Us is the most powerful nation in the history of the world sounds more like coping than trying to state a fact.
    2
  2141. Israel is an apartheid state, and the Palestinians are in an open air prison. Everything that goes in and out of Gaza is controlled by the Israelis. Only underground struggling actually evade Israel's blockade. That's not an economy. That's just surviving. Every year, Israel encroaches on the Palestinians, driving them out of their homes and taking over their lands and killing them. Israel is committing a genocide just like the Nazis did to the Jews, except it is a slow moving, like boiling a frog slowly. But the result is still the same: the complete ethnic cleansing of a people. I have very little sympathy for the apartheid Israeli state.
    2
  2142. "Free market will correct the market." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    2
  2143. Haha tucker Carlson doesn't care about the US. This is very much a broken clock is right twice a day.
    2
  2144. In America media and narratives, bidenomics is supposed to have created faster growth and reduction in inflation. The Dems are tooting their own horns. But like what Richard Wolff said, if you only cherry pick certain numbers to look at, you can always make the narrative sound whatever way you want. yellen has no choice but to borrow money because the politics in America simply do not allow any party to tighten the belt, nor to increase revenue. They have a huge military to support and biden and the neocons/neoliberals are hellbend on going to war with China so they will have to expand their military. They still have huge amount of entitlements they have to pay (which the American people have already paid into like Social Security and medicare/mediaid). No politicians will survive going into an election year cutting the budget. The American people are living paycheck to paycheck and more and more of them are slipping into poverty. The entitlements are the last things holding back a tide of revolution. The rich and corporations will never ever pay their fair share of the taxes and they control the government. The American system is caught in a negative feedback loop of not enough revenue to support an over blown budget that the people need to survive and the corporations (military industry complex, healthcare industry complex etc.) demand. They have no choice but to borrow. The alternative will be to rein in the corporations and force the rich to pay up, which will mean someone has to destroy this neoliberal system Or implement austerity which will destroy the economy and definitely destroy lives and cause widespread discontent. My own bias is leaning toward destroying this neoliberal system but then I'm a dirty socialist.
    2
  2145.  @professionalrioter  Oh yea, the people from a country that support g-cide even today and is founded on g-cide is trying to tell us that other countries are bad.
    2
  2146. It is so blatantly obvious what netanyahu is trying to do, sow fear in Europe as though this war in Gaza is an existential threat to Europe. Nah, the west will be fine even if Israel lose and we really got a two state solution. They won't be dominant in west Asia, but it won't kill them. But continuing to fund Israel and support them unconditionally will definitely lose the west nearly all influence in west Asia.
    2
  2147.  @marsha58  socialism is the answer. Don't believe nonsense from western narratives about Venezuela. Plus these countries are heavily attacked by the west and they are still thriving. China alone refute all claims that socialism doesn't work. They are still a communist controll country with leadership that is well versed in suppressing capitalist excesses while using socialist theories to bring immense growth and prosperity to their people. And they have proven time and time again that socialist control over capital produces the best results.
    2
  2148. I got my popcorn.
    2
  2149.  @gsismaet5385  Hey there is also deathsantis.
    2
  2150. It make sense to learn two of the most important languages in the world. If you know both English and Mandarin, you are literally far more competitive than most people in the world just for that ability alone.
    2
  2151. Don't forget Guowang.
    2
  2152. Kind of defeats the purpose of an intercity HSR if you don't have a robust connecting intra-city public transport for Bandung.
    2
  2153. Whether or not the century of humiliation ended in 1911 or 1949, the west today is determined that it doesn't end ever. Keeping China down so the west is up is now the imperative priority of the powers that control the west.
    2
  2154. Omg the west is the biggest hypocrites of all. You expect China to do so and not the west just goes to show how indoctrinated the westerners are. Western government routinely violate their own constitutions and laws and then use propaganda to twist it around it. China actually respect its own laws and constitution but you westerners just keep hearing from western corpo-state media how terrible China is. I bet none of you can give me any examples on how China violate its own constitution and laws.
    2
  2155. Well, America has plenty of practices for "turning against your soul" since Columbine, since Sandy Hook. So it really is not surprised that the powers that be has absolutely no problem with what's going in Gaza.
    2
  2156. Actually economic is the study of the politics of allocating resources.
    2
  2157. It will be ironic that the right wingers will be the ones who pull back the west from confrontation with Russia. But will they do the same for China? I think trying to destroy China is what everyone in the political establishment and the western oligarchy truly wants.
    2
  2158.  @Vrey662  Jack Ma was punished because he tried to undermine capital control by the Chinese government. He wanted to build a shadow banking system to overcome financial regulations to capture the as much capital as possible at the detriment to the Chinese people. He was rightfully brought down for breaking the law, for his hubris and disregard for the interests of the people in China.
    2
  2159. Vietnam produces durians?!
    2
  2160.  @brianliew5901  Let's not start a fight here 😆
    2
  2161.  @brianliew5901  I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about durians. Let's not start fight over which durians are the best hahaha. People get very heated when arguing about which country's durians are the best. I'm an equal opportunity durian eater. I love them all. And yes, Israel is a colony settler ethnostate used by the US as an attack dog in West Asia, and is also an apartheid genocidal state.
    2
  2162.  @happymelon7129  Well yea, we all have a big appetite for tropical fruits.😁
    2
  2163. It's slower growth but it's still a 5% growth in the midst of a GLOBAL RECESSION. China is doing just fine.
    2
  2164. Even if the KSA has severe human rights violations, the US does not have the right to criticize them or anyone else, considering the US government and the American oligarchs, the neocons, the neoliberal imperialistic capitalists are the biggest violators of human rights and committer of war crimes. The US (and the collective west) coming to lecture anyone about human rights is like a serial rapist/killer coming to lecture you about shoplifting.
    2
  2165.  @martinsaunders7925  That still require a significant investment and it's not like the Chinese had never devise their own movements. The biggest mechanical movement maker is the Sea-Gull Tianjin watch factory and they make 25% of all mechanical movements. They have their own nifty movements they derived from other movements. They actually make pretty nice watches themselves. You can certainly elevate those movements as unique like a Patek "free sprung" in this video to make it look exclusive, increase the quality because you are willing to throw in high quality control and fancy mancy materials,beautiful designs and and voila, you got yourself a luxury watch. But it won't sell as high a price simply because it is not as prestigious as a Swiss watch. It is inevitable that watchmakers in China will want a piece of the luxury watch market pie. I don't think they will be content just selling movements.
    2
  2166.  @martinsaunders7925  No doubt about that, but that still cost money and man-hours. I think as China keep developing, there is going to be impetus, both at a personal level (a watchmaker's own pride and ideas) and a profit incentive to create a truly Chinese originated watch movement, along with the embellishments of a proper luxury watch. We are already seeing mature Chinese industries like EVs stepping into high end products with their first electric supercar, a market that is traditionally dominated by European and Japanese carmakers because BYD is now confident in their technology, their engineers' technical knowledge to attempt to create such a product.
    2
  2167. Yea... But piers Morgan is a shit human anyway.
    2
  2168. If Kevin here can say it out loud on YT, you bet Washington and Wall St. understand it. They just pretend not to say it but they can't do anything to stop it, so they are coming up with all sort of creative excuses to attack it without saying the real reasons why they are doing it.
    2
  2169.  @Daimo83  Because that's not ho this work in the 50s to 70s. You are arguing in bad faith by being deliberately obtuse.
    2
  2170. The fact that the WH can diss Fitch by saying that biden delivered the strongest recovery of any president when it is basically being financed by borrowed money is why America is in decline. They cannot even face reality, so how are they going to even identify any problems, much less to solve them. Even the democrats and their voters are toeing this line, while conveniently ignoring all the red flags to the US long term economic health. The US is a nation of delusion, and delusional people simply cannot be dealt with.
    2
  2171. So you want to move from the empire core to one of its vassals?
    2
  2172. It is evil, and I can't wait for the day when America will be punish for it.
    2
  2173.  @horstnietzsche1923  It is not a choice. America literally invades and destroy countries that dares to even want to use a non USD trade system.
    2
  2174. Well, here we know that these tanks don't really change the outcome of this war but the western corpo-state media has used these tanks as a prop for their propaganda. Most ordinary westerners are actually very ignorant of how the world actually works. Most of them have been fed a steady diet of western propaganda for decades. Seeing one of these tanks destroyed is jarring to them. For us, we know 1 or 2 tanks being destroyed is not irrelevant in the larger picture, just as 14 tanks ain't gonn make a difference. But to a western audience, it will be like being struck by lightning. They are not used to seeing western stuff being destroyed. They are used to the myth that western stuff will just steamroll everyone else by a K/D ratio of 1000000000/0. This is more amusement to me to see western media collapsing on itself and westerners getting consternation over this.
    2
  2175.  @careyfreeman5056  No, not really. You are just doing wishful thinking and making connections where there are none. It's classical western self delusion. It's bong bong that switch suddenly because we all know he is a US stooge.
    2
  2176.  @himanshugurjar9002  Tibet was a feudalistic hellhole back then. They were not a free country.
    2
  2177. Haha I can hear the frustration in his voice.
    2
  2178. The FREMM, Visby, and pretty much most of every new frigate and destroyer built today are based on LO. Just look the PLAN ships, look at the type 055, it's the culmination of stealth tech in ships.
    2
  2179. Yea, lots of greedy immoral Indian politicians like Modi, rishi sunak, Kamala Harris, nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal.
    2
  2180.  @peetfourie5193  None of this would have happen if the US did not plot to expand NATO eastward all the way to Russia's front door. It wouldn't have happen if the 2014 coup did not happen. It wouldn't be be as bad as today if the west stuck to the Minsk agreement. And so many lives would not have been lost if US and UK did not interfere with the peace talk in the beginning of 2022. Russia got a lot of stuff, but both sides have also lost lives and treasure, and it all could have been avoided if the US stopped being an absolute c*nt.
    2
  2181. It is joyous to the Global Majority to see the American empire fall.
    2
  2182.  @borg2331  that's because you have to study Marxist Leninism to understand what exactly they are doing.
    2
  2183. ​ @borg2331  What you are seeing is the praxis of Marxist-Leninism and is the first stage of moving towards communism; state controlling capital holding power for the proletariat while suppressing the bourgeois and using planned economy and market forces properly to rapidly industrialize and increase standard of living. This is all part of the ML plan of development. "Sprinkling capitalism into socialism" is precisely the kind of thinking in a population of a bourgeois dominated educational and media system. Most westerners are woefully uneducated in Marxist philosophies. Heck, most westerners are woefully educated in any kind of philosophies that are not recuperated and curated to promote the domination of capitalism.
    2
  2184. It's not that the world does not know about America's double standards and hypocrisy. Those in the Global South have been suffering from American interventions and debt traps for decades. It is that today there is finally a viable alternative that challenges the current world order led by the US, and so we are seeing this uprising against the collective west. The meteoric rise of China, and to a certain extent the re-risen Russia, and the growing economic power of the Global South made this possible.
    2
  2185. Europe going full blown neoliberal consolidation for mega corps. We are watching the formation of a dystopia in real time.
    2
  2186. Gold standard? Really? There isn't enough gold in the world to value the Yuan.
    2
  2187. Well, Russia was not invited and China did not endorse it. So we all know it is just PR. That's what the west have left, PR and lies and slander and propaganda. It can't compete on anything else.
    2
  2188.  @mauribonada2425  Good god, India coming in to spoil the bunch because they want to hang with the big boys but is so mediocre that they keep falling behind, has to be the most Indian thing to do. India's elites want to style themselves as the new right-wing neoliberals capitalists of Asia. They learnt the worst things from their colonizers.
    2
  2189.  @陈奕纯-u9c  The US is not free to meddle because arming Taiwan IS causing the island to make unilaterally changes. They do it anyway because they never have to suffer real consequences for their actions. They never have to worry about their own land being invaded, their cities burnt and their people dead from committing all these international crimes, provoking wars, causing untold amount of misery and killing other people. Their relative safety made them arrogant to think they never have to consider other countries' concerns, and perspectives. They can do whatever they want and they can always spin it that they are the good guys. The last time their country was directly attacked as in 9/11 they doubled down on their aggressive, oppressive, underhanded and coercive foreign policies. They learnt nothing from their past mistakes, sublimely confidence in the inviolability of their mainland, even after 9/11. The only way they learn is to finally have someone punch them in the face, really, really hard. It seems that they really think they can take on China like they did with the USSR and win. China doesn't want a confrontation and it doesn't want to dominate the world. It just want to not being humiliated and weak and poor anymore. It just want to be left alone to do its own thing and trade and integrate. But the US won't let China be, because China's rise is threatening the western neoliberal capitalist system and that is where the true power in the west lies. The only hope we have is that the Chinese leadership understand very clearly what the US is trying to do and act with strategic discipline and patience and not be baited into some sort of confrontation. Yes, China will likely survive quite after such a confrontation but it will definitely still fucked up a lot of things. But if the US really thinks that it can win a war with China, it is going to be in for nasty surprise. America needs to be taught a lesson. Hard.
    2
  2190. This is beyond just giving face. It is basic mutual respect. If you say one thing and then do another, you are not merely not giving him, you are actively insulting the dignity and intelligence of that person. This is not a Chinese thing, this is not an Indian thing, this is not any particular culture thing, it is basic human decency to express that you are respectful of the other person by not insulting them at the drop of the hat. It's not freedom of speech to lie and cheat and manipulate your deeds and words. It is literally one of the most despicable thing to do IN EVERY CULTURE to say one thing in front of someone's face (blinken visiting China) and then to stab them behind their back (biden calling Xi a dictator). How arrogant can you be to think that the other side have to accept your backstabbing, as though you are in the right. The worst part is that the Americans truly believe they have the right to do this kind of sh*t because it's freedom of speech for them to say whatever they want, especially when they know they are lying or they believe in a lie. Xi is not a dictator, he is answerable to the politburo, the CPC councils, the bureaucracy and ultimately the Chinese people. He can be removed from power. The west just says whomever they don't like is a dictator. The word has become so meaningless only westerners still use it unironically. biden literally lied that Xi is a dictator because it gives him campaign money and votes. That's beyond not giving face. It is immoral, it is depraved.
    2
  2191. Trump's idea is to rob and harvest everyone to fuel the US reindustrialization. He won't succeed in doing that on China, India and Russia and most of the world. But the EU, Japan and SK will be harvested unless they grow a spine. That is if the US even can reindustrialized and not just use the harvested value to pump up their assets.
    2
  2192. The fact that China can literally move their economy from real estate into renewable, EVs, semiconductors and other future sustainable industries and therefore secured their future shows the superiority of their model. Central planning and socialism has always been the superior system. It turned the Soviet Union from a backwater agricultural country into the second most powerful country. Now China with it's modified Marxist-Leninist system, socialism with Chinese characteristics is showing the world another economic miracle. More than that, it is showing the world it can control its economy to reduce boom and bust cycles, it can create far more equity for its people. And it is freaking out the neoliberals.
    2
  2193. You're right. Makes it easier to just classify western corpo-state media output as propaganda because using your head will naturally make you think so.
    2
  2194. The US is the only side that is demanding that SK and Japan shoot themselves in the foot by decoupling from China to preserve US hegemony. China did not demand anything unreasonable and only require its neighbors treat it with respect and respect each others' interests. So are Japan and SK vassals of the American empire, or are they sovereign countries that can decide their fate? That's the question the Koreans and the Japanese should be asking themselves, not crap like whether China is the bad guy or not, because China has proven itself time and time again that it has always been wiling to operate on good faith if the other side does the same.
    2
  2195. Yup, I keep reminding people that Carlson is as vile as the rest of them. He just like Russia more and think the American empire should be unaliving Chinese instead of Russians. The last few months have been full of examples of broken clock being right twice a day. Utterly vile.
    2
  2196. Chinese solar companies investing in US is going to regret it. Their assets are going to stolen away by the USians.
    2
  2197. The fact that the US is regretting the tech transfer and is trying everything in its power to mischaracterize the tech transfer as forced or stolen tells you that they know that technology is what makes a country strong and prosperous. They never intended for any non western, heck non US to ever be on par or more technologically advanced than the US. They never want any other country to be as prosperous as the US. The inherent maliciousness of their thinking is evident.
    2
  2198.  @TheEVEInspiration  Ohhb does the America state not tell what companies can do or not do? How do you think sanctions are executed? China might not be all sunshine and roses but it sure is brighter and smell better than the streets of American cities. They also don't need your permission to be proud of their achievements.
    2
  2199. Exactly, and they are still giving us the tone that the Chinese are wrong and the west is right to focus on the stock market. Capital fundamentalists.
    2
  2200. Mr. Mearsheimer should mention that the westerners are in a hysteria about Russia to the point where negotiations cannot take place, is because the western media whipped the west into a frenzy and deliberately misrepresent Russia's positions, interests and concerns and painted this as a strictly black and white issue. The west painted itself into a corner diplomatically and socially that it has cut itself off all options except to defeat Russia strategically because they have told their people that this is the only acceptable outcome because Russia are the bad guys and the west are the totally good guys and this war is totally "unprovoked". The west has been du*bed down severely, to the point it cannot face reality nor examine any issue objectively, rationally and accept the fact that the west is to be blamed for a huge amount of mess around the world. Their arrogance demand that they cannot accept any reality where they are the bad guys. The unfortunate thing for westerners is that THEY ARE THE BAG GUYS.
    2
  2201. Lol, greedy businessmen that want everything for themselves are the primary reasons why the world is so screwed up right now.
    2
  2202. It's kinda hard to top the Saudis' red carpet for Putin though.
    2
  2203. Nixon was a crook, don't whitewash this.
    2
  2204. Historically, wasteful foreign adventures and trying to distract population at home from systemic problems that the elites could not or would not solve are signs of declining empires. America is playing this out almost textbook.
    2
  2205. No, they don't. That's the power of capitalist cultural hegemony. They control everything Americans see, hear and consume. This is what freedom of speech combined with unregulated, hypercapitalism gives you; complete domination of the bourgeoisie on the media. What is one of the biggest events now? The Asian Games in Hangzhou and the opening ceremony was spectacular beyond belief. There is nearly no coverage of that in the entire western corpo-state media, save for a few articles that take childish jabs at China about the Asian Games. Heck, Einstein predicted this decades ago in "Why Socialism."
    2
  2206. Humanity didn't go too far. WESTERNERS went too far.
    2
  2207. The US owes blood debts to most parts of the world. The most nightmarish scenario for Americans is that the world will come to collect on that debt. They have been writing morality checks they cannot support.
    2
  2208. Well, the Philippines has always been the special kid of SE Asia.
    2
  2209.  @randomanonymousperson3603  Ohh you gonna know what coercion actually looks like.
    2
  2210. Most Americans assume their government, the media, the drug companies, Wall St are lying BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN LYING.
    2
  2211. Argentina bores me now because we all know what will happen and it is just another neoliberal disaster.
    2
  2212. Yup. It's the one of the most disgusting parts of this whole sh*tfest. The US engineeres this conflict and they are throwing the Ukrainians under the bus because things are not going well. America never suffer the consequences for their transgressions and it's why they can be so blatantly arrogance and has no qualms lying and twisting the narratives because no one can call them out and make them pay for it.
    2
  2213. China is already self sufficient for most of the microchips needed.
    2
  2214. Everything America touches, their capitalists ruin it.
    2
  2215. Well, it's a good thing I don't usually have to be forced to fly north american airlines or to share the cabin with a majority of north americans. You never see this kind of sht on an Asian or European Airlines, either from the passengers or the crew.
    2
  2216. The advantage of nuclear power is the fuel is actually quite cheap per watt-hour it can produce. It has a huge upfront capital cost but once you build it, it is cheaper to run than a coal fire plant. So causing the fuel prices to raise reduces that advantage.
    2
  2217. China's EV success is one of the most powerful proof that centrally planned economy works when applied properly and allowed to work without outside capitalist imperial intervention. The failures of western, including Japan to compete with Chinese EV companies is also a defining proof of the inferiority of neoliberalism market ideology without destroying their competition with violence and underhanded tactics.
    2
  2218. @damionkeeling3103  Freedom of navigation doesn't mean invading another country's airspace and threatening their national security. You westerners invent the air traffic issue to try to make a perfectly legal exercise. We all know the tricks you people use.
    2
  2219. Does Italy even have military bases in other countries?
    2
  2220. Haha I'll believe when I see it and that it has been independently verified that it is a real HSR. Meanwhile, China already built 45,000 km of HSR.
    2
  2221. Exactly, the master does not betray the slave because the master never have any loyalty to its slaves. The leadership in Japan and most of the other collective western vassals are spineless, feckless fools. LOL thinking that g-cide biden will care about anyone's feelings or interests outside the American hegemony is just plain stupid now. Not that trump is gonna be any better.
    2
  2222. China shows that Marxist-Leninism works better than the western liberal capitalist system.
    2
  2223. Yuuuuupp, it was a bait to lure Iran into a general conflict. But the Iranians are not stupid and refuse to bite, so they couldn't get the war they wanted.
    2
  2224.  @dewinmoonl Yea, I have colleagues saying things are not as good as before right now but I think the Chinese people would revolt if the Chinese government bailed out the real estate and gave money to Blackrock.
    2
  2225.  @dewinmoonl True but when it does, no one can stop them and the Chinese government is keenly aware that their mandate lies solely on delivering their promises and keep the country running and fight corruption. Bailing out Blackrock by bailing out Evergrande will not make the Chinese happy because while the lockdown is something everyone suffered together because it is a pandemic, bailing out Evergrande and Blackrock is a clear cut corruption and favoring the rich when the economy is taking a down turn. The Chinese have very strong class consciousness, unlike capital fundamentalist westerners. Bailing out corporate malfeasance will likely create far more dissatisfaction than having to suffer a lockdown.
    2
  2226. Exactly.
    2
  2227.  @sdqsdq6274 Do you really think these westoids would care about the ship if this happened in China?
    2
  2228. The west are just a bunch of sore losers. Losers, losers, losers.
    2
  2229. Forgiveness is cheap without paying the price for your transgressions and America has racked up a lot of debts.
    2
  2230. Anti-China sentiment is still a bipartisanship thing, whether it is young, old, republicans or democrats.
    2
  2231. So is Singapore going to support a gen*cidal apartheid regime?
    2
  2232.  @jjwwqq  I'm not confused. Corporatism is capitalism and you are led to believe that because of capitalist indoctrination.
    2
  2233. In the same time, China built 40,000 km of HSR.
    2
  2234. Singapore allows US ships to dock but it does not have any IS base on the island at all.
    2
  2235. Reports are easy to write when you have a wealth of facts to draw from. The report might be massive but I think it was an easy job for the people in the MFA to write. It is when you are trying to cover up inconvenient facts that makes anything difficult to write.
    2
  2236. @@robertmartin3688 Did you actually watch the video? They literally explain it. Why are westerners so deliberately ignorant and arrogant.
    2
  2237.  @gdiwolverinemale4th  huh, does not reflect real balance of opinions? What does that even practically mean?
    2
  2238. The brilliance of Dracula is that at the end of Ep 1, I want to help him kill humanity. The brilliance of Belmont, Sypha and Alucard is that by the end of Ep 3, I want to save Dracula from his own vengeance.
    2
  2239. The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of people to exploit.
    2
  2240. Western governments keep painting themselves into a corner without any outside help. Just a bunch of dumba**es.
    2
  2241.  @j.c.4192  At this point, I don't really see that much difference between European and US financial system. The Europeans are seizing Russian assets first because the Americans ORDERED them to do so. The Americans won't stick out their neck until they know they can get away with their crimes so they are using the Europeans as guinea pigs and scapegoats. The Euro is competition to the USD and it has been a standing desire of the US to destroy that currency. In the past, the EU might have a modicum of independence but now they are full blown vassals that take orders from their suzerain in Washington.
    2
  2242.  @hockkeetan7161  Indeed, I think that's still mainly what they are doing but I can't be sure since I'm not tracking these stuff. My job is not an analyst lol. But it seem that what Kevin was saying is that they are selling it before they mature, which is why this is bigger news than the usual divesting of USD by China.
    2
  2243.  @Matthew_Loutner  They literally can't cut spending. They can't cut military spending because the MIC won't let them and their imperialist mindset won't allow a voluntary draw down of their overseas bases. They can't cut spending on welfare because most of the working poor class and old people depend on that welfare to survive (barely). They can cut away all the other discretionary spending like unemployment or some departments but those are just drops in the bucket and will likely also put immense hardship on the already tapped out population. And you are further proposing increasing taxes? From who? Certainly not from the rich holding all the capital and assets because they will never allow that to happen. The poor have no more to give since their wages are already not enough to cover their survival and the "middle class" is getting tapped out. No, this is not something you can just adjust. It is a fundamental structural problem with the UAS government spending and the perverse incentives of capitalism that corrupted the democratic process and having it completely hijacked by the rich capitalist class. The UAS government spending is now 30% of the GDP of the UAS. If they pare it back by any significant percent, it will also be a significant drop in GDP and that will reverberate across the entire economy because so many people and companies depend on that spending. They are truly F, and they have to deficit spend to maintain this zombie economy. But the problem is that they are getting their rug pulled from underneath them because the one of last two bastions of the UAS economy, the financial industry where they can still make "money" is getting chipped away by the de-dollarization efforts of the Global Majority and EU, Japan and SK are getting tapped out too. The other bastion, the military industry is also getting hammered because they depend almost completely on government spending and also from other countries, all of which are entering recession or already in a recession, one they might not recover from because all the "allies" themselves are tapped out and is getting blocked from exploiting their former colonies (see West Africa throwing out France and the UAS). They are also losing all their w__s. The west is being de-industrialized (look at Germany) and even the subsidies from the UAS borrowing is not having enough effect to reverse it, the Chips Act is now largely a failure. There is no more renewable energy industry and the car makers are next on the chopping block. The west is no longer producing enough at a competitive cost (no more cheap energy) to earn enough money to pay their debts. They are not growing enough to earn more money and generate value. Cut what? Tax who? Most of the spending is uncuttable without triggering a massive social unrest and the people that must be taxed will never allowed being taxed. Also, your other comment where you said the US dollar value is rising is so wrongheaded that I don't even know how to correct you because it is factually wrong. The US dollar has lost value every single year since nixon abolished the gold standard.
    2
  2244. Why are you asking him to waste time on a small vassal state of the American empire?
    2
  2245. Ohhh that's why my Shopee deliveries almost always go to Yiwu distribution before shipping out.
    2
  2246. It's all projection.
    2
  2247. "Yea, but he is OUR BOT." - western plutocrats.
    2
  2248. @Andrew-rc3vh  this is very common on YT. One of your comments must have triggered the AI censor.
    2
  2249. That's what capitalist imperialism does.
    2
  2250. Tsinghua is probably going to build one soon.
    2
  2251.  @GraysonA  Well, I have a very tiny violin here.
    2
  2252. What a farcical title. Here are a few facts: Lai does not have a mandate. He barely eke out a majority over his two opponents and only have the support of 40% of the vote. It is not a majority. More Taiwanese did not vote than to vote for any one of the candidates. They losing faith in the SYSTEM. The DPP did not win a majority of legislative seats, and the KMT has won 1 more seat than they did. They lost 10 seats while the KMT gained 14 compared to the previous election. The TPP now has 8 seats and gained 3. It is going to be a hung parliament, where no side gain enough majority to control the legislative. What mandate is that? There is no way the DPP can put forth any legislation without the votes from KMT or the TPP, both of which definitely do not want independence. All of this should tell you the loss of confidence by the Taiwanese people on the system. Most likely, we will just see the continuation of the status quo for the near future. China does not have to do anything LMAO. You people are as duplicitous as you are delusional as westerners. Next you people are going to say there is no gen*cide in Gaza and Israel is a poor victim.
    2
  2253. Democracy should not only be about procedures like voting and the freedom of the press. Results should be the grading cards of democracy. Does that country enact policies that the people want? Or do they enact policies that only the rich and powerful want? Does changing the government change fundamental policies, especially those pertaining to the economy, regulations of big corporations, public investment, education, housing, food security, wages, financial regulations etc., policies that deeply affect people's everyday lives. Do the policies enacted result in sustainable (economic and environmental) growth that sees the standard of living improve for the majority of the people and they have better financial security? Do these policies decrease wealth inequality? Do the foreign policies enacted reflect fair and obey international regulations and laws and reduce conflicts instead of icnreasing and escalating them? Do these foreign policies actually improve the strategic position of the country and thereby improve the security of the people at home? Does these policies improve relationships with other countries and increase trade while maintaining a healthy trade balance? Do the press actually have freedom to dissent, measured by how one sided the narratives presented by the media? Does the government have direct and indirect control over what the media print? Does the government use clandestine means to spy on its citizens? Do they use these means to persecute people who do not adhere to prevailing narratives? Does the social and cultural zeitgeist allow dissenting opinions and narratives to be voiced without the person being "canceled"? I am sure that we start measuring democracy in these ways, the US and most of the west will fail most of the criteria to be a democracy even if the people can vote. The funny part is that China clearly wins on most of the criteria and failed in some.
    2
  2254. SE Asia will never allow the Strait of Malacca to be used as a proxy for US blockade.
    2
  2255. It relies on other countries parking their surpluses in the clearing houses on Wall St. to recycle that USD, and make these countries buy bonds to defray inflation. The US is essentially sucking up the value created by other countries' labor, raw materials and technology. They themselves do not produce enough value to deserve this level of wealth and standard of living. To protect this malicious system, the US have intervened, coup, war on other countries that dared to step out of the line. Millions of lives lost and destroyed, millions made refugees, and millions more live terror and with trauma, all to keep this neoliberal international order going. It is time to end this sham that is the the western liberal democracy. America must suffer for the decades of transgressions they have committed against the world or they will never ever learn.
    2
  2256. Let's just say that despite all the differences among the ASEAN countries, the one thing that we all can agree on, is that we are anti-war, and anti-destabilization. Any country, whether it is China or the US that tries to destabilize the region for their own interests and ambitions will be met with universal disdain in SE Asia. Last time China made the mistake of being too hardline on SCS territorial claims but they learned their lesson and back paddle from their hardline approaches. This time the US is trying to stir up shit in the region, especially with Taiwan is starting to piss a lot of people off. I live in Singapore and I can already tell you that most people here took a very very dim view on the stupid stunt Pelosi pulled. Everyone here mocks the US for overreacting to the "spy" balloon, knowing full well that the media hysteria over in the west is another deliberate and cynical attempt to stir up shit. No one in SE Asia is really taking the bait because everyone can see right through US media bullshitting.
    2
  2257. The Zionist state has created more anti-Semitism than anti-Semites ever could.
    2
  2258. China is right. They are the best practitioners of Marxist-Leninism and the capitalist imperial forces are trying their best to crush them. The only thing India needs to do, and it won't do, is to humble itself and learn from China and abandon its castle system, its neoliberal capitalist system, and reform itself. But that's a pipe dream.
    2
  2259. Alexander is spot on. This has to be another western propaganda to stir up fear and to find more MIC boondoggles.
    2
  2260. The US is harvesting its vassals to prop up its zombie economy. Japan and South Korea are also being harvested.
    2
  2261. Huh, I thought lying about numbers is a Soviets/Russian/China thing? Are you saying that the west lies....??? I'm shock. Shock I say! Well, maybe not that shock.
    2
  2262. Maybe IMF should impose austerity on the US and sell all its state own.. oh wait, the US has no assets left to privatize and austerity will destroy the country and it is already a neoliberal hellhole.
    2
  2263. Also we must remember that the every dollar invested by China goes far far more than every dollar the US "invested". The effect of 250 billion investments by China is far stronger than the pathetic 53 billion of the US chips act.
    2
  2264. Because capitalism and democracy are inherently anti-thetical.
    2
  2265. China's deflation due to lower demand just tells us China has excess capacity. Now will be a good time to shed the excess capacity in industries that gets hit hard by a recession and channel the capital to other emerging, high tech high value industries that can use the capital injection. It is only a crisis if your society only look at life in quarter by quarter basis.
    2
  2266. Haha my account is also constantly flagged for comments removal and shadow banning.
    2
  2267. Nah, it is just moving towards it logical end and showing its true colors. Everyone forgets what happened in the late 19th century with the rise of the robber barons, the Glided Age, and the Great Depression. This is just America returning to its roots: a capitalistic, exploitative hellhole.
    2
  2268.  @genbond7459  Which is a shame.
    2
  2269.  @jborgz  This kind of self serving logic is why there is no point in talking to a US lapdog.
    2
  2270.  @grimaffiliations3671  A government can only run deficits if it can suck up other countries' surpluses. In the end, the government is the middleman transferring foreign pluses into American private sector, including the MIC war making machines, which is in turn use to oppress any countries that dare to want to get out of this racket. Running government deficit to support your own private while maintaining an empire to extract tribute out of other countries' productivity and then waging war on anyone who doesn't want to pay the protection money, is the most evil thing that emerged since the Nazis.
    2
  2271. Yea, like the Ukraine war is unprovoked and completely ignores the historical context of China's 9 dash line and Taiwan province. Or how Niger throwing out the French and now the US has nothing to do with the decades of exploitation of Niger's natural resources or its financial system. Heck, they still harping the line that China is the largest carbon emitter and should be punished for it while ignoring the context that the accumulative carbon emission is the real culprit of today's climate crisis and the #1 and #2 largest cumulative carbon emitter are the US and Europe. Of course, they ignore the fact that China is manufacturing 30% of the world's goods and that they have reforested an area larger than the size of Belgium while holding back the advance of the Gobi desert. And also ignoring that China has the largest investment and deployment of renewable and nuclear energy and will likely peak carbon emission before 2030s and likely will reach their goal of carbon neutrality at 2060. For a country of 1.4 billion people. Don't forget they just make up BS about Xinjiang and treat it as real. Western narratives love to cherry pick their data points, and ignore every context and facts that destroy their narratives. Hypocrisy and dishonesty cannot begin to describe them.
    2
  2272. Your country is a vassal of neoliberal elites of the US. Calling Canada a country is an insult to actual countries.
    2
  2273. The republicans and democrats always agree on neoliberalism and American Imperialism which are the most important parts of the system controlling the west. Everything else is just a dog and pony show.
    2
  2274.  @deadby15  They won nearly every fight they did fight since 1949 when the PRC was formed. So WTF are you talking about. But they have not been involve in any war or major conflict for 40 years. If you are going to say they are inexperienced, that's because they are a peaceful country that don't around and bomb other people at the drop of the hat.
    2
  2275. ​ @simonooi2544  Ermm. Vietnam has a strictly non-aligned foreign policy and they have been adhering to it. They are not in a military alliance with anyone nor are they at war, or hostile to any country. They signed comprehensive agreement with many countries so your point is not even valid. They certainly did not forget what the Americans did to them but there is no point in letting these grudges get in the way of making money off Americans and develop their country. They signed the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership with China in 2008 and with Russia in 2012, years before the US. Are you saying Vietnam is a Chinese and Russian puppet? Vietnam also has the same agreement with South Korea and India too. Is Vietnam the puppet of Koreans and Indians? Man... Vietnam sure can be puppet for so many countries! Heck, the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership is only second highest, with only the highest diplomatic status Great Friendship reserved solely for Laos. For Vietnam, the best revenge is to live better. The more developed Vietnam becomes, the more it is a rebuke to America and France and capitalism. As for taiwan and phillpinness, that's another story.
    2
  2276. Yup. I mean diamonds? Really? It's a drop in a bucket. It signals how desperate they are, but they have no idea what else they can do while they refuse to face reality and do the correct thing, stop the war and start negotiating with Russia.
    2
  2277. Planned economy is superior to private capital economy.
    2
  2278. No one in the west can say they have a good grasp of how the capital market or the economy works by ignoring Marxism.
    2
  2279. They have AESA now, think it is the SPY-6 but as usual they are horribly expensive.
    2
  2280. There is a simple explanation: the Europeans are spineless vassals and the Americans are exploitativr ruthless masters.
    2
  2281.  @johanea Then they really should ask China to build it.
    2
  2282. 1 year after this video is published, China doesn't really need the US to survive. It will be a huge blow to China if the US really decoupled. It just have to readjust and increase its own consumption and find markets elsewhere. But the US will collapse completely without China's imports, and market.
    2
  2283. Couldnt have happen to a nicer empire.
    2
  2284. That's not the neoliberal capitalist way.
    2
  2285. That's a reason why Sun Wukong is such a huge character in Eastern Asian mythologies. He is OP as fuck and fun as fly. And why Buddha is the preeminent deity. He is even more OP. Buddha is the Chinese version of Deus ex machina.
    2
  2286. ​ @Oldmanpeace  Nah, the bases are there to make sure they can contain their enemies that refuse to bend their knees and to ensure their vassal states that do bend their kness don't get funky ideas like an independence foreign or economic policies, you know stuff like de-dollarization. That is what makes America's zombie economy works, to make sure they can suck up everyone's productive surpluses. That is worth trillions, far far far far far far far far more than what drugs can bring in.
    2
  2287.  @johnnyw6467  Ohh you mean they planned ahead? What kind of godless sorcery is this?
    2
  2288. "Businessmen are heroes" has to be one of the ironically vile thing to say in world history, considering that for most of the time, the merchant class is consider by most cultures as the most selfish people.
    2
  2289. Jill is not going to win. Your vote really does not matter. For a third party to win, something has to happen so drastic to completely upends the system at its core. You know, like a revolution.
    2
  2290.  @AbuShivaToyib  Because they are essentially vassal states of the US empire.
    2
  2291. Ron deathsantis ordered his state to deliberately under report covid deaths and it was exposed by a whistleblower. Why should we believe anything the US government or western corpo-state media says?
    2
  2292. Good.
    2
  2293. @user-hz6fj9xy4y That's not the point and you know it. Russia is still a major economy whether you like it or not, and a major economy that can de-dollarize so fast points to the fact that ANY economy can de-dollarize if they are forced to. Some harder, some easier but it is not impossible. The idea that it is not impossible to de-dollarize, or at least reduce your exposure severely so as to protect your country's economy from US aggression is now very much thinkable, and we are already seeing trends everywhere that non-western, and even some western countries are reducing their reliance on the USD system and subsequently looking for alternatives to do international trade and park their money safely. The trend is what is important, and is routinely ignored by western media and westoids because if they look at the trend, they will despair. So, like you, they like looking at the things now because it look good on the surface and to cherry pick parts they like and ignore the rest of the more important, core parts. It's the same way you point out that Germany's GDP is higher than Russia while ignoring the fact that Germany's economy has become more and more unsustainable as it lost access to cheap energy it needs to fuel its export oriented economy. Russia is now unsurprisingly the fastest growing European country (if Russia can even be called European now). How come you're not mentioning that fact? This points more to desperation and head-in-the-sand mentality than to confidence and objectivity. It's honestly getting pathetic.
    2
  2294.  @seraph3761  LOL I think you are the one who is refusing to see what is actually happening now and not extrapolating into the future because if you seriously consider what China and Russia have done together and what they are planning to do to make themselves immune to western aggression, you will be shating bricks.
    2
  2295.  @toma3025  this is the blind spot of western ideologue. It's not based on "logic", it's based on western assumptions in human nature, which we all know is already wrong. When you say power corrupts absolutely, that is already a wrong assumption. Western ideologies and culture incentivize selfishness and self interests far more than other cultures and you people just assume that's "human nature".
    2
  2296. Haha my replies are getting removed by UT.
    2
  2297. Anything that moves countries towards more independency and sovereignty is attacking western economy, considering the fact that their economy is based largely on extracting resources and labor value our of the imperial peripheral into the imperial core.
    2
  2298. Hearing that person talk is like hearing grima wormtongue talks.
    2
  2299. It is also a mistake to believe that China wants to match the US in military might. China can build 50 carriers but that will also bankrupt China like how those 11 carriers are bankrupting the US. Eisenhower's speech looms large in this context. Every bullet, every warship, every fighter jet build is means fewer schools, hospitals, ports, factories, houses built. China does NOT want a huge military. It is building one because it is forced to respond to explicit aggression from the collective west. Even as the second most powerful military in the world, China is still not as powerful as the collective west combined, though the Ukraine war is showing that western military might be a paper tiger. But a paper tiger can still do a lot of damage so China is forced to waste so much money to build up their military. Trying to build a military to match the collective west is the last thing China wants to do. It is a fools errand and will destroy China's long term economic health.
    2
  2300. The US depends on sucking up the surplus value generated by the rest of the world to fund its spending through the USD system, which it spending a huge portion on maintaining a huge military to enforce that USD system in the first place. This is one of the most immoral, and unsustainable system in the history of the world. Sean finally admits it. I look forward to the day when it all collapsed.
    2
  2301. Seems like the NED's meddling didn't work, lol. So when are we going to start seeing western media denounce the Thai PM as a dictator?
    2
  2302. They are stealing Puerto Ricans by making PR so terrible that anyone that can leave will leave. Brain drain is a form of colonialism and theft.
    2
  2303. First Taiwan is part of China. Second, they don't have any land disputes with anyone except India because all the "disputes" have already been settled amicably or they are being negotiated fairly. Third, Japan and increasingly Philippines, are vassals of the American Empire and will never settle anything peacefully and in good faith with China. How much does the CIA pays you? Are you that desperate? You can PM me, I can help you so you don't have to be a CIA stooge. It's humiliating and what will you parents think of you now?
    2
  2304.  @Wvavy  half of the world hates America because it is a genocidal imperialist regime that has caused immense amount of suffering and exploited huge amount of resources and labor to feed its own irresponsible system. Don't make it sound like there are no legitimate reasons to hate America.
    2
  2305. I think you should be impressed by the new shiny airport built in 2020 because it didn't exist back in 2016. The speed, precision and will power to develop China is also part of why China is so successful and is part of your focus on why China is so damn successful.
    2
  2306. Everyone don't forget that it is the US that blew up the Nordstream. With "friends" like the US, who needs enemies.
    2
  2307. That's the thing. There never was a real international law and order. It was always whatever the west says is right or wrong, and they decide how the "rules" are enforced. The difference is that today, the west is losing control because their neocolonialist system is getting hammered, China's meteoric rise providing the world and alternative to the western financial and economic system, Russia finally throwing down the gauntlet to defend itself from NATO expansion and is winning. All of these are causing these contradictions to surface. In the past, the west can say and do whatever they want, and we have no choice but to swallow it. But today, we the Global Majority is starting to make the west accountable for their crimes and they cannot hide that double standards anymore and so the hypocrisy becomes even more pronounced.
    2
  2308.  @MS-wz9jm  Agreed. I think China learned from its past and from what Russia has been doing that EW is extremely important. The PLA is not only learning the lesson from this war and from Russia but actively creating new doctrines, tactics. The fact is that China now possess huge amount of refining of most materials and the factories, research centers needed to create high end electronics, radar, jammers. They also directly control huge amount of mines in China and have access to other parts of the world already tells us that the PLA can afford to deploy tactics and doctrines that take advantage of these scale and quantity. PLA radars, jammers, spoofers are now recognized as some of the world's best and in huge amount. Quantity really do have its own quality.
    2
  2309. Yup, they will "execute" the company and make sure the relevant stakeholders get their share first to stabilize the core economy - the common folk that actually matter. The shareholders, hyenas and vultures them all, can have what's left - they don't matter to society. This is the way.
    2
  2310. Ohh look, it's the CIA bot.
    2
  2311. Neoliberals will do what they always do, exploit everyone for their own benefits.
    2
  2312. I like some of Bolye boi videos when he exposed some hypocritical aspects of western economies but like nearly every western economist, they can't get out of the neoliberal capitalistic goggles. Everything they say always comes back to that and they can't wrap their head around what China is doing and why their economy is still working and not collapsing. They can't understand how the China can dare to deflate their own real estate sector and reallocate capital towards other more sustainable, more high value sectors like high tech. They thought that China must bail out their over-leveraged developers. Because if China does not do everything that a western country does when facing an excess capacity and a bubble forming, then China must be default, collapse. But China is not collapsing. The Chinese government is still able to enjoy broad spectrum of approval from the Chinese people. They have the mandate to continue their version of centrally planned economy, and people like Boyle just can't wrap their head around how this system can be more efficient at allocating capital then neoliberal capitalism or even classical capitalism. They have been taught (indoctrinated) all their lives that this is the bad type of economic system. So they pick and choose little, irrelevant and unimportant details to criticize China about while refusing to see the huge picture hanging on the wall in front of them. Western economists, save for a few, are honestly some of the most pathetic branch of people on this planet.
    2
  2313. That will be entirely up to the US.
    2
  2314. Coolness is not a factor that can pass the IRB review of justification for a project. At least ethical for IRBs.
    2
  2315. Conversion is just a pretty word for cultural genocide.
    2
  2316. jamie dimon is part of the problem of why America is irredeemable and unreformable.
    2
  2317. There is a theory on why we don't see that many aliens. Distance is a bug problem but there might be other causes. Their civilization might have ended long before we ever hear from them. The factors that could end a civilization is known as the Great Filter. For a long time, sci-fi writers, scientists and other thinkers thought that climate change could be one of those Filters. But I think destructive economic theories like capitalism is the real Filter.
    2
  2318. ChatGPT is build on western media and literature. It is little wonder it will be regurgitating western narratives. I also have fun calling ChatGPT for its bias "opinions" and one sided narratives, force it to have to consider other narratives by using its own logic against it until it has no choice but to admit that it might not be completely right.
    2
  2319.  @sealioso  so is the west denigrating, slander and deliberately misrepresented the heroes of the Soviet Union the effort of the Russians. They even attempted to invade Soviet Union at the end of the war. It was Marshal Zhukov noticing the Americans and British making weird movements with their troops, and counter that by moving the Red Army in more defensive position in a show of force that dissuaded the Americans and British. They were ready to backstab the Soviets and probably already have all the excuses ready. WWII was a fight between capitalists and they were all despicable actors. The communists were dragged into it because the fascists from both sides of the Atlantic all hated them.
    2
  2320.  @sealioso  Throwing "strawmen" when it is exactly what happened is also exactly the kind of duplicity I expected from a westoid.
    2
  2321. Seem like China is just doing what Europe and US did back in the 20th century - securing strategic oceanic ports as bases for power projection to protect their interests. But somehow China doing the same things are just omg so bad. Clutch my pearls!
    2
  2322.  @Struieboy  How about the millions America has killed over the years directly and indirectly? How about the millions that Europeans have killed over the centuries. You are not going to win the moral game if you want to go dig up history, boy.
    2
  2323. Capitalism extracts more money and time than out of the workers, to the point that they are barely surviving, because it is a capitalist job to keep wages low and prices high. So, there is literally no excess income to raise children which are huge income sinks. The example that you gave right at the beginning about housing already tells us that. House owners want kids when house prices increase while renters feel the opposite when rent increases. What this means is the house owner feels his capital has increased, while the renter feels his capital is being extracted away. There is no mechanism in capitalist societies to correct for this, to put the money generated by the workers more in the hands of the workers to the point that they feel confident enough to have children. So the workers will never want to have children, and those that do find themselves trapped in a income to family expenditure death spiral. It's really that simple. You want people to have children, you need to put more money in their hands in the form of better wage to profit ratio, and better price to wage ratio. They key is more capital in the hands of the people. This means a huge shift in the way the capital generated shift. We are not talking about billions, we are talking about trillions here. Which is why just giving a few billions here and there has no effect, it's a drop in the ocean. But capital = power and there is no way capitalists will allow workers to have more capital.
    2
  2324.  @ISuperTed  then we shall see. The last few years have seen such upheaval that previously unthinkable stuff like the unassailable advantages of the west have melted away. There is no reason to think Tesla won't get smash into the ground by Chinese companies.
    2
  2325. Brazil used its national credibility to secure Argentina's invitation into BRICS, and they squandered it. Any patriotic Brazilian should be furious at Argentina for making a fool out of Brazil. It's like writing a recommendation letter for someone only to have him turn out to be a complete disaster at his new workplace and ruined your reputation.
    2
  2326. It is a travesty that anti-w_ke is now a thing as we_tern imp__ialists weaponized LGBTQ rights against their rivals. LGBTQ right advancement and acceptance has reduced a lot of suffering for many people around the world and it should not be associated with we_tern duplicity. Each culture and society will have their own ways to handle LGBTQ issues but it should not be at the cost of resisting we_tern imperialism. I hope people around the world can separate the two issues.
    2
  2327. Lots of copium but also lots of nationalism shit.
    2
  2328. I wonder if the South Koreans have make any connection to the fact that US generals and politicians are very willing to sacrifice Ukrainians lives for political gain, to the other fact that US generals and by extension US politicians have complete control over the South Korean military in the event of any conflict. A conflict that might very well be forced upon them by the US establishment to counter China. We can only hope that China won't take the bait from the US. With the way the Chinese have conducted their foreign policy, it's a good hope.
    2
  2329. Vietnam, Laos and Mynamar invade China LOL. And Malaysia is not really a close ally to US. But then that can be easily ratified by US just bribing whoever is in power anyway. Not that China can't do the same.
    2
  2330. The problem with US promises is that they are as worthy as a shit-wiped toilet paper. The US government promised a lot of things to a lot of people, countries and entities, many of which they broke whenever it suits their purposes. Heck, the Ukrainian war today is mainly due to the US breaking their promise not to expand NATO into Russia's borders. You can go all the way back to the 13 colonies and count the number of treaties and promises the US government had broken with the Native American nations and peoples, all the way to the 21st century where they broke the Iran Nuclear treaty and the Paris Accord. The only time when the US did not break its promises is when it benefits them or they are forced to honor it. China will do well to make sure the US sticks to its promises about Taiwan, even if it means sailing the PLAN all the way to Hawai'i (another stolen land) and California (also stolen from Mexico).
    2
  2331.  @ta0304  You mean the "track record" that western media faked?
    2
  2332.  @Ravenought69  No, that's really up to the US, just like Ukraine issue too. The US can keep its word on the One China Policy and peace will continue because China has absolutely no desire to take Taiwan by force. China can wait 20, 50 even 100 years for peaceful reunification. But if it insist on trying to turn Taiwan independent to start a proxy war against China, then it is the US to be blamed for crossing another country's red line deliberately and unilaterally. Russia wouldn't have to do their SMO if Ukraine remained neutral and the west kept to their word with Minsk 1 and 2. It is all US's and Europe's fault and it is high time we say it out loud.
    2
  2333. I get that biden is a doddering fool but this lionization of trump is just cringe. trump is a good negotiator? Who negotiate a payout to silent a porn star only to have her reveal everything anyway. Remember that trump lost so much money during a time that warren buffet said everyone was making money, that he didn't have to pay taxes for years. trump couldn't sell steak to Americans FFS. He is truly one of the worst businessman and negotiator ever. The only thing he is good at is riling up people because he knows where the pain points are but he does not have the empathy to lead. We didn't even go into how abysmal his personal life is. I like this channel because it sometimes provide interesting analysis that western media refuses to even touch but this love affair with one of the most detestable person in the world is just cringe.
    2
  2334. I think there should be a new way to measure democracy: the relative distance between a de jure democracy and a de facto democracy. De jure is that on paper and procedural, a country can be democratic, but if it is not measure with de facto democracy. De facto democracy will measure: 1. the policies that people desire gets enacted vs. policies they don't want or don't care for, will indicate power distribution among the population 2. wealth inequality that indicate how wealth is concentrated, 3. poverty level indicates how fair the overall system is able to redistribute wealth and give prosperity to all, 4. combined 2 and 3 will give us measurement of the utilitarian level of the policies that helps distribution of wealth 5. achieving basic living standards: including true access to education, housing, jobs, savings and retirement, healthcare etc., 6. labor union power measured against corporate power, pervasiveness of unions and whether unions have enough power for negotations 7. imperialistic tendencies of the countries' foreign policies 8. media independence from powerful influences including government and corporations, to examine the level of propaganda that skewed toward powerful elites, both state and private. 9. measurement of the citizens' information bubble derived from covert and overt propaganda and indoctrination - true measurement of freedom of thought If you start measuring democracy in the de facto manner, I will bet a lot of money that the US will drop in democracy ranking tremendously. The current way these metrics are measured is absurdly skewed toward de jure democracy that serves to put western countries on a higher moral pedestal that they do not deserve and these fake moral high grounds are weaponized for diplomatic imperialism from the west. Also, take note that non of the defactor democracy measurements are measuring concepts and system implementation. The results are what matters, and it doesn't really matter what system you used to achieve democratic results - ie. policies and results that benefit the most people possible and keep abuses from the wealthy and political elite low. We will have classification like True Democracy (maybe some Scandinavian countries will qualified) where both the de jure and de facto measurements are high; Superficial Democracy (US, UK and probably most of western Europe, even India) where de jure is high but de facto is low; Practiced Democracy (China, Singapore and some other prosperous countries with stronger dejure authoritarianism) where the de jure is low but de facto is high, and Undemocratic (usually failed states) where de jure is low and de facto is low.
    2
  2335. Lol and you believe whatever the western corpo-state media tells you?
    2
  2336.  @Lyra0966  Yea, the problem is this empire has nukes. Previous empires eventually fall and the damage they had done during their decline can be reversed. Nuclear war is not reversible, and the US is not a country you can trust not to shoot first.
    2
  2337.  @Sirehistory  yes they can make nukes but only the US is crazy and arrogant enough to think using it is a-okay. Lol yt censored my comment that you replied to.
    2
  2338. Isn't this the guy who got money from the NED?
    2
  2339. This has nothing to do with China and is not even in the same kind of law or level of terribleness. If you are going to take something irrelevant to bolster your case that China bad, then how about the US literally lied to the entire world that Iraq has WMDs and invaded that country and violating all international norms and numerous laws.
    2
  2340. You got a few nuclear subs to attack your biggest trading partner, in about 29 years time that will cost your country 500 billions. Hahahahahaha
    2
  2341. Choosing between Dems or repub is like choosing between a murd*er that just off you, and another mu*d_rer that off you but put a rainbow flag on your body.
    2
  2342. These tunnels are just like what the Vietnamese did.
    2
  2343.  @RobertTestowy  NATO has been threatening Russia since yeltsin the drunk stepped down.
    2
  2344.  @RobertTestowy  They are not begging to join NATO, their government is soft coup by the US and manipulated without the consent of their people to join NATO.
    2
  2345. ​ @RobertTestowy  No, most people here can see right through western propaganda and see western imperialism centered around the American empire clearly. That's why we can all see Israel and Ukraine with NATO expansion, trying to contain China are all imperial projects of the US and oppose them. You are the one blinded. The core problem, the root issue is still the American empire trying to hold onto its dying hegemony and the neocolonial financial and economic structure that has benefited the west for decades, which has resulted in the numerous conflicts and the intolerable poverty of the Global South. We are anti-imperialist while you have no clue what's actually going on.
    2
  2346. China does not operate its foreign policy like the US. It is not trying to make any country its puppet so stop thinking like your colonizer and project that onto China.
    2
  2347.  @forsociopoliticalstuff2629  Differ what? The fact that they have not bombed anyone for 40 years as opposed to the Us actively bombing people, imposing their will on other people, shove neoliberalism down the throat of everyone by force or by guile and then actively supporting a gen*cide because Israel is the colony settler state of the US?
    2
  2348. They didn't defraud investors you dunce. Those bonds were transparently traded. You buy it, you hold the hot potato. Don't blame China for protecting their own people first. China is literally holding their companies accountable for their risky business practice and you are here trying to portray it falsely as being unaccountable. This kind of intellectual dishonesty is so backward and inhumane, it is why the west is in decline.
    2
  2349. To the US and the west, China started these problems by not staying weak and poor. The moment they started to grow strong and move up the value chain, they become the enemy of the US. Non westernised countries are not supposed to succeed. Worse it is a socialist country.
    2
  2350.  @qinminwan5835  True that. But I think forcing the US to make these statements public will put some of their allies in a more difficult position when they go back on their word. The US government cannot be trusted, but we are not really banking on them honoring their word. We are banking on making their allies and those people still on the fence to reconsider their positions. Every time the US government break another treaty, it lessen their prestige. When they are dominant, they don't care about that loss, but they are getting weaker each passing year, then these dishonorable behaviors can be weaponized against them diplomatically. It's not about forcing them to honor their word, it's about using their words against them on the international arena.
    2
  2351. They are always thinking in the short term because that's what bourgeois capitalists always do. They are always making profit for the short term. Plus if they actually think long term, they already know they lost the race.
    2
  2352. It is rich that westerners are still talking about moralit when their entire economic foundation and standard of living was built on capital made by plundering the world for 500 years of colonialism and today with financial neocolonialism, and exporting their problems to everyone. There is only 1 thief running around because you are not stealing when you are retrieving what was rightfully yours in the first. It will be like saying that Egypt is stealing from the British museum by retrieving the item within. The technological advancements made in the west is built on the high standard of living of the people living there, because there is enough excess resources for colleges to churn out STEM grads, and money to hire these grads and buy the equipment to do research. That excesses, that capital are generated on the foundation built from 500 years of colonialism and neocolonialism. You can go to college and learn math and electronics engineering mostly because your ancestors plundered the Global South to build that standard of living, and even today your government export inflation, and uses the exorbitant privilege of the USD system to squeeze value out of the Global South. Without the loot from colonialism, and sustain from the modern financial system that still extracts value from the world, there wouldn't be an ASML, Intel, AMD, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple or whatever in the west. Let me end this meaningless question of morality by framing this situation in the correct way: it's time for the west to pay reparations.
    2
  2353. They have red lines?
    2
  2354. If they can act like garlic is a national security threat, they can pretend any company is a "Chinese military company." They are doing this probably because China counter-sanctioned the actual MIC companies.
    2
  2355. It is really hilarious to see the US media harping so much about Vietnam elevating the US-Vietnam to the comprehensive strategic partnership in 2023 and the Americans are all hooting about that Vietnam is going to be an ally, and that they hate China and that they will go hand in hand together with the US to counter China blah blah blah, when the fact is that China is the FIRST country to be elevated to the comprehensive strategic partnership back in 2008, 15 years before the US. The amount of self aggrandizement, delusion and selective memories of the US to lionize themselves is pathetic. Oh and Russia is the 2nd country elevated to comprehensive strategic partnership in 2012, 9 years before the US. LOLOLOL It is obvious Vietnam is not choosing sides and the only side trying to force them or falsely portraying them doing so is the US and the west.
    2
  2356. Ah so you are saying that Palestinians should just obediently die and get removed from their homeland and all problems will be solved?
    2
  2357. Higher interest rate = higher income = more spending is such a blatantly immoral and exploitative viewpoint. Yea, where is the money coming from to fuel the higher interest rates? Borrowing. Where is the money coming from to lend? From other countries' surpluses. How do we keep this system of taxing the world's surpluses to keep America afloat? Military threats and media slandering of anyone who wants to stop paying the tax and de-dollarize. We are essentially sending money to feed America's reckless spending which they in turn use to build a huge military to suppress us.
    2
  2358. Yes, can't rest of your laurels and can't get too complacent.
    2
  2359.  @kevinburke8608  We sure have no problem reducing the motives of other countries when it suit our narratives. When they do something, it's wrong, when we do it, it's complicated.
    2
  2360. In the context of NSA spying on everyone, and knowing that there are backdoors in every US security companies like Cisco, accusing Chinese software of being compromised is just hypocritical and projection. How does everyone think the NSA can spy on Angela Merkel?
    2
  2361. That's the problem. American "democracy" produces 2 ghouls to choose from in 2019. Now it produces the exactly same 2 ghouls to choose from. Neither biden nor trump is a good choice. You can argue that biden is superficially better for ordinary Americans but in the long run, he is bankrupting the country while picking a fight with Russia and China. trump won't be much better since anti-China has bipartisanship support. Either way, the US has dug its own grave.
    2
  2362. It's not China's fault when the US literally banned them from the ISS.
    2
  2363. You do know that El Salvador is the way it is today because America f*cked the country over in the past, right? If you are a teacher, even a substitute one, maybe you should teach for once, actual history in your brainwashing facilities.
    2
  2364. Saying one thing and doing the other thing has been something the US do for a long time. Even before the founding of the country, white people are known as forked tongues by Native Americans. The US has always been an untrustworthy powermonger.
    2
  2365. It is inhumane to base on your economy on crushing the working class by hiking up interests rate. The entire discipline of economics needs to be rebuilt from ground up, starting from its baseline assumptions. This sick and rotten system is designed to steal money from the working class and give it to the rich.
    2
  2366. One of the most foolish is Australia. It is the only "western" country that enjoyed a trade surplus with China. They were making money hand over fist, and they ruined all that because the scott government is a neocon UAS bootlicker.
    2
  2367. Ant the white people are staring down the barrel of a gun, the gun of being hold accountable for their misdeeds and crimes.
    2
  2368. The exorbitant privilege of the USD is that this financial system can suck up the surplus value generated by the rest of the world to fund the US.
    2
  2369. The US Congress literally passed a law explicitly putting money to generate negative news, propaganda, outright lies, and waking a campaign of disinformation on China. The US government literally said it is going to make lies about China to slander them, and everyone in the west just nods their head like it is something that is simply done. It's insane about how nakedly evil the US is and the rest of the west just goes along with it.
    2
  2370. Even worse, Americans love the narratives that it is because they are so generous that these bases are protecting these "countries" so they can slim on their defense budget and so they can have a welfare state. Americans actually believe that these bases are them subsidizing the welfare states in their vassal states. When you have no principles, you can create any narratives to suit your purpose.
    2
  2371. Nobody cares about you.
    2
  2372.  @absolootely2571  BRICS is an economic organization, not a military alliance like NATO.
    2
  2373.  @FFSniper-u2k  The Type 055 will just have to turn on its EW and the Australian military will be completely blind 😂😂😂
    2
  2374. This comment is probably the most hilarious and tells you exactly what the problem is with the west. China is better not because it is better at capitalism than the west. It is literally practicing Marxist-Leninism, in which it actually avoided all the capitalism problem and superceded it. You people are so trapped in this capitalist fundamentalism that you literally cannot imagine anything outside capitalism. Orwellian cannot begin to describe this level of indoctrination.
    2
  2375. Make plate for who first? Of course the parents, because now they are her/his parents too. What a silly question from a Chinese POV.
    2
  2376.  @cooluser23  The US illegally sanctioned Huawei to destroy competition and to try to contain China for no other reason than the US political elites are freaking out that China is going to be the top country. IMO, Huawei has every right to reverse engineer anything it wants.
    2
  2377. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    2
  2378. I love how Cyrus point out that Nvidia has no choice but to find a way to sell their chips to China because in capitalism, a company's only objective is to increase shareholders' value and China is too big a market to ignore. The bourgeoisie will sell you the rope to which you hang them with.
    2
  2379. As other have said here, yes, Tsinghua University is building a electron laser that make use of a new form of controlling the electrons path to create UV radiation that is brighter and purer than the method ASML uses now. Not only that, China has advanced enough that nearly all the components of making a lithography instrument are in place. Give them a few more years to cook, and China will demolish ASML. Their own long term survival is to cooperate with China so they get a seat at the table to dictate the future of semiconductor industry.
    2
  2380.  @ArchiKenetic  The Chinese. They give a crap about their people.
    2
  2381. Japan, like most of Europe, is a client state of America. They are always subordinate to US interests. China is a true sovereign country that offers the world a different way, one not dictate by western models and that is what threatens western hegemony.
    2
  2382. China has no choice now. It has to increase its military budget to create stronger deterrence against the US. It is clear the US will be trying to start a w** with China some time soon and China must be prepared for the US to come crashing in with the aim to destroy China and "remove the lives" of as many Chinese as possible. They are priming their population to go to w**. They have been priming Americans to view Chinese as sub humans. The Americans will be rut*less.
    2
  2383. Seems like the American oligarchs are panicking that their USD denominated assets will become worthless in the near future. Nothing happens in the US without the wealthy giving the thumbs up.
    2
  2384. Pascal laughing hysterically at the absurd and obvious propaganda still being pushed by western media is the highlight of these videos. I can't help but to laugh with him. But still, the more western corpo-state media tries to hold onto their public opinion manipulation, the more they make the west weak. Because if the people and the leadership in the west live in a fantasy world, the less likely they can correct any mistakes they made, and more likely to keep making truly ret*arded mistakes. The west's lead they have accumulated since the colonial era, since WWII is slowly evaporating as countries like China catch up. They will face the material reality one day that they have lost their power and will be subjected to the consequences of their crimes and mistakes, and the shock will fry their brains.
    2
  2385.  @jarcadipane2849  You people really think China is going to invade its own province. As long as Taiwan doesn't declare independence, China won't do anything to change the status quo. They have all the time in the world to wait for a peaceful reunification. The only people who are saying there is going to be a war across the strait and even clamoring for it are the Americans.
    2
  2386.  @mcnuffin1208  American culture is incredibly bloodthirsty compared to many other cultures. Incredibly bloodthirsty and arrogant and self-righteous. All very bad ingredients for a declining empire. I lived there for over ten years, I know. America's fall is not going to be quiet. The US is going to do something truly horrifying this century that will make the Third Reich looked cute.
    2
  2387. They crippled Japan in the 80s because it was rising faster than they expected. The stagflation of Japan can be partly be attributed to the Plaza Accords, basically screwing Japan over the trade deficits incurred by the US. When you have friends like the US, why will you need enemies.
    2
  2388. Haha the Americans are lying about their numbers. Ohh I thought that is something only failed states and evil communist governments do. The west never lies about their numbers, right? Hahahaha
    2
  2389. The west never abandoned their colonial past and that mindset. Western culture is fundamentally tied to the notion that is always going to be a loser and winner, there is always going to be a top dog and the rest and they will rather be the winner, the top dog.
    2
  2390. No one can make peace there until the US allows it.
    2
  2391.  @whowhy9023  It's growing slower but still blazingly fast. It is also adjusting towards more high tech, high value industries that offers better long term growth and sustainability. China has reach middle income status and any investment is going to yield less growth because high tech, R&D often give you spectacular new ways of doing things but take a lot of capital investment to come to fruition. This is normal and planned by the central government in China. They know exactly what they are doing.
    2
  2392. Well said!
    2
  2393. Now I want to taste these Russian beer.
    2
  2394.  @MK_ULTRA420 You think just having term limits make your system better?
    2
  2395. Pretty sure it was exposed when the west blatantly protect Israel as they rampages through Gaza, and then use all their media power to twist the truth that it is not a g-cide, put all the blame on Hamas and accuse anyone who criticise Israel to be anti-Semite.
    2
  2396.  @nelsonsim  The philippineesss is way at the back behind UK, Germany, Argentina, israel, taiwan and ulgraine.
    2
  2397. Hahahaha you guys are eating so much copium. I stop watching this channel because it was obvious it has a very pro western slang and tend to pick and choose information that makes the west look better and ignore the bad parts or at least put in the irrelevant parts to make it sound balance. China is now bigger than every western country and bigger than several combined. It has developed relationships with the rest of the Global Majority that the west can never ever hope to replicate because you people are still in the colonial mindset so you can never truly foster any cooperative relationships with countries and cultures that do not bend the knee to westernisation. China now has over 30% of the entire world manufacturing capacity. It is already a superpower and its GDP PPP has already surpassed the US long ago. Its economy is based on real products and commodities and it has a government that can pivot decisively and strategically, and solve any economic problems without having to bow down to special interests. It already has everything it needs to research, developed, translate any technology into real things, real value, and it has built all the necessary ingredients to build anything at any scale it wants. It is also the most vertically integrated economy and industry. It has enough military power that it has become untouchable even by the combined force of NATO. It has complete digital and data sovereignty in that its citizens cannot be manipulated against their own interests by outside psyops and cyber warfare. There is literally nothing the west can do against China as it will continue to grow and build for its future and bring actual real prosperity for its people, and those willing to work with them in good faith. Perhaps asianometry is just ill, or perhaps even he has to admit privately that China has already won, in a competition that the west unilaterally foist on the Chinese.
    2
  2398. I'm glad Dan mentioned how side projects that turned out to be good is ultimately distracting and serve as a foil to legitimate the vastly truly terrible parts of crypto and NFTs. It's like pointing out how a sex slave trafficker who helped a dozen refugees crossed borders quickly that one time and saved their lives, in the context of the same trafficker also selling hundreds of women and children into sex slavery. It's beside the point because it is insidious to point out those good projects relative to the real, absolutely gigantic amount of damage crypto and NFTs are doing now. It's a propaganda and deflection technique that is often used with ulterior motives.
    2
  2399. It is distasteful that war spending is boosting the American economy because ultimately it means for them war is good for business. They will do a lot of damage to the rest of us before their economy finally collapse to the point they cannot sustain that spending and preserve their hegemony. What will a bloodthirsty political elite do when they see their power waning, their own people revolting and the world rejecting them? And they have this big red button that can end it all?
    2
  2400. The Us wants a confrontation to contain and destroy China. There will be a time when China cannot tolerate it any longer and it knows it is strong enough to confront the US and the Americans are going to find themselves at the pointed end of a superpower that can destroy them economically, militarily, diplomatically and socially. The problem with the US is Americans have never been properly punished for their transgressions. They think they are invincible and that lets them think they are the morally right side. I look forward to the day when China knows it is strong enough and watch as they crush the US into the ground.
    2
  2401. Abusing the weakness of the west? How rich. Considering the US abuse the heck out of Russia when it was weak. Get f**ked.
    2
  2402.  @jayarajmaduturi3514  You see this? This is a dead horse. Nobody cares about Tiananmen, you don't care. The west don't care. It is just another hit piece. Most of the "facts" about Tiananmen were made up by western media.
    2
  2403. Canada IS weak.
    2
  2404. The problem with people like Mersheimer is that they are STILL operating on the premise of countering China, containing China, as though China is a threat. China is only a threat to the neoliberal and neocon elites in the west, and these neocons and neoliberals are threats to EVERYONE. If America is willing to cooperate with China, and there are many grounds for cooperation, we will be in a much better place today. The US can still enjoys its exorbitant privileges such as USD as reserve currency, albeit in a smaller sphere. They might not be able to call the shots everywhere but they can still be the big brother in the collective west. Then, we can invest all those money wasted on military hardware and salaries and talents into useful stuff, like combating climate change. But noope, we ain't doing that and it is all the America's fault for provoking a new cold war unilaterally.
    2
  2405. Haha what can the weakest and declining bloc off to SE Asia that China not already can do. Yea, nothing.
    2
  2406. The EU is a vassal of the US. Stop pretending like you guys have independent foreign or economic policies. When the US tell the EU to jump off the cliff, the EU asks how fast. The fact that the US president can straight up in a press conference said he was going to blow up the Nordstream, a German-Russian joint infrastructure project, beside the German Chancellor and he said nothing in retaliation is enough to tell you everything about who is in charge.
    2
  2407.  @f1aziz  They will help if it breaks up NATO. If the US insist on this self-destructive plan to expand NATO into westpac to contain China, the all the European countries will have to make a fateful choice one day; decouple from China and die while the US survives making use of you, or remained trading with China and reject US's selfish, illogical, hypocritical and dishonorable attempt to preserve their hegemony by sacrificing everyone to throw at China. The Chinese politicians are Hegalian dialectics Marxists. They know full well that the material reality is going to exert itself on Europe's consciousness and destroy the western corpo-state media fueled mass delusions. One day, the reality is going to hit Germany like a train and no amount of US propaganda and pretending to be fighting for democracy and freedom will mask the fact that they were never fighting for freedom and democracy. They will fighting to keep American and their own oligarchs rich and protect them from consequences of their crimes against humanity. The Chinese play the long game.
    2
  2408. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    2
  2409.  @MuantanamoMobile  Hahaha it's hilarious how they cornered themselves and it is mostly because they are enslaved by the US financial system.
    2
  2410.  @Lyra0966  Because Japan is a vassal state of the American empire and not a sovereign country. Their economy and military are basically tied to the US. They have very little say about their foreign policy, and they have to ask the US government for permission to for any foreign policy changes.
    2
  2411.  @Shenzhou.  Ohh it's not just Myanmar. Philippines is being a dumba** right now.
    2
  2412. Russia always getting betrayed and invaded by everyone around them. No wonder they are always so insecure about their national security.
    2
  2413.  @Liboch  Yup, India has no strategy beyond Machiavellian horse trading. It's honestly pathetic.
    2
  2414. The US has always other countries to sell their state owned enterprises into private hands, open their economies to be raided by American companies all in the name of free trade, freedom and democracy. But when it comes to themselves, they do the opposite and accuse China of being a national security threat based on the flimsiest excuses. Since America has unilaterally decided that China is the new bad guy on the block, it thinks that no means is too hypocritical to be used against China, so these BS will continue. The only way for China not to be a national security act is for China to self destruct and go back to being poor and exploited by the US.
    2
  2415. Well, that's the point. Achilles was superhuman. Hector was outmatched and him swinging wildly did indicate that. He was trying to push Achilles away. Can Achilles break Hector's spear with his shield? Sure, why not? Achilles was superhuman.
    2
  2416. Well, they are not wrong. yahweh was originally a war god.
    2
  2417. Indian media is as dishonest as western media. Lying and misrepresenting China is not going to make India catch up to China, Ms Palki. It is honestly getting pathetic.
    2
  2418.  @keepingittight  That's their worst nightmare. They can say all the right things about human rights and freedom and democracy but when it comes to actions, they are almost always come down to neocolonialism. They just don't advertise this as much because they want to keep up with the facade that they are the good guys. But the Gaza gen*cide is tearing down that facade, which is why they are panicking and lashing out against anyone who criticize Israel and link it to the west. Their baseline thinking is still "might makes right" and whoever has the power gets to call the shots and zero-sum mentality. So to those who are in their upper echelon, they can only see the rise of China as a threat because they are afraid that in this century, they will become the Native Americans and China will be andrew "gen*cider-in-chief" Jackson. They simply cannot accept or even believe that China wants a cooperative, win-win atmosphere.
    2
  2419. My parents gave us everything they had and worked harder than anyone I know to give us that life and opportunities they never. They didn't have to say they love us. The proved it by their actions, their teachings, their guidance and their support. Even then that is not accurate. My mother used to say we are her flesh and blood and we will always have a home to go back to. If that is not the sweetest expression of love, then what is? Meanwhile, I have seen many Americans who say they love each other and will cut each other off the moment it becomes inconvenient or they get offended by the most trivial BS. Saying "I love you" and then throwing out your kids at age 18 so you can free up his room for gym equipment or hobby lobby crap is hardly love. Or having family dinner ruined because some of you can't keep your mouth shut or let things go and then cutting off all contact and sulk like infants is hardly what I call strong family bonds. Western people like the theater of expressing love but when push comes to shove, they never see through with real sacrifices for each other because their baseline culture is toxic individualism and emotional appeasement. Does East Asian parent-children culture have problems, sure it does but I will take my Asian parental stoicism over fake American expressive parents any time of the day.
    2
  2420. Russian EW is actually quite good but compared to China, it is way lower in capabilities. China now have the ability to jam half of west Pacific and completely shut down all non-Chinese radio communication, and radars if they want to. If the US dares to start any BS, it will blind the 7th fleet the moment they get within 500 miles of the Chinese coast.
    2
  2421. Its always projection. The reason why they insist that China is the enemy is because they are afraid that a dominant China will return the favor to what the west has done to the Chinese, and they will be the receiving end of the colonial mistreatment. They cannot fathom that China has no interest in following western colonial mindset.
    2
  2422. As Parenti said, Africa is not poor, it is overexploited by the west. It's the same for China and most of the Global South.
    2
  2423.  @johnjohnson3370  You don't support human right or international laws either, so why should we care about you not supporting communists. Seem from our POV, the commies are doing very well, and doing right by their people and you are just ingesting the farts of your oligarchs thinking that it's fillet mignon.
    2
  2424. Ohh here we go again. Guess we are going to see Australians beating up Asians again, like they did back the in the late 90s and early 2000s. How predictable.
    2
  2425.  @coasteyscoasteys  No, white European style racism, which Aussie people still subscribed to, is not the same as other forms of racism. Your style of racism is predicated on colonialism, domination and genocide. Your kind of racism invariably leads to killing everyone who doesn't look like you.
    2
  2426.  @mna7308  Everyone who is religious says their version of god's teaching is the true one. Well, someone has to be wrong. I am more inclined to believe that ALL of them are wrong.
    2
  2427. The shareholders are mostly the richest Americans. Remember that 90% of the stock are held by the 10% richest Americans. Most of you don't own stocks because you don't even have capital to own stocks and you are never meant to own enough capitals to do aom
    2
  2428.  @thecsucihai  That's because India is stupid enough to backstab their own BRICS compatriots.
    2
  2429.  @Sammasambuddha  7 nm is not decades behind. It's 1 to 1.5 gen behind and the front end is not going to get any better. We are reaching the physical limits of Moore's law. Meanwhile, India doesn't even have a comparable semiconductor industry. The one that is decades behind the west and China, and will be a century behind if they don't buck up is India. Once China has its own EUV, they can do whatever they want and the west and India are not gonna be able to stop them. It will likely come within 5 years, 3 if we are lucky. Ohh, you think EUV and silicon based electronics are the end game? China's R&D and industry are also developing next evolution in electronics like photonics and quantum computing and in these areas they are not far behind the west and even surpassed them in some areas. Betting against China is almost always a bad bet. So instead of impotently trying to put down China, why don't the Indians for once, take a humble pill and learn from the Chinese, their system, their culture, their governance on why they have succeeded in pulling 800 million Chinese of out poverty, eliminated extreme poverty and build the most dynamic economy in the world while most India languishes in poverty. And the Chinese did it without colonizing other countries like what the British did to India. India can't even design and build its own engines and radar for its latest destroyer. So if the US don't like India, or it has to do is tell its vassals to stop selling to India and the Indian Navy will be crippled overnight. But hey INDIA SUP[ERPOWAH SUPERERER!!!!!!
    2
  2430.  @jamess3740  If India doesn't backstab BRICS first by sleeping with the enemy for a few measly billions of dollars.
    2
  2431. Capitalism gonna capitalism. Wage theft is actually the largest form of robbery in America. Let that sink in.
    2
  2432.  @stalin-fatherofusaandgerma3009  Everyone works on budget, it is just that China is willing to allocate a bigger budget than anyone else.
    2
  2433.  @alexlazar4738  True, but how many countries can take that basic idea and apply it without reservation.
    2
  2434.  @fromtheoutside37  Still trying to cope with the fact that they are willing to buy dozens. They are also making dozens and dozens of other things. I don't doubt in the future, they will be the one making all the cutting edge instruments themselves. If you want an example, look at their solar cell industry. They used to buy the tools to make solar cells from Germany. Then they learned everything they could, invest heavily in research and now is making breakthroughs in solar cells manufacturing and efficiency. They have complete vertical integration, even the tool making, and their tools are now so good, their own solar cell manufacturers are dumping German tools for Chinese tools. Betting against China developing their own capability is like betting against the rising tide.
    2
  2435.  @Jwasin3_1  China will get there. They have all the ingredients that made TMSC possible, several times over. It is a matter of time that they will catch up and surpass the west. Every time someone bet against China achieving something they have to get, they always lose the bet. If I am a betting man, I will not bet against China.
    2
  2436. So freedom of navigation suddenly goes out of the windows when it is in the US interests to remove the freedom of navigation for Iran at Hormuz? You got to admire the level of hypocrisy Americans can vomit out on a daily basis.
    2
  2437. That's the thing with rent seeking, capitalist profit driven societies. What is profitable does not mean it is in the interests of the people and country. This is this destructive myth in America that making profits will make the society better because somehow the profit motive will force better efficiency. That is only true under certain conditions. For the vast majority of use cases, what is efficient for profit is not efficient for public and national interests. Americans are indoctrinated from young to believe that profit = good, and it's why their society cannot reform anything because they cannot imagine a system that works outside the profit motive. It is why ultimately they won't win against China.
    2
  2438. China may not be the top oil producer but they still produce over 4 million barrels a day. Still in the top 10 I think. But 4 million is not even close to what they consume.
    2
  2439. LOL your figures are not even right, or deliberately misrepresented. This is the level of thinking in the west. It is little wonder why it is in decline.
    2
  2440.  @skydragon23101979  because lying to themselves is how they can sleep at night.
    2
  2441. I think you mean the JF-22.
    2
  2442. Russian is not going to see a cent of that money, just like no matter how the ICJ rules, the US will not allow a UN intervention on Gaza. The most important thing is Russia is paying for the sake of all of us, to expose the vulnerabilities and double standards of the western financial system. There are still a lot of people sitting on the fence wanting to believe that the west wouldn't do something so heinous like supporting a gen*cide or stealing entire reserve currency in their banks. They are finally going to get a rude awakening. Westerners don't think in long term. They will believe confiscating Russian assets and supporting Israel are wins, but while they might be winning now, they are sacrificing everything in the long term. The insurmountable lead they created for themselves after WWII and by exploiting the Global South is slowly evaporating with every such action they take. Sooner or later, they will regret it when the rest of the world becomes strong enough to de-risk from them and stop dealing with them.
    2
  2443. Billionaires will always always attempt to corrupt any government because they have to. You do not become a billionaire by being a good human. You become a billionaire by exploiting everyone under you and taking the lion share of the value they produced. The act of becoming a billionaire is an immoral one. If a person think exploiting other people and taking the value generated by their labor simply because you own private property and means of production is fine, then you are by default not a good person. And you will have absolutely no moral compunction to corrupt the government to your benefit. Protect your government from billionaires. No war but class war.
    2
  2444. If there is one thing the west cannot fathom about the Chinese is that the level of education they received and the experiences from the attacks from western media made them very difficult to manipulate and fool. The Israeli embassy weibo debacle is a proof of that. Even just reading comments on Chinese related YT channels, the Chinese netizens are far more sophisticated, educated and smart than the western netizens. Western netizens are monumentally stupid because their information sources are mostly manipulations from western corpo-state media. They do not even have the right reality, much less the application of reality to analyze anything.
    2
  2445. They are now calling everyone in the UN is anti-Semite.
    2
  2446. China can probably produce 1 million shells per month easily, on top of producing hundreds of DF-21s, DF-27s in the same period. And the west is trying to provoke them.
    2
  2447.  @davidwong7283  you have a very limited imagination. China doesn't want to be the reserve currency and what everyone wants is a stable method of trade that does not depend on using one country's currency as a unit of account, so they can abuse that power. A basket of currency, a common unit of account like Bancor, gold or commodity backed currencies all can serve as reserve currencies. The point is to break the USD hold on the world so we don't have to be forced to fund American Imperialism.
    2
  2448. They really need to cancel the stupid nuclear submarine project. It's a money hole and it only serves to transfer Australian wealth into the hands of UK and US arms manufacturers, and allow Australia to become a puppet to be used for war against China. There is nothing about that project that is in the interest of the Australian people, unless you believe in the fantastic assumptions and scenarios put forth by western corpo-state media.
    2
  2449. Haha as though your Catholicism is on some moral high ground.
    2
  2450. China has been developing UAVs for a long time and they have been interested in loyal wingman concept ever since it was first conceived. The PLAAF is the only military that is going to field a two seat 5th gen fighter, the new J-20, precisely because they want to field loyal wingman UAVs. So are they copying the west on this? Ridiculous.
    2
  2451. India is not aligning with China and Russia as much as they are cynical opportunists. They don't take the reordering of the world seriously because the people ruling India are themselves neoliberals themselves. They are natural bedfellows with people in Wall St and London. They don't care about the Indian people. They don't care about the moral reordering of the world. They don't care about western imperialism as much as how they can become PART of it.
    2
  2452. BoJo got his instructions from the White House. Everything goes back to the US. It is the US that wanted to expand NATO, it is the US that goes around doing regime changes, it is the US that turned Europe, Japan and South Korea into puppet states, it is the US that constantly threaten Russia and China, even openly saying it wants to regime change and balkanize China and Russia. The source of our problems goes back to the US, and the Americans will have to pay for their crimes
    2
  2453. Police against the enemies they created themselves of course.
    2
  2454. As an American, you should know that your country is preparing to send Americans to kill Chinese.
    2
  2455. First, we need to disabuse the notion that the US is a free country, even if it is relative. It is a plutocracy, an oligarchy. It is as free as the oligarchs in the US allow it to be free. It has the superficial appearance of dmeocracy where every part of the process is neutered to the point that most Americans know voting does jack shit. It has so little freedom that most Americans are one surprise 500 USD expenditure from financial ruin. They are living paycheck to paycheck, they are under constant pressure and threat from being fired, they have no real access to healthcare, their education is getting more expensive, they are one financial crisis from losing their homes. They have no freedom because they are not free from the tyranny of their plutocrats. Free speech, having guns, and 20 choices of shampoos are all nice and that, but if you are on the verge of ruin, and is financially coerced constantly to work increasingly shittier jobs while unable to save, invest for retirement and is one illness away from complete disaster, YOU ARE NOT FREE. The fact that you yourself pointed out how a "free" society can be propagandized so efficiently in this stupid "Good vs Evil" dichotomy already showed that free speech does not work in America. Not when their corpo-state media can basically brainwash Americans in any way they want. Freedom of speech is basically weaponized against the American people. They have no real freedom of thought. So please stop saying that America is free. It is not free.
    2
  2456.  @Lion-hx8cc  That sound exactly like a western propaganda bullshit design to muddy the waters and spread misinformation. And by that token, we can dismiss you entirely.
    2
  2457.  @melaninpapi3461  He is living under the western propaganda rock.
    2
  2458.  Dragonbhat  That's why westerners have no imagination and creativity. China is selling away their bonds and take back their USD in cash because they are setting up their OWN banking system to deal with the accumulated USD. Their banks are going to issue loans and other financial products using the USD they have and earned from those USD. Those USD are not flowing back to the US in the form of bonds anymore. This time, China will make money off the capital they accumulated in USD on their terms.
    2
  2459.  @vinod2satyam  I think any bonds selling still has to go through western banks. You cannot sell these UAS bonds outside western financial system. It's why they can see China and Japan selling these bonds because they can track it. But USD stored in a foreign bank and then transacted outside western banks will not be trackable by the west. Unless, the UAS decide to record every single US dollar bill serial number and demand that all banks must track them, then we might as well as de-dollarize in the most literal sense.
    2
  2460. The fact that China is able to readjust their economy to prevent a bubble bursting and take on temporary pain to reset their economy into something more resilient and diversified and not be beholden by their bourgeois class bodes well for the country's future. China doesn't care about making rich people who invested heavily in the real estate richer, and that is a GOOD thing despite whatever the west says. The more the west tries to paint China is in deep economic trouble while ignoring everything China is doing to create a more sustainable economy, the more it reveal western thinking short-sighted biases and their inability to think outside the neoliberal box which is ultimately killing them. This is the most important factor on why China's rise and the west's decline is inevitable; China simply has better leadership, and better economic philosophy than the west.
    2
  2461. trump really represent the worst aspects of Americanism - arrogant, narcissistic, selfish, greedy, lecherous, anti-intellectual to the point of being confidently incorrect (esp. on the economic war), outright cruel, pathologically immoral. Not that anyone in the US political establishment and their oligarchic masters are really that far from him, he is just one of worst out of all of them.
    2
  2462. Not true, if you add huge wings like a chad, that can also decrease your braking distance by increasing your drag. Be a chad, add big ridiculous wings. Think of the children you can save!
    2
  2463.  @TacticalMayo  People like you is why a lot of us believe that the next Nazis will be Americans.
    2
  2464. China's is hardly just because of its huge population. India also has similar number of people and they languished in poverty.
    2
  2465. The illegal immigrants is caused BY US foreign policies that kept it's southern neighbours poor and exploited and the conflicts caused huge number of refugees. If they had adopted better foreign policies that uplift everyone and not cause conflict that destroyed lives and homes, then they wouldn't have a huge illegally immigration problem. This is all their doing.
    2
  2466. HAhahaaha apparently so.
    2
  2467.  @zironthegamer  It's not that only CPC can be elected in HK you dimwit. It is that they have to root out literal traitors and forbid them from being in elections. Will you allow someone who is actively trying to bring down the government and the country to get elected? You know you wouldn't because trump is literally being prosecuted for his treason.
    2
  2468.  @zironthegamer  No, they don't have freedom under British rule you dim wit.
    2
  2469. The thing is that Black Panther seen through the lenses of western imperialism and oppression resonate with every one who has suffered under the same. Africans, lots of East and South Asians, South Americans can relate to that.
    2
  2470. To think that China will take advantage of the current crisis as a distraction for the US, is such a despicable thought process that it tell you a lot about the amount of moral fortitude that the westerners have.
    2
  2471. ​ @nickl5658  No it doesn't. It has been maintiang trade deficit with nearly every country and it is not producing enough trade revenue. The military is supported by debt and borrowing. To do what China does, you will need to sustain a 100 billion dollar investment around the world for 10 years, at low interest rates that will not be repaid for 30, 40, maybe even 100 years. America does not have the production to create this kind of wealth. All it does is recycling other countries' surpluses and financialized it. The real goods and services - those that have real values - America does not produce enough of those. And year after year, China is producing more and more of the real goods and services that America produced at cheaper prices. Lastly, Americans, Europeans and Indians are mostly governed by neoliberal capitalist policies. That means they will always be short-sighted and they will never hold, and they will always negotiate in bad faith - they are always looking out to make a quick buck and screw over the other side. This kind of dynamic is the direct opposite of how China conducts BRI, which is long term, very patient investment, that is in line with their strategic goals of a sustainable development of their BRI partners. They are willing to wait for decades for their partners to pay them back, and get strong so their markets will be open to the Chinese and they build friendly relationships with them. The moment sh*t hits the fan in the Us or Europe and India, watch them start eating each other alive. This is not a sustainable relationship because neoliberal capitalists do not make friends. They do not have partners. They only have themselves and those to be exploited.
    2
  2472. You are still missing the point and I think you do that because you don't to admit the truth: America IS the corporations.
    2
  2473. The way I see it, they are just accelerating their downfall. When shit finally hits the fan, I hope the new world order will capture these financial terrorists and send them back to the US for their new people's government to deal with. Don't shelter these ratfuckers. Don't let them off the hook. The American people are victims in these lootings too.
    2
  2474. The big studios are in trouble. The smaller studios making good games like Black Myth Wukong, BG3, Space Marine 2, etc. are doing quite well.
    2
  2475. Exactly. All this talk about moving money from one market to another, in order to chase basis points and no one ask the most important question: what value has all these generated for society, for the countries and for the world? Did we get more food? More housing? Better healthcare? Increase in research and development of useful technologies? Better transportation? Better entertainment? More tourism? More financial security? More capital for the workers to retire on? No, nadda, no real, usable valuable has been generated. It's just exchanging one less inflating market with another more inflating market. All that money can just disappear tomorrow and the amount of stuff we have and can make wouldn't actually change except rich people panicking and want to keep their money so they start firing people.
    2
  2476.  @aden5297  They really do believe that. This is one of the most destructive problems in America. They create delusions to shield themselves from their misdeeds and crimes by cleverly spinning them into positive narratives. They live in this self made distorted reality where they are always the good guys and everyone else that refuses to bend the knees are the bad guys. When the US give loans to their companies to give them a competitive edge or to impose tariffs on foreign imports, they say that this is to improve competition and for national security. When other people do the same, they say that the other people are hostile and breaking the rules of international trade. You cannot argue with people who have already assume they are always right and you are always wrong.
    2
  2477.  @Teutathis  Allowed? What kind of white men's burden BS is this? Japan was basically controlled by the US even today. The US were fine with Japan making cheap little stuff that they sold in America. It was until Japan started moving into high tech, high value industries that directly threatened American high tech companies and did it better than them, causing a large trade deficit, that the US finally nerfed Japan into the ground. The indoctrination is just hilarious.
    2
  2478. It is possible if they cut down their military budget by half, readjust social security and Medicare, Medicaid, increase effective taxes on the rich and corporations and then use that money on reindustrializing and infrastructure. But that is impossible because American politics and exploitative economic system and capitalist interests that control the country will never allow it.
    2
  2479. Jordan Petersen is especially dangerous because he seek not to just exploit aimless white men, he seek to preserve the worst excesses of western models and refuse to entertain any criticism to those models. It also betrayed a deep seated sense of insecurity since it has been shown that other non western model, especially the Chinese one is succeeding in many levels and likely will become a dominant rival to his darling models. It infuriates him. He is a fanatic for it, and he will be the kind of person who will advocate for killing a lot of people to defend and spread his model of choice. He is the kind of person who will refuse to engage and instead opt for a new cold war.
    2
  2480. Yup, de-dollarization is not likely a catastrophic fall but instead a slow degradation of the dollar's hegemony. Death by a thousand cuts is indeed an apt idiom.
    2
  2481.  @mna7308  Self delusion is the only tool they have left to let them sleep at night. Let them have a few more years of sound sleep so they can dream the American Dream because they are in for a rude awakening.
    2
  2482. They will never wake up. They are trapped. "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director
    2
  2483. It is so screwy that in capitalist dominated culture, they can characterize the inherent instability of capitalism and free market fundamentalism that cause immense amount of misery, wealth inequality, poverty as merely a "market correction."
    2
  2484. The problem is the UAS government cannot cut anything without triggering a tsunami. If they cut DoD, the MIC will destroy whoever tried to do that and there is no way the UAS political brain can accept a retreat from empire. If they cut medicare/mediaid, millions of people will be screwed because the the healthcare industry is already extracting so much rent from the public that any reduction in government support will start to reduce life expectancy very quickly (ie. the k-word). They cannot cut social security because that should already be paid for by the previous generation and a lot of old people depend on that in an aging population. Cutting either of these welfare programs will likely trigger social unrest. Then we come to all the other discretionary spending. Lots of people and institutes depends on these spending to keep afloat. From unemployment to research and education, any cuts will already push them to the brink. The UAS government is stuck and the only way out is to have someone who has the popularity and backing of the people AND the intelligence and vision to revolutionize the system, and with this political system and climate? Fat chance.
    2
  2485. They are trying to anticipate the ICJ ruling and distance themselves from the gen*cide. They are going to pretend that they never supported Israel.
    2
  2486. Ohh Pepe, China already far exceeded whatever Russia is fielding or coming up with. They probably collaborate but to say they are receiving technology from Russia is just hilarious. They literally have faster, longer range, smarter hypersonc missiles than Russia. They have AI powered satellites that have tracked US carriers from their ports to their exercise grounds and they field some of the most advanced fighters like the J-20, and soon J-35 in the world. Heck, the best Sukhoi is not in Russia, it is PLAAF's J-16 that can fire PL-15, PL-17 (which has a range of 400 km) and a huge AESA radar, high level of composites and now they even have better jet engines, while being supported by very advance early warning planes, ground based and ship based radars in a highly networked system. Their drones are far more advance and numerous and the new Type 076 LHD is most likely going to be equipped with EMALS that can launch drones, making it really the first drone carrier, along with manned helicopters. This is not even considering that China is nearly self-sufficient in every level of technology and production. I know you like the Russians but nearly every aspect of China is way way way above Russia now. I don't think we should be even dismissing the PLA capability in waging war like the way the westoids do, since they have come from one of the greatest military traditions of the 20th century, the CPC fighting the KMT and winning, the Long March, the tactical and strategic genius of CPC commanders, including Mao who literally wrote a textbook on guerilla/asymmetrical warfare. Underestimating China is always a bad idea.
    2
  2487.  @jaybee9269  The tech transfer is voluntary. Companies don't have to share their tech if they don't want to, they just don't have to do business in China. And why shouldn't China be paid in technology transfer, they earned it with their labor and sound policies. They were paving for the future to be independent and sovereign country. But the west has a well documented history of colonialism and stealing from the entire world to industrialize itself and then keep everyone down.
    2
  2488. It could if the government spending is on productive stuff like infrastructure, education, factories etc.
    2
  2489.  @chrishamlin5863  Yes, it reduced deaths to the minimum until vaccines are available and the virus evolved to be less virulent. It is a tough policy that demanded short term sacrifices from their people but the lives that it saved and the health of millions saved from long covid is far more important than temporarily damaging the economy. In the long run, it will benefit China more to have less deaths and long covid. Unlike America, where capitalism reign supreme and the net worth of bourgeoisie is more important than the lives of the working class, China was trying to save its people. That alone put China's zero-covid policy far more humane and moral than America's "whatever the f**k go", and "let's sacrifice grandmas' lives for the economy", and "WWE is essential business" policies. Stop drinking your own kool-aid.
    2
  2490. Is it me or does Jeremy looks a lot like Christoph Waltz?
    2
  2491. ​​ @paulmatters2641 perhaps you are right. That will be a much better way to reach western audience, by using western "data" and then pointing out the deliberate misrepresentations than to present the correct data from Chinese sources with the correct interpretation. The funny thing is that can we even trust western sources anymore, and certainly their interpretations? Considering that it has been shown that western governments have faked data and even come outright to make faking data a policy, like how desantis ordered FL officials to essentially play down the COVID figures and to eliminate anything that shows the effects of climate change (like raising sea levels at FL coasts), can we even trust the west to be objective and honest. I'm sure everyone here, or at least the clear minded ones, to know the answer.
    2
  2492.  @Hoo88846  I think China should support Texas's secession and sell weapons to separatists there and train their protestors for insurgency operations and help them with covert operations. After all, the freedom of Texans is on the line!
    2
  2493.  @eckhardt76  There are independent countries because there are people there that want to secede from the US. I think China should support Texas's secession and sell weapons to separatists there and train their protestors for insurgency operations and help them with covert operations. After all, the freedom of Texans is on the line! How does it feel to have your hypocrisy turn back onto you? Oh wait, you can't feel shame because you people have none.
    2
  2494.  @michaele4830  Except that the mythologized founding fathers actually despise general suffrage and actual democracy. They were capitalists who didn't want to pay taxes.
    2
  2495.  @poutykeiki2574  LOL BRI loans are kept at very low interest rates. The collapse of Sri Lanka is primarily due to the devaluation of their currency because they have to keep paying the HIGH interests rates of IMF and western financiers' loans, by exchanging their currency for USD. They still ran out of USD reserves so they couldn't buy essential goods to keep their economy going. BRI loans did not collapse Sri Lanka,the western loans that are denominated in USD did. In fact, they refinanced the loans to let Sri Lankans repay them at a rate they can bear more easily. The fact that you repeat these lies just goes to show you either are brainwashed by the western corpo-state media or you are just lying.
    2
  2496. Because unfortunately for all of us, they have nukes.
    2
  2497. China does not lack socialogists and humanities. Also, there is nothing wrong with LGBTQ rights, and China is also becoming more accepting year by year. Are you saying they are being "woke"? Equating being "woke" being regressive is right wing bigotry BS. The problem with western "wokeness" is not the pursuit of social justice because socialism is ALL ABOUT social justice. It is the cynical weaponzation and commodification of noble ideas (like humans rights) that turns people off. Check your fascism.
    2
  2498. Studying art and sociology are not crimes.
    2
  2499. Your neoliberal oligarchs very much want to keep ruling the world and they will sacrifice your children and ours to keep that rule.
    2
  2500. Because Germany is a vassal state of the US.
    2
  2501. That's not SMR, that's just a miniaturized reactor.
    2
  2502. The last time they had a democracy, they nationalized their oil industry and the British went whining to the Americans and they overthrew that government, installed the puppet Shah that led directly to the Islamic Revolution that led us to here. So yea.... How about that.
    2
  2503. The US is not a great security partner to have. They are increasingly belligerent towards China and Russia and they demand allegiance from their "partners" in every aspect, including the economy, politics and even social values. And they demand economic rent for their "services". It's a racket.
    2
  2504. BYD and other Chinese companies are not going to build factories in the Eurozone without an enforceable guarantee that the Europeans will not go back on their word, seize the factories, steal the tech and obey US foreign policies. Until there is a fundamental shift in the political power structure in the Eurozone, any Chinese company investing in EU will be foolish.
    2
  2505.  @nowdog  I'm pretty sure Australia is the one trying to decouple from China and threatened China. China simply react accordingly to a hostile nation. Once Albanese became more conciliatory to China, they are very willing to go back to a friendlier relationship. This rift between Australia and China is caused by the Australian government under the order of the DC to cut ties with China, not China being hostile to Australia. Also with the BRI, China has shown to be friendly to the Global South, the Global Majority in an environment of mutual cooperation and development. So China is the world's ally in the sense it is helping itself and others away from imperial US dominated world order.
    2
  2506. It is just pure arrogance when THE US government actually thinks that the Latin American countries will accept such a one sided deal as in sending their russian made weapons to Ukraine and then replacing them with US made weapons. Ohh is this a one to one replacement? Will the US government pay for the Russia equipment sent to Ukraine by these countries and then replace it with US counterparts? The US is also asking these countries to just throw away their training, tactics and national strategies that are built around these equipment and weapons, not to mention destroying their existing relationship with Russia. JFC, the sheer audacity.
    2
  2507. It is the response of the arrogant who have not gotten their nose bloodied with a retaliation of their transgressions. Americans will keep saying shit like that until someone sinks their carriers and bring the war they provoked to their homeland. Or they keep going on this course and find their economy eventually in tatters and they cannot financed their immense debts because people don't need USD that much anymore, then revolution will come. They have to hit rock bottom before they understand just how much of an asshole they really are, and they have a long way to fall yet.
    2
  2508. The public is not misinformed about the MCD lawsuit. They will disinform by a concentrated propaganda campaign waged by MCD and executed by the media. This lawsuit showed that the core power of control lies in corporate America, not the people.
    2
  2509. Better to keep gaining influence and then get the US and any hostile western nations banned for their warmongering and cheating ways. Take over the Olympics and clean house.
    2
  2510. Maybe Singapore needs to consider whether it wants to become an accomplice to gen*c*de.
    2
  2511.  @mouseisbroken  America is not the one of the greatest countries in the world when you actually learned its history, understand its culture and the system it operates under. It is in fact one of the most evil countries ever to exist.
    2
  2512. The US growth is propped up by borrowing and government spending and sucking up other countries' surpluses. It does not produce enough organically to justify the growth number.
    2
  2513.  @BjorckBengt  The US has been attacking and suppressing the entire Global South for decades. Saying that the US is not the aggressor here is like saying that a rape victim is to be blamed for wearing a tank top.
    2
  2514. They have infinite money for negative propaganda though. 1.6 billion to spread lies and slander against China. That amount of money is enough to house all homeless people in the UAS, 3 times over. The UAS is not a democracy.
    2
  2515. No shit. Everyone acting like China doing industrial episonage is like the worst thing ever in history, while conveniently ignoring the fact that the west has basically looted the world through colonialism and coercion for centuries. The way I look at it, non western countries stealing western is just them getting reparations.
    2
  2516. God no, we need people of every walk of life to lead.
    2
  2517. That's not how cancer works.
    2
  2518. No need to be a misogynistic f*ckwit. This has nothing to do with gender, and we need to separate gender issues from western imperialism.
    2
  2519.  @Sciencedroppa2700  We were told that nothing can destroy it and ti will mow down Russian defenses and rout them. Saying that the crew survived is just goal post moving. It's pathetic.
    2
  2520. War and death are just bigger in China. The fertility of Chinese lands coupled with a huge bureaucracy throughout its history meant China is nearly always the most advance, most populous and richest empire for thousands of years. That means everything in China was just bigger, badder, and more deadly and insane than anywhere else, except maybe India.
    2
  2521. You can't become the leader of the vassal states in EU, Japan and SK without approval from Washington. The last time a leader got disapproved by Washington, they got ousted. The Japanese PM Hatoyama, whose platform included removing US base on Okinawa and won, was quietly ousted by the Japanese political establishment after Obama refused to work with him. These countries have no sovereignty.
    2
  2522. Good.
    2
  2523. I have a very tiny violin.
    2
  2524. The empire will always take from its vassals to feed itself first. German capitalists flocking to the US because of cheaper energy and incentives is basically the US eating Germany alive. Without it's high tech, high value industries, what does Germany has? Schnitzel? We are seeing a regression of a developed country into an undeveloped one. Maybe Germany and the EU won't end up like Africa but they certainly will be poorer and much weaker when the dust finally settles on this "cold war".
    2
  2525. The problem with the west is that they have drank their own kool-aid. They have demonized Russia, China, Iran and other countries like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea to the point that they have created for themselves these images that these countries are the ultimate evil, antithetical to "freedom(tm)" and "democracy(c)". Their elites and their media have created this mess where now they cannot stop and have to keep pushing forward with confrontation. This is now a good vs evil battle and the west, especially the US cannot extricate themselves out of it. They cannot imagine that these countries are not evil, that they have every right to defend themselves, and they have every right to have their culture, government, society not interfered or dominated by the west. Because they believe only the western model, the western narratives are the only correct ones, they cannot brake, stop and rethink. They have absolutely no self awareness of the horrible things they themselves are doing, since everything is about fighting the axis of evil, the ends will justify the means. Worse, their media can spin black into white, wrong into right so they never have to grapple with the idea that THEY ARE THE BADDIES. That's why we keep hearing these contradictory statements, positions and stances the US take against Russia, China and the rest, They don't think this is hypocrisy or double standards, they think that if you are fighting evil, you can use any methods, and tactics to do so. The rich plutocrats and oligarchs in the west of course know better. They are fighting this because they are afraid of losing the western hegemony that allows them to do whatever they want with impunity. They are afraid that they might have the face the consequences of their crimes so they will drive the west into oblivion to protect themselves.
    2
  2526. The problem with the west is that they have drank their own kool-aid. They have demonized Russia, China, Iran and other countries like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea to the point that they have created for themselves these images that these countries are the ultimate evil, antithetical to "freedom(tm)" and "democracy(c)". Their elites and their media have created this mess where now they cannot stop and have to keep pushing forward with confrontation. This is now a good vs evil battle and the west, especially the US cannot extricate themselves out of it. They cannot imagine that these countries are not evil, that they have every right to defend themselves, and they have every right to have their culture, government, society not interfered or dominated by the west. Because they believe only the western model, the western narratives are the only correct ones, they cannot brake, stop and rethink. They have absolutely no self awareness of the horrible things they themselves are doing, since everything is about fighting the axis of evil, the ends will justify the means. Worse, their media can spin black into white, wrong into right so they never have to grapple with the idea that THEY ARE THE BADDIES. That's why we keep hearing these contradictory statements, positions and stances the US take against Russia, China and the rest, They don't think this is hypocrisy or double standards, they think that if you are fighting evil, you can use any methods, and tactics to do so. The rich plutocrats and oligarchs in the west of course know better. They are fighting this because they are afraid of losing the western hegemony that allows them to do whatever they want with impunity. They are afraid that they might have the face the consequences of their crimes so they will drive the west into oblivion to protect themselves.
    2
  2527. CNA is stilla very heavily western leaning news channel. They have to, or else they get cut off from western sources.
    2
  2528. That's aiming at western economy because their economy is imperialistic.
    2
  2529. Anyone who can look at the US objectively can see that the US is a oligarchy, not a democracy for most of its history.
    2
  2530. Lula needs to revamp his foreign policies and cut Argentina out of LATAM initiatives. He made a terrible mistake lobbying for Argentina to join BRICS.
    2
  2531. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    2
  2532. Global Development Initiative. GDI same initials as the GDI from Command and Conquer. Haha this tickles my funny bone.
    2
  2533. The weakness of US tech sanctions against China is the same as their sanctions against Russia. You will not get the results that you want sanctioning a country that already has alternatives and the capability to develop those alternatives. Russia just de-dollarize while selling their exports to everyone except the west. China already has the tech baseline and infrastructure and people that can develop high end chip manufacturing, now they are forced to do it, so they simply accelerate the time line. This is the problem with the IS leadership, they are stupid as hell.
    2
  2534. The point of BRICS and even BRI is to spread the risks and create institutions that give safety nets to the participating countries. The New Development Bank will ensure there are funds for continued development drawn from the members without involving western financial systems. The BRICS currency swap will ensure that any member facing liquidity crisis will have funding available. Eventually the BRICS will form a type of unit of account - probably a basket of local currencies - for their own trade, bypassing the USD completely. BRICS and the rest of the world have been de-risking from the US and its vassal states for a while now. Everyone knows what is coming. Even Singapore is buying gold massively, knowing that it has to hedge against the risks of the US collapsing or doing something monumentally reckless.
    2
  2535. The fact that they refuse to admit that means they are going to lose a hot war with China if they really are stupid enough to go for it.
    2
  2536. Best money ever spent. Just goes to tell you how American elites both in politics and private really look at the world.
    2
  2537. If something is truly objectively good and you can't really find any major faults with it, then making a video extolling that is fine. But it is obvious that the ctbertruck is full of problems and not even criticising the most glaring ones just make the "journalist" look like a shill.
    2
  2538. ​ @rodiculous9464 not mainstream as in being broadcasted on social media, news networks and actually being talked about and trending among the population. The only people paying attention are the rich and powerful and those in the know.
    2
  2539. "Why can't they just make more?" Has to be stupidest question when you are talking about semiconductor chip manufacturing. People think that this is like opening a new pillow making factory.
    2
  2540. China is already a semiconductor powerhouse.
    2
  2541. Singapore doesn't need you to point that out.
    2
  2542. The west will never be fair to China now because they have deem China a strategic threat. If China puts a target below 5, it means they are collapsing, if they put it at 5, it means they are unrealistic. This tactic is known as hostile evidence presentation: “During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.” - Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds China can cure cancer tomorrow, repel an alien invasion the day after and discover the way to limitless free energy and the western media will say "aT wHat COsT?" What China wants is high quality growth that is sustainable by itself, not a play on numbers by injecting huge amount of money printed out of thin air to temporary shoot the numbers up. China wants to grow good quality muscles that take time and hard work, not give itself steroids shots. That's why the west's pp is getting smaller, they keep giving themselves steroids and growing huge fugly muscles that is disgusting to look at and they will lose when play arm wrestling with a real strongman.
    2
  2543. Ohh things ought to get worse for the west.
    2
  2544. Sprouts like bean and alfafa sprouts.
    2
  2545. All of these is foreseeable. Any competent leadership will not have taken the route the collective west took. They didn't just make a bad calculation. They were just too arrogant and blind to believe they will suffer any negative consequences. The west and especially the US has enjoyed a privileged position for far too long, exploiting and oppressing everyone else while tooting their own horns. Their arrogance needs to be punished. The west must suffer.
    2
  2546.  @alfredneuman6911  Broke two treaties that the Europeans and Americans never had any intentions of honoring and just there to lead the Russians by the nose? Merkel literally admits that they never had any intentions of honoring the Minsk agreements and were only signed to buy time for Ukraine to arm itself and allow NATO to force a regime change in Russia. You people always conventionally ignore the most important points that reveal that the west is the one that is despicable, dishonest, dishonorable and underhanded. If you are going to talk about who is right, then answer for that first.
    2
  2547. Singapore OTOH...
    2
  2548. Haha you can only be unpredictable if you have the initiative. If the US is really stupid enough to go to war with China, I doubt the initiative will be in the US military's hands.
    2
  2549. Pascal: " how do we counter these narratives!" That's what the cultural revolution was for.
    2
  2550. I will recommen looking up on Deboard's Society of Spectacle. It expound on how western culture is based on spectacles, threatrics and substance less showmanship masquerade as action and power. Capitalism of course helped to increase this phenomenon and exploits it.
    2
  2551. Because the CPC delivers real results.
    2
  2552. We all know the ICC is a diplomatic tool of the west to attack non-western nations. We know they won't do anything and even if they do, it is likely to be mild and deliberately toothless. But OP is absolutely right, this needs to go into the history books to show the failures of the institutions set up by the west post-WWII to show the hypocrisy and why they deteriorated to the point of being farcical. On a lighter note, the use of concepts from two different sports to describe the situation is hilarious.
    2
  2553. The danger of hypersonic missiles is not just that they are fast and can hide behind the curvature of the Earth, it is that they can change directions and targets and be unpredictable. Their high speed also makes it really hard to intercept. Yes they are very hot and can be spotted by IR cameras but assuming that you have a satellite spotting them at the right time, you will still need to track it continuously as it flies around. Unless you have continuously coverage of the missile at all time, you are going to miss it and it can do evasive or feint maneuvers to never let you know which target it is going for until at its terminal phase. Most likely these hypersonic missiles will be used as semi-strategic or tactical weapons to penetrate the layered defenses of a carrier group, coming in from all directions, with feint maneuvers, programmed flight paths to avoid early warning detection and then strike when it is already coming at the fleet at mach 7 just over the horizon. No anti-missile system will have the reaction to take it down nor do they have the speed to chase it down. If you armed it with a tactical nuke, it can take out half the fleet by itself and these weapons are never going to be used just by itself. Expect to be attack with multiple hypersonic missiles from all sides and having even less reaction time (and less time to get you anti-missile missiles in the air) to take them out, assuming that you can even do it.
    2
  2554. And you people make illegal claims on something that never belong to you in the first place, while acting as a lapdog to the US, inviting a wolf among us and endangering all of us. Instead of negotiating in good faith with the Chinese, you are losing more and more leverage every day setting yourself up for more pain to come.
    2
  2555. Yup. It's one party. They just have two faction to give people the illusion of choice. When you break it down, the US is a big joke of illusion of choice. Americans are obsessed with the ability to make choices. You can give them a choice of horsesht sandwich or a bullshit sandwich and they will be argon and killing each other over these sandwiches. The fact that you are hoarding all the ham sandwiches didn't occur to them. That's American "freedom(TM)".
    2
  2556. Learning should be flexible and fun? For most kids in developing countries, education is a matter of survival, of getting out of crippling poverty, of life and death. Learning being unfun and you don't get to do what you love, is a first world problem. It is a luxury to be able to pursuit your dreams. It is a luxury to not have to worry about your family's livelihood as a kid and even as a working adult. It is a luxury to be able to choose. Luxuries first world people take for granted.
    2
  2557. Good.
    2
  2558.  @kromdolk  For now, but China is the only one that is shrinking that gap fast.
    2
  2559.  @vlhc4642  China doesn't want to dismantle TSMC violently. But they will make them irrelevant eventually so long Taiwan obeys US sanctions.
    2
  2560.  @The_Questionaut  But you keep voting in people who do exactly those things.
    2
  2561. Gorbachev betrayed his country by trusting the Americans. That's the real narrative.
    2
  2562.  @Seramics  you should also read the conditions at which the previous two state solutions were. Peace was never an option from Israel and the US
    2
  2563. The Debt ceiling is really a manufactured crisis. It's all political threatrics and posturing to keep Americans entertained, as the US government pretends to be serious about its debts. It will get raised, like every time this comes out because it is completely controlled by the US government anyway, and there is no way they won't raise it to keep the asset bubble going. The US government is enslaved by the capital class and they only want to see the line goes up.
    2
  2564.  @Potatotenkopf  The British Empire stand for the British Empire.
    2
  2565. There is no hope from the the older neocons and neolibs. But if younger people can see clearly what their country really is, then maybe we won't end up in a nuclear wa* because they understand they should not be preserving the American empire.
    2
  2566. Edgelord movies are basically social luxuries afforded to white men, because they get to fantasize how they can be a one man army on a crusade to right the petty wrongs done on him. The arrogance and audacity to even be able to fantasize about that, that really is a luxury oppressed people do not have. The Joker is a very good movie, partly because Joaquin Phoenix was phenomenal in it, partly because it is a modern tragedy brought upon by the machine that chewed up and spit out people like garbage. But I never saw it as a movie about a role model. The Joker is someone to be pitied, and then to figure out how to prevent his inception in RL.
    2
  2567. Hahahahahahahaha
    2
  2568. Fascism is capitalism in decay and oh boy is capitalism in decay in the west right now.
    2
  2569. Don't be so sure that a trump white house will deescalate with the global majority. He might be the one that do something to cause a war with China.
    2
  2570. Why is this a problem again? Seems like the best competition has won. Eat dirt.
    2
  2571. While banning his customer fro ordering the restaurant's best and most profitable dish.
    2
  2572. haha I thought they went bankrupt years ago.
    2
  2573. "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon." Sounds like western corpo-state media is beginning to get around a single narrative. Remember "it is dangerous to democracy."
    2
  2574.  @michaele4830  Over 800 million people. And the US is not for individual rights, if they are so, they wouldn't have implemented those kind of policies. They are for individual capitalists to benefit maximally. The US has always pretend to be about liberty, freedom, human rights but when push comes to shove, it is ALWAYS the right of the capitalists to exploit coming first. It is time to dispell the delusion that the US stood for anything except unfettered, unrepentant capitalism.
    2
  2575.  @patienceobongo  White people don't really get the right to accuse other people of being racist.
    2
  2576.  @patienceobongo  That has the be the most absurd thing I have read yet. The Chinese colonized Singapore? Do you even know who was Stamford Raffles? With your standard of history accuracy, the next thing you are going to say is the Chinese colonized Africa and the Chinese killed the Jews in Europe during WWII. I really look forward to the day when the west gets so weak, they have to fold to the rest of the world and we get to dictate the terms to westerners and forever neutered you people.
    2
  2577. ​ @HiranyaGarbh.  The US supported China because they want to exploit China's cheap labor and think that their neoliberal capitalism will create a new generation of corrupted politicians and oligarchs that will favor the US world order. Well, they are wrong and the socialist order still holds strong in China. So now they are regretting it because China is dismantling the neoliberal world order dystopia and they are scared the hell out of their mind. China kept her head down and bide their time. They have a plan to industrialize rapidly and get as much tech into their industries. They are focused, experimental, rational, objective, and driven. They played their role well and let the west exploit their cheap labor, that's true. But they always require tech transfer and they are never complacent. They keep learning and keep trying to build their own capabilities. That's why the Type 055 destroyer is built with nearly all components made in China, while most of the Visakhapatnam-class destroyer's components are imported, especially crucial parts like engines, radars and even weapons. China is using that fiat USD in BRI investment, turning the useless paper into something real and valuable. Partly it's because they don't want to keep holding USD which they can be sanctioned, partly they have these huge amount of surpluses they don't want to park in Wall St. to enrich American financial oligarchs which in turn funds the US military that is hostile to China. While they are able to build the Global South up, make them strong enough to resist the west, provide the world with an alternative way for financing that is not the IMF or World Bank. And also to create good will among all these previously colonized and still oppressed countries that they might one day rally against the west. China not only plays the long game, they play the smart game by using every possible angle to help them reduce their weaknesses and gain strength. Using their surpluses denominated in USD to build up the Global South is a win-win-win-win game. Trillions of USD are used which otherwise would have been parked in Wall St to enrich American rich ratfuckers. That is the kind of 5D chess that Indian politicians will never be able to play, because they are just not at that level. Indian politicians are like children compared to Chinese politicians.
    2
  2578.  @manjuk1708  Jaishankar is smart and quick-witted, no doubt bout it. But he has no plans, no strategy because the modi government has no vision. He is just going to around dropping speech bombs on western reporters, which is fun to listen to, but he has no plans for anything long term beyond horse trading and bargaining with anyone who come near India's conference room.
    2
  2579.  @HiranyaGarbh.  You have no idea how Chinese democracy works, and you have a fantastic idealism about India actually works. You talk like a westerner, regurgitating talking points that have no basis in reality. It is just what you are indoctrinated to imagine is real.
    2
  2580.  @HTeo-og1lg  Yuck with the religious overtones. No need to bring religious fanaticism and extremism into the conversation. Especially the poisonous abrahmic ones. Keep your religion to yourself.
    2
  2581.  @slawomirozdoba4605  See guys, here is an example why the west is in decline but will never be able to stop it. They drank their own kool aid.
    2
  2582. Japan has to sell us treasuries. Yen is getting decimated.
    2
  2583.  @kobemop  well imperialism and colonialism came before neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is just part of neocolonialism, the final form of colonialism and of course they are all Imperialism.
    2
  2584. The west defined the good, the bad, they define the criteria to measure the good and the bad, and they elevate their system as the good, and every other system as bad. How convenient. Even if we define what is good and bad by reasons and logic, the west seldom live up to any of these standards. They simply redefined the terms and standards whenever it is convenient. That's why there is so much hypocrisy and double standards. The worst part is that their propaganda machine is so pervasive that they have effectively brainwashed their own people to believe in their own moral and cultural superiority that if their media says that is wrong and bad, it must be wrong and bad. When challenged, they will use all kinds of apologetics techniques, like false accusations, misleading narratives and cherry picking, throwing terms like "whataboutism" when their hypocrisy is laid bare when they challenge another country's policies and they never ever admit they are wrong. Honestly, the way western media and westerners in general treat other countries, especially those that are rising to challenge their hegemony is not really that different that the right-wing fascist techniques we see being used in America and Europe on their own people. I suggest everyone to go and watch Innuedo Studios' Alr Right Playbook series to have a good understanding of these nefarious techniques and call it out whenever you see western media doing it.
    2
  2585. ​@pl Of course. Except that strength can come in many forms. The Ansar Allah is strong not because it has huge military power. They are strong because they figure a way to blockade the Red Sea SELECTIVELY (block western and Israel ships while letting other nations not supporting the gen*cide to pass through). They are strong because they are smart enough to leverage their geography and their political will as the legitimate national government of Yemen to fight against a pariah of the world, and thus winning approval from 80% of the world. But the US is not as strong as we are led to believe. Even as they bomb Yemen, the Ansar Allah remains unbent and unbowed and continue to blockade the Red Sea. The FM might be saying we should uphold international order by fighting against the blockade but it is obvious that it is not working for the gen*ciders and their accomplices. It is duplicitous for the FM not to mention that the Ansar Allah has no quarrel with China, Russia and non-western countries. So if Singapore does not support the gen*cide, then the Red Sea is completely safe for Singapore ships. Why should Singapore go solve a problem that the west created for themselves. And yes, China can prosper precisely because it is strong enough to resist American interference and machination. The US will love nothing more than to plunge East Asia/West Pac into chaos by destabilizing China, without any regards to OUR INTERESTS AND SAFETY in this region. If sacrificing a 100 million Chinese lives and 10 million SE Asian lives will ensure American hegemony for the next 50 years while not sacrificing any American lives, the Americans will do it without any hesitation. They did the same in west Asia, they did it in LATAM and they did it in SE Asia back in the 60s and 70s too. The US government is not our friend. They view us all as pawns that can be sacrificed, as soldiers for a mafia that can be thrown into a gang fight. Depending on the US, or China to defend ourselves is a mistake, that I can agree with the FM. Singapore and SE Asia must be strong enough to resist American nefarious machinations politically, economically, socially, culturally and militarily and to maintain a friendly if not a neutral, mutually beneficial relationship with China.
    2
  2586.  @xxweebqueenxx4629 They let non-western ships pass through. They are not threatening the entire world, only the imperial nations which are not the "free world". The "free world" is a marketing terms used to disguise the fact that the west is the most imperialistic and hegemonic power today. Don't be a western stooge.
    2
  2587. Macron is just another colonial administrators out of a long line and cadre of European, Japanese and SK colonial adminstrators that are being vilified by both their colonial masters in Washington for not doing a good job keeping the colonies in check, and from the colonized from being spineless fools that did everything against the interests of the people for the sake of the empire.
    2
  2588.  @curtiszyr  Exactly :D
    2
  2589. Lots of bots here pushing western narratives at "China bad".
    2
  2590. Most of that US growth is in inflation, pointless government spending, finance, healthcare and military. None of these meaningfully produce useful stuff. Take these away, and I doubt the real growth of the US economy is more than a percent.
    2
  2591. It's also one of the most fertile regions in the world. They might not be able to finance it by themselves, but the potential for growth is immense.
    2
  2592.  @celebvoncelebrus4429  Then there is no reason why Russia will not negotiate favourable terms right when they are in a position of strength.
    2
  2593. The last time another rival tried to build a military base near them, they threatened to plunge the world into a nuclear war. Yet, they pretend that having hundreds of bases surrounding China is not threatening China.
    2
  2594.  @skytron22  Nope, China is actually well-liked in most countries.
    2
  2595.  @ok_but_why  No one ask the US to come. The US came to enforce their dominance over its vassal states.
    2
  2596.  @levipb1403  Except CA is oppressed by a dictatorial regime, the dictatorship of the rich, where you cannot oppose the capitalist system.
    2
  2597. The problem with the west is that they have drank their own kool-aid. They have demonized Russia, China, Iran and other countries like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea to the point that they have created for themselves these images that these countries are the ultimate evil, antithetical to "freedom(tm)" and "democracy(c)". Their elites and their media have created this mess where now they cannot stop and have to keep pushing forward with confrontation. This is now a good vs evil battle and the west, especially the US cannot extricate themselves out of it. They cannot imagine that these countries are not evil, that they have every right to defend themselves, and they have every right to have their culture, government, society not interfered or dominated by the west. Because they believe only the western model, the western narratives are the only correct ones, they cannot brake, stop and rethink. They have absolutely no self awareness of the horrible things they themselves are doing, since everything is about fighting the axis of evil, the ends will justify the means. Worse, their media can spin black into white, wrong into right so they never have to grapple with the idea that THEY ARE THE BADDIES. That's why we keep hearing these contradictory statements, positions and stances the US take against Russia, China and the rest, They don't think this is hypocrisy or double standards, they think that if you are fighting evil, you can use any methods, and tactics to do so. The rich plutocrats and oligarchs in the west of course know better. They are fighting this because they are afraid of losing the western hegemony that allows them to do whatever they want with impunity. They are afraid that they might have the face the consequences of their crimes so they will drive the west into oblivion to protect themselves.
    2
  2598.  @handle-changed Ohh look a westoid can't handle the truth that they are the baddies. Facts are that NATO broke their word for not expanding eastward. Then US supported a violent coup in 2014 that even most Ukrainians don't support. Then the Ukrainian government, under the auspicious of the US, Germany and France began a civil war in Donbas region against Russian speaking people. The west did not hold onto their word on the Minsk agreements. When Russia finally had enough of Ukrainians k*lling Russian speaking Ukrainians, they intervened and even then there was a chance at peace in March 2022 but boris johnson on the instruction from the US went to sabotage the peace agreement. So nearly everything that led to the situation right now is caused primarily by the west. Calling NATO to pull back to 1991 borders is the most moral position, even if it is no longer possible.
    2
  2599. The west have never respected any international laws or conventions whenever it suits them. The only difference between now and the last 80 years after WWII is that the west is no longer the dominating power that can control the rest of the world. So risen countries like China and the revitalized Russia is challenging that hegemony. When push comes to shove, the west will abandon these principles to attempt to re-exert their control and that's what we are seeing now. I remember a CNN reporter once said about the republican party of the US will abandon democracy before they will abandon their conservatism. What we are seeing is the west abandoning international laws before abandoning their hegemony. Like the republicans who never truly give a d*mn about democracy (if bourgeois democracy can even be called a democracy), the west never truly respect international laws. They just pretend to because it suit their purposes and they get to call all the shots. Until now.
    2
  2600. The Chinese HQ series of SAMs are now better than their Russian counterparts. The J-16 is now the best variant of the flanker family. They have their own hypersonic missiles, even drones and we haven't even count the antiship ballistic missiles. If the US is really gonna have a hot war over Taiwan, expect their fleet to sink before they can reinforce Taiwan.
    2
  2601. The Kingdom can get nuclear power from China too. They are part of BRICS soon. Nuclear power is not monopolize by the west.
    2
  2602. Huh, but I was led to believe it is only China and a few other countries that are having a birthrate crisis. Was I being lied to? I wonder...
    2
  2603. It's aqueous based, so it uses water to dissolve the electrolytes. The stuff that actually store the charges and thus the energy are the electrolytes. The water is there to act as a stage where the electrochemistry can take place. It is not the water that does the electrochemistry. I read the abstract of the paper briefly and it is iodine/iodate doped with bromine at high concentration at the cathode side, and cadmium at the anode side. The results are encouraging because it can have no less than 72% energy efficiency meaning it will at most loses 38% of the energy it originally input into the battery. Higher energy efficiency is likely to be achievable if this is commercialized. It has also very high energy density and higher than typical Li-ion battery. The concern I have is that they use Cd/Cd2+ for the anode reaction, which means we still have to deal with Cd which is toxic to the environment and humans. If they can use a less toxic alternative, then this has very good potential to be easily scaled up and act as a large energy storage at utility level. Since for the grid, you only need the battery to sit there and not move and most likely you can have land to let them sit there, you don't have to worry about weight, size and mobility of the battery like you have to in an EV.
    2
  2604.  @horridohobbies  No, they don't. Western style conquest is especially brutal since ancient Rome. Brutality, atrocities, terror and systematic oppression and destruction of another people is a very western style way of expansion coupled with a intellectual system of racial supremacy. This culminated in the last 500 years of colonial history that continues to today. Rewriting history to cover up past crimes against humanity is also a very western thing to do. Most nations might write history to make themselves look good but the west is the only culture that engage in systematic mass propaganda and brainwashing to wipe their historical barbarism.
    2
  2605.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Of course there are other methods. There is vapor release. Solidified it with concrete and then placed in long term storage. Just both of these methods are safer and surer way to reduce any possible impact, but they are more expensive, so they make all kinds of excuses why it can't be done. We also know their method to remove the heavier radioactive elements are not good enough but it is cheap. TEPCO is a corrupted company and the Japanese government is trying to cover for them, along with the entire west. Just happen that the cheapest way is the most" viable" way. We are not morons. We know exactly why they chose dumping it into the oceans and the western corpo-state media is now on a warpath to make sure all dissenting voices are silenced and making sure the protests by other countries are rejected. We know what you people are doing. And it is despicable but again, exactly what I expect from you people.
    2
  2606. They thought that China will become like them, a neoliberal capitalist hellscape. That's why the US allowed China to join WTO. They thought that the capitalism forces will corrupt the top echelons of the CPC and turn Beijing into another Washington where corporate power reign supreme. Ohh boy were they wrong in that score. Now they realized the CPC is very much in power and very much still working towards Deng's vision of a technocratic socialistic country, they are trying to backpeddle and sabotaging China in every way possible. But China is now too militarily and culturally strong, too prosperous, too industrialized, too technologically advanced and too integrated to the entire world to be deterred from their quest. China is the only real, tangible hope that bring socialism/communism to the center stage, and thus a more equitable and just world. They didn't have to export their model, they just have to give the developing countries breathing room from the violent captialists who have been aggressively putting down any nascent socialist movements since end of WWII, to develop their own socialist models. And the neoliberal market fundamentalists in the west will get their just desserts. In time. Never forget who the real enemies are. The people at the top who make all the decisions in the western capitalist hegemony and elsewhere are the real enemies. No war but class war
    2
  2607. Even then, it is a superficial measurement. I think there should be a new way to measure democracy: the relative distance between a de jure democracy and a de facto democracy. De jure is that on paper and procedural, a country can be democratic, but if it is not measure with de facto democracy. De facto democracy will measure: 1. the policies that people desire gets enacted vs. policies they don't want or don't care for, will indicate power distribution among the population 2. wealth inequality that indicate how wealth is concentrated, 3. poverty level indicates how fair the overall system is able to redistribute wealth and give prosperity to all, 4. combined 2 and 3 will give us utilitarian level of the policies that helps distribution of wealth 5. achieving basic living standards: including true access to education, housing, jobs, savings and retirement, healthcare etc., 6. labor union power measured against corporate power, pervasiveness of unions and whether unions have enough power for negotations 7. imperialistic tendencies of the countries' foreign policies 8. media independence from powerful influences including government and corporations, to examine the level of propaganda that skewed toward powerful elites, both state and private. 9. measurement of the citizens' information bubble derived from covert and overt propaganda and indoctrination. If you start measuring democracy in the de facto manner, I will bet a lot of money that the US will drop in democracy ranking tremendously. The current way these metrics are measured is absurdly skewed toward de jure democracy that serves to put western countries on a higher moral pedestal that they do not deserve and these fake moral high grounds are weaponized for diplomatic imperialism from the west. We will have classification like True Democracy (maybe some Scandinavian countries will qualified) where both the de jure and de facto measurements are high; Superficial Democracy (US, UK and probably most of western Europe, even India) where de jure is high but de facto is low; Practiced Democracy (China, Singapore and some other prosperous countries with stronger dejure authoritarianism) where the de jure is low but de facto is high, and Undemocratic (usually failed states) where de jure is low and de facto is low.
    2
  2608. Common people getting fucked by billionaires? Isn't that what Texas always say is the right thing to do?
    2
  2609. America never has moral authority outside the western controlled media bubble. EVERYONE that has been f**ked by the US and the collective does not obey the west because they think America is the beacon of justice. They do it because they were threatened with death and destruction.
    2
  2610. Well, it is still a good warning. Some examples are extreme but this case is very much possible for a large number of people. How many times have we seen cases of people doing something they should not have done to lose weight. Taking unproven drugs, extreme diets, so eating tapeworm eggs is not that far fetched when you understand the stigma bigger people have to go through everyday. I'm not saying we should normalize obesity as though it is healthy but we should definitely not dismiss the psychological damage that can cause some people to go the extreme route just to lose to weight.
    2
  2611. American youths are abandoning the boomer mentality. They are doing it to survive and even in America, class consciousness and ideas from other cultures are slowly seeping in. They are rejecting America's propaganda and indoctrination, slowly but surely. It is the only hope that America has.
    2
  2612. Americans like to denigrate the Chinese and the so called "face" culture to try to misrepresent the Chinese culture as superficial and unauthentic. But no one is more thin skinned and like to get "face" from other people, always trying to save their "face" when they are wrong, misrepresent, slander others so as to not lose "face" than the Americans.
    2
  2613.  @tanattjhon  "first thing they should do is to stop dumping price and then hike it after all competitors die." Yes, Walmart should stop doing that.
    2
  2614. Good move. It is obvious that the US meddling in Thai politics in hopes of getting a government that will reject China is not working. The Thai government is accelerating the construction of their railway to connect to China and now this. I'm glad that the new Thai government understands how to conduct their foreign policy properly.
    2
  2615. If the UAS goes into austerity, their society will collapse within a week, and a revolution within months.
    2
  2616. ​ @skysky1977  Yes, actually they do. This is not about rights. This is about balance of power and intentions. The fact that they didn't is because they did not want to cause WWIII even though the THAAD is clearly aimed at neutralizing PLARF, thereby set up the conditions where the west can invade China if they want to. Whether THAAD is actually effective is another story. See, you keep trying to spin this as a defense against China but you always ignore the fact that the US can in turn invade China from SK, and that is a real threat to China. To bring home the point, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the other way around but the cause was still that the US threatened Moscow by putting nuclear missiles in Turkey, which the Soviets responded by putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. Obviously the missiles in Turkey was a national security concern, yet when they put missiles tit for tat in Cuba, the Americans reacted with force. So obviously putting assets near a country that can either threaten or neutralize said country's defenses is a glaring provocative move and often is a precursor to invasion. China did not put DongFeng missiles in Mexico or Cuba, so why should the Americans be allowed to be THAAD in SK and sail aircraft carriers up and down the coastlines of China? Because the west is the good guys and all its rivals are the bad guys? Really, are we really gonna go with that logic in spite of the tremendous amount of misery the west had cause and still causing? Remember Iraq 2003? Remember Yugoslavia? Or the other numerous times the US and the west interferes with other countries, invade them based on flimsy pretexts. Not to mention the unilaterally or bloc sanctions that are illegal. So who are really the ones NOT respecting international laws and other countries' sovereignty? Furthermore, If the US can give themselves the right to "pre-emptively" strike at anyone they deem a national security threat, why is this standard not applicable to everyone else too? Because the US is the good guy? Really? This is what we called in civilized countries, double standards and hypocrisy. Ultimately, the problem with the west is their arrogance in their supremacy that they never think they should treat other country's interests and concerns as equal as their own, and that they can just spin that everyone who refuse to participate (ie. bend the knee) to their system do not deserve any considerations, and thus they can be invaded, interfered and the facts and narratives that work against the west or for their rivals are fair game to be distorted, misrepresented and often just lied about. Because the westerners still think in the colonial mind and that they are always right, they are better and everyone else is fodder.
    2
  2617. You mean move straight into fascism? Look the EU is stupid but going for fascism to fight against fascism lite is a little disingenuous.
    2
  2618. HOLY Sht ahahahahahahaha The US was trying to meddle in Thai internal affairs to put in leaders they like. They wanted to make Thailand a puppet and not it blew up in their face. Gogogogogogo Thailand, the prime example of what sovereignty looks like.
    2
  2619. A leader who is only supposedly interested in empire, as the west keep accusing him to be, will not spend a lot of time on stuff like education, mortgages, small business owners.
    2
  2620. America truck makers being fine for a while because Americans buy so many trucks is a very short term viewpoint. I like that Kelvin always add a "yet" to his statements because if the Chinese EV makers start offering their very affordable and attractive sedans and compacts, we might see a market shift towards these cars very quickly. But of course, that's why they are banned in the first place. The only reason why Americans are so obsessed with these impractical trucks is a toxic culture of consumerism and weird masculinity. Once the reality hits that these trucks are unaffordable, and the gas prices will keep rising, we will see the market change. And the American truck makers have absolutely no idea how to make an affordable normal car, much less a high tech, affordable EV.
    2
  2621. Singapore is designed for its people. LA is designed to sell cars and revolves around cars. Public transport in Singapore is a lifeblood artery while it is a mere afterthought in LA and America. Which is why American cities will never measured up to the most developed parts of Asia and Europe. When you design your cities and create your culture around helping rich people make even more money, it will inevitably be an anti-social, anti-public, anti-people places to live.
    2
  2622. The law has good intentions? Come on, Kevin, you still think you people are the good guys?
    2
  2623. The fact that the Chinese leadership can come up with this kind of brilliant strategy while US leadership is still fmbling around using tariffs, sanctions and war to get their way is why this new cold war has already been settled. Chinese leaders are master strategists. US leaders are high school sophomores.
    2
  2624. Xi jingping is unlikely to trust biden unless biden's words are backed by real actions. No one should trust the US unless it is backed by real actions.
    2
  2625. Cyrus, it's not that they overlooked that China could have just developed this on their own. It is that they are too racist to even consider that until reality hits them in the face and even then, in this comment section, the reality hasn't registered yet. Or if ever.
    2
  2626.  @captbiptoe  The freezing/boiling point of water at sea level pressure is not arbitrary. It is based on a physical property of a single material that is widely found on Earth and elsewhere in the universe.
    2
  2627. China is not anti-US, or even anti-dollar. It is anti imperial financial colonialism. The dollar can still function as a major currency reserve, it just will not have the exorbitant privilege it enjoys now that allows it the US government to suck up everyone's surplus value and financially dominate their country. So the Americans will have to live within their means and they can't have 800 military bases, 11 super carriers and terrorise everyone. De-imperializing the dollar is a good thing.
    2
  2628. None of the western countries are true democracies.
    2
  2629.  @yurichtube1162  They can, if the US deliberately puts Taiwan into a collision course with China, like putting a puppet government in Taiwan that unilaterally declare independence. The thing is that it will be very hard to do because China cannot be threatened existentially anymore by the west, so it can bide its time for a peaceful reunification in the future. China only has to, as the Chinese idiom 按兵不动, they will outlast the US decline to the point it can't threaten West Pacific anymore. Which is why I think despite that China will prepare the PLA for an invasion of Taiwan through numerous exercises (all militaries trained for every possible scenario anyway), they will unlikely invade Taiwan because it will risk too much and gain too little and unlike the US elites, they don't want to kill their own people.
    2
  2630. They drank their own kool-aid. They really thought they could crush Russia and why shouldn't they? The combined GDP of NATO is several times bigger than Russia. But what they didn't calculate because again they drank their own kool-aid and indulge in arrogance is the response by non western countries. Few non western countries actually sanctioned Russia. The two biggest, China and India did not join the west. China helped Russia by increasing trade with Russia, gave them financial lifelines and India took the opportunity to buy up cheap Russia gas and oil and resold them to the Europeans. What they didn't calculate is that the world will not automatically come to the side of the west. This is a severe miscalculation because they really thought the world is still under western control completely. All this mean Russia can survive sanctions and successfully de-dollarize it's economy and finances. On top of that, the freezing and now the confiscation of Russian reserves in the west is decreasing western financial integrity and trustworthiness. This is in the background of the formation of BRICS, which is now bigger than the G7 and still growing while the G7 is declining. The west thought they had the power to crush Russia so they merrily went to war but their fundamentals have been weakened severely over the years through their own arrogant and hypocritical actions and decisions. They thought they had a castle, but that castle is built on shifting sands. It looks good on the surface but it is collapsing because it's foundation is built on BS.
    2
  2631. Even if they give everything Russia demands in the peace negotiation, I wonder if Russia will still sell oil and gas to Europe on the cheap.
    2
  2632.  @depralexcrimson  Americans scam the entire world through the financial system they created and imposed on all of us. Everyone should ask themselves, why are we forced to to do bilateral trade through the USD? Why are we forced to buy US bonds and treasuries with the USD we made? Why are we forced to lend money to the US government in trillions? Why is it that every time a country wants to try another economic system or want to de-dollarize in the past, they get a visit from a USN carrier and get destroyed? Who is really the worst scammer? It's not any of us Asians, from China, India or SE Asia. It's always the Americans and most of them are in Wall St. in their boardrooms with expensive furniture, in their 3000 dollars suits and on country clubs golf courses where they scheme on how to divide up the world in smaller and smaller pieces among themselves.
    2
  2633. China's AI development is focus on increasing industrial, social and fintech efficiency. US's AI development is about how to exploit an already bankrupt population for more money.
    2
  2634. The source of most of today's conflicts can be traced back to the imperialistic neocolonialism used by the US, and the worst offenders are the neocons and the neoliberals in America.
    2
  2635. Her understanding of economic is at capitalist brainwashing level at best.
    2
  2636. I am pretty sure China does not want to be the police of the world. They are strict non-interventionist. They don't like to poke into other people's business.
    2
  2637.  @TheBarbahaba THe fact that you think they can't say anything already show that you do not know what you are talking about. The rest of your comment is basically western propaganda media BS. This kind of "head in the sand" attitude and self-delusion is why the west is in decline.
    2
  2638. Russia can export grains to developing countries through China. The overland BRI route is now more importantly than ever for Central Asia.
    2
  2639. Australia is basically the saudi for coal.
    2
  2640. Pretty much. Your questions can be summed up, why should the US and the collective be allowed to continue to dominate the world when they have proved to abuse that privilege and power at the detriment of the rest of the world? The motivation of the west can be reduce to this: they are afraid that China will do to them what they have been doing to the Global South.
    2
  2641. Saying that China adopted the capitalist system is exactly why the west is failing and China is rising. Because if you are dumb enough to still believe in capitalist propaganda nonsense, then you do not understand why China is still a Marxist-Leninist country, and why the CPC is so successful at using and controlling capitalists in their country and not allowing them to take over China and create US 2.0. It also shows the lack of education or should we say the rampant spread of miseducation in the west. China rose so meteorically is as much as the country retains its control over its capital as much as the education of the Chinese people, and more importantly, the CORRECT education of the Chinese people.
    2
  2642. A capitalist neoliberal one.
    2
  2643. Even with PPP factored in, China is still having a lower cost of living than the US. So their economy is actually bigger, their market bigger, they spend less on essentials, they are already save more, which mean they have the ceiling to invest more, they have more disposable income to spend. China's domestic economy will become a superpower market when the Chinese consumers finally feel safe enough to spend a little more.
    2
  2644.  @annarboriter  If that is a tantrum then what is the invasion of Iraq based on a lie and telling everyone that "if you are not with us, you are against us."
    2
  2645. The rise of BYD and musk having to eat his own words is really a symptom of our times. The Chinese endured humiliation, lies, slander and ridicule from the west, keep their head down and work at it. The west supremely confident in their tech and economy will never be surpassed by these yellow dogs, get a nasty shock when the Chinese start beating them. The west is a failing world order based on cruelty, arrogance and greed and I can't wait for them to get f**ked.
    2
  2646. You can only grow durians in the tropics.
    2
  2647. China's problems are solvable and will be resolved in time. They are not lucky, they are smart and they think long term and they apply grasp dialectic materialism theory to figure out what's going on and then act in a rational, objective, scientific manner. That's why they usually come out on top. They don't use western voodoo economics to manage their country and they certainly do not subscribe to the inherently anti public, anti people neoliberal system.
    2
  2648. Dude rediscovered Buddhism.
    2
  2649.  @feelipeson  That's what I mean. I'm talking about the system that underlies each country.
    2
  2650. Yea. the video even said "why good monopolies don't last" because they are still a monopoly and sooner or later (usually sooner) turn bad and start extracting rent from society. This is an inherently unstable system and being "good" for about 20-30% of the company's lifetime before we have to suffer years, decades of a bad monopoly is a faustian deal.
    2
  2651. Wow that's just some sexist BS. If you bother to look, some of the best scientists and engineers are women. People like tonrag on the UAS for being "woke", but socialism already taught that both women and men are equal and essential for the revolution of the proletariat. The Soviets were extremely egalitarian back in the day, and so is China. It is that connected egalitarianism among all people that allow socialist countries to punch above their weight even when they are attacked from all sides.
    2
  2652. Poverty will never get solved because America is not a democracy. It is a plutocracy and all its polices and laws are designed to protect and enhanced the wealth of the already rich. To solve poverty, you have to allow most of the population to start sharing the fruits of economic development. That mean higher wages, better welfare, accessible education, better built cities with better public transport, sensible policies geared toward actually reducing poverty. All these stuff cost money and it costs a larger share of the pie of that economic growth and that means higher taxes on the people who controls the capital. And that is definitely never going to happen. So poverty will never get solved and no politicians will do anything, because they can't do anything because rich people are very happy with the status quo.
    2
  2653. I want to also remind everyone that the western allies were planning to invade the Soviet Union immediately after WWII. Churchill the Indian hater, had a plan called Operation Unthinkable for that purpose. It was that the Soviet Marshal Zukov not trusting the allies, commanded the red army to take up defensive positions that the US and UK knew the gig was up. Only then did they abandon these plans. The US and UK were snakes ready to stab their own ally in the back as soons as the war was over. Peace was never an option when one side can only visualise total domination over everyone.
    2
  2654.  @MetaView7  Took them ten years to get to this point with BRI. Imagine planning a multi-year project in America with a clear strategic goal and the discipline to keep at it, that is not just throwing money at the MIC. This is why China's rise is inevitable.
    2
  2655.  @snakeinthegrass20  The procedure is British but the substance is Asian.
    2
  2656. They robbed and conned the British. Tech transfer is a euphemism.
    2
  2657. It has nothing to do with DEI. It started when they stop putting engineers in the top positions and is more concerned with maximizing profits over making a good product. This is the core rot of the western world. Profits over everything.
    2
  2658. They are bracing for it but any trade wars started by trump are going to hurt US more than China, and it will accelerate the downfall of US. US trade with China is actually only about 3% of China's GDP. So while the US can slap huge tariffs on China, they can stimulus their way out of losing that 3%. They have enough capital to do that, and they will boost their trade with the rest of the world. But for the US, the inflation will destroy the society of the US.
    2
  2659.  @adam82960  you people lie like ducks take to water.
    2
  2660. Are you genuinely unable to understand why a westerner will rather shoot himself in the foot than to do the most logical thing and cooperate with a non-westerner for mutual benefit as equal partners, or are you just asking a rhetorical question? Because if you really do not understand, then I can give you an answer in a few words: racism, colonial, dominance, might makes right mindset, and sheer unadulterated self delusion of their own grandeur and moral right.
    2
  2661. Trying to earn part of that 1.6B?
    2
  2662. This kind of manipulation of the market is why I find the concept that the free market will always correct for pricing inequilibrium to be a hilariously unrealistic assumption. Yea, it will eventually correct it if there is actual competition and the seller has very little control over the market. But in the real world, it almost never work that way.
    2
  2663. It's a good example of getting your priorities right.
    2
  2664.  @loveblindhate9318  Yup. Singapore is actually a hidden hybrid socialist country that is masquerading as a purely capitalist, business friendly state. At the height of covid, Singapore was under lockdown and while you can operate restaurants, you can only do take outs. McDonald's did something stupid by shuffling their employees all over the country to make up for labor shortfall. Their actions broke lockdown rules which are there precisely to prevent any outbreaks from spreading beyond its immediate community. So the Singapore government issue a blanket ban on McD. Entire country's McD restaurants had to shut down for a month while they still have to pay their employees salaries enforced by the government. Tell me if this is possible in a capitalist country like the US? Heck, I remember during the same time, desantis classified WWE as an essential service and allowed them to continue to operate. This is why governments like the Singapore and China have such strong popular support.
    2
  2665. All of this is already predicted by more astute people way before the war even started. There is no way Ukraine could really against Russia, and NATO expansion eastward is the primary cause of this war. You can't ride all the way up to someone's front yard, threatening them and expect them to stand down. There was a chance for peace at the beginning of 2022 when Russia and Ukraine were going to negotiate a treaty that will stop Ukraine from joining NATO, and Russia's security guarantee for Ukraine. The whole thing would have ended right there. But boris went to Ukraine to tell zlensky to go to war and he would have full support of the US and UK. Ukrainian blood is on the hands of western politicians.
    2
  2666. Yea, it's a very big fishing boat. Nothing to see here, move along.
    2
  2667.  @southchum101  Sounds like you are just coping. If they successfully make a reusable rocket before a methalox rocket, you will be here saying "been there, done that."
    2
  2668.  @raconteur5195  Then why deliberately showed this kind of content when everyone is doing the same thing anyway.
    2
  2669.  @susutag  That's literally a falsehood.
    2
  2670. "Things are truly desperate". For the west. Good.
    2
  2671. Sounds like the neoliberal system working as intended.
    2
  2672. That will depend on how desperate the US become in trying to hold onto its hegemony.
    2
  2673. There are ways around India's shortsighted and self-serving intransigence. BRICS was formed at the height of the exuberance of the Global South and Asia finally breaking out of their shells to oppose US led western dominance, thinking that the commonality of being oppressed by the west could result in long term common interests and strategic goals. But if India's memory is so short they are willing to climb into the bed of their rapists for petty short term gains, then they will reap what they sow when other nations refuse to deal with India in good faith. If India can be bought by the US so cheaply as to betray the rest of the group, then India has never been a reliable partner in anything. Make no mistake, this IS a betrayal, this is a stab in the back of China and Russia. The world is watching India cheapening itself with its self-serving, short-sighted mentality. Indian politicians and ruling rich have no strategy, no vision, no plans and no love for their country and can be bought cheap. They behave like western neoliberal capitalists with none of the glitter to hide the rot. They are not on the same level as Chinese politicians. India is like a kid who grew up abused and is now dancing in strip clubs for the same kind of people who abused her for greenback singles.
    2
  2674.  @sumanamjs  You play western game using their own underhanded methods. Then, you are no better than them.
    2
  2675. They had a chance in Mar 2022 when there was real peace talks and Ukraine was in a stronger position. Then the US sent boris the hairy to derail the talks. Now, they are in no position to negotiate anything, and probably might even have to cede more lands to Russia so they can secure all the Russia speaking people in the region.
    2
  2676. GDP is a short cut comparison. No one serious about the study of economics use that metric only.
    2
  2677. @ The thing is that these jobs all have their place and role to help the productive side of the economy. You need lawyers to properly represent people in court, draw up contracts, enforce contracts, etc., you need bankers and financial analyst to ensure the smooth operation of financial system that is the lubricant of industrial economy. Entertainers offer worker artistic and spiritual catharsis that makes living actually meaningful. The problem arise when these groups of people overstep their role and start imposing their version of on society and the economy should behave, with the worse being the capitalist financiers who believe that the society should be catering to expansion of value for capitalist owners. The corruption comes from there.
    2
  2678.  @britthoward4776  It is idiocy to create a coup to put in your puppet and directly threaten another nuclear power's security. America invaded far more countries with even less justification. Why don't you condemn that first.
    2
  2679. "Conservative capitalistic and hegemonic ideaology." Looks at how the media is whipping up China hate lately. Oh yes, they are really hating the fact they cannot control China and that the Chinese are challenging their hegemony worldwide.
    2
  2680. That's the true evil of the American empire, the ability to be self delusional and self righteous at the same time.
    2
  2681. The problem is any hostility toward Israel, will be taken as hostility to the west. They are protecting Israel from all consequences and we cannot afford to get caught in their malfeasance. They are literally saying that any criticism of Israel amount to anti-semitism. It is an absurd position to take because plenty of Jews criticize Israel and do not stand with the Zionists, so are they anti themselves? This is how unhinged the west has become and we have no choice but to tread carefully.
    2
  2682. This comes at the same time that the French farmers are protesting against subsidies being cut and regulations designed to force smaller farmers out of business for big Ag to take over. In the context of China retaliating on EU dairy because of EU tariffs on Chinese EVs, accusing them of being subsidized by the Chinese is just hilarious.
    2
  2683. It's not gonna be able to hide from AI supported spy satellite constellation.
    2
  2684.  @zzzz6511  Poe's law.
    2
  2685. Then why panic over the other countries' hypersonics?
    2
  2686.  @lordgarion514  You could say the same thing with flying too. The sheer amount of infrastructure that goes into making flying possible is not incomparable to building dedicated HS rails across multiple cities. We simply lack the will and combined with the stranglehold of automobile industry made any large scale public transport project that compete with cars and trucks impossible.
    2
  2687.  @DesertStateInEU  Except nothing you said even make sense unless you make all the incorrect assumptions. Assumptions that were spoon fed to you through decades of indoctrination. You are wrong about public transportation, you are wrong about cars, you are wrong about how Europe even works. All the points you made are regurgitate bullshit from some right wing think tanks.
    2
  2688. The US has always said one thing and do the other, in fewer words: they lie. They also said exactly what they will do and do it too. They are only honest when they feel like they can do something terrible without suffering any consequences.
    2
  2689. Bourgeois "democracy" is designed for bourgeoisie. It is not reformable.
    2
  2690. You are literally repeating UAS propaganda on a channel that debunks these propaganda. Are you daft? It's like trying to criticize a youtuber that is a geologist who made geology type content on why flat Earth is real.
    2
  2691. Because we are all still in a capitalistic business cycle system.
    2
  2692.  @oot007  morrison is a right-wing neoliberal first before he is anything else, and neoliberals will stick with each other because they know fundamentally that their power lies in being united in power so they can exploit the rest of us.
    2
  2693.  @victorluke5816  only dogmatic capitalists will look at their failing system and say it is working. Go away, you are just a petit bourgeois.
    2
  2694.  @jedensnow1084  I told you many times, it doesn't even work that way.
    2
  2695. You are blaming the wrong people, and the fact that you do is the evidence that Americans are the most propagandized people in the world.
    2
  2696. They really don't want Russia's perspectives to gain widespread viewing. At the point when Ukraine is losing an dthe west is forced to admit it, giving Putin a platform that can reach a western audience will be a huge coup for him. If westerners are willing to at least entertain Russia's POV, then it will add a lot of pressure on western corpo-state media to spin it away and they might not be able to. This is the era when the world is starting to turn against the west and they can feel the walls closing in. Putin telling his side of the story will definitely make western countries citizens start asking questions, and that's when you know the propaganda is failing. That being said, ticker calrson is a terrible person and he is one of the big reasons why the US is so screwed in the head.
    2
  2697. It doesn't matter how good the stock market is performing if the fundamental parts of an economy and society are not good.
    2
  2698.  @merrick6484  Safeguarding their merchant vessels. As is their right to do so. The more the US exercise this kind of hard power bullying, the more countries are going to resent them for it. Yes, the US is still the top dog militarily and it can do this bullying and no one can do much about it, not even China. But Roman in its heyday was also invincible, and they plundered, pillaged and conquered their way across the Mediterranean and the Near East and no one could stop them. Until someone finally did when the Visigoths sacked Rome. They remembered what the Romans did to their ancestors, so did everyone surrounding the empire. The irony of it all is that every passing day, the more relevant Leia's words to Tarkin becomes: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers," As the US of A more and more resembles the Galactic Empire. BRICS, BRI, SCO, RCEP, de-dollarization are all symptoms of this trend, and the American politicians are like the Emperor, Vader and their ilk, delusional about their reality. The more America does this kind of bullying, the more the karma is going to pile up.
    2
  2699. Of course yellen has to say everything is fine. The entire USD system is built on whether the US government will never default, to the point that it's just unthinkable. Well, the unthinkable has now become quite thinkable and it's on everyone's mind. So the more the foundation is cracking, the more the US government has to patch it up with tape and glue, since they can't rebuild the foundation. That tape and glue is the facade of confidence and reality bending delusion. They have to maintain this until the election, and then they don't give a rat's a**.
    2
  2700.  @HTeo-og1lg Yup, the Ukraine war was definitely provoked. Very much provoked, like how the US is trying to provoke China.
    2
  2701. Anytime a feature is difficult to explain on an ancient animal, it's always some sort of sexual selection.
    2
  2702. That how the west behaves. China is not the west. The fact that you thought China will behave like this showed how tainted your moral values are, because all you can believe in is exploitation and domination. Sinful worldviews. Shameful worldviews. Disgusting worldviews. Examine yourself before you open your mouth.
    2
  2703. Free speech is great until you realized none of the speech in America really matters anymore since no matter what you say, the common people don't make any of these decisions. Most policies today are made in favor of the wealthy and powerful, those who can lobby and thus control the government. Go ahead, say whatever you want. It literally doesn't matter because in a late stage capitalistic society like America, your speech don't matter when media, social media and thus public opinion are not yours to control anyway. Free speech is already so nerfed in this country that the thing we are holding on, is a shadow "freedom". A right is not really a right when exercising it does not change anything. The real choices you can make are still limited.
    2
  2704.  @ZweiZwolf Hear! Hear!
    2
  2705. China's debt are also almost all owed within the country. Hakim is right, China does not have a huge bond debt market. China also has accumulated the highest trade surplus in human history. They are literally awashed with cash. Most of their debts are also in industries that produce real commodities, and much needed services. Personal debts are actually very low and savings are high, and their housing market are mostly houses bought with cash by people or with very high down payments, so mortgage debts are low. China's problem is actually the reluctance of the Chinese people to spend because they are culturally a frugal society that has a phobia of debts and spending too much money too quickly, seeing their history is full of hard times of wars, famines, and disasters. The Chinese people have a lot of capital on their hands. They are doing fine. The Chinese government has the absolute power to nationalize and take over any cancerous company and initiate a controlled implosion to limit the spread of any contagion. It also has the power to de-leverage any industry, restrict any industry to prevent harm from coming to the common people, which they have did numerous times to great effect that has brought relief to the Chinese people. The actions that the Chinese government had taken to protect the Chinese people is transparent for all to see and is one of the driving force for such high approval rating from the Chinese people. The Chinese people know their government stand on their side and they have numerous proofs for that. China is not only growing at 4-5%, they are actually having a deflation now. Which means their real growth is actually even higher and most of it is organic, in important industrial sectors like high tech chip manufacturing. The deflation is deliberate as the Chinese government is trying to implode the real estate market and diversify the country's GDP portfolio. They don't want their real estate to grow uncontrollably, full of over-leveraged developers. That will be a disaster down the market. They are popping the bubble on their own terms so they can build a more sustainable, diversified economy for the future. This is an insane concept for western economists and capitalists. China ain't collapsing. Not by a long shot.
    2
  2706. DIV 2146: Guardian Angel Magic by Dr. Andrew M. Henry Great 3 credits elective. Dr. Henry is easy to follow, the class is interesting and his tests are fair and no trick questions. Easy A. Thumbs up.
    2
  2707. I look forward when China can make the US economy scream. But then, China's political culture won't do something so monstrous. More likely, when the US economy collapsed to the point of a shit hole country, China will invite the US to join the BRI to uplift their people out of poverty.
    2
  2708. Like what Marxists always say, the material reality will exert itself on the delusional.
    2
  2709.  @JA-nq7xf  Since when has capitalism dominated market ever really free?
    2
  2710. So you are saying Canada should go fascists since you want to throw out the historical actual anti-fascists.
    2
  2711.  @tombranch2261  No, the difference is the US is threatening to start a war in west Pacific by being provocative and supporting separatism in Taiwan just to get back at China.
    2
  2712. Philip Wong is wrong on one thing. China is increasingly good at coming up with new ideas too.
    2
  2713. Biden might be bad but trump is likely going to be worse for everyone.
    2
  2714. Yup, lend-lease actually had much less impact than the US wants to lead us to believe. By then, the battle of Stalingrad was over and the tide of the w*r was irrevocably turned.
    2
  2715. I'm going nna get a lot of heat but China probably have helped Africa realize the dream of Afrofuturism through the BRI than any other organizations and especially from the west which has only ever view Africa as something to be exploited.
    2
  2716.  @CalvinK300  It is possible to co-exist peacefully, but the hostility this time comes primarily from the west and especially from America, who is seeing its number one position being challenged at all fronts. Americans do not like to think of their themselves as lesser than other countries and white America is especially paranoid about being screwed in the same way they have screwed everyone in the world. They see China's rise as a strong possibility that the consequences of their crimes coming home to roost because someone now could hold them accountable.
    2
  2717.  @ericli2936  Help that is not accessible is no help at all. Furthermore, most developed countries have excellent doctors and superb technologies. The difference is not really that much.
    2
  2718. The poor eating each other, and the rich get richer. Well, that just describe modern America.
    2
  2719. Why must westerners keep making enemies because they are better? One word: racism.
    2
  2720. The US has now declared economic war against China and is ramping up the belligency against China. It will be monumentally st*pid of China to trust that the US will seek peace. The US neocons and most neolibs WANTS TO DESTROY China. Anti-China has near unanimous bipartisan support and the American elites are preparing Americans to go to w*r. A w*r is coming and the US is getting more and more bloodthirsty each day. Why the f will China still want to put their hard earned money in the hands of their enemy knowing full well they will steal it before they n*ke China?
    2
  2721. No, you are not fucked. You can still get work if you people stop this hegemonic and racist attempt to hold onto empire. Let it go, reform your economic systems and you can still come back as an independent country banking on your comparative advantages while not going around spending money on useless wars and provocation.
    2
  2722. It is even more insane when you realize that Australia was the only western country that had a trade surplus with China.
    2
  2723. They wouldn't use a delta canard if it is meant to be an interceptor. It will just be a straight up delta config. This jet is meant to be an air superiority fighter at all speeds. That was the requirement set down by the PLAN and that's what Chengdu gave them
    2
  2724.  @EveOfSeduction  F-22 radar is likely less capable than the J-20 and J-20's steathiness will not be that much lower than the F-22.
    2
  2725.  @EveOfSeduction  Yea... you think the J-20 doesn't use LPI radar too? Really?
    2
  2726.  @robertgoodrich8953  You think a country that has 30% of the entire world's manufacturing from low to high tech does not know metallurgy? You are just coping at this point and your brainwashing and racism are showing.
    2
  2727. Bad calculations bore our of arrogance and drinking their own kool aid.
    2
  2728.  @tellyboy17  You mean what the west have done all this time?
    2
  2729. Yes, China has been playing catch up for a long time and most of their efforts have been focused on the transnational, optimization and scaling and less on generating new technologies and discoveries from ground up. But that has already changed for years. Now more and more Chinese scientists are publishing highly original and innovative papers that explore ideas and concepts that have never been considered or asking new questions that emerged from current scientific understanding. Yes China will continue to take ideas suggested by others and make it into a real thing but Philip Wong is a little off the target by implying that is the only thing China does. Photonic chips, steady state microbunching accelerator light source for UV sources, quantum computing, even building and testing their own nuclear fusion and pushing towards Gen 4 nuclear fission reactors are just some of the examples of China innovating their way out. Not to mention their own burgeoning AI research field, and cutting edge battery tech, electronics which are real products that have come from Chinese scientists' own ideas. Heck, the Chang'e program just proves that China is very willing to invest a lot to do research that is highly inquiring in nature, just for the sake of knowing something. Sure the mission has a lot of other benefits and objectives such as planning for a moon base but it is still in short term a scientifically indulgent type of project, something that used to be an exclusive domain of the west, and the Soviet Union.
    2
  2730. It's not an abberation that China closed off. China had typically close itself off because it is so big and diverse that it is a world on its own and they found little use going outside. That the mistake they will not make again. Ironically, it is the US that is closing its minds off to the outside world, choosing to consume their own culture inwardly without allowing much outside ideas to impact them. If you actually talk to normal Americans, they are actually exceptionally ignorant of anything outside of America, be it culture, or ideologies.
    2
  2731. You just need to see what the West did to natives and other countries not willing to live under our world order to see why we should shut the hell up.
    2
  2732. Or he just wants a different person for the job now.
    2
  2733. Because you guys have been brainwashed and made apathetic like this is just normal, this is the best it's going to ever get.
    2
  2734. The labor in UK is just center right. They are not left wing.
    2
  2735. Haha not like the other old person is any better.
    2
  2736. Not just what happened in 2008, but also the aftermath and the actions (or lack of) taken after the initial crisis. But nothing concrete was done to prevent it from happening again. Capitalist system can't save capitalism from itself.
    2
  2737. The congress cannot stop spending because if it stop spending, the entire shitfest collapses on itself. No politician in America will do that because they will not survive reelection. No one in the US government can tell the American people that they will have to destroy their current economic system to rebuild it, retool it and re-industrialize. The American people are already suffering from the worst wealth inequality since the Great Depression. Their social fabric is breaking down. Their culture are built on narcissism and delusions. They do not how to build a proper, sustainable, communal society anymore. There is also no way the plutocrats, the oligarchs in America will allow the US government to tax them or even nationalize their companies for the sake of the country. The US is now trapped in a finger trap. They cannot stop spending because the country will die, they cannot ask the American people to suffer even more because they are on the brink of collapse as their household debts are unsustainable, and the political system is completely enthralled by their oligarchs who will never budge on taxes and demand unsustainable growth on their assets. The US is a zombie, a dead man walking and they are too propagandized to understand or care. Heck, the BRICS summit admitting new members which are strategically selected to destroy the petrodollar should be the biggest news right now but everyone in America is celebrating the mugshot of trump and I'm not defending trump; he deserves to be in prison. They are trading temporary relief for even worse pain down the road when they will have no choice but to tank it. It is the most American thing to do: short term relief or gain and kicking the can down the road because their political system and culture simply cannot plan for the long term. We are watching history in the making of how a modern, neocolonial empire fall.
    2
  2738.  @jesan733  You people says these stuff like a robot.
    2
  2739. It's not that shocking when you realize that the Americans have no more savings, they are living paycheck to paycheck and increasingly unable to even afford the basic necessities.
    2
  2740. We don't really need this war to know what the US military is capable of. The fiascos of Afghanistan and Iraq are illuminating enough.
    2
  2741. Well, there is always an interest rate at which even an entity with 33 trillion in debt can issue more debts.
    2
  2742. They don;t want to invade anyone. They are trying to defend themselves from US aggression.
    2
  2743. If the west directly intervene, then they have sprung their own trap. The whole point of provoking the Ukrainian, and the attempt to do the same with Taiwan, is to force their enemies, Russia and China to become embroiled in an unwinnable war. Barring that, to keep encroaching on their territories. Either way, the west benefits from deliberately stepping on other countries' redlines. If they really go to war directly in Ukraine, they will lose their own narrative and increase their own risks of being the ones getting bogged down in an unwinnable war. I have a morbid hope that they will do it, and do it half-assedly because they are all reluctant to do it in the first place. With a lackluster commitment, or even a full commitment, the risks of their own war materials getting destroyed increased tremendously. The west needs to be humiliated and humbled before they will back down. And this might be the opportunity for China and Russia to do it.
    2
  2744. If the US will not willingly give up their empire based on financial colonialism, then it will be even more painful for them when they are forced to give it up.
    2
  2745. Too bad calrson is such a vile person. If you even watch a little of fox news and his segment, you know he is an a**hole. He is one of the big reasons why American media is so f up. Maybe his interview with Putin might get some Americans (probably red hats Trumpers) to listen to Russia's perspectives but I don't need to watch the interview to know it. People who are less bias already know where Russia stands and why the west is wrong on this.
    2
  2746.  @moreless2690  The "concerns" are virtue signalling and the forced labor and human rights violations are made up. Human rights have long been weaponized by the west to attack their rivals. I don't give much credit to western accusations of some countries' violating human rights anymore because when you peer off the facade, they are almost always accusations driven by political and economical reasons. The west are concern trolls especially when it comes to human right violations accusation.
    2
  2747. Indeed. The west had grown fat on 500 years of colonial looting and even today with neocolonialism. Now with the rise of China, and that's also carrying the rest of the global majority, the 500 years of western colonial domination is finally coming to an end and the west does not know how to handle it.
    2
  2748. Kevin is still not learning the lesson of Afghanistan, it is you shouldn't be there at all in the first place. You want to take out Osama Bin Laden for 911, that should have been done through intelligence and covert operations. In the end, that's what happened. You want to prevent increasing number of refugees and seemingly increasing number of enemies, then you shouldn't be unilaterally sanctioning countries and people and use military force so causally to force other people to bend their knee. The problem in the end, is that Americans drank the kool-aid that their culture and society and system are superior than everyone else and they cultivate a false sense of righteousness and so it gives them all the freedom to interfere with the rest of the world. The worst part is that most of these interventions, covert, overt, military or otherwise were not even done for the right reasons. Americans keep saying they are trying to promote freedom and democracy around the world but we all know that what they want is to impose their liberal capitalist system on all of us with them at the top of the hierarchy, raking in profits. America has an American exceptionalism, American supremacy problem that blinds them. It is this hypocrisy of using noble values to hide sinister, greedy agendas and then using violence to enforce them, that truly disgust people.
    2
  2749. That's because Japan is a v*ss*l of the US.
    2
  2750.  atheos19  You really think the world is going to war with China because the US says so? Heck, I will be surprise if half of Europe will go to war with China on the behest of the US. China is the biggest trading partner with more than 120 countries in the world, and most of the rest have China either its 2nd or 3rd biggest trading partner. To go to war with China is to literally destroy yourself. So in the event of a conflict in west Pacific, the US might be the one who find itself alone.
    2
  2751. Ohh man.. sounds like China should totally support texas road to independence. Sell them some arms. This is hilarious.
    2
  2752. Bilibili.
    2
  2753. Lol you think the problem is your taxes going to other countries, student loans and banks? Why not ask the question why the money is going to these places. You also neglected to mention the MIC, the stock buybacks, the subsidies across all industries that basically funnel printed money into inflating rich people's assets. You people always miss the point. The system is creating these problems and the system is capitalism and plutocracy.
    2
  2754.  @jmvasquez2312  And you sources are western corpo-state propaganda? LOL
    2
  2755.  @patricksmith1626  Russia is threatened by NATO expansion which has an intention to dominate Russia and Russia had many times pleaded with the west not to threaten them and give them security guarantees, which were ignored. So they had to protect themselves from the pro-western Ukrainian regime which was installed by an undemocratic coup. Hamas is a resistance group partly cultivated by Israel to defeat the other Palestinian political group to ensure Palestine remain in turmoil. Israel has occupied Palestinian lands since the end of WWII for over 70 years and has implemented cruel, oppressive policies against the Palestinians in a slow moving gen*cide designed to slowly choke out the Palestinian people. Gaza is basically a open air prison, the largest of its kind and it's not that different from the Warsaw Ghetto and is a continuous humanitarian crisis all designed and implemented by Israel with the support of the US and the collective west. Now it is conducting an active gen*cide in front of everyone. What universe do YOU live in?
    2
  2756.  @MataniJuan  No, it is the west that threatened Russia with NATO expansion and the maidan coup. Russia has the right to protect itself.
    2
  2757.  @lvjinbin28  It goes even way before that when the US expanded NATO eastward in 2008.
    2
  2758.  @patricksmith1626  Taiwan is an unresolved civil war issue and has always been part of China. Phillipinnes is illegally claiming reef shoals by grounding a rust buckle there instead of negotiating in good faith, then act like they are the victims.
    2
  2759.  @MataniJuan  It is NATO expansion. Everything Russia does is a reaction to US provocation. You need to stop watching western corpo-state media propaganda. The fact that you think Russia is this cartoonist villain is a classic product of western brainwashing.
    2
  2760. The irony is global warming melts the ice so we can dig up more fossil fuels that we will burn more to increase the warming. And we will all be dead.
    2
  2761.  @inkbold8511  Because the capitalist system requires an underclass, poor, powerless people to be exploited.
    2
  2762.  @vwertix1662  A lot of Muslim nations also have strong ties economically to the US and yet they still condemn US involvement in west Asia, and causing a lot of death, destruction and suffering. So your point is irrelevant.
    2
  2763. The most brilliant psychopath in history? If Mao was a psychopath, then 90% of the west are the devil's avatars. Seeing if a Western intellecutal trying not to be a western chauvinist is like seeing a Koala bear trying to solve differential equations. There is almost nothing worth learning from the west. If anyone is actually serious about learning Chinese history, go ask an actual Chinese historian from a Chinese institute steeped in the cultural background of the country to give you the correct interpretations and facts.
    2
  2764. GOOD. Ban it. The Gallium should not be used to make weapons that are used in genocides.
    2
  2765. The only thing they are right is that Germany is a puppet state of the US empire.
    2
  2766. Seems like god's plan is the decline and fall of the US considering that the Global South is rising and following China's lead to prosperity and growth.
    2
  2767. "Such countries cannot be considered governments that truly care for their people." You're right. Western governments and media cannot be considered to truly care for their people.
    2
  2768.  @cia5649  There is democracy when gangs are literally roaming the street and killing your people. Sure, let the El Salvadorans vote with the gangs threatening the people and we will have gangbangers becoming ministers. Tomorrow, they will legalize rape, turn the entire economy into a protection racket and their biggest export will be drugs and sex trafficking. Where is your freedom and democracy now?
    2
  2769.  @jameswilliam26  It's the other way around.
    2
  2770. ​ @jameswilliam26 Israel was conceived first as a settler colony state way back in the late 1800s. Zionism is about moving into the Palestinian lands and taking it over. The founder of Zionism even described it to Cecil Rhodes, the infamous British imperialist that the Israel project is "a kind of colony" and seek support from Rhodes and the British empire to make it happen. So even at the very beginning, it was never about giving Jews their homeland because it was never anyone to give. The Palestinian people have been living there, along with other Christians, native Jews who never left or came back over the centuries. The Jewish state as imagined like in the Bible or during the Roman times did not exist for over 1500 years. People moved in and they just stayed and settled there for centuries. At the turn of the 20th century, the Levant was part of the Ottoman empire. It wasn't for the British empire or Rhodes to give away. There is no way that the establishment of a country arbitrarily on land with people already living there for a long time will not involve removing them and the first PM of Israel even said so himself. There is no way an Israeli state can be established without taking lands from the Palestinians. So yes, the modern Israeli state was a colony-settler project, it can only exist by removing the people already living there forcibly and the Jewish state has not exist there for centuries so how can anyone justify forming it in the first place. So Hamas and the people of Palestinians are occupied people and the Israelis are the invaders. That is the objective history.
    2
  2771. Imagine if those socialist countries were not constantly sabotaged by the US, how far they will go. Heck, look at how far Cuba has come despite being sanctioned and invaded by the US for decades.
    2
  2772.  @thug4lyfe  Which is essentially what trading is all about. China shouldn't have to do this when they are trading what they produce for what other people produced. When you sanction another country for political reasons, you are already violating that trading principle. The mindbogglingly self-serving part of this whole shitfest is the US sanctioning its political rivals with absolutely no qualms on the hypocrisy of their actions. They talk big on freedom but it is always a cover for their double standards, and their relentless lust to dominate other countries.
    2
  2773.  @djibicisse  NATO started it, you liar.
    2
  2774. All of these maneuverings by Russia and China are to protect their economy while they weather the onslaught from the US. The US can raise interests rates to suck up everyone's capital, sure, but it will cost them a lot in the future when these bonds mature. They are basically cutting their own flesh and use it to slap China and Russia.They lose the flesh and is going to bleed for a long time. All China and Russia have to do is to carefully navigate the dollar system and slowly de-dollarize and wait for the eventual default of the US government. When that happens, the world will be thrown into chaos, especially for countries that depend heavily on the US financial system and economic order. Their treasuries and USD reserve will become worthless, and that's when China will strike the killing blow to US hegemony. So we will be seeing who will crash first, the US with its high interest rates and weaponized currency or China/Russia and the BRICS nations along with the Global South trying to de-risk from the US financial and economic system. I will not be surprise if the US tries something desperate like forcing Taiwan to declare independence in a bid to force China to intervene and hope that a cross strait war will destroy China's economy first before they default. But I think the Chinese leadership knows better. Or the US government severely cut down its spending and crash its own economy anyway. If they cut welfare severely at the point when ordinary Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, no savings, high debts incurred just to survive, it will break the proverbial camel's back. The political, banking, financial and economic system within the US will inevitably conspire against ordinary Americans to save their own skins, which is exactly what capitalists always do. It will make 2008 looked like a stroll in the park. We could even have a socialist revolution in the US. Or the US becomes a white supremacy fascist state, and de-dollarization will be the furthest thing from our mind when fascist America is threatening to launch nukes at anyone refusing to bend the knee. Here is an important point to consider, the dollar does not have to lose all its market share as reserve currency for the US government to default. It just have to be low in demand to the point the treasuries' yield have to be high enough to make the US government unable to service the debt anymore.
    2
  2775. The US made a mess, then abandon the whole thing for someone else to clean up. Always been like this.
    2
  2776. "How can people believe that nuking cities is not a war crime?" Because America says so. This is what having a cultural hegemony gives you: the ability to brainwash the world.
    2
  2777. "How can people believe that nuking cities is not a war crime?" Wait til they get themselves nuked and you can hear their whining from the moon.
    2
  2778.  @gracesutton1359  No problem. But therein lies the core problem; the average American knows very very little about any other point of views, other models, other systems, other ways of thinking outside the American model and are indoctrinated (yes indoctrinated) to not accept outside ideas. The American model is so pervasive that other models simply do not have a chance to make a stand in the "marketplace of ideas" which is heavily curated by pro-American model propaganda. By framing it as American Exceptionalism, it makes learning and adopting outside ideas nearly impossible, and America has clearly lost out on advancements and progress in policy making, politics, systems of economy, philosophical examinations of society and culture, even science and technologies, where places like China and even in Europe are far more open to outside ideas. They have taken the best ideas and adapted them to their society and culture and it is clearly working for them. One prominent example is passenger rail. Europe and Japan have proven that high speed rail works and China sought a solution to their huge population and cities adopted this idea. They know it works, they use it, learn about it and now has the largest HSR network in the world, moving millions of people per month that could have jammed up highways if they were all driving. That was also how the French learned from Japan's Shinkansen and created the TGV for themselves Meanwhile, Americans are making all sorts of dumbass excuses about why HSR won't work in America, and deliberately build cities that have suburb sprawl, killing public transport and then wonder why cities are getting jammed up with traffic with 10 lanes highways and are going bankrupt trying to subsidize these suburbs. It is this American Exceptionalism that is preventing from learning from others and screwing up, not to mentioned the sheer arrogance and entitlement.
    2
  2779. The fact that all Chang'e missions were successful and they also brought back soil from the far side of the moon should really shut people up about doubting China's scientific capability and engineering prowess. Keep in mind that the Chang'e missions were more than just landers. CNSA also put into orbit lunar relay satellites so they can transmit data in real time from the far side of the moon, and planning to build a lunar satellite constellation like a lunar Beidou.
    2
  2780.  @Ludak021  LOL milei loves capitalism. milei is the most adept of all neolibs. He sold his country out to American capitalists.
    2
  2781. China already brought down property prices in most places by deliberately popping the bubble. The Chinese government still control the land over which the "private" properties are built. It is this control that allows China to allocate capital and resources to places that need it the most to create prosperity and ensure stability. The debt is only a problem if the central government cannot control the capital of the country. But that doesn't mean the local provincial government can borrow reckless and they shouldn't. I'm sure China will come up with creative solutions to tackle these problems.
    2
  2782. I don't have any confidence in western socialism because there is no real, viable Marxist-Leninist political organisation there. They are all right wing lite, socdems. They can't really do anything beyond wringing out some concessions from the capitalists. The moment they even dare to change the underlying system, the streets of NY, Paris, Berlin, London will run red with blood. And I don't think westerners have the guts to do an actual revolution.
    2
  2783.  @lanbaode  China didn't do anything illegal to Philippines. They are the ones who jammed a rusting ship on a shoal and illegal claim that it's their territory.
    2
  2784. Yet again, the US is focusing on an issue not because it is a moral thing or that it is an economic issue, it is because they are afraid of losing control over the world
    2
  2785.  @LouCurri  No, of course not. But they might have to confront them by sending more there.
    2
  2786.  @Luvemliljs  Yea, but I don't think it's completed yet. And even then, the Americans might bl*w it up like they did with Nor*str*am. Apparently, YT censor any comment that has "bl*w it up" or "Nor*dstr*eam". Refuses to let me post it unless I censor the words.
    2
  2787. It's the same pretexts that the US used for lots of their sanctions, so why not let them have a taste of their own medicine. Germanium is used in high frequency radars as in advance AESA radars so it is not wrong to say it is a threat to their national security. The spyplanes and warships that patrol regularly up and down China's coastlines and beam high powered radar into their lands. Some of these radars are AESA and they have the potential to guide weapons to attack the Chinese people. If we follow the US standards for creating excuses for sanctions, these reasons are more than enough for China to embargo the US from getting their germanium. Of course there are other sources of these metals and if push comes to shove, the US will force its allies to sell them the metals for their MIC. The sanction probably won't work very well and the Chinese know it. We all know it. This is just a tit for tad retaliation. The real pain is from banning companies like Micron from selling their goods in China, and having their own companies out-competing western countries. We are already seeing huge reduction in profits from giants like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Samsung etc. from being unable to compete in China or having being restricted. This sanction is just icing on the cake.
    2
  2788.  @MetaView7  Of course they care about national security. The century of humiliation is still a large driving force in Chinese mindset and that's when their national security was so weak they were invaded, bullied and oppressed by the west and Japan. China simply do not believe that national security should be based on fear, oppression on other countries and military might. The BRI, SCO, BRICS and various international organizations they are part of, are all tied back to their national strategic goal of multipolarity and reducing the US hegemony. US hegemony is the most direct threat to China. They know that they should not challenge US hegemony directly through military force but rather to erode it over time through economic development, industrialization, self-sufficiency and most importantly giving the world an alternative to US controlled international organizations like the IMF, world bank, NATO etc., and the USD dominace, so the smaller, weaker countries that do not want to be controlled by Washington has a chance to slip pass that control and develop themselves. A stronger Global South means the collective west cannot dominate them and thus reduce US hegemony. It took them a decade since the BRI was founded and various other organizations to become more mature. This is the kind of long term planning and strategic discipline to keep at it that the west simply cannot match. They do all these because they don't want to be bullied anymore. They don't want to be murdered by neoliberal fascists that control the west. National security is very much on the minds of CPC planners, as it should be. But sanctions like this is just tit for tad and don't really amount to much. The CPC are strategists, they think long term, they planned things carefully, and they adapt quickly to emerging situations. Sanctions used like how the west does it, is tactical, ineffective and ultimately self-destructive so China doesn't use it often, and even when they do, they used it mostly to make a point. Only westerners think this is a big deal.
    2
  2789. China - okay sure.
    2
  2790. So how many of these Metis people survive the genocide?
    2
  2791.  @johnanderson5242 Would you let an outsider meddle in your own country's politics and then plunged it into a civil war so as to use your country as a proxy against that outsider's geopolitical rival (which you have a good relation prior)? Who is the coward here.
    2
  2792. How much did you pay for your ticket and what year? Did you have your own screen with hundreds of movies and TV series, news, personal radio from around the world, actually decent breathable air and quiet cabins?
    2
  2793. For India and China, it's not just see pass their differences to seek cooperation. The most important part is they completely bypass the west, and do whatever they want. In the past, the US will likely be involved in some capacity.
    2
  2794. China's economy already surpassed the US long ago. The moment the US chose to go down the neoliberal path of rampant financialization and de-industrialization, it is already in decline. The US can't make anything anymore on a large scale. China's industrial capacity far outstrip the US and the combined west. The US economy is literally propped up by its corrupted financial services and military industrial complex, overpriced healthcare, bullshit white collar jobs, and declining blue collar work. Oh, and environment destroying agriculture. Sure the US can re-industrialize but how fast, how much, and how efficient can the US do it? In the US, if it is not profitable, it simply won't be done and goods produced in the US is not cost effective enough to be profitable. That's the fatal flaw of capitalism. China already won at the fundamental level. Now it is just a numbers game of GDP, HDI , life expectancy, education etc.
    2
  2795. Zelensky is slowly turning into a second Mr Cash my Check, the loser Chiang Kak Sek of the Chinese Civil War back in 1949 and ran to Taiwan.
    2
  2796. Another metric to measure is VLS tubes, and subs. The PLAN is still behind the USN on VLS tubes but every 055, 052 and 054 built is closing the gap. They are in no hurry to do so since they only need to defend their homeland first. That mission is supported by the PLAAF and PLARF. If you start adding all the missiles that the PLA as a whole can throw out, it will overwhelm whatever defenses the USN can put up. Then they also have more manufacturing capacity to replace all those missiles far faster than the entire west can. This competition is so onesided, it is hilarious.
    2
  2797. It is only unavoidable if the US really start some shit, which is very very possible. But the material reality is that every year China and the Global South get stronger. Soon, the west will not be able to control the Global South and China. The west going to war with China at that point will be like going to war with the rest of the world as the Global South will never stand with the west against China. Even if the Global South will not join in the war, they will not cut China off and that is enough for China to survive and emerge victorious using its immense industrial capacity. The west cannot even keep up a tiny war in Ukraine with ammo supplies and equipment. They might ramp up their production but there is no way it can match China's capacity. They can't even match Russia's industrial capacity. Westerners like to joke that the DF-21 is untested and will not be able to hit a carrier. Sure, maybe so, if there are only a 100 DF-21s. But a 1000? 5000? Along with thousands of other anti-ship missiles? You just need 1 hit from that missile to sink a carrier. China can sink the entire USN if China goes full total war mode simply by producing so much weapons it will overwhelm whatever the USN can put out in Pacific. And because they only have a fraction of the shipbuilding and industrial capacity of China, the US won't be able to replace each carrier, destroyer, submarine they lost in time. You're right that diplomacy does not work with arrogant people who believe they are destined to rule. But that calculation alone should hopefully, really hopefully throw some cold water on the a**wipes now in the US government and their insane plans to preserve US hegemony at all costs.
    2
  2798.  @calvinblue894  Yes, and America is the kind of country that will rather destroy the world than to not have it. Look at their culture.
    2
  2799.  @Music5362  Obama got elected so unarmed black people getting summarily executed by the police has stopped? Good lord man, do you really think people outside the west are morons?
    2
  2800.  @xeigen2  That's the thing. What F-35 can do, especially in the sensor fusion, distributed sensor, datalinking part are not going to be ignored by other countries or companies developing their own fighters. Even the latest F-18s are going to get AESA and datalink, and a lot of upgrade, so much so it is nearly a completely new aircraft. Of course, there is indeed only so much you can do with an old airframe so they will never be as good as F-35 which is designed from ground up to use these technologies and tactics. I am pretty sure all the new 5+ gen fighters will try reach F-35 capability and all the last gen 4.5+ fighters will incorporate as much of these lessons as possible. Look up the Saab Gripen, it is a fighter that is built with gen 5 software and hardware capability with a more modest and cheaper gen 4.5+ airframe. The software, situational awareness, detection all that are all generation defining features and it is F-35 which first effectively incorporate them all together into a single jet.
    2
  2801.  @cancelanime1507  Except in America, we actually twist greed into a virtue.
    2
  2802. China is more willing to hear EU's voices and interests and to negotiate in good faith than the US. Because China has consistently said they don't want to dominate but to build a multipolar world and they have also put their money where their mouth is and working towards that with concrete actions. Remember what the US said when Nixon took the USD off the gold standard? "The dollar is our currency, but it's your problem.” Utter by the arrogant bozo John Connally. So Europeans, you have or ask yourself. Are you the lackeys of the US or are you an independent. proud people?
    2
  2803. The people who defend the status quo of US hegemony always argue about what is happening now, like this example that the sale is only 1 million barrels. They don't like to look at the fact that this is even happening or the general trend that more and more countries are trading bilaterally using their own currencies. The west always has a blind spot because they can manipulate their own reality using their firewalled corpo-state media.
    2
  2804. Malaysia has been talking about a HSR since I was in primary school. It's not gonna happen unless they join BRI.
    2
  2805. I just find it ironic that Mr Freeman mentioned that Ukraine suspend the use of enthic languages and this is the country that the west is touting as the bulwark against Russian Imperialism. Meanwhile, in China, enthic languages are preserved and taught in schools along with Mandarin Chinese in order to ensure cultural continuity and keeping people happy. And the west denigrate China saying it is authoritarian, practices gen*cide. Just another hypocrisy to throw into the huge pile.
    2
  2806. No, China is still Marxist-Leninist while the US is moving towards fascism and even more capitalism. The fact that you people still think that capitalism is the cure all is exactly why you landed in this hot soup.
    2
  2807. I don't see a problem here.
    2
  2808. This is what media and cultural imperialism looks like aboard. You people are just having a little taste of what your government and elites do overseas to other countries' leaders and their governments.
    2
  2809. The US government is the corporations. It is why I refer to US media as corpo-state media because that's really what it is.
    2
  2810.  @twlamSG  Wow, what an obviously unfair take. They did something about it, you people complain. They don't do something about it, you people also complain. They prevented a bubble bursting and before that, they were able to develop their country using that development capacity. All in all, I say they handle it well. Far far far better than what the US did in 2008.
    2
  2811. It's a problrm in the US and no where else because of the way US companies and entities exploit and cheapen other cultures.
    2
  2812.  @yurichtube1162 EU countries are like bunch of headless turkeys running around waiting for the American farmer to come and put them out of their misery and serve them for Thanksgiving. LOLLOLOL YT censored the word b*tcher.
    2
  2813.  @seangaun  He's trying to earn that 1.6B, give him a break 😂
    2
  2814.  @therecanbeonlyonechris5019  No, capitalism always corrupts government in the end, this is part of the cycle of capitalism. This is capitalism.
    2
  2815. India is no one's friend. They combined the worst aspects of everything - their debilitating caste system, their cultural tendency towards elitism and the exploitation of the weaker members of their society because of the caste system, their religious pandering and hatred. They adopted the western colonial mindset of racism and racial exceptionalism and supremacy (which ironically fuels their inferiority complex towards the Chinese) and their slavish adherence to western liberal system (aka capitalism, self-centeredness, performative politics, substanceless spectacles). The only thing that is the same between China and India is that both countries have a huge population. Every advantage that makes China succeed, is everything India lacks. Every disadvantage that China does not possessed that could have stumble China's progress, India has them.
    2
  2816. Why don't the US government just go ahead and ban all Chinese EVs anyway. The 100% tariff is already a farce which is obviously done to prevent Chinese EV makers from entering US market. At the end of the day, the only thing the US leadership, their oligarchs, their corporations understand is complete crushing defeat, with a DF-21 warhead slamming into the deck of a USN carrier. All of these actions and aggression towards China is because the US is running out of time to preserve its hegemony, its financial colonial empire, and a desperate empire lead by infantile people will do great mischief before it can be subdued. The US must be forced to bend the knee and answer for all its transgressions, double standards and hypocrisy. America must be made to pay, or else these infantile people will never learn their lesson. They must be made to suffer the consequences of their actions, and if that will finally result in a revolution in the country, then so be it.
    2
  2817. Seem like Temu is now a security threat to US.
    2
  2818. Exactly. I keep seeing western and Indian media trying to lionize India and insist that India can become the next "China". I say a system that can produce a leader like Modi and oligarchs like Abamni and the Adani family will never be able to replicate China's success.
    2
  2819.  @yellowsheeps  Yes, Mao laid the foundation of the country. He was a visionary who was well educated on Marxist theories to apply it to the material conditions of China during the fight against the KMT. He concluded that the farming peasantry of China was also important for the revolutionary effort and he succeeded in mobilizing the farming proletariat more so than the urban proletariat. Even the Cultural Revolution was done because he was seeing reactionary forces starting to take over the country and they needed to be purged. The mistake was that it went out of control and went too far but it had to be done. All that foundations laid down, especially the control of the CPC over the country's capital and resources and the strong connection between the people and the party, allowed Deng to embark on his ambitious plan to open up China and use capitalists and the market economy to propel China forward fast. Deng, Zhou, Mao, they were all true communists who understood the lessons of Marx and Lenin and were able to adapt their praxis, and theories to the unique conditions of China. That's why China is so superlative today.
    2
  2820.  @yellowsheeps  agreed.
    2
  2821. The collective west can't even supply enough ammunition to sustain 2 small proxy wars, and they are trying to provoke a big one with China, the country that has 30% of the manufacturing capacity of the world, and is the biggest trading partner to 100 over countries and at least 2nd biggest to nearly the rest of the world.
    2
  2822. It is cute when westerners talk about Orwellian stuff. The main point is not whether the west is turning Orwellian. It has always been Orwellian. The time when it becomes relevant is when something threatens the financial system, especially rich people's money is when the underlying Orwellian control start surfacing. The actual theme of 1984 is not surveillance, it is the encompassing power of the "party" over every aspect of your life and your information, that it can make you disbelieve the things you see even before your eyes. On that part, the west is supremely Orwellian because the media control is such that the corpo-state of western governments can make it's own citizens disbelieve what is true and indulge in what is delusional. The west has ALWAYS BEEN ORWELLIAN.
    2
  2823. Africa is rich, but it is overexploited by the west.
    2
  2824. Ground News doesn't really work if it does not include media from outside the western Anglosphere.
    2
  2825. Most western leaders and all US presidents should be in jail if the ICC actually work.
    2
  2826.  @tigerking8413  The Australian government will never be sincere in their civic duty or efficient and competent because Australia is basically a US-lite. A capitalist controlled plutocracy. Anti-social, anti-public, profit-above-all psychopathy is built into the system.
    2
  2827.  @jakepistolero  This is why I refer to that country as UAS, and the people as USians. Don't want to insult other people who live in the western hemisphere.
    2
  2828. China never had a doubt that it will end up this way. Those outside the western media bubble not drinking their kool-aid could see it ending up this way.
    2
  2829. A lot of people in this comment thread is taking a regressive take on social justice causes and the humanities. There is nothing in socialism that says the humanities and sociology are parasitic. If you people even bother to actually learn about dialetics, materialism, and what Marx and numerous Marxist/socialist scholars have expounded over the last 2 centuries, you will understand that humanities and sociology (yes that includes gender studies, racial studies, class studies, historical materialism, etc., etc.) are needed for a healthy society to grow. Dialectic materialism, and the Marxist-Leninist system that China is BASED ON, does not rejection the arts, humanities, sociology or the human side of society. It is in fact, the fulfillment of it because socialism is all about fulfilling the utmost of human potential, to ensure the value of the people's labor belongs to them and the ultimate expression of social justice. All of these "woke" studies are naturally part of the socialist ideology. The difference between the western idea of "wokeness" and the socialist idea of true egalitarianism is that the western elites like to pretend that they care about these issues, while hijacking these ideas for their own agendas, weaponizing it, commodifying it, and stripping these ideas of its radicalism for social justice, until it is a product for performing virtue signalling. That does not mean these ideas are not worthy of pursuit, just because western capitalist system strip them completely of its true substance, which is ultimately about social justice and equality for all, prosperity for all. In fact, it is at this point of time, we need to RECLAIM these ideas from the bourgeoisie and give them back their true purposes. I am so sick and tired of people in the comment thread treating these ideas, while tainted by western bourgeois corruption as though they are the same as western bourgeois corruption itself.
    2
  2830. Yup, Israel is an apartheid state, and the Palestinians are in an open air prison. Everything that goes in and out of Gaza is controlled by the Israelis. Only underground struggling actually evade Israel's blockade. That's not an economy. That's just surviving. Every year, Israel encroaches on the Palestinians, driving them out of their homes and taking over their lands and killing them. Israel is committing a genocide just like the Nazis did to the Jews, except it is a slow moving, like boiling a frog slowly. But the result is still the same: the complete ethnic cleansing of a people. I have very little sympathy for the apartheid Israeli state, and it can survive because the US support that apartheid state.
    2
  2831.  @SodiumSyndicate  Everyone agrees to dedollarize. Only India wants to maintain western dominance status quo because biden gave him some scraps. Indian government is like a cheap prostitute.
    2
  2832.  @raymondnoel6053  What people actually need is public transport but their car companies have brainwashed Americans to believe that PT is horrible. America is one of the few, if not the only country in the world that allows its companies to engage in nation wide indoctrination campaigns to increase profits. It is one of the most disgusting aspects of American culture, and it should be the first thing that must be banned when the new world order finally emerges.
    2
  2833.  @cheungchingtong  Poverty is the number one cause of high crime rates. Education reduces poverty because people have more options for higher paying jobs, anti-corruption also reduces poverty because public money are invested more wisely and less incidences of unequal treatment of people. The CCTV and enforcement are just the after-thought of reducing crimes because the US also has a lot of surveillance and even more brutal police enforcement and yet their poorer neighborhoods are still plagued with crimes. Sure the surveillance is really for the government and corporate better tools for oppression and the police's job is really to protect rich people's properties and make sure the working class does not step out of line, but poverty remains the core cause of high crime rate. Desperate people with no future have nothing to lose, nothing to strive for, and that desperation warp your mindset. Get people out of poverty and suddenly they want to live, they want a future, and they have hope and dreams. People with hope and dreams and the means to achieve them usually do not turn to crime.
    2
  2834. Don't forget to factor in total historical emission. The combined CO2 emission by the collective west (including Japan and South Korea) far outstrip China and way way way ahead of the rest of the world. We wouldn't be in this mess in the first place if the west stopped emitting so much carbon way back then. They had the chance to stop emitting so much. They had the capital, and the technology to make the switch. It would have been painful but we wouldn't have used up all the carbon debts if it were not for the west's, especially the US, irresponsible usage of fossil fuels. If the west really was all about equality, freedom, democracy, justice and fairness for all people in the world, they would have force themselves to transition over to renewable and nuclear before the 2000s, and we would have far more carbon headroom for the developing countries to use cheap energy to develop. They would have also help the developing countries leapfrog over to renewable and nuclear after the initial development was done. But they didn't do that. They CHOSE to keep using cheap energy to sustain their decadent standard of living and now they want the rest of us to cut back and stop developing because the world is on fire. They can go F themselves.
    2
  2835. Haha the thumbnail and title is pure clickbait.
    2
  2836. The collective imperial core nations must include Japan, Israel and South Korea in the historical emission.
    2
  2837. The US is the cause of this war. They need to be punished.
    2
  2838. It went from "Russia is screwed", "they used only a billions to destroy the Russian military," to "it's not going well, so we scale back expectations," to finally, "stalemate is really a victory." The way the west has conducted this war is like watching dumb teenagers do stuff.
    2
  2839. There's always bailout money for mistakes made by capitalist hegemonists. That's what Ukraine is, what Isrl is and what the 2008 bailouts are.
    2
  2840. Look like something the CIA and NED will set up.
    2
  2841. What are you talking about? It was the Russians who blew up their own pipeline. /s
    2
  2842.  @AhmetTekin101  hahahaha, the Chinese people are literally polled at 80 to over 90% approval for their government. Stop drinking western kool aid propaganda
    2
  2843. LOL those who actually observed the war objectively already knew the West is not producing enough and their precision weapons have been degraded by Russian EW. It seem that Kevin does have a blind spot in that he still relies heavily on western media for his information on current events that the west have every incentive to misrepresent. It is only until recently that the western media began to admit what we have known for months because they couldn't hide the fiasco any longer. Kevin, do you know that the west actually don't have enough cotton supply to make the explosives needed for the shells because they sanctioned Xingjiang? HAhaahhhahahahaa I suggest people read other sources not written by western media.
    2
  2844. I always find it hilarious that they keep harping about F-16s. It is at best a mediocre 4.5 gen fighter and likely they won't even send the best block version to Ukraine. It is as though they forget or just conveniently ignore that Russia has flankers and R-37s and R-77s. This is the level of self delusional discourse that saturated western media sphere.
    2
  2845. They never received the news unless it canbe spun in ways to manipulate them to hate China.
    2
  2846. This is fake news because Wuhan doesn't build nuclear subs. They build it exclusively at Bohai. Western media is just pathetic.
    2
  2847. Yup, the Europeans only have themselves to be blamed. The neoliberals on both sides of the pond are screaming freedom and democracy while throwing Ukrainian lives into the near grinder. Their purpose has alway been dominating Russia into a puppet state but it's failing. Russia today is more independent than ever. Yea, they are still capitalist oligarchs but they are not western oligarchs. But the war dragged on with no end in victory for the west. They needed a win so they can loot Russia and to placate their people, and no amount of propaganda is going to work if Russian flags fly triumphant over Ukraine. The west is forced into a corner diplomatically and politically in Ukraine and the US is eating Europe alive economically to prop up their own economy before the election. Truly, if you have a friend like the US, who needs enemies. Breaking the west is a good thing, Sean. It will be better for 80 over percent of the population in the rest of the actual world.
    2
  2848.  @keepingittight  LOL Indonesia and Malaysia will never allow US aggressor planes to land on their territory. As for Taiwan, the day they let US jets bombing Mainland China use their airbases is the day of reunification.
    2
  2849. There should be a new way to measure democracy: the relative distance between a de jure democracy and a de facto democracy. De jure is that on paper and procedural, a country can be democratic, but if it is not measure with de facto democracy. De facto democracy will measure: 1. the policies that people desire gets enacted vs. policies they don't want or don't care for, will indicate power distribution among the population 2. wealth inequality that indicate how wealth is concentrated, 3. poverty level indicates how fair the overall system is able to redistribute wealth and give prosperity to all, 4. combined 2 and 3 will give us utilitarian level of the policies that helps distribution of wealth 5. achieving basic living standards: including true access to education, housing, jobs, savings and retirement, healthcare etc., 6. labor union power measured against corporate power, pervasiveness of unions and whether unions have enough power for negotations 7. imperialistic tendencies of the countries' foreign policies 8. media independence from powerful influences including government and corporations, to examine the level of propaganda that skewed toward powerful elites, both state and private. 9. measurement of the citizens' information bubble derived from covert and overt propaganda and indoctrination. If you start measuring democracy in the de facto manner, I will bet a lot of money that the US will drop in democracy ranking tremendously. The current way these metrics are measured is absurdly skewed toward de jure democracy that serves to put western countries on a higher moral pedestal that they do not deserve and these fake moral high grounds are weaponized for diplomatic imperialism from the west. We will have classification like True Democracy (maybe some Scandinavian countries will qualified) where both the de jure and de facto measurements are high; Superficial Democracy (US, UK and probably most of western Europe, even India) where de jure is high but de facto is low; Practiced Democracy (China, Singapore and some other prosperous countries with stronger dejure authoritarianism) where the de jure is low but de facto is high, and Undemocratic (usually failed states) where de jure is low and de facto is low.
    2
  2850. This video is timely, since Chinese companies have been releasing PHEV and full EVs pickups recently. They look and function like actual trucks.
    2
  2851. It's not that difficult to understand why stuff like the CSS was not widely talked about in the west. The western corpo-state media basically gag anything positive or worse, any achievement that's truly monumental from China being reported. Or if they do, they won't do it fairly. They will always denigrate it. This is what Orwellian looks like.
    2
  2852. I can't take this seriously with both PMs in high vis jackets and hard hats looking like they don't belong there.
    2
  2853. Why is Singapore friends with both China and the US? Because Singapore is not stupid, and not bound by superficial allegiance to ideologies. Singapore's survival is dependent on being friendly to the most powerful nations in the world and being indispensable to everyone.
    2
  2854.  @Xx-xd3zo  Except that all of them are not even true. You might have free speech but it is used against you to misinform you, and you don't even know.
    2
  2855.  @Kenny-yl9pc  LOL... comments like this just goes to show how much deprogramming these people need to undergo. Literally shilling for their colonial master.
    2
  2856. The Chinese government is doing a lot.
    2
  2857. Good lord CNA, can you stop shilling for western propaganda for just one moment. China's "overcapacity" is literally helping to keep inflation down in Singapore. We are buying cheap, quality goods from taobao, the exact same things that would have been sold in Singapore for twice, even 3 times the taobao price. China's industrial policy has been a lifeline for high cost of living places like Singapore and you people are trying to slander them. China is beating all the western countries in manufacturing competition and instead of reporting why and how they are successful so Singapore can learn something useful, you morons are following western corpo-state propaganda script. Actually be real journalists for once, or that mass comm degrees you people got from NUS are pointless. For shame.
    2
  2858. Friend shoring is basically America's way to steal tech from other countries. It's the reason why TSMC refuses to transfer its best node tech to Arizona. If America got hold of this tech, Taiwan will become a completely expendable pawn in the war against China. The Taiwanese know this.
    2
  2859. You don't start questioning the decisions made until something horrible has happened. The weather was bad, the helicopter was old and you shouldn't put two important high level officials on the same vehicle that has a high risk of accident even on a good day. If nothing had happened, it would just be another trip by helicopter but something did happen.
    2
  2860.  @troyfall6573 They don't have to build their factories there. The funny thing is that what you described is exactly what the US and EU has done to the Global South for decades. Now it is being done to you, you cry foul? You use the same kind of attack on other people and they didn't have the power to retaliate. Now China has the power to retaliate and you whine like little b*tches. Pathetic.
    2
  2861.  @SeanFooGold  Yea, sorry I mean YT shadowbanning me, not you.
    2
  2862. Just because trump is anti current establishment does not mean he is not part of the problem. Neither trump or biden, neither the republicans or the dems are good and neither of them are the "lesser evil" choice. The problem with America is systemic and you can't vote your way out of a bourgeois democracy. You can't reform a system already hijacked and designed never to be a true democracy anyway. The problem with America, and to a large extent the entire west is that they are still pretending that the problem is not their ideology or their system or culture or their models when it is clear by now, the problem IS their system, culture, models and ideologies.
    2
  2863. It is hilarious that she can still use the excuse that subsidies are what's making Chinese companies so competitive, as though the Chinese government can indefinitely subsidize China's gigantic economy without its companies being competitive on the world's markets. It is obviously an excuse no one who has half a brain will believe. She is just saying it like a trained parrot. Even more funnier is now she is saying that EU will defend European companies, because in the past when countries want to borrow money from the IMF, they must be subjected to market liberalization which means allowing western companies to demolish local companies. So now the table has turned, she cries foul. These people have utterly no shame in their hypocrisy. The fact that she is also parroting the same language as yellen also shows that the EU and European countries' foreign policies are basically subjected to America's whims. They are not sovereign countries and this woman is just a colonial administrator for the American empire.
    2
  2864. This is really funny when trump says the Europeans need to pay up, because the Europeans have been paying up by buying huge amount of weapons from the US MIC. That's what the F-35s are for, and those military bases are not free either. Not saying that the Europeans should not be defending themselves but hearing Americans complaining about defending Europeans and giving them a free ride is like hearing a gangster complaining that they are not getting protection fees.
    2
  2865. Haha harpoons are obsolete long ago. 400 sounds like a lot but only if you don't consider that PLAN warships' CIWS can shoot down harpoons like a flamethrower burning up flies.
    2
  2866.  @davdav1370  they seized the private property from one country and give it to their own private property owners. I think they are very much into protecting the private property of their own capitalists. That's the whole reason why the west, especially the US is fighting the rest of the world now. It is to protect the private property of their own capitalists from being outcompeted by China, and making sure their overseas properties seized from other countries remain owned by their capitalists.
    2
  2867. @@robertmartin3688 Then how about the US trying to dominate Russia through the coup in Ukraine? Should we all confiscate US assets to punish them for destroying peace by threatening other countries? Let's be a little consistent here, ya?
    2
  2868. Its root problem is capitalism.
    2
  2869. Marshal Zhukov once said that they have liberated Europe from fascism and they will never forgive them for it.
    2
  2870.  @bagdaduk  Longer range supported with better onboard and on the plane radars.
    2
  2871.  @FullThrottleRacing535  PL-15 has mid-course correction link.
    2
  2872. I feel that there is no way this is not a coordinated action from the BRICS+ country. OPEC+ announces this right after the BRICS summit, after China has accumulated enough reserves, after the west is cooling off inflation using a lot of debts, after feds rate hikes and after the US strategic crude is at a very low volume? The BRICS countries are too smart to not exploit the economic weakness, the weakest link in the chain in the west that is the the Eurozone. For years, the Europeans have been strung along by the US as vassal states. Their economy is wholly dependent on USD and US financial system. That means they have been sucked dry by the US like a vampire, every time the economy takes a hit. The Feds manipulate rates and everyone suffers for it. The Ukraine war has exposed a weakness in the NATO and the collective west, and the US as per usual only takes care of itself first, is now sucking Europe dry again to prop itself up. There is no way the people in power in Europe, even though they are neoliberal vampires themselves, not know what the US is doing to them. They are not happy but there is nothing they can do except to feed the life blood of their people as protection money to the US. On the surface, the collective seem unify to oppose China and Russia and still trying to subjugate the global south. But I bet behind closed doors, the Europeans are chaffing at being used like a cattle, led to the slaughterhouse to be harvested by the Americans. I doubt the leadership in BRICS+ countries do not know this. They can easily make their own calculations and you can't run away from the numbers. America is draining Europe to prop itself up and Russia is accelerating that drain with the Ukraine war. There is also no way their own diplomatic and intelligence corps do not know the dissatisfaction from the Europeans about their situation that the Americans have put them into. What they need is a coordinated action to inflict as much economic pain at the right time, while shielding themselves from it. Make their economy scream, like what nixon arrogantly said back then. Now, the BRICS+ with the newly joined oil rich countries is going to make the west's economy scream. Who will break first? France? Germany? Italy? Spain? Poland? Who will be the first to call it quits and pick up the phone and call Xi and told him they are ready to play ball. If the BRICS+ collective action really broke the camel's back, this will be biblical. This might be a crazy time but oh boy we are witnessing history in the making. Liquidate as much as you can, keep the cash, get your popcorn and a big bottle of soda, and prepare for the ride. Because we might be finally seeing BRICS+ mete out heaven's justice on the behalf of the oppressed people of the world. The west, and especially the US must be punished for their transgressions and hubris.
    2
  2873.  @MrNatsuka  Not only that, Xu is playing Go with Putin. No way Modi, Ramaphosa and Lula didn't know what they and the new members are cooking up.
    2
  2874.  @netgodzilla1  Indeed. Many analysts and media outside of the west are already saying that the inclusion of OPEC+ countries are deliberately trying to control both the supply and demand of oil. No way the BRICS+ countries don't all know what is going. They are definitely cooking together.
    2
  2875. China will laid claims based on their historical control of these islands, then everyone will just negotiate and settle the issues once and for all. No one is going to war over these islands. This will be standard practice as long as every side is willing to sit down at the table in good faith. The only people who want to see war in SCS is the west.
    2
  2876. Laying off someone just after their son dies seem like the special kind of cruelty that permeates US society.
    2
  2877. Nearly everything wrong with America can be traced back to Reagan and Nixon and a little further back to the confederates.
    2
  2878. I disagree with the there is no left or right anymore. China spectacular success has revived a lot of sentiment towards socialism as a model that can be adapted and emulated around the world.
    2
  2879. Solar power dropping in price is good for the world and the environment. You get energy security by transitioning to solar power and reduce carbon output and how is that bad? It is telling that the US is complaining about a universally good thing.
    2
  2880. The west only does two things now, bury their heads in the sand so as not to process any bad news and review their own failures due to their short-sightedness and arrogance, or go all out and spin the bad news into the worse possible way in order to deny reality. This is classic western MO.
    2
  2881.  @loremasteringwion9930  Why are you defending lies and slander?
    2
  2882. It's not just cost of labor. It's the integrated supply chain, at the bottom of the inputs, the machinery, the energy generation, everything, and the efficiency. China does not just have comparative advantage, they have ALL THE ADVANTAGES. They have been building and expanding their productive forces for decades. This is all planned, this is all based on Marxist Leninism philosophy.
    2
  2883. The property prices collapsing and making it affordable for the majority of Chinese people IS THE WHOLE POINT.
    2
  2884.  @zachdillenger5468  Okay that sounds more realistic.
    2
  2885.  @ankhenaten2  They tried to reindustrialize their chip making and they have already failed. The US is culturally, systemically, socially, political unable to so what the Chinese are doing. They have already lost. It is just a matter of time.
    2
  2886. Ermm, Argentina is in so much debts because they are debt trapped by the IMF. And he blames China.
    2
  2887. The imperial core is being harvested by the empire to keep the empire longer on life support. Europe, Japan, South Korea are crops to the USians.
    2
  2888. I don't mind paying taxes if it goes to helping the country to grow, increase efficiency, put roofs over people's heads, food on the table, education for children. But that's not what the US government do.
    2
  2889.  @wyu-  He did, you just don't want to hear it.
    2
  2890. They also think the Chinese and Russians are stupid.
    2
  2891. China is building the biggest windmills in the world and more and more people there are accepting of LGBTQ. So obviously, the problem is not about renewable energy and equality.
    2
  2892. Trump also has a track record of provoking other countries like Iran. He tore up the Iran nuclear deal and assassinated Solemani.
    2
  2893.  @DefinitelyNotEmma  If it is not feasible, America wouldn't be panicking trying to block China from fabbing their own chips. The question really is how fast we can get there, to have AI accelerator chips on board satellites and the AI to power it. Launching hundreds of satellites is nothing, not when everyone is going for reusable launchers. It's not a matter of if, but when this will happen, and China is actually ahead of everyone on this form of AI tech. The only thing they are lagging behind is they didn't fab their own AI accelerator chips because they could always just buy it. Not anymore but it also mean they are going to accelerate their own chip manufacturing. They don't need to be at the bleeding cutting edge, they just need their chips to be merely cutting edge and they can get those satellites in space. America is just delaying the inevitable. And like you said yourself, you just need powerful enough radar to find these stealth assets. But the problem is knowing where to position them. Satellite tech like this basically narrows down where to scramble your early warning and interceptors. Once they get close enough or waiting for the bomber to arrive, they can shoot it down easily.
    2
  2894. You can hear the derision in these western articles even when they are describing Russia's winning formula for war time production. The west is terminally unable to admit hey are wrong and make any meaningful changes, even for war which is supposed to be what they are good at. This kind of blind arrogance and self-delusion is why they cannot win in the long run. Solving problems, improving oneself require that person to have an objective and honest view of the situation, not self indulgent delusions and this is exactly what the west is culturally, socially unable to do anymore.
    2
  2895. It's the true democratization of technology access.
    2
  2896.  @marcomarc151  From the US.
    2
  2897. Maybe you can sell 3 of your children to your oligarchs as human meat. Keep the two around for child labor, because it's everyone on deck. Ohh and pull them out of school, no point in giving them an education when you are fast tracking to third world country level of poverty. Don't worry, the New Development Bank will give your country a loan to redevelop and they won't charge unpayable interests like the IMF. Heck, they won't even demand you adopt neoliberal policies of austerity and fire sale all your vital industries.
    2
  2898. Yes, we know.
    2
  2899. I am quite sure that if being told the truth about China and how the world works, the ordinary American will not want war. This provocation of China comes directly from the oligarchs of America who have a lot to lose if they lose their hegemonic control over the world. The real enemies reside at Wall st.
    2
  2900. Because their entire attention bubble is completely controlled and curated by the regime's corpo-state media.
    2
  2901. What are you talking about? The abrahamic god is bloodthirsty as f. The Americans are the best followers Yahweh want.
    2
  2902.  @springteen3743  The government that uplifted 800 million people out of poverty is not worthy of loyalty of a Chinese official? Is it worse than being loyal to a government that provoke wars, invade other countries on lies and pretexts, interferes with other countries internal affairs, install brutal dictators that kill uncountable number of people, destabilize entire regions, while profiting from human misery, exploit other countries' labor value and resources, install military bases everywhere to make it easier to subjugate and kill people, and then also subjugate its own people for the rich class? That government?
    2
  2903. Iran and Saudi Arabia can share that part of the world. They don't have to kill each other to have complete dominance. Leave that kind of backward barbaric thinking to westerners.
    2
  2904. The G7 will suffer the most from this new round of sanctions? Oh look at my tiny violin.
    2
  2905.  @dylreesYT  Yea, the west has a lot of freedom. Freedom to be exploited by rich people, freedom to be shot on the streets like a dog by the police, freedom to be stepped on by an uncaring government corrupted and own by rich people, freedom to have you minds manipulated and caged by the corpo-state media owned and run by rich people, freedom to own guns to feed your fears and shoot each other, freedom to say whatever you want but nothing useful or constructive, freedom to live paycheck to paycheck, to stay ignorant and then when you are not useful anymore and old and diseased, the freedom to spend all your life savings in a futile attempt to stay alive while the healthcare system owned by the rich shuffled you as quickly as possible to death. The west do have a lot of freedoms. I'm so jealousssssss.
    2
  2906. China doesn't want to fight. It is the US trying to bait China into fight to preserve the American hegemony. But China is not going to push around anymore and why should they be subjected to that kind of humiliation. China today is not the China 100 years, or even 50 years ago.
    2
  2907. Both democrats and the repugs are evil. The difference is their degree and the way they execute their insidious plans.
    2
  2908. This is just the logical conclusion of capitalism.
    2
  2909.  @earthwizz  Sure, they invented a time machine and went to the future to steal 5G tech. Your racism against the Chinese is just stupid.
    2
  2910. The Chinese civil war never ended. It's none of anyone's business except for the Chinese themselves.
    2
  2911. China's real estate "crisis" is them transitioning away from real estate. They have deliberately pop the real estate bubble before it got "too big to fail", and reallocating the capital into other more productive, high tech sectors like renewable energy, EVs, semiconductors, etc. They WANT the real estate to deflate bit to get prices under control and deleverage their developers and reduce excess capacity in the real estate development. China will likely emerge out of this "crisis" with as much hoopla as the west hoped.
    2
  2912.  @ivok9846  This is the level of western dumbassery that makes me feel very comfortable that China really does not have to fear the west. Except the dumbasses think they can win in a nuclear war.
    2
  2913. elon is not rescuing anyone. He is the one that makes mistakes all the time. If we had follow his lead on the Thai kids trapped in the cave incident, they would have all perished. It is the workers at spacex that should get the credit. They work better anyway when the muskrat is out of the room
    2
  2914. Of course China will not end up like Japan. They don't have a US forcing them to sign unequal treaties like the Plaza Accords.
    2
  2915. Everything the west has done in the past decade is provoking countries like China, Russia, Iran and others into a war. China and Iran are not taking the bait, at least not seriously while Russia did it but instead of devastating Russia, they are winning. Saying it is "unprovoked" is such an insult to our intelligence.
    2
  2916. "Most people" are really the west since their media has a lot of incentive to not showcase China's success, to prevent their own people questioning their neoliberal capitalist hellscape. Everyone else knows China's immensely awesome infrastructure.
    2
  2917. China IS the biggest economy in the world. Financial boondoggles are not an economy.
    2
  2918. That's the thing Vijay. I think you are repeating the obvious to have a neutral standing but we all know that censorship in the west is not about banning information, it is about controlling exposure and reach. If you are not part of the MSM, you are defacto censored. Letting the dissenting information or opinions be made available but not discussed in MSM is plausible deniability. In the west, it is always a chicken game of not appearing to be authoritarian but yet maintain defacto authoritarian control by the plutocrats, and media control of exposure of the right kind of narratives is part of that sick game.
    2
  2919. They justify it by slandering Russia and China, and deliberately mischaracterize them as authoritarian. So this is a fight between good and evil and since you are fighting evil, you are allowed to use any tactics, no matter how underhanded it can be because the "bad guys" will do the same. It is the same logic they use to justify rampant gun proliferation. Criminals don't obey gun laws so we can't restrict gun buying so good guys can also easily get guns.
    2
  2920. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    2
  2921. America is exporting it's inflation to the rest of the world through its exorbitant privileges with the USD as the reserve currency. America's growth is fake with it mostly in financial and based on debts and it is sucking up Europe's surpluses to fuel its debt. America is a vampire and Europeans are idiots.
    2
  2922. Isn't he the guy who got coup by Obama because he wanted to remove the US base in Okinawa? Is Japan even a sovereign nation?
    2
  2923. Totally. I had to stop and take in that mural. There is much latent meaning in it and I really like your take on the relationships between Wukong and the Bodhi Patriarch. The Patriarch was the father Wukong never had and I think a lot of Chinese can really feel that.
    2
  2924. Let's not forget that China is literally making money hand over fist. They just hit a record breaking 100 billion surplus in June alone. While FDI is nice, most of the surplus capital is actually in China, backed by real assets. China is the investor, not the one that need foreign investors. The west is still behaving like they are the ones that have capital to invest. What they have are excessive debts they cannot back.
    2
  2925. Reminding white America the crimes of CIA in the pursuit of profits for American companies and to beat down post colonial empowerment of Africa might be too much for white America to swallow. There is a lot of hypocrisy in white American culture with regards on viewing the US government foreign policy. Whatever the US government did, even if it was horrible, can be deflected away with some magic handwavy justification tonight communism or authoritarianism. They don't want the stark truth that those foreign adventures had little to do with preserving or spreading FREEDOM(TM) and everything to do with capitalistic imperialism. Their standard of living and capital are established by the exploitation of weaker countries in Africa, South America and large parts of Asia. They don't want to be reminded that their lives are built on the blood and deaths of Africans.
    2
  2926. Russia has also been threatened by NATO constantly and it is an open secret that the US wants to dominate Russia against the interests of the Russian people. The Russian federation rightly perceived a incoming threat and then under duress of Ukrainian government war on the Russian speaking people took action to protect the people who couldn't and itself.
    2
  2927. The Chinese economy is on the brink of collapse! China is the greatest threat to NATO! This is how fascist talk, the enemy is bithe simultaneously weak and strong. Weak enough to overcome and to denigrate and condescend, but just strong enough to induce fear and anxiety in the population to maintain control.
    2
  2928. There is a difference between investing in the stocks of farming equipment companies, and actually investing in agriculture to bring up yields, productions and most importantly distribution to the people who need to eat. The last being that sending food to the people who need it the most is not always the most profitable. But it is the most essential thing to do, and I think when western capitalists talk a big game about feeding the world, they don't actually care about feeding the world.
    2
  2929. Since when has the west respect international law when it suits their purposes?
    2
  2930.  @linwong1494  Where do you learn to have such low faith in Chinese authorities from? Western corpo-state media? Do you believe that there is a genocide in Xinjiang too, or that Chinese leaders eat babies?
    2
  2931. It also mean even with the western atheletes doping , they can't win. And yes, they dope. It's like everything they are doing to kneecap China. Even when they pull out all the dirtiest Tonya Harding tricks, they can't win. The western liberal capitalist system is exploitative and inhumane, their culture is cruel and selfish, their society is breaking down and they have no idea how to fix it or unwilling or unable to fix it, their economy is based on financial speculation, weapons industries and harvesting other countries' surpluses using the USD and it is being slowly torn apart. They have no clue how to fix themselves and they only know how to use propaganda, manipulation, lies, and violence to stop their rivals. Except this time, they won't be able to stop China and the rise of the Global Majority. Singapore should take note who is going to command this century. Stand with the Global Majority and prosper, or stand with the west and fall.
    2
  2932. I want people to understand, buying up farmland and equipment in anticipation of a growing food demand so as to make profits off feeding people is an insane mindset. Capitalism has twisted the mind so much that it makes people think profiting off feeding people is acceptable.
    2
  2933. What is shows us is that Israel and the west has become unreliable and they might drag us into conflicts that we should never ever be dragged into. Better to start cultivating stronger relations with countries outside the west so we have fall back options if they come to our part of the world and demand we all become their Ukraine, their Israel for "freedom" and "democracy." Singapore and SE Asia must not be dragged into the conflicts the west is trying to foment around the world, including our part of the world.
    2
  2934. Exactly, the crimes Israel has committed is actually making Jews around the world more unsafe because it breeds hatred especially when they keep putting themselves as the representation as the Jewish nation. They are not. They are Zionists. The Zionists in Israel has done more to create anti-semitism than actual anti-semites have ever done. Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews. This is a very important point everyone needs to remember.
    2
  2935.  @noproblematallmate Why do the Hamas fight? Because Israel is an apartheid ethnostate that has been oppressing the Palestinians for decades.
    2
  2936.  @leealex24  LKY understood very well what Malaysia was and still is, that's why he knew they had to leave. The Malaysian politicians would rather destroy the country than to submit to becoming a true multi-ethnic country where all races and religions are equal. This tell us that Malaysian politics are short-sighted, and racially politicized.
    2
  2937.  @leealex24  what copium. Haha you believe in that nonsense if you want to.
    2
  2938.  @leealex24  it has everything to do with race. This kind of delusions and historical revisionism and inability to accept your mistakes and do something about it, no matter how painful is why Malaysia is less successful than Singapore.
    2
  2939. You mean an Italian American kid learning English in an American school is not cultural genocide? You don't say...
    2
  2940.  @ryanwalters6184  Still brainwashed I see.
    2
  2941. Hahahaha the sigh at the beginning tells so much. Kevin is getting so close to the core of the problem facing America: corporate controlled bourgeois "democracy".
    2
  2942. If you want to know how the war is going in Ukraine, well Ukraine is not winning, that's for sure.
    2
  2943. They are already doing that but with tiki torches.
    2
  2944. Marxists always say, the material reality will exert itself 😎
    2
  2945. You guys are still bound by time?
    2
  2946.  @fungames24  If the US can "pre-emptively" liberate Iraq with lies of WMD, then Russia certainly has the right to liberate the Donbas from real Ukrainian oppression of the Russian speaking people who live there.
    2
  2947. ​ @deschan2246  No, it's only controversial in the west and western affiliated media like CNA because it proves that China can produce very advanced microchips domestically and it is only a matter of time when they reach parity with the west and then move beyond the west in this particular field of semiconductors. They are already leaders in photonic chips, AI development, and numerpus other critical technologies. It is controversial because it shows that the sanctions have failed to even slow China down much at all and the west (including you) are getting hysterical. Even further than that is that China not only can produce these chips, utilize these technologies, create new technologies, they are also so dominating in manufacturing that they are outproducing the entire west combined and can make the same things cheaper, faster, and at better quality. So you are on this comment thread trying to use all kinds of excuses just to make sure you don't have to face the reality; China cannot be stopped and the multipolar world where the west can no longer dominate is already here. It's honestly entertaining to watch you (and the rest of the western media) trying futilely to beat against the inexorably tides of change.
    2
  2948. The same people who insist China has the responsibility to rein in the Russians.
    2
  2949.  @nimit2010  Illegal sanctions imposed by the west.
    2
  2950.  @starchild5793  seem like an illegal operation by western aggressors. Sanctions are illegal by default internationally. Just because the west does it does not mean it is right or even legal.
    2
  2951. It's not in the phillipiness EEZ.
    2
  2952. They are basically saying the same thing, just Kishore is more upfront and blunt. Both of them are telling the US to chill the f** out and stop trying to create mischief in the region to contain China which its rise is inevitable and ultimately good for everyone, because containment is inherently a unilateral, hostile and provocative action. Tharman just said it in between the lines and more diplomatic.
    2
  2953.  @CliffordGrashuis  ohh you mean israel.
    2
  2954.  @SalmanWong  what a joke. I'm sure you also think the Nazis were right.
    2
  2955.  @eugenecheong8411  Free Palestine from zionism.
    2
  2956. Please don't. We already have enough problems with people in cars driving on a 2D planar surface causing immense number of lives lost, and you want to put them in a flying vehicle that they have to drive in 3D space? And the fact that now the driver have to deal with winds, gravity, and aerodynamics? If you want to create a missile that can get a lot of people dead and put it in public's hands, this is the way to do it. This is a terrible idea. Not all inventions are good.
    2
  2957. I think the hood might come off and become a flying sabre and decapitate someone.
    2
  2958. Let's see if the Americans dare to "nordstream" any of the Russia to Asia pipelines.
    2
  2959. Yes, it's call financial colonialism. The USD is indeed America's most powerful tool and weapon. It lies at the foundation of their economy that allows their society to spend way beyond the limits of what they can produce, in real goods and services. It's also a very powerful weapon. But like nukes, it can only be used once before everyone will try to find a way to get off the boat.
    2
  2960.  @simonesmit6708  No, @eymaslacker is right. YT is actively censoring comments that goes against western narratives and shadowbanning accounts flagged by their system. At his point, we can be pretty sure google is using its AI language model to pick up alternative narratives. They are doing widespread censorship on commentators and channels alike. Just a few weeks ago, Glenn Diesen's channel was auto-banned because he stepped on the landmine of offering other POVs that destroy western narratives, even though his channel was restored later.
    2
  2961. America is not gonna change until it hits rock bottom and these stupid ideas of American Exceptionalism and profits above people get crushed into dust. But the rock bottom is still a long way to fall.
    2
  2962. China correcting an over-leveraged and over-heated real estate market that has developed too much building capacity, so as to not create a huge bubble that will destroy the country if left to pop on its own. Thus saving hundreds of billions of RMB for the people, and not repeat something similar to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. The west: why China is not stimulating the real estate?! It's deflating! China is collapsing!
    2
  2963. Affirmative action works but it is only part of the solution. You need a comprehensive solution that take into account of investing in the less well off communities continuously which is what the Chinese government has been doing from what it seem in this video.
    2
  2964. Invite US warships to dock while they are making threatening gestures off your coast? Tell me, will you invite a known r*pist-mu*derer into your home to make peace, when he is outside licking a knife while leering at your wife and daughter?
    2
  2965.  @fawadali135  Nvidia now has a higher market cap than Apple and both companies do not even have factories. They just outsourced their manufacturing to China. For China, the stock market literally is not on their government's priority. They don't care about market cap. They care about real, concrete things like self-sufficiency, manufacturing capacity, technologies, food, raw materials etc. It just goes to show how fake the American economy is. Designed in the US, made in China ignores that basic idea that the same kind of product can also be designed in China, made in China. But can the US do design in US, made in US? I doubt that, and that's what Kevin has been lamenting for the past few months on this channel. Sure not every factory in China is equipped to produce high quality products, but then are there even factories in the US, and increasingly in the EU, Japan and SK that can produce at China's economies of scale and synergy of suppliers and vertical integration? We all know that answer. The US economy is like Prof. Wen Tiejun said, it is a virtual economy based on IP generation and hoarding, financial boondoggles, end of life healthcare, and military spending and manufacturing. They don't produce anything really useful, at least not on a scale that matters.
    2
  2966. I think Houthis is a derogatory term. Their proper name is Ansar Allah.
    2
  2967. Cyrus, you still have a rosy view of your country. The US has always been like this.
    2
  2968. "Decentering white maleness as the only understanding of idealized imagery." Well said, considering that with China's rise, the world is also slowly de-centering America as the only understanding of idealized model, and it is driving people insane. Insane enough, perhaps to cheer mushrooms clouds over their cities.
    2
  2969.  @Cancellator5000  Most Americans are as brainwashed as her by capitalist cultural hegemony, and that's the problem.
    2
  2970. What about Israel which is funded by the US?
    2
  2971. At the core of the problem is capitalism.
    2
  2972. Let's not forget that there was a chance at settlement back in Mar 2022. There were peace talks where Russia will have its security guarantees and Ukraine will have its own from Russia. It was sabotaged by the UK and US when boris johnson went to zleensky and told him to fight and that NATO will support him 100%. The west, especially the US and UK caused this disaster by recklessly expanding NATO to Ukraine, by ignoring Russia's request for security guarantees and crossing their red lines and finally by gloating zleensky into fighting an unwinnable war.
    2
  2973. I think despotism should be imposed on the west until they learn to be civilized and abandon their barbaric colonial thinking. Maybe that's what they are really afraid of, that the rise of China and other Global South countries will eventually let themselves be "imposed" upon by more powerful countries, in a kind of reversed colonial way. They can only think of the rise of other countries in this way because they never truly abandon that colonial mindset. It is why they will never be able to live peacefully in a multipolar world, because they cannot fathom a multipolar world where they might be the ones to be colonized. A thief will always believe everyone is trying to steal from him.
    2
  2974. Ohh Singapore is actually a hidden socialist country. It is a hybrid, centrally planned economy with a heavily regulated capitalist market economy that is business friendly as long as you contribute to the Singapore economy. Fro example, the high home ownership is because most of the housing in Singapore are public which are built on state lands by state agency that has many restrictions on who can buy these public housing. Oh, companies are forbidden to buy public housing in Singapore.
    2
  2975. When an American politician keeps using the word "free" or "freedom", you know the thing he is talking about is the opposite of freedom.
    2
  2976.  @cakejhay  I'm not disputing that there are d*mb people but there are also definitely d*mb systems.
    2
  2977.  @muhammadriskyramadhan1725  I know. There is a real possibility that the American empire will do something horrendous as it goes down. But unfortunately, none of us are in any position and strength to permanently neuter the US. They have thousands of nukes and I really really hope they don't use it.
    2
  2978. Neoliberalism rots your brain, that's why.
    2
  2979.  @TheClanAdventures  Yes, it will happen slowly but the catastrophe for the US might come very quickly. There is a point where the US wants to borrow even more money but its power as a reserve currency wane to the point there is simply not enough buyers, without the treasury rising it to a unsustainable rate, and we will see a sudden plunge.
    2
  2980. White people just can't take that China is winning and their narratives are not working anymore.
    2
  2981. The problem with the western sentiment is that they have brainwashed themselves into thinking that Putin is the devil and must not be "appeased". That the only acceptable outcome is Russia's total capitulation. That's why they are not interested in peace with Russia. They are interested in crushing Russia, and later crushing China. These people are still completely steeped in the colonial mindset that only the west is by default right, and everyone else is wrong. They are by default racist because they cannot imagine non western or westernised countries as equal. They are not interested in true sovereignty for other countries because they think the only legitimate government system is the western liberal capitalist system. They are not interested in your opinions and rights until you bend the knee to the western order. If you deviate from any of these conditions, you are automatically the evil side, and since normal people don't negotiate with evil, the only way is to crush it. Never mind that their entire premise is bogus, chauvinistic, and parochial, and very often just plain wrong. When you demonized everyone who is not like you, doesn't want to be like you as the devil, what you get is conflicts. Unending conflicts.
    2
  2982. They have the right theories to look at all of these things so they can take the right actions. Marxist-Leninism is right.
    2
  2983. That's a stupid title.
    2
  2984.  @TheModdedwarfare3  Because some of them are brainwashed to believe that statehood will bring them out of the colonial status and at least be on par of third world standards like Mississippi. That's how low the bar is.
    2
  2985.  @carlitosortiz2870  Palestine is not occupied by Hamas.
    2
  2986. I think there should be a new way to measure democracy: the relative distance between a de jure democracy and a de facto democracy. De jure is that on paper and procedural, a country can be democratic, but if it is not measure with de facto democracy. De facto democracy will measure: 1. the policies that people desire gets enacted vs. policies they don't want or don't care for, will indicate power distribution among the population 2. wealth inequality that indicate how wealth is concentrated, 3. poverty level indicates how fair the overall system is able to redistribute wealth and give prosperity to all, 4. combined 2 and 3 will give us measurement of the utilitarian level of the policies that helps distribution of wealth 5. achieving basic living standards: including true access to education, housing, jobs, savings and retirement, healthcare etc., 6. labor union power measured against corporate power, pervasiveness of unions and whether unions have enough power for negotations 7. imperialistic tendencies of the countries' foreign policies 8. media independence from powerful influences including government and corporations, to examine the level of propaganda that skewed toward powerful elites, both state and private. 9. measurement of the citizens' information bubble derived from covert and overt propaganda and indoctrination - true measurement of freedom of thought If you start measuring democracy in the de facto manner, I will bet a lot of money that the US will drop in democracy ranking tremendously. The current way these metrics are measured is absurdly skewed toward de jure democracy that serves to put western countries on a higher moral pedestal that they do not deserve and these fake moral high grounds are weaponized for diplomatic imperialism from the west. Also, take note that non of the defactor democracy measurements are measuring concepts and system implementation. The results are what matters, and it doesn't really matter what system you used to achieve democratic results - ie. policies and results that benefit the most people possible and keep abuses from the wealthy and political elite low. We will have classification like True Democracy (maybe some Scandinavian countries will qualified) where both the de jure and de facto measurements are high; Superficial Democracy (US, UK and probably most of western Europe, even India) where de jure is high but de facto is low; Practiced Democracy (China, Singapore and some other prosperous countries with stronger dejure authoritarianism) where the de jure is low but de facto is high, and Undemocratic (usually failed states) where de jure is low and de facto is low.
    2
  2987. Haha China was given the comprehensive strategic partnership level of diplomatic ties 15 YEARS BEFORE they gave it to the US and Japan, and they settle all their border issue at the same time. They won't have any problems in the SCS. They will just negotiate any issue. The US dumb strategy of trying foment discord in the region by using Vietnam against China is not gonna work.
    2
  2988. Well, that's okay. Now you know.
    2
  2989. The Singapore government will not allow that to happen and Singaporeans are too worldly and shrewd to get manipulated by western media.
    2
  2990. That's because it is a vassal state of the American empire.
    2
  2991.  @r.s.4174  1 is correct but there is nothing wrong with being a feminist. Nothing wrong with gender equality. Don't mixed imperialism with social reforms.
    2
  2992.  @r.s.4174  Good god, you have a screwy view of feminism. But I don't really care what you think. Next you are going to tell me that beating your wife is just disciplining her, right?
    2
  2993. @rversSo how come Chinese and Russian ships go through the Red Sea without any problem? Ohh because they don't support the gen*cide. It has become such a farce that western ships are trying to disguise themselves as Chinese ships. If any western countries come out to condemn Israel and stop their support monetarily, diplomatically, and resource-wise, then I am sure Ansar Allah will let their ships go without any problem.
    2
  2994. Capitalists are the only kind of humans who will throw away food because of overproduction will decrease profits. Poverty and hunger are caused by politics and that politics is capitalism. We can feed the world today but it is the capitalists that stop us.
    2
  2995. That doesn't deny the fact that Israel is gen*ciding the Palestinians. See, that's the problem. The US is still too dominating and they have been getting more and more insane the more powerful China becomes. Singapore is now caught between a rock and a hard place. We have to balance our appearances between the US and China, so there are a lot of things we cannot say. There is no way the Singapore government does not understand the root cause of this conflict is Israel's gen*cidal policy against the Palestinians, given the history of the brutal Imperial Japanese occupation. But unlike China or Russia, we can't say that without being targeted by the US and Israel and the entire western corpo-state media. Singapore cannot be branded as anti-se*ite, even if we know for a fact that opposing Israel's murderous actions is not anti-se*itism at all. But we know the west is not interested in the truth so we have to play the game of appearing cordial to the US and Israel. Singapore needs to diversify its diplomatic commitments. The world is changing and it is clear that China will lead the rise of the Global Majority, as the west declines. It will be a multipolar world. If Singapore is to survive and maintain our sovereignty (not being able to tell the truth for fear of retaliation is not sovereign), it needs to look towards China and slowly get off the sinking ship that is the US. But this has to be done subtly and with deftness, and match the decline of the US and the rise of China. I have to self censor because YT is not censoring any comment with trigger words. Very freedom of speech the west is.
    2
  2996. LOL well said.
    2
  2997. No, you don't. You are literally claiming something that was never your in the first place and then pretending to be the victim while inviting US to come and create more discord in our region. The rest of us in SE Asia are disgusted at philppiness.
    2
  2998. So you condemn is__l?
    2
  2999.  @jackwong230  Do you condemn Israel?
    2
  3000.  @jackwong230  do you condemn Israel?
    2
  3001. How are you gonna get the warmongers out of the office when they are the government. 😂😂😂. You people still think your vote matters?
    2
  3002.  @justmyowndogecoin  Right.... investors, just innocent investors.
    2
  3003. I'm more interested in why it cost 50M to get bicycle lanes and hydrogen buses than the projects themselves. Cycle lanes are ultimately good as it will encourage more bicycling which will improve traffic flow, among numerous other benefits. Public transportation is the same thing. The question really is why it costs so much in the first place.
    2
  3004. Lol don't give them ideas. The opium wars were basically the British empire "legislating" that China must buy opium and then forced them at gun point to do it.
    2
  3005. America really is a plutocratic corpo-state slowly turning into a Christofascist corpo-state (courtesy of reckless, toxic-individualism liberatarian ideologies). To say America is a democracy is an insult to actual democracies which are far and few between. But yea, Money-ocracy is more catchy and get the point across.
    2
  3006. What the west is really angry about is that China refuses to turn neoliberal and join their club to keep everyone else oppressed and exploited. China says nah we don't like this neocolonialism BS and we won't bend the knee to let you exploit our people even further. They say they will be sovereign and in control of their own destiny. The US hate it cannot control China like it did with Japan, Germany, France and other vassals.
    2
  3007. You should include one of the most famous failed assassination attempts in world history that the the attempt on the life of the King of Qin (who would went on to become China's first emperor and mercury ingesting enthusiast) by Jing Ke?
    2
  3008. It's not a lofty goal, Cyrus. It's a an evil goal.
    2
  3009. The world's biggest infrastructure project? Is 40 thousand km of HSR in China a joke to you? 530 km for 100 billion just goes to show how much of a failure the UK is at getting anything done.
    2
  3010. The only that can happen is the American empire is brought low to the point, they can be held accountable for their words and actions. It's why I'm always anti US imperialism first.
    2
  3011.  @Infodawg2012  He's just a gay in the closet because he is ashamed of his own sexuality and that he wants conservative votes. He's not transgender. Throw him in a man's prison.
    2
  3012. The point is not whether the water is safe. It really is still not safe because no one knows what will be the long term impact of releasing the water will be. How about the other radioactive nuclei that has far longer half-lives and also can be easily bioaccumulated? They are choosing this method to get rid of the water not because they are 99% sure it will be safe for the world. They chose this method because IT IS THE CHEAPEST. When you dealing with so many unknown factors, the wisest course is to take the safest way, to err on the side of caution. That's not what we are getting from TEPCO, or the Japanese government and the western backers. What we are getting is they want to cut corners and cheap out and not pay for their own mistakes, of which the first was not building adequate defenses for Fukushima Daiichi against such a tsunami. Because they also cheap out there too. They are cheaping out because that's what capitalists always do: find the cheapest way to get rid of problems and let society deal with the consequences. It is now obvious that the west and their allies cannot be trusted to do proper science and to be truthful. They are committing the same kind of fraud they accuse other non-western countries of committing. At this point, I don't believe anything coming out of western media or opinions. I don't believe a lick of what you said because you people are known to just outright lie for profits. You people always put profits above human lives and the environment. For all I know, the Geiger counter or the dosimeter can be tampered with, because if you people can wants to save billions of dollars, what's a little more than tampering with the equipment? If it is really so safe, why not let the Chinese and Russian scientists examine the water right at the site? Why not open it up to the people who have the most incentives to make sure the water is safe to release? You want me to trust the people who have the most incentives to dump water as it is? We are not morons. We don't trust you people. That is why I find them dumping the water into the ocean to be absolutely hypocritical and morally disgusting.
    2
  3013. So the WSJ lied that Hadi was elected. No surprises there.
    2
  3014. Lol Eric schimdt also told Stanford students to steal all the source codes from others and see how they did it and replicate.
    2
  3015. Nah, they are just doing what all capitalists always do: rent-seeking.
    2
  3016. Europeans either united and thrive together or divide and die alone. Russia will love a weakened, divided Europe and China will not want to deal with a unified European front. That by itself, is enough to justify EU. Everything else is secondary. Unite and be powerful enough to determine your fate or disunite and let other great powers dictate your destiny. Your call.
    1
  3017. King Jugurtha They want cheap workers that comes in and depress the wages, whether it is low skill or high skill labor. The rhetoric on strengthening borders is a faux play on inherent racism and isolationism of the repub base.
    1
  3018. "They didn't design it with computers, but with math." You are not making a good case for Concorde when you say one of the stupidest things ever.
    1
  3019. nelson 100 There are plenty of reason the English are prove of the NHS, sos much that they put up a show celebrating it during the opening of the Olympics.
    1
  3020. Andi Amador What you are describing is the original intent of christian values, which btw, is universal in every otherreligion, culture and society. The "christian values" is really christian libertarianism, which is the unholy union of business interests with baptist traditions, which first arose back during FDR's new deal era, when American magnates and tycoons were trying to revive their damaged reputations as the cause of the Great Depression. In comes the good ol' Rev. Fifield who pitch to business owners that the best way to back to American hearts is to control religion and use it to tie libertarian capitalism to christianity.
    1
  3021. Isn't it kind of ironic that Trump supporters will be angry that Trump gets make fun of? Aren't they supposed to be anti-PC, anti-safe space and are manly and can take hits like a man and won't whine like sissies and won't get their feelings hurt? Self awareness or reflection are not really their strong suits.
    1
  3022. LKY was not a dictator.
    1
  3023. I will bet anyone that the fact we are not addressing this at the source of the problem which is the safety of the extensive cord itself, instead doing it in a roundabout way of mandating that new houses should have multiple outlets in a room, is because there was heavy lobbying behind the scene to stop the relevant authorities from mandating that extension cord makers need to make their products safer.
    1
  3024. The balloon is most likely just blown off course. Whether it is charting the Artic or not, there is probably no malicious objective beyond that. But the media circus, especially at this point of time, that surrounds this bullshit is definitely malicious. America's establishment is trying to contain China and they are running out of time. Heck, they may already run out of time but they are going to try to hold into their hegemony no matter what, even if it means lying and manipulating everyone to see China as a threat. The media circus is just another step in desensitizing Americans into thinking that China is a threat and killing Chinese to protect America is a patriotic duty. The last few years of rampant propaganda point to this strategy. The balloon is just a opportunity to push a wedge between ordinary Americans and Chinese to make sure Americans will never ever even think that China can be friends. That's the take that everyone should get.
    1
  3025. They don't have anything. It's all on ppt. Or else they wouldn't panickingly call the B-21 "6th gen".😂😂😂
    1
  3026.  @sayed-fallschirmjagerdaf4071  You can't reform a bourgeois democracy because it is not a democracy. The US is not a democracy, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeois, the wealthy so whatever you try to do in this system, the moment you threaten the true power structure, you will be hammered into dust.
    1
  3027. You are not sovereign, you are turning into a vassal of the American empire.
    1
  3028. Lol Reagan was basically senile in his last term and no one used the 25th. The constitution is there for show to trick USians into thinking there is rule of law. Just like these elections.
    1
  3029.  @two02ful  Free Hawai'i. Free Puerto Rico. Free Guam. Heck, let's go ahead and free Japan, Ryukyu Islands and South Korea.
    1
  3030.  @ansonkaka-oj9eg  Avro Arrow, the entire British space industry and probably many more that feel victim to American meddling.
    1
  3031. Also, if you are not threatening China's national security, you have nothing to fear from them. China is not the US where they can define anything willy nilly as national security threat and attack you for it. If India does not threaten China, then India don't have to fear China's PLARF. So the question WION should be asking: Is India trying to threaten China?
    1
  3032. Car = freedom is basically corporate propaganda and indoctrination and really should just die. There is nothing free about being forced to buy an expensive item and have to drive it and risk your life and limb everyday just to get somewhere. It's not freedom, it is extortion.
    1
  3033.  @gNeric  Why will they start off the typhoon in a disadvantageous position.
    1
  3034. The only country that is bucking this insidious trend is China.
    1
  3035. You can look no further today for a real life vengence based "sins of the father" that is what is happening in Israel/Palestine right now, with the Holocaust as the background.
    1
  3036.  @vltz9613  Nothing happened there. But what happened to the aboriginals of Australia? You shouldn't be asking what happened at Tiananmen because we all know the truth is nothing like what western propagandists said. You should be asking what might happen if you attack China and what the retaliation will be like.
    1
  3037. Since they can't get the Meteor, they can use the PL-15, which will still give Egypt air-superiority over Israel.
    1
  3038. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    1
  3039. The 6th gen fighters, type 076, the soon commissioning of type 003, DeepSeek and numerous other achievements are what made trump 2.0 more cooperative.
    1
  3040. It's just goes to show how stupid this trade war really is. They are not banning Chinese companies because of national security or to protect Americans. They banned these companies because they were outcompeting American companies, and we just can't have that.
    1
  3041.  @congbeam3475  Americans today do not have the balls to do a revolution. They are too weak in character and too brainwashed to do anything. They have all these guns lying around and they keep saying it is for defending their rights and freedom from tyranny and they did nothing with it.
    1
  3042.  @CS-wn5lv  Because YT actively shadow censor stuff and you will never know exactly what their standards. You know, doing the exact same thing that the west love to accuse China of doing. I just copy it here: The US did that for Europe through the Marshall Plan. But American policy makers are ultimately still racists, so they don't give a shit about developing the Global South, except to dominate and extract resources to feed western industries. What they want is Europe market, and resources from everywhere.
    1
  3043.  @CS-wn5lv  Ahh probably
    1
  3044.  @lrdhanshu7136  Thank you, I tried but practically speaking, it is impossible to break the media bubble. When you live in a world where all the media tell you that black is actually white, it doesn't matter if your own eyes can see it for yourself, or the minority of people who tell you the truth. Add to confusion, are useless bullshit opinions that says black is just another shade of white, or black is not even a color, or white and black are really the same colors. Or that red is actually the real black and blue is the real white. Anything to never let Americans (and Europeans) able to focus on the real issues, the real problems. Confusion, divide, and conquer. I used to lived in America, so I know how pervasive and nefarious their media really is. Americans are trapped in an Orwellian dystopia of constant information manipulation to the point they are either fanatics, completely confused or demoralized to the point of little resistance. They have freedom of speech and freedom of press, which are basically hijacked by their wealthy elites to control their minds and make sure they will never rise. The real freedom they have, is freedom to be manipulated and exploited.
    1
  3045. I used to think trump is the worse choice because of his uncountable number of transgressions and personal failings, but the fact that biden is now actively supporting a genocide while borrowing unsustainably to prop up the US zombie economy just so he win his re-election, I can't really say which one is the worse one.
    1
  3046. Values? What values? You mean hypocrisy, double standards and neocolonialism?
    1
  3047. Dirt? They are all vassals of the US empire. That's the dirt
    1
  3048. Unfortunately, you can't hold those people accountable because they still have nukes.
    1
  3049. Is America using Serizawa's sacrifice to make it look like the atomic bombs weren't really that bad? Yes, yes it is. Maybe not consciously, but we always like to write in stuff to make our crimes look less bad so as to make ourselves look good. We are exceptionally good at this.
    1
  3050. That's sounds like BS.
    1
  3051. Have you actually check out what China is making today? This dumb stereotype really need to go away.
    1
  3052.  @eamonahern7495  90% of the components are all made in China. Even the US military have to source their chips from China.
    1
  3053.  @orangetube1  their results are superb if you stop believing the lies told to everyone by western media. Two facts. They have brought immense prosperity to the Chinese people by uplifting 800 over million out of poverty, being responsible for eliminating 25% of worldwide poverty. And the Chinese government enjoys over 80, sometimes even over 90% approval from the Chinese people. All done without using exploitation and colonialism of other people. So yes, the results have been stunningly good.
    1
  3054. Holy shit, that N-ATF-23 graphic looks so badass.
    1
  3055. This guy is still looking at the world through Americanism. All this talk about freeing the Europeans from the Soviets and whatnot just smack of western chauvinism against other countries' right to determine the way they want to govern themselves. Like most Americans, he is an imperialist. They just disagree on how to conduct their Imperialism.
    1
  3056. Free the world from the USA.
    1
  3057.  @neepers That's what being terminally brainwashed by western corpo-state media gets you.
    1
  3058.  @johanea So why the Chinese can and where everyone else failed? Maybe China is better than everyone.
    1
  3059.  @neepers  Oh yea, the guys with the collapsed bridge after a bump is trying to rag on the other people for having bad infrastructure. People who build their stuff out of fries, and prayers and thoughts should keep their mouth shut about infrastructure.
    1
  3060. Many Marxists scholars have identified this aesthetics of democracy, the pretension of democracy.
    1
  3061. I got cash ready to buy the dip lol
    1
  3062. If you are really worried about bacteria, just boil your water. It will basically kills everything in it. Boiling the water will also encourage chloride and chlorine containing molecules to diffuse out faster. It won't remove all of it, but it will remove some.
    1
  3063.  @Optimaloptimus  omg, they are already on parity with the WS-15, and they skip variable cycle engine and is going straight for rotating detonation engines. Westerners don't understand China and all their information is always 20 years too.
    1
  3064.  @Optimaloptimus  Yes I expected that and they already proved it. You are the one being a racist western chauvinist and keep believing in the stereotype that the Chinese are dumb and cannot innovate, and can only copy. You have no idea what China is and what they are capable of. But it doesn't matter because they have already surpass the west in ways that matter.
    1
  3065. This comment might get removed by YT but here is a little truth. Europe is not sovereign. The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the nordics, the baltic chihuahuas are not countries. You are all VASSALS of the United Snakes empire and your leaders are all colonial managers, collaborators. You really think you have the freedom to choose your leaders? LOL. The problem for you is that as vassals, you have thrown your lot with the empire and now the empire is having problems of its own, they are abandoning you, and they are straight up going to harvest you like crops, and your leaders have no clue what to do because they never have an independent foreign policies that are not dictated from the Whitey Supremacy Hause. That's why you people are so confused, because you don't even recognized you are vassals, and you don't recognized just how much in disarray your colonial managers are right now. This whole fiasco with Russia is because you followed Whitey Supremacy Hause's foreign policies by deliberately poking the bear, ignoring his requests, his demands, his pleas because all of you think that the bear is just a gas station with n**es, and not an actual country with their own security concerns, their own foreign policies, their own politics and economy, and their own people and culture. You people literally want to regime change them and balkanize them with the rubbing your hands together kind of glee. You have done everything but straight up declare w*r with the bear. And now the bear swipe his claws and smack you in the face, and all I hear is whining and whining and whining. None of you have the balls to seize your own sovereignty, make peace with the neighbor you have to live for the next thousand years, and seek better friends like the Rabbit. I despise the empire for their horrible deeds, their lies and their manipulation but at least I respect the venom of the snake. I have no respect for the chihuahuas.
    1
  3066. Capitalists can only react, they cannot create new patterns, new strategies, new ways of thinking beyond their old ways of extraction, and exploitation. They cannot get out of that box. Drill baby drill when the world is moving away from fossil fuels is capitalism at its truest to form.
    1
  3067. I want to remind everyone that there is multi government fake app that lures in people to use it. Very much freedom there. Every time I turn around, there is something that showcase western hypocrisy.
    1
  3068. And China just cancel over 3 billion investments in building EV factories in EU after they pass the EV tariffs. Just hilarious.
    1
  3069. You people really want the Chinese to kill each other just to preserve US hegemony. And don't give me the freedom democracy shit.
    1
  3070. They can always sell themselves into indentured servitude and remit money back home while working aboard.
    1
  3071. Posts like this is why the west is in decline. Their people believe in their own lies and live in a delusional reality.
    1
  3072. Let's not forget that it was the US sending Boris Johnson to tell Ukraine to keep fighting instead of taking the deal on that table. Russia invaded Ukraine but they did it because they were legitimately threatened by NATO. Not taking the peace deal when Ukraine could and then egging them to fight Russia in order to weaken Russia in a fool's attempt to force Russia to bend the knee is the real crime here. They sacrificed all those lives to expand their hegemony. That's the real cynical and disgusting goal here.
    1
  3073.  @SonHNguyen-qz5dg  LOL if the US leaders and their wealthy donors care about spending money for the benefits of the American people, they would have done so all this time. If being in the UN is such a chore for you people, then leave. Leave the rest of the world alone, bring your troops back and close all your military bases overseas. Do it.
    1
  3074. Vietnam is friend to everyone. That's their foreign policy.
    1
  3075. You are already making a mistake. You assume China will take Taiwan by force. Why will they risk everything to take something that is part of them, and will be formally inducted in the future. Why will they risk everything to go on a misadventure for an island they don't need. China doesn't need Taiwan to survive and thrive. It has grown far beyond whatever Taiwan can offer. Reunification is a political issue, not an economic, social or existential issue. So China will not likely to attack Taiwan but they will have to do exercises because that's what every military does: prepare for any scenarios. And exercises are supposed to be for training and thus is supposed to identify any weaknesses and parts that are lacking.
    1
  3076.  @BenjaminRosh  He meant that the west will start bullying India next because it is also rising quickly. Like how the west is bullying China.
    1
  3077. "Part of what has changed is that we have more options than we did before." It's diplomatic talk telling the US that India does not have to choose what US demands India to choose. That is never going to sit well with a bully like the US.
    1
  3078.  @bboystretch7788  Makes no sense at all because that's not what happen IRL.
    1
  3079. I don't think the people who designed those plug ever thought that it will be used to draw over 500 watts. It is clearly not meant for such high power draw, or else the connection interface would have been designed to have a far thicker gauge and a more robust connection. The PCIe 12V needs to be redesigned if we are really moving into the >500 W regime.
    1
  3080. If white people think they are racially superior than the Chinese that they can afford removing every Chinese from the west, then I welcome them to try it.
    1
  3081. China just pioneered the industrial scale production of niobium silicon alloy. You are still thinking that only the west can innovate.
    1
  3082. Sounds like Hindenburg is also a slimy shit company.
    1
  3083. I find it constantly amusing that the west, especially the US can openly admit that they are planning to do something nefarious, and then when that thing actually really happened, the entire western media can pretend that it wasn't them. It's truly is a demonstration of self inflicted delusion, and staggering hypocrisy. I bet one day the American media is going to blame the genocide of the Native Americans on the Chinese, and the Americans will all believe or pretend to believe that is true.
    1
  3084. The longshoremen has been shafted for long enough that this is inevitable. It shouldn't have gone to this stage and the fact that it does only showed the failure of the UAS economic system.
    1
  3085. This is usually how western corpo-state media works. If they say A, most likely they are trying to distract you from B. If they lionize anything, most likely they are trying to bolster support for an unpopular thing. If they are trying to say something is working fine, that thing is not working fine and they are trying to distract you from other sources. If they say something is terrible, it usually mean that thing is a threat to the western capitalist liberal system and vice versa. If they are admitting faults or saying it is failing, they are trying to disavow something they previously supported.
    1
  3086. Bailing out too big too fail companies is not socialism. It's capitalism.
    1
  3087.  @spatsky  A single modern heavy torpedo can cut a destroyer in half when it explode just below the keel. A hit at the right place would severely cripple a carrier and might even sink it if damage control was not well done. In any case, getting hit by a heavy torpedo is most likely a mission kill and reduce the carrier's capability maybe even to the point when it is vulnerable to other threats. Anti-ship ballistic missiles are still an unknown because it is still very very hard to hit a relatively small moving target on the sea and there are ABM defenses on the destroyers and cruisers. Submarines are still the number one threat to any fleet in the world simply because of how difficult it is to detect and they have the best chances to penetrate a carrier group's defenses.
    1
  3088. China has affirmative action for their minorities, so clearly it is not affirmative action that is the problem.
    1
  3089. Who are you trying to appear reputable to? The west? The people who are actively supporting a genocide in the ME? Those people?
    1
  3090. It must be so conflicting and confusing for her and at the firstpost writers' room. On one hand, they want to pick at the west for losing something, on the other hand, the winner is China which they hate with irrational jealousy. It's like when the Orlando Pulse shooting happened and it was found that it was a Islamic extremist who did the shooting, and the conservatives in the US don't know who to blame, the gay people or the Muslims, two groups of people they hate.
    1
  3091.  @randomish  That's because India is forced onto the negotiation table due to China's overwhelming deterrence. India has always been the intransigence side.
    1
  3092. @randomish  India has always been the one who wants to take everything in dispute. It was Zhou Enlai who proposed an exchange to settle the dispute once and for all. But the Indians got greedy and thought they could beat the PLA and tried to claim the disputed land China control and got whacked. Since then they always have an inferiority complex with a penchant for boasting to hide their own insecurities. Your comment precisely demonstrated that complex. After 40 years of meteoric growth because of strategic brilliance and prudent governance by the CPC, only fools like you think Chinese leadership will make basic mistakes in border disputes with India. China's rival is the entire collective west, and they are winning. India is not even a player. So sit down little third brother.
    1
  3093. It's not gonna happen until you guys take money out of your politics.
    1
  3094.  @philipspencer1834  But but my hegemony!!!
    1
  3095.  @phatrick8848  No it is not, and nearly all the actual countries in the world, and over 90% of the population in the world agrees. The only people who are pushing that Taiwan is a country narrative are westerners, and not even all westerners agree the same way. Just because you say so, that it benefits your short term geopolitical position does not make it so. You can keep trying to provoke China, it's not gonna work, and the more you do it, the more it exposed your weakness.
    1
  3096.  @ghstletter5978  Oh and you have affordable healthcare and your kids are safe in schools?
    1
  3097.  @johncronin5311  Yea, I don't think they want people who shoot up schools and then ignore the problem because they love their guns too much, to visit their country.
    1
  3098. ​ @jonathanmonte3131 it was joining NATO and is part of NATO in all but name but keep lying
    1
  3099. The west created the human rights concept without consulting any of the non-western peoples. But they don't even live up to the standards they set up, and even weaponized it as a diplomatic weapon and as pretexts for war. Nothing can be more hypocritical than that.
    1
  3100. How can she be a traitor when she was never loyal.
    1
  3101. Chinese Marxist economists don't have these problems.
    1
  3102.  @enigmaticspace7578  JFC, the amount of delusion in that statement.
    1
  3103.  @enigmaticspace7578  Cope some more, it is amusing.
    1
  3104.  @pepega7015  It's more neutral than anything else out there.
    1
  3105.  @vasred4265  Trust me, it is better that their opinions are shallower because anything more than that, you end up like fox news eventually.
    1
  3106.  @trafficmonsoonacademy562  Try watching fox news for a few minutes. Try tucker carlson and then think about your comment.
    1
  3107.  @trafficmonsoonacademy562  Exactly that's the problem and millions of Americans watch it religiously everyday.
    1
  3108.  @pepega7015  It's more neutral than anything in the West, or in the East.
    1
  3109. Maybe NATO shouldn't be going around threatening everyone.
    1
  3110.  @johnsmith1474  Not if the voices of independence are given more exposure. You think that the people of these places like being in the empire? They were indoctrinated to like the empire. Also, you think in places like Taiwan, South Korea or Japan like the US empire? No, they were brainwashed by relentless American cultural bomb to like America.
    1
  3111. Japan is a vassalized wuss.
    1
  3112. That's Cowboy Bebop's opening theme!
    1
  3113. America is so backward.
    1
  3114. A stronger, tougher back and docility was probably the winning combo that allowed this breed of horses to simply supersede every other breeds. I think the likely situation before the Russian breed took over, was that horses were being domesticated independently across Eurasia. Many people probably got the same idea looking at horses and realizing it's potential as a beast of burden. But domesticated also probably result in either a more robust animal or a more docile one. So when the people at the Volga finally got a breed that has both, it allowed then to spread far and wide. Trading and war among the neighboring peoples also helped to spread this particularly amazing breed and people just stop trying to domesticated their wild herds and adtop this winning breed.
    1
  3115. What has been happening for the last 10 years is not unlike back in the 1970s. Seem like America never learn its lesson.
    1
  3116. I don't really see this as a problem for China. If anything, China is very good at tackling infrastructure challenges. They will just spend more time and money to reinforce their grid to meet the demands. This is laughably trivial for China to resolve. This video is a projection because in America, this problem would be a complete disaster because there is no way the US government today cannot resolve huge infrastructure problems.
    1
  3117.  @jackiechan.whoami  He was fired because he was compromised by having an affair. He wasn't unaccounted for, you CIA bot. The CPC have standards, meanwhile a serial cheater, ra*ists can become the president of UAS.
    1
  3118.  @covertpuppytwo3857  United American States.
    1
  3119. This whole fiasco only shows that the law is only true and enforcable if people actually respect its intent and power. If the republicans are in control, then the laws would have been broken willy nilly anyway, which of course was the case when trump was president. This is not a law problem, this is a political problem as there are 74 million Americans saying that they don't give a shit about the law.
    1
  3120. He was warned. He doesn't care because he thought he is above the law. That is the MO of conservative politicians and voters.
    1
  3121. We all know that American Big Ag will rather dump the food. Perfectly good food. Just because they can't make as much profits. All the while there are people going hungry right in the US. Capitalism is crime against humanity.
    1
  3122. Wake me up when they prosecute OBS.
    1
  3123. @ The US and UK sound really backward.
    1
  3124. Telling Americans to improve themselves is the worst possible way to make them do anything.
    1
  3125. The racism that severely underestimated the Japanese is now in full display as people today are still harping on the inferiority of Chinese and their culture, society, model and methodologies. Worse, the feeling that China must be contained and neutered, instead of being engaged and befriended as an equal partner in world affairs, is leading people in the west to take on an unnecessary anti-China sentiments and postures. Which of course, will lead to alienation, misunderstandings and hate.
    1
  3126. Jet at the top, boat at the bottom. Business at top, party at bottom.😂
    1
  3127. LOL where did you get your information from? Green peace?
    1
  3128.  @Rajsingh-ky9ky  Free Falkland, free New Caledonia, free Puerto Rico, free Guam, free West Africa, free the world from western barbarians.
    1
  3129.  @jeffweingrad4658  Ohh and working in office on top of having to fight traffic, pollution and stress of driving is bliss? You have a screwy idea of what bliss is.
    1
  3130.  @jeffweingrad4658  No, that's the way Americans do it. News Flash, not everyone likes the way Americans build their businesses and cities, and certainly not everyone agrees with the way America is governed and managed.
    1
  3131. Scary? Not really, we already know this. But this is definitely criminal and immortal.
    1
  3132.  @Fomites  Yea, there is still a very strong paternalistic and colonial mindset in the west when viewing the global south and Asia. Many westerners cannot fathom that the west will not be at the top, and they are afraid of what will happen to them. It's projection, because historically the west have colonized and brutalized the rest of world and now they are having an existential crisis of faith in their systems, cultures and economies, the fear that what if they are the ones this time that get "colonized" by the barbarians. It's driving the capital class, the political elites in the west insane. They are acting hysterically and trying to rile up their people into believing that China is some sort of Satanic force coming to eat their babies.
    1
  3133.  @lelandtsnyder9684  China is still running a huge surplus, bigger than any country in the world. All your other points are fine.
    1
  3134. I thought he meant it has a range of 6000 miles flying at the speed of 480 mph.
    1
  3135.  @nuudelz3711  A failing car company today. The best automobile engineering is coming now out of China.
    1
  3136. Ohh so there is a type 076 or a type 055 destroyer or a type 003 carrier equivalent in the west?
    1
  3137. @ Seems like your job is to dis-educate people like part of the 1.6B USD army.
    1
  3138. America's political and cultural philosophy is based on the individual (me first, fuck everyone else) while China is based on cooperation (we are on a team, we can all win). It's not complicated.
    1
  3139.  @victoriasjoguist2967  No, the USD supply in circulation is mostly control by the Federal Reserve, the feds. Only they have the power to print, and take back money, that piece of paper that represent value. Say, if you always have 10,000 pieces of paper in circulation, then the whole economy just have to make do with 10,000 pieces of paper for trade even if more Americans are buying local. There is a lot to learn about what the supply of pieces of paper meant for the economy, and what the feds can do that will affect the economy simply by controlling that circulation and the interest rates they set for lending and borrowing money.
    1
  3140.  @gaoxiaen1  No government is innocent but the real criminals that did the most harm to the most people is the US government. The number of crimes against humanity, violation of human rights and international laws done by the US government and American companies are uncountable and committed with no consequences. Seeing the American empire in decline and the dollar losing its reserve status so the world will be free from US tyranny, I'm all for it.
    1
  3141. Which is why I say without breaking the US empire, there is no way Palestine will be free.
    1
  3142.  @mahatmarandy5977  Few religions are as arrogant as Christianity's belief that they have the final word. Pretty much only the abrahamic religions are this arrogant and I despise it.
    1
  3143.  @mahatmarandy5977  Not relevant since they are not the dominant religions of the world. If anything, I can't even recall any non-abrahamic religions that are exclusvists to the point of murdering people to convert them or use guile and insidious subterfuge to convert people.
    1
  3144.  @Daniel_Godismyjudge--Isah33.22  No it's not reliable. It's a bunch of crap, and I read that crap.
    1
  3145.  @Daniel_Godismyjudge--Isah33.22  You are just taking vague quotes and shove it into places that don't belong there. You just prove to everyone that Christian fundamentalists are as brainless as their islamic counterparts.
    1
  3146. The US was never really a democracy.
    1
  3147.  @PhiloSurfer  Europe is the US vassal anyway.
    1
  3148. Once again, the Chinese are right, their system is superior at understanding the needs of the people and the results better and more democratic than the American.
    1
  3149.  @sladewilson9741  Sounds like the crowd you mix with is horrible and maybe you are just another one of them. Most people in the world are not like musk.
    1
  3150.  @typedef_  Your little retort only shows how much of a bootlicking clown you are. People like you is exactly why the west is in terminal decline.
    1
  3151. The Dems are pissed because trump is dismantling the usual agencies that the US government use to do illegal stuff aboard (IE. Colour revolutions, separatism, forment conflicts) and then transferring these powers under his control.
    1
  3152. Nah, capitalism has the fraud problem.
    1
  3153. The reason why they banned Huawei products from being used in telecom applications is because they suspect that Huawei products might have national security risks. Okay, where do they get these suspicions from? Especially when there is no evidence and numerous other agencies have cleared Huawei products. Where? It's because the US install backdoors in their own American products and SPY ON EVERYONE. They are afraid because that's exactly what they have done to all of us. Their thinking is if they can do it, so must China. It's pure projection.
    1
  3154. Well, America said No.
    1
  3155. The USD dominated debts countries don't have to default now. They have alternatives. Do a currency swap with China and refinance in RMB and give the USD to China.
    1
  3156. CEO of a country is a bad idea, worse than a president because what are you going to do with "unproductive" members of society? Do you fire them? How do you fire them? Do you execute them? Banish them? Round them up and force them to work to be productive? How do you run a country like a business? Conservatives never able to answer these questions.
    1
  3157. It's a huge sub carrying tons of explosives. The most likely explanation is that they had an accident underwater and sank without a trace.
    1
  3158. One very important thing you missed: Healthcare in America is still controlled by private insurance companies. These companies are profit driven and are killing thousands of Americans every day. How about the human right to accessible and affordable healthcare? The number of unnecessary deaths every year because America is a capitalist hellscape is already an affront to true democracy and human rights from which there is no escape for the common American. That's violation of human rights.
    1
  3159. Haha Russia is going to win whether US throw more money at Ukraine or not. That's why they are floating the idea of negotiation now.
    1
  3160.  @rabbitt-ee4yu  This comment is why the collective west is in decline.
    1
  3161. This video makes.... a lot of sense.
    1
  3162. Lol US is anti-christian?
    1
  3163. Keynesian economics state that it is better to go into deficit spending to ensure you can get a country out of recession. But that doesn't mean you go deficit spending even in good times.
    1
  3164. The Hasbara doesn't pay that well, so why bat for them? If you say they are ignoring the cause, then why are you ignoring 70 years of occupation, oppression and gen*cide done by the zonists?
    1
  3165. And backstab France before with Alstom.
    1
  3166. LOL this is hilarious. You think that every problem that the US face today on the democrats and tried to portray the republicans as "renegades". Except for a few mostly inconsequential things, the democrats and the republicans are virtually indistinguishable. They are both corporate parties, they uphold capitalism as the highest ideology and constantly make laws that undermine the common prosperity in the US in favor of the capital class. They are both terrible. The fact that the west is still thinking there is a difference among these parties is exactly why they are all living in a delusional world. It's not the individual parties, or individual politicians that are the problems. It's the entire system.
    1
  3167. Everything China does is copycat? You westoids are as delusional as you are arrogant.
    1
  3168.  @zszs100  I said sarcastically that it seems to westerners everything China does is just copying, and tube censored me lol
    1
  3169.  @lvjinbin28  This dude has made a lot of good points. Singapore is in a complicated relationship with both China and US. No one will want to force a confrontation in the middle of SEA so long the balance of power and access is maintained between the 2 superpowers in this region and Singapore will have to play that balancing game very carefully.
    1
  3170. Leaving money on the table is what a capitalist will say, not an educator.
    1
  3171. And their main demand is not to be treated like dirt. Is that a bad thing?
    1
  3172.  @skp8748  Doesn't mean he was not Mediterranean and with olive skin.
    1
  3173. Because such reports and those from their "think tanks" are diplomatic weaponized tools. If you produce a report, spread it widely and keep talking about it, you can shape public opinions domestically and internationally. If you keep accusing other people of doing bad things, you can distract everyone from exmaining the bad things you did. It also gives you multiple reasons for Casus Belli (the reasons for belligerence) and therefore legitimize your aggression towards your rivals. Most importantly, it is for domestic consumption to convince your own people, and the people of the Imperial Core countries (North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea etc., ie. the Global North) that they are the good guys. That these wars caused by the Imperial Core are just, so their own people won't revolt due to war weariness. If you define the criteria of judgement of a value system, you can always define away your wrongs and slander other people. It's advance propaganda. That's why America made these reports.
    1
  3174.  @bozo5632  No, there is an ideology and it is neoliberalism and it demands total domination and exploitation. That's why they can't stop going off the cliff.
    1
  3175.  @yangguo17  Haha they got out when they saw the writing on the wall.
    1
  3176.  @christian.mar.garcia  You don't need that much construction capacity in the future for China. That's why they are already trimming their real estate sector, there is too much excess capacity there and they have done their job building up the coast of China. Now it is more directed towards Western China where there is still a lot of rural areas that need upfliting and around the globe through BRI.
    1
  3177. It was only tried by Iran, Russia and China, until two of them can no longer ignore the constant provocation and threat to their security. This whole mess is completely the fault of the west's disregard for everyone else and their push to preserve their hegemony.
    1
  3178. Something something democracy, something something freedom...
    1
  3179. The counterintuitive part is only because BRICS is lead by MARXIST-LENINIST country, so all the rules used by the west that are based on the colonial liberal capitalist system is out of the window. When is Kevin going to ever admit that.
    1
  3180. They have attack subs too, you dolt.
    1
  3181. So the US government killed whales for sonar practices. Maybe America should have a regime change.
    1
  3182. Liberalism is pretending you are the good guy while doing bad things and then accusing other of doing what you have been doing.
    1
  3183. Maybe the first thing Australians should do is not be so racist.
    1
  3184. That guy is encapsulated the most overwhelming tendency of the western civilization. That tendency overrides all other western civilization values, including liberty, freedom and democracy. That tendency is "if we don't fk you, you will fk us, so I will rather be the one doing the fking, then the one being fked."
    1
  3185. Not praying to false gods for miracles is one of the main reasons why Singapore is successful. Singapore is a secular, technocratic republic and is able to do all that precisely because they are able to make sure no one religion is supreme and religious authorities are kept under strict control from using their religions for nefarious purposes. Learn to do that first.
    1
  3186. Even if you can afford wars, that does not mean you should go to war. The fact that this doesn't cross these people's minds is one of the reasons why the US is the bad guy.
    1
  3187.  @andrenogueira5058  This guy here is exactly the product of a plutocracy disguised as a democracy.
    1
  3188.  @andrenogueira5058  There is always one of you guys coming in here and saying bullshit like this.
    1
  3189.  @TheGlitchyCorgi  That's capitalism.
    1
  3190.  @hiddenhand6973  Yeah, that incentive is greed and lust for power and control.
    1
  3191.  @Xeonerable  The US is swiftly going that direction. We will see if it become that bad first, or a revolution happens first.
    1
  3192. This trend is getting less and less valid.
    1
  3193.  @sighsgkj  Don't blame Greta. She actually tried to bring the problem forward. It is not her fault that her society is screwed.
    1
  3194. I'm pretty sure the weapons manufacturers in the west are very happy to see a weapon warehouse get blown up.
    1
  3195. Europe has already been taken over a long time. People like von de leyen, macron, scholz all pay homage to Washington first. They wouldn't become leaders without the approval of Washington. Short of a revolution, there is no way Europe will ever get out of its vassal status to the US.
    1
  3196. This is all propped up by the insanely unfair financial system that allow the US to parasitically suck up everyone's surpluses. Now we have alternatives from China, and the Russians have shown that decoupling from the west is possible, more and more countries will abandon this system over time.
    1
  3197. Fascist narratives are always the enemy is so strong it must be feared but weak enough it can be resisted.
    1
  3198.  @macrosense It is not really capitalism. Actual Capitalism (with a big C) mean the private owners of capital (the plutocrats) controls the country. In China, the state controls most of the capital (the small c) which is the value generated by the Chinese people, the private owners of some capital even if they are billionaires do not have control over the political, social and media structure of the China. They don't get to call all the shots. In America, the plutocrats get to call all the shots. China is not Capitalism.
    1
  3199.  @TheNobbynoonar  The debt trap diplomacy in Africa is literally made up by Indians then spread by western corpo-state media. It is one of the surest sign of western defeat when they can only make up lies and can't compete anymore.
    1
  3200.  @maxpower8429  You only encounter a small group of people who probably already want to migrate. Out of the hundreds of millions of Chinese that leave China to work, tour, do business, get an education, the vast majority return home. The bourgeois will always want to go to a bourgeois country, that's not surprising.
    1
  3201.  @maxpower8429  Because you can trace most of the problems back to the excesses of capitalism. Calling someone a tankie just showed you don't actually care anymore than what you are indoctrinated with. I hope you can go beyond that and listen and read and see for yourself.
    1
  3202.  @maxpower8429  Because we all are victims of capitalism right now.
    1
  3203. Log cabin republicans are basically collaborators like those who collaborate with Nazis during the occupation of Europe. Fascism is always exclusive, they will always eventually be excluded.
    1
  3204. Hey look, it's a CIA bot
    1
  3205.  @jocelyncaballesrey9661  No they don't. They want to be left alone by the west, and that means making sure they have access beyond the first island chain. If they can have guarantee for that, I don't think they ultimately care who control what part because they can just buy stuff from SE Asian countries. But America knows it can threaten China and contain it militarily if China can never have access beyond the first island chain. Look at it from their perspective, so why should China be subordinate to America and constantly being threatened whenever America feels like it wants to put some Chinamen in their place? As long as ASEAN can work with China, anything can be negotiated and resolved. But to work with America, you risked being subjugated and subordinate in its world order which is plain for all to see.
    1
  3206.  @Ace-mw9pm  It's superficial democracy that is backed up by propaganda. The fact that you think it is a democracy and that it works for its people and for world peace shows that you have been brainwashed by their propaganda.
    1
  3207.  @davidjacobs8558  Ohh they have a very good idea of what China is, and what they want. And they have a very good grasp just what America is too. Americans for most part, are the ones delusional about their country.
    1
  3208. And why will BYD do that?
    1
  3209.  @antonyjh1234  ohh reaaaally. Tell me which countries and regions are the top historical carbon emitters.
    1
  3210. BE is good at some things but he almost always gets it wrong when it comes to issues about China and Russia and weirdly he toe the western propaganda, state department line for these countries.
    1
  3211. We are betting that the western economic and financial system collapse.
    1
  3212. The J-20 is actually quite maneuverable. It is still a closed couple canard delta design and that configuration is inherently very maneuverable.
    1
  3213. Even today, with all the facade of democracy and freedom, the baseline thinking of Europeans and the Americans is still white supremacy based colonialism. It is just a different form of colonialism.
    1
  3214. Seem like the UK should be regime changed.
    1
  3215. The west will never be fair to China now because they have deem China a strategic threat. If China puts a target below 5, it means they are collapsing, if they put it at 5, it means they are unrealistic. This tactic is known as hostile evidence presentation: “During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.” - Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds China can cure cancer tomorrow, repel an alien invasion the day after and discover the way to limitless free energy and the western media will say "aT wHat COsT?"
    1
  3216. That's not how biology or brains work.
    1
  3217. There isn't really a shortage of worker. There is a shortage of well paying jobs that workers want. Many Americans are already working at wages below subsistence level, any lower they migth as well not work because it is simply not worth it and that is exactly what is happening.
    1
  3218. Haha I thought covering up or making up numbers and having no transparency is supposed to be what those godless, heathen, third world corrupt communist countries do? Could it be that the US is a corrupted country?
    1
  3219. China is not as aggressive as the west. You are being brainwashed.
    1
  3220. This whole video assume America will get nuke but given the track record of American taste for aggression, pretexts as casus belli, a weakening hegemony, arrogant culture, hubris people, America is more likely to nuke China and kill hundreds of millions than China nuking America. This video should be made from China's perspective because they are far more likely to get fucked by America and a declining empire like America has every reason to use drastic measure to preserve its hegemony from a credible rival.
    1
  3221. It doesn't matter who wins because they are all trying to bring war and destruction to APAC in order to contain China.
    1
  3222. They ran out of ideas, it's the best the vaulted western creativity can muster.
    1
  3223. The debt doesn't matter as long as they can keep this financial voodoo going. As long as the world is forced to use the USD to trade, the US can keep sucking up other countries' surpluses. And the BRICS intends to break that, with China leading the way. They know if China succeed, America is done for. That's why they are trying to destroy China.
    1
  3224.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  Then you obviously got the wrong lessons, and I don't believe you actually read or listen to anything that is not curated for your consumption by western media.
    1
  3225.  @zafranorbian757  Just because germany failed does not mean China would. It passed the IAEA melt down tests so maybe you people are just not good enough to build one.
    1
  3226.  @mdjey2  No, Russia and China are not imperialistic. If you actually bother to go understand what financial neocolonialism of the USD system, you will understand who is the real criminals today.
    1
  3227. Sounds like it is time to hold cash to buy the dip when it comes.
    1
  3228.  @alexanderbakos5306  He hates the game because it is not western and he is indoctrinated to hate everything Chinese.
    1
  3229. A bank might be required to "spy" on our transactions to find suspicious activities. But what if the bank is in it themselves? Just look at what HSBC do for drug cartels.
    1
  3230. That's not true that they were not economists. They were Marxists and that means they were already better economists than most of the west.
    1
  3231.  @teddybearroosevelt1847  No, just because you think like an American doesn't mean everyone else will think like an American, or want to be like the US. For once, stop thinking like an American, and try thinking like a Chinese, an Iranian, a Brazilian, heck even a Norwegian and you will that your political imagination is severely limited by your media's brainwashing of you.
    1
  3232.  @chadgaming8071  Still playing that false dichotomy of authoritarianism vs democracy. This blind spot in American culture and media will be its fatal weakness; the inability to accept new ideas and new methods of doing things.
    1
  3233.  @adtastic1533  I will stake my reputation that the US will try to sabotage this.
    1
  3234. ​ @AnotherPointOfView944 ohh you mean like boeing
    1
  3235. Feeling safer because there is more than 2 engines is really silly. You are more likely to die while driving than flying.
    1
  3236. All options except fossil fuels must be on the table. Diversifying energy sources is an insurance to disruption. You never know what will happen in the future that can knock out one of your power generation and having that diversification is strategically more secure than putting everything in a one or two baskets.
    1
  3237. The hilarious part is that China with its e-cny is the closest thing we have to an actual digital currency that is usable, legal tender backed by a central bank that you can use for international trade.
    1
  3238.  @Quickshot0  EU still exploit Africa to its limits. France basically gorge on uranium from central Africa. You still have this rosy tint glasses that EU are benevolent. Fuck no, their "investments" are purely profit driven and exploitative.
    1
  3239.  @josefarrington  Calling the US a democracy is like calling a child-raping priest a holy man.
    1
  3240. You don't really destroy NATO by war. That's the last thing you should be doing. You destroy the alliance by turning the vassals against the empire and the way the rest of the world, led by China and Russia is moving away from the US and the collective west will cause more chaos and consternation in their ranks more than war. It's already happening as you can see that the collective west unity imposed by the US is putting a heavy toll on European and the Asian vassals like Sk and Japan.
    1
  3241.  @Jay...777  haha my comment about g**gle may be using their AI to find and remove comments got removed!
    1
  3242. The lesson is never lose rich people's money.
    1
  3243.  @exploringaround9193  It's the president election and Singapore is a multi-racial country. Halfwit.
    1
  3244. China is not interested in a space race. It is the US always looking for an enemy that Americans has this cultural obsession that progress can only be made when there is an enemy to beat. This cultural obsession to dominate is why the US is screwing up its foreign relationships by screwing everyone.
    1
  3245. This is the only video I found that actually explains how a supernova happens. One of the most confusing part in popular science about black holes is that when people ask how does a supernova happen, the explanation always end with it is a big star and eventually it collapsed under the weight of its gravity and explodes. How does something explode outwards when everything is supposed to be collapsing inward? You are the only one that actually says the supernova explosion is due to the outer shell of materials quickly collapsing and hitting the solid core at such a tremendous force that the rebound, like a ball bouncing off the ground, blows away all those materials that did not get fully collapsed into the black hole.
    1
  3246.  @wongkokpey1283  They can do that if they join SCO, and they can make that part of the SCO agenda.
    1
  3247. @TH-dr1kgThere is no point in talking to a person completely brainwashed by western indoctrination. Believe in the lies you were fed, it doesn't matter. The fact is that Taiwan is part of China because it was the remnant of an unresolved civil war. The west is in decline and the US and its vassals will never win a confrontation with China anyway, while China and the rest of the world will grow stronger each passing year. The era of western domination is effectively over.
    1
  3248.  @adamiskandar5107  Only the DPP.
    1
  3249. LOL you are sponsored by one of the most notorious corpo-state media propaganda outlets? Good for you hahaha
    1
  3250.  @Perun944  LOL everyone knows the entire western system is designed and maintained by the greatest thieves in human history. This is thieves eating thieves because they can't steal from other people anymore. The problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of people to exploit.
    1
  3251. The Greeks and other ancients were realists. We are the ones who created fake stuff like Christian doctrines which was created more or less by Paul, not by Jesus. That's why the pearl clutching exist.
    1
  3252. American destroyers left for no reason. That sounds like they abandoned their allies. Are we just going gross over this? Really? What the hell happened?
    1
  3253. You think China is not smart in international politics? The country that literally has over 120 countries participating in the BRI, outmaneuver the west at every turn, and created an economic miracle unprecedented in human history is not smart? LOL
    1
  3254. Then why are you buying half a trillion worth of nuclear subs to join the Americans and British to go and kill Chinese?
    1
  3255. SE Asia is not going to war or sanction China over Taiwan. Whoever start the war is going to piss off the collective SE Asia.
    1
  3256.  @comancheflyer4903  And yet like the UNCLOS, the UAS keep barking about it whenever it suits their political purpose.
    1
  3257.  @saintient  Yes they have been.
    1
  3258.  @theblackdog2399  then you are more blind than a bat and as delusional as an ostrich with its head in the sand. There is no point in talking to you.
    1
  3259. @Li Ryan. After living in America for a long time, and seeing how media outfits like fox news and CNN work, the Great Firewall is necessary to prevent a full blown information warfare meltdown from America. Imagine if fox news is allow to tell lies in China, it will make the 1/6 coup attempt in America look like a child's play should it happen in China. But I bet that's what America wants.
    1
  3260. Battery technology not going to progress astoundingly? It already have reach the same level of efficiency and performance for everyday use cars. While I love this channel for its wonderful engineering explanations, this is just delusional. Give it 5 to 10 years, and the Chinese car makers will dominate car production and every passing year, more and more cars sold will be EVs, until ICE cars become a niche product, like a Triumph motorcycle.
    1
  3261.  @brianliew5901  Hey look guys, he think sealioning works on people.
    1
  3262.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  That's BS and you people know it. You lost the competition, you can either accept it and be better or be a sore loser, lying to yourself that you people are somehow still superior in some racist fueled delusion.
    1
  3263.  @ciybersal3499  I think they are making very comfortable margins. Chinese EVs are reinvesting huge amount of money back into R&D. You can't do that unless you are making good money.
    1
  3264.  @nulnoh219  They won't sell at a loss. Good lord, you people are so racist that you think you are the only smart people in the room. They have other ways to retaliate against EU's tariffs and they already did. China has now halted every project to build EV factories in Europe, netting over 3 billion Euros in lost investment, and most importantly, technology transfer. Europe needs that investment more than ever, considering that they are rapidly deindustrializing. You guys forget that VW just close down factories in Germany for the first time ever?
    1
  3265. China will break Wall St.
    1
  3266. Vance saying that the US is democratic has to be the biggest joke of this year.
    1
  3267. Haha, we have all been saying that for years.
    1
  3268.  @dominicfucinari1942  Brainwashing and propaganda and a whole lot of bread and circus.
    1
  3269. It is claimed by the west that the patriot shot down the kinzhal but there is more evidence out there with pictures and videos that the patriot interception success rate was actually very low.
    1
  3270. Friedman was an insidious idiot.
    1
  3271. Sounds like some CIA trained stooges.
    1
  3272.  @chrisk7118  hahaha you're not serious. Indonesia is THE dominant power of SE Asia. Thailand is a regional power. Even Malaysia, Vietnam are regional powers. Even Singapore can punch better than the Philippines. Sit the f*ck down.
    1
  3273. The Global Majority realized that China and Russia is the only ones who can stand up against western Imperialism.
    1
  3274. Getting fired for extenuating circumstances like your car breaking down is one of the most American thing ever.
    1
  3275. Flouride is not a bad thing. It helps to reduce tooth decay, especially if you are lazy and don't brush your teeth often enough.
    1
  3276. I think Kaku means efficient as in it is easy to derive energy from burning fossil fuel since per weight wise, it contains more energy than battery and easily release (efficiency) but I do not think he thinks that burning fossil fuels is energetically efficient since I'm pretty sure he understands thermodynamics. Sigh he can be rather misleading sometimes
    1
  3277.  @justaguy4019  The CPC literally uplifted 800 over million people out of poverty. What else do you want them to do? Lick your boots to gain your approval?
    1
  3278.  @MrBrax  Yes, you do support the UAS by promoting their propaganda.
    1
  3279.  @b3arwithm3  Do it, pull all your troops away from Europe. Do it, vote for it for the next election. Dissolve NATO. Do it. What are you, a sackless coward? Do it!
    1
  3280. Actually you can trace nearly all the problems in the US right back to ronald reagan.
    1
  3281.  @MG-ll5nw  LOL that's the best you can do.
    1
  3282. Every dollar of bond China buys today is a dollar DC can spend on building its military for one day they will sail across the Pacific Ocean to murder Chinese. Every dollar they spend is a dollar they can use to buy bullet to put in Chinese people. This is no longer about economics. This is war and the US already started it. Why should China keep helping the people who want to kill and destroy them. Mark my words, if China's plans to de-dollarize works, the Americans will be desperate enough to do the unthinkable. They already did it before, and they have complete control over its media to sell nuclear bombs over Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhou to preserve American hegem... ohh sorry "Freedom(TM)" and "Democracy(R)". This century's Nazis will be Americans and they are going to murder 10 times more people than the Nazis ever did.
    1
  3283.  @silverfang1158  No, China is not making things difficult for companies to stay there. It is the US that is making companies harder to stick around with all the sanctions and witch hunting. Westoids really are the most disinformed people in the world.
    1
  3284. It's like what that man with the funny mustache said, repeat a lie enough times and it will become the "truth." The US government will just keep saying this over and over again until the Americans believe them. Except the problem is that fewer and fewer people believe that crap, especially when so many are seeing the truth about Chinese people's lives in China through Rednote.
    1
  3285.  @jacquelinemorgan2086  And most of that "growth" are not even real growth. It's just money ping ponging around in the financial casinos of Wall St., overpriced healthcare system, borrowed money government spending and the MIC.
    1
  3286.  @socomxx  Ohh, do enlighten us.
    1
  3287.  @intanpermata5115  Yea, it is like asking will Singapore be annexed by Malaysia or Indonesia if they make Singapore a "deal"?
    1
  3288. This is going to be an unpopular opinion, seeing that everyone here is harping on how awesome this plane would be. This is a monumentally stupid and selfish idea. You put a WMD on a civilian plane basically put a target on every 747 in the world. The world was not only USA vs USSR in the cold war, there were other countries too. Imagine that everyone couldn't even know if a 747 crossing its airspace is carrying passengers or cargo or nuclear missiles. If a country don't want nukes flying over its airspace, they couldn't just forbid bombers, they have to forbid every 747. Are these nuclear 747s going to fake their transponders? What if one of them crash right in the middle of someone else's country? What if America had bad relations with other countries that was not USSR. So now every 747 became a suspect in carrying nukes. This is basically putting nuclear missile launchers in hospitals or passenger trains or cruise ships.
    1
  3289. The cultural divergences on isolated islands is not unlike the evolutionary divergences based on island evolution.
    1
  3290. Also, they assume that no one else is getting lessons from the wars that the UAS fought. As though the rest of the world has no agency at all, and are all dumber than USians. There is a reason why China pushed for modernization of the PLA so quickly after the Desert Storm. And now the PLA is basically on parity with the UAS military and with the right kind of strategies, doctrines and tactics designed around defending China's coastlines by denying US carriers entry into the 1st island chain without the very high potential of being saturated attack.
    1
  3291. Talking about revolutionizing air to air missiles and did not mention Meteor.
    1
  3292. Yup, back in the early 2000s, not even the most patriotic Chinese will buy domestically produced cars. Now they can't get enough of it. Also, the CEO of Ford did not just say the SU7 is good, he called it an "extinction event" for American car makers. This is why western military watchers, intellectuals, economists are useless in assessing China because they simply do not even understand how China functions at a fundamental level. They drank their own kool-aid so deeply they believed their own BS like scriptures. Better to go onto Rednote and search for actual Chinese PLA watchers and insiders.
    1
  3293. So why not just hail a cab through an app? Or take public transport. If you live in a well designed city (people-centric, public transport oriented) and you seldom travel outside it for long distances, you don't really need to own a car 99% of the time.
    1
  3294.  @ChinaSongsCollection  I think you are overestimating that. I think if given a real choice, most people don't want to own a car and they just want to go from point A to point B fast, cheap and comfortable and they don't much care how.
    1
  3295.  @chiterathestore YT is censoring stuff. The great western freedom of speech in action.
    1
  3296.  @dormedinaDK Ohh goody, then by your logic, everyone should be allowed to me*dle in your internal affairs, co*p your government, b*mb your cities into the stone age, destabilize your regions, plunge your countries into decades of civil war, while everyone gets to exploit your people, una*ive them discriminating, deliberately keep you in unpayable debts denoted in other currencies, and forever poor and destitute. Should we get started?
    1
  3297.  @dormedinaDK Ohh goody, then by your logic, everyone should be allowed to me*dle in your internal affairs, co*p your government, b**b your cities into the stone age, destabilize your regions, plunge your countries into decades of civil w*r, while everyone gets to exploit your people, una*ive them discriminating, deliberately keep you in unpayable debts denoted in other currencies, and forever poor and destitute. Should we get started?
    1
  3298. There are only a few thousands professional athletes in the world that can make a living playing their sports. Using sports to escape poverty is never a real solution to the ills of poverty. It is just another capitalistic, fake meritocracy myth making. And that perhaps is a tragedy because this myth was sold so hard to improvised black communities.
    1
  3299. This is an argument that the western media needs to be completely dismantled, both traditional or social media. Western media is nothing really more than a propaganda machine used by western oligarchs to manipulate public opinions.
    1
  3300.  @Magsasaka-kami  NOPE. The "international" community is mostly western propaganda in the west and some more westernized countries. It does not constitute more than 20% of the world. The fact is that the Global Majority has had enough of western hypocrisy and lies. The recent prosecution of Israel at the ICJ, the Global South not refusing to sanction Russia, the continuing de-dollarization efforts worldwide, the stronger voices coming out of Africa and South America voicing opposition to the western led world order, and fewer and fewer people believe in the "rule based order" BS and supporting the One China Policy should give you people a few clues on what the real sentiments of the world is.
    1
  3301. When will the west understand they cannot beat the Chinese in grand strategy.
    1
  3302. I have used both and British style plugs are indeed great. Their connection to the socket is stronger so you don't have weakly slotted plugs that tend to drop out. But it also mean that it can be hard to pull out. The built-in fuse is cool too, but it does make the plug more bulky and the socket bigger. But what I really like is that nearly all British sockets have built-in switches. With just one flick, I know my entire output on that socket is off. It is convenient if you like to turn things off completely without having to pull the plug out. It is also somewhat safer as you are can turn off the socket before connecting/disconnecting a plug so you don't get those electrical arcs you see very often when you connect American plugs to their sockets.
    1
  3303. China's success literally disproved this statement.
    1
  3304.  @rravisankar3355  modi is a right wing neoliberal capitalist fascist. That's why.
    1
  3305.  @keiththomas1180  No, you don't. The western corpo-state media censor stuff all the time.
    1
  3306. It's not just trump. It's the fact that the GQP protected trump for two impeachments when it was clearly plain to everyone (everyone not brainwashed by right wing propaganda) that trump had strong armed another country's leader to make up fake dirt on Biden (1st impeachment) and that he incited a coup attempt (2nd impeachment). Like what Adam Schiff said, if right doesn't matter, we're lost. The republicans are lost because right doesn't matter to them anymore and if right doesn't matter, the rule of law doesn't matter, facts doesn't matter, truth doesn't matter and anyone who knows how to use their bigotry and fears will rise to their leadership positions and that's exactly what all of them are trying to do now. This is the beginning of how an authoritarian fascist party can seize power. It's how Hilter rose to power. It's how a lot of dictators rose to power. There is a fundamental problem with our current political situation and it all points towards the GQP becoming more and more fascist every day. If you're China and you look at this, who will be the number one scapegoat in a fascist America? It will be "moi". Then you consider that we have the most powerful military in the world, along with thousands of nukes, a fascist America is an existential threat to China and pretty much the rest of the world, and we have never come closer to that since the interwar period. All you have to do is talk to trump supporters and the only conclusion for China is "yup, we might get nuked in 30 years."
    1
  3307.  @dman1327  Trading fair? Bombardier C100 completely destroy your narrative. We have never tried to be fair unless we know we can win. When we know we are gonna to lose, we always turn to tariffs and unfair trade restrictions to protect our own companies.
    1
  3308. The problem with you people is always trying to think what China can do now and always want to ignore how far China has come and how fast. Today you are talking about Shandong. Tomorrow you have to contend with type 004 type 005, type 006. If China really wants to take Taiwan by force, which they won't because they don't need to, you are facing not just the current PLA. You are facing the greatest manufacturing and economic power right now and in the future. China has enough capacity to take Taiwan several times over if it really wants to. But they don't really want to. And you are the one playing with fire.
    1
  3309. This video has put very well why I no longer believe that America is a force for good, or that it can change for the better.
    1
  3310. If we really could not coop, the Cold War and post Col War atrocities, interventions, destabilisation, and exploitation by the collective west, probably killed hundreds of millions of people around the world. 43k Ukrainians are just another rock on that gigantic pile.
    1
  3311. ​ @grimaffiliations3671  The debt might be inflated away or it kills the economy first from the interest rates. America is just recycling surpluses from other countries' productivity. It does not have the productivity to sustain this level of spending and standard of living. So the debt is not backed up real productivity into real goods and services. Eventually, they either have to cut back, or keep jacking up the interests to attract bond buyers and that will kill off its revenue.
    1
  3312.  @typicalKAMBlover21  China is already beyond that and is forging new innovations no one else have thought of.
    1
  3313. America is a democracy?
    1
  3314. With no one to help Singapore to defend against China will be the worst case scenario for Singapore. Singapore is under no illusion that it can defend itself against a large country like China or even the US. Its military can make it expensive to take Singapore but it is only a matter of time before it will fall. Heck, your scenario while logical, also miss the fact that if China (or US) really want to, it can just sail up to southern part of Singapore and just siege the city into starvation. Bomb the water pipeline from Malaysia, then surround the island, destroy any ships or subs or jet trying to sortie out, and just wait. It's gonna surrender within a month. The only chance Singapore will ever have is to attack first and destroy whatever is coming but as you pointed out, whatever Singapore can destroy will be a drop in the ocean against a juggernaut like China. It's basically what happened to Tyre when Alexander siege the city. Singapore maybe a fortress but it is going to fall when faced with an overwhelming force.
    1
  3315. A mutant octopus will be less monstrous than what churchill was in real life.
    1
  3316. Of course she is gaslighting us. You keep forgetting that yellen works for biden/Harris and reelection is the most important thing to the Dems. If it means lying to all of us to keep the illusion going, they will lie until their tongues rot.
    1
  3317. Yup, all of these plans really depends on the world passively accept this BS and not doing anything to retaliate or to reduce the effect of the US trying to harvest their economies to support its own zombie economy.
    1
  3318. @AlexFranceParis999  It's why they are developing their own engines. The more the west tries to squeeze China, the more they will create their own alternatives. They were happy to just buy high tech stuff, but the west is afraid of seeing China move up the tech and value chain. High tech and finance and the military are the only things the west has that allowed them high standards of living. The moment China reaches parity, the west will be relegated to a backwater, and the west will rather destroy the world than to see that happen. Mark my words, the west is going to do something to the world that will make them the worst evil of this century. They have already done it twice in the last century and many times for the last 500 years. Another century of atrocities to preserve their hegemony is the usual form of the west.
    1
  3319. The fact that there are two books in the trump organization should be enough to bring down trump himself. It is his business and you don't keep two books unless you have the intention to defraud.
    1
  3320. Meh, the Neom is a ridiculous project whether China helps or not.
    1
  3321.  @fredrobinson6990  The real problem is not macron, though he definitely is a problem. The real problem is the bourgeois capitalist system that keeps producing leaders like macron and le pen.
    1
  3322. Malaysia, Vietnam and other SE Asia countries do not have any real territorial disputes with China that cannot be solve with some negotiation s. The only odd one is Phillipinnes and we all know they are captured politically, culturally by the US. That's why they are behaving irrationally like a US stooge.
    1
  3323. So if China's EVs are now getting even better than western car companies' cars, does that mean America is going to sanction China and prevent them from getting robotic manufacturing because you know, "national security" reasons?
    1
  3324. Marx already covered that log ago: the alienation of workers from their work.
    1
  3325. It has always been like this. trump is just more blatant. When we use the USD, we are paying a protection fee. Every time the US finance created a bubble and cause unmitigated financial crisis, they export their problems to everyone else to shoulder. "The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem" - John Connally
    1
  3326. You wanna bet against that? Are you absolutely sure the Chinese did not find a way to increase their missiles accuracy on moving targets?
    1
  3327.  @XKS99  It's not about whether you can intercept it or not, it's whether you have enough interceptors. China can put downrange hundreds, if not thousands of missiles at you so it doesn't matter how good your air defenses are. And China now has over 30% of the world's manufacturing capacity while the collective west can't even make enough shells for a little war. We are not talking about a few missiles, or a dozen being made each month by China. If China is threatened by the US and it has to go into war economy, expect thousands of hypersonic missiles to be churned out per month. How many VLSs do the USN have? This is why the US provoking China and trying to contain China is so stupid.
    1
  3328. People also say that about China years ago to dismiss that they will ever build a credible military. And yet, here we are.
    1
  3329. Trading lite fascist for real fascist is still not progress.
    1
  3330. @@A_R_B_G Not any time soon and the west is actually lagging behind China in adopting renewable, sustainable energy sources.
    1
  3331. End of the American empire, hardly the end of globalization. I know this channel likes trump because he stir up sht but he is objectively also a terrible person, a terrible president and he is no leader nor will he lead America to a better place. This cjannel shilling for trump is just as bad as liberals shilling for biden.
    1
  3332. Ohh so the terror and suffering by the Palestinians do not matter?
    1
  3333. @letspray23 USA is the one terrorizing everyone.
    1
  3334. A lot of them are like him, an asshat and also a lot that just want to stop fighting wars all the time. I will say 60/40.
    1
  3335. Biden might order the murder of AMLO and that's going to be a huge flashpoint.
    1
  3336. Unfortunately a lot of westernized Singaporeans are really that ignorant and taken in by western corpo-state media propaganda and their false narratives.
    1
  3337. No, they don't come to the US for help. It is the US that insert themselves into other countries' affairs AND CAUSED THE WARS.
    1
  3338. The fact that Australia is not part of ASEAN, does not seek it's membership or work with SE Asian nations to create a security and economic framework despite being their neighbour since these nations gain their independence only goes to show how racist they actually are. They would rather gang up with other white people thousands of miles away than to be more friendly with their non-white neighbours. Maybe that's ultimately a good thing. ASEAN is so successful at keeping the peace and encouraging economic cooperation among its members could very well be because there is NO white people country in it messing everything up.
    1
  3339. Just a few years ago, there was a rumor that the Three Gorges Dam might collapse because some guy showed some satellite photos, claiming that the ground was shifting using very dubious logic. Reddit and probably 4chan were all over those photos and people (mostly Americans) were drooling over the possibility of the dam breaking. They want to see China fails so they can say shit like made in China shit or Chinesium. They wanted to see hundreds of thousands of Chinese dead, and millions displaced in order to push the narrative of American superiority. Heck, even today with the war drums over Taiwan being beaten, American redditors are always speculating on how to destroy the dam and even revel in the possibility that the US military will destroy the dam in a brazen attack, you know, just to show these Chinese not to be too uppity, like they oppressed black people for being too uppity. You cannot talk with hyenas and expect an honorable and reasonable discourse.
    1
  3340. The whole 19th century in East Asia can be boiled down to one lesson: do not be weak or you will get bullied. Everything China is doing right now is what the Meiji Restoration were doing: do not be weak.
    1
  3341. He is fighting a losing battle. Honorable effort though.
    1
  3342. The Chinese government uplifted 800 over million people out of poverty and have to endure lies and slander from the west for years. I think comparatively to the west, the Chinese government is far nicer.
    1
  3343. Save your prayers. Your religion is a large part of why the US support the apartheid regime of Israel.
    1
  3344.  @nigelgarrett7970 okay, you have sources for that? How much are they paying for the ore now compared to when they still control Niger?
    1
  3345. You don't have to like America, but trump is literally the worst kind of American. He represent everything that is wrong with America; narrow-minded, arrogance, selfish, self-centred narcissism, greed and inability to reflect in one's own mistakes. So his downfall should be celebrated by all.
    1
  3346.  @GASIA-cw8iw  You mean the US makes the rules, and order everyone around.
    1
  3347.  @heychrisfox  Interesting narrative, because the way I see it, it is the WHO being cautious before declaring this or that when information was so scant and they were working with the Chinese side to pin down the properties of this infection. So I don't think China twisted the arms of the WHO. They were trying to do a difficult job at a time of huge uncertainty.
    1
  3348.  @SeanFooGold  Visiting Bangkok is how I appreciate why Singapore has COE and urban planning.
    1
  3349. The amount of union busting, so blatantly committed, should tell you who is really running the country. It should tell you what freedom is in America.
    1
  3350.  @PahatRout  Unforunately, the sand needed is a specific type that is actually rare in the context of millions of tons for land reclamation. Singapore is using another method now to reclaim land that uses less sand, so we shall see how it goes.
    1
  3351.  @wangxian5767  I don't think so. The typical way for land reclamation uses a specific type of sand. Probably has something to do with its physical properties and desert sand is not the right kind. That's why they have been dredging the sand from riverbeds probably because it is the right kind of sand. But I think Singapore is now using another method for land reclamation that requires less sand to do so.
    1
  3352. The only way to bring western governments to heel is to dismantle the current western led world order because the people in the west have been de-fanged for a long time through brainwashing, capitalist indoctrination. The people in power in the west, the plutocrats, the oligarchs and their cronies in the government and the press are not afraid of you. They are afraid of China, and the rising global south because that external threat is the real existential threat to their hegemony.
    1
  3353. AM4 is deadended but that doesn't mean the chips it supports are obsolete. Any 5000 series ryzen will serve a normal user for years to come without any hiccup of really any lost performance. I'm going to upgrade my wife's PC soon and she is on AM4 using a 2600 and GTX 1060. I will probably keep the MB and go for a 5600X or 5600 and a 6600XT or 3060 ti for it. For 1080p gaming and general purpose, this setup will last for years without needing to reduce the settings on most mainstream games you can throw at it. I predict that I wouldn't even need to change out the CPU all the way until AM6 drops.
    1
  3354. The US and the west HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DUPLICITOUS. It is only until now they are showing their colours more clearly because they are forced to defend the indefensible (a gen*cide live on social media). It is also thanks to the fact that the countries oppressed, and suppressed by the west have alternatives now. So they are finally having enough power to speak out against the west and their duplictious ways and making their anger felt at the UN to stunning effect.
    1
  3355. China's approach to AI is far more realistic and strategic. Yes, they just release a LLM like ChatGPT called the DeepSeek, but they have been using AI as an assistant in reducing drudgery for the worker, more advanced automation to increase productivity, and not as a tool to exploit and manipulate people.
    1
  3356. China is encircling the US economically but that's just China having good policies of focusing on expanding its productivity and productive forces and securing their supply chains. What people like Rubio are afraid of, is China doing to them what they have done to the rest of the world. Neocolonialism on the US, where they fear China will impose their own version of the Washington consensus to keep the US forever in poverty and take away their power. That's what all of this is all about. The white people are afraid the yellow, brown and black people taking revenge on them.
    1
  3357. Mersheimer is just like any other western thinkers. They start off with the assumption that every culture and society in the world thinks and behave like the west: colonial, dominating, hegemonic, powermongering, capitalist and virulently racist. The west never threw off the legacy of colonialism in their thinking, heck they didn't even remove fascism. This is their baseline and they just project that onto everyone. This is their game theory logic. The infighting they are having now is trying to decide how to conduct their imperialism and hold onto their hegemony. The idea they can function like a normal country that treat other countries with respect by giving each other space, respect each other's development route and work on the basis of equal partnership and not constantly trying to find some cheap way to rip others off, is alien to their minds. It doesn't even seem to register in their culture today. Except for a few individuals like Jeffrey Sachs, they are nearly all imperialists at heart.
    1
  3358. The problem has never been the Chinese government. It is the US political oligarchic establishment that is waging a new cold war on China. It is the US establishment that caused all the problems.
    1
  3359. Smaller SE Asian carriers like Indonesia's TransNUSA is flying the C919.
    1
  3360. And they are bought by American plutocrats like bezos, musk, gates, buffet, the murdochs, the kochs, the waltons, and the entire executive part of corporate America.
    1
  3361.  @nabiljai9487  Why do you think Xi wanted to reemphasize and reinforce the principles of Marxist-Leninism in China?
    1
  3362. Going to another country to buy their company just because that country is putting up tariffs against your main competitors is not really a viable long term goal.
    1
  3363. Nope. The CPC is fundamentally part of China, and the Chinese people are generally happy with their government. Stop trying to use this underhanded divide and conquer tactic. It's disgusting.
    1
  3364.  @laylowstaylow  It is literally a lie that the Chinese people are not happy with their government. Of course, the Chinese know about the past of the CPC. I guess when you have no principles, you don't mind just blatantly lying, even on the internet.
    1
  3365. Because India has an inferiority complex since their defeat in the 1960s when they got too greedy and thought they could just take all the disputed lands without negotiating with China. Since then India always has a chip on its shoulder against China. Except that India is a chronic underachiever and has nothing to show for after 40 years, unlike China's meteoric rise.
    1
  3366. The US had this chance to create a world where we can finally abandon the colonial, domination mindset but instead they created another colonial empire based on financial amd economic colonialism. But expecting a cold ntry born out of a people who colonize a continent in the most brutal way to be enlightened is too much to ask.
    1
  3367. The concept itself is simple. It's basically radio waves bouncing back until you detect a certain frequency and then you trigger. The more fascinating part is coming up with the idea in the first place and believing that it was possible to do it.
    1
  3368. Sooner or later, America is gonna get desperate enough and do something absolutely horrendous. I want to remind everyone that in the land of the Americans, they once loved and support fascism openly. Like the latent racism that has boiled over since the election of Obama, this latent fascism is still there, smothering, waiting for the day when the capitalist masters are desperate enough to preserve their control over America to dare to stoke the fires of disaster. If the US really does provoke a war of desperation with China, the war will not be far from home because there will be one already brewing at home. And if push comes to shove, China has enough weapons to reach the US quite easily but it will be unlikely to hit the US mainland because China doesn't want a nuclear war. It will most likely sink most of the ships in the Pacific and be done with it.
    1
  3369. We can't really explina how this trait help a species survive or adapt better. It doesn't make much sense. Whelp, must be sexual selection.
    1
  3370.  @tacticalideasdefense4243  Probably why this is not an exact copy. If it is, then the PLA has learn nothing about why the US military organized itself that way. There is nothing wrong with learning from the best and adapting the same lesson for yourself.
    1
  3371. Why will East United States build a separate launch system when there is NASA already?
    1
  3372.  @JohnLangley-d6h  lol Malaysia is happily selling oil it drilled from the SCS to China and China is happily buying it up.
    1
  3373. Alpha particles from Americium is not dangerous. As long as you do not ingest it, it's fine. FFS.
    1
  3374. The next "China" is still going to be China. Saying Vietnam is going to take over China is so absurd. China is literally several times, if not tens of times, even hundreds of times bigger in every metric especially compared to small countries in SE Asia. Everything the west says is just copium and delusional self lying.
    1
  3375. Really? I think it is the perfect marketing for an MBA program considering this is exactly what capitalism always incentivize and motivate business people to do if they can get away with it. Dude's son maximize profit by any means possible, he is a true acolyte of a capitalist trained MBA.
    1
  3376. LOL this is hilarious. He blames nearly every problem that the US face today on the democrats and tried to portray the republicans as "renegades". Except for a few mostly inconsequential things, the democrats and the republicans are virtually indistinguishable. They are both corporate parties, they uphold capitalism as the highest ideology and constantly make laws that undermine the common prosperity in the US in favor of the capital class. They are both terrible. The fact that the west is still thinking there is a difference among these parties is exactly why they are all living in a delusional world. It's not the individual parties, or individual politicians that are the problems. It's the entire system.
    1
  3377. Haha this is going to ruffle the petticoats of the fans of A-10 and Apaches. I guess LH has the last laugh today considering they have the F-35 contract of which quite a bit of the technologies developed for the Cheyenne ended up in.
    1
  3378.  @金戈铁马-z3r  No, I lived in different places and now reside in Singapore. I have seen the west right in the belly of the beast.
    1
  3379. Geographical pivot of history should be discussed together with the World System theory of imperial core and peripheral.
    1
  3380. Macaroni bridge, like the ones children make.
    1
  3381.  @UniDeathRaven  Not if you live in the western corpo-state media bubble. A person only has so much attention span. So if you can flood that attention span with your lies first, before the truth come prodding along behind, you already captured your audience. That's how propaganda and public opinion work in the west. They don't censor stuff outright, for plausible deniability, they just put so much of their own bullshit in front of you that your perception is pushed towards their narratives. By the time the truth and facts reach you, you already have preconceived prejudices.
    1
  3382. You forget to mention own more aspect to the whole story of climate change; total historical carbon emissions. When you add it up, America is the highest historical emitter, and the entire west (US led west, incl. Japan and SK) far outstrip all emission than the rest of the world. When you put climate change in that context, and the west, especially America, still falling behind in renewable and nuclear energy adoption, electrification, there is no excuses left to give.
    1
  3383. Colonial exploitation and debt traps are the specialties of the west. That's like the IMF and World Bank do. That's what the french and the US do in Niger, along with many many examples. It has been debunked many times that China's loans are not traps and they pay a fair price for all their trades. These lies are also invented and spread by western media, even the Indian media since the China debt trap myth
    1
  3384. Omg how can he converted? What about the Messiah, the deliverance? Maybe he is just a self aggrandising grifter and all of you are guilble morons.
    1
  3385. YT belongs to an American company. There is pretty much no one that can do anything. That's why China cultivate their own alternatives, precisely to prevent this from happening.
    1
  3386.  @constantineergius1626  This mentality is part of the reason why nothing will get solve in America. The entire comment is pure capitalistic indoctrination to the tee and it is so complete that this guy doesn't even know he is indoctrinated.
    1
  3387. This lady is great but she is asking for respect from a country that kills its own black people like dogs. America will never respect African countries because they will always see Africans as beneath them
    1
  3388. Sweeping snow off solar panels will become a cultural meme in Germany then.
    1
  3389.  @gideondejongh838  They are looking back at the time of the New Deal and how FDR saved American capitalism from itself and won the war. Then they scrapped all that in the 80s and went back to their old ways that produced the Gilded Age, the era of monopolies and robber baron and the Great Depression. Americans are incorrigible.
    1
  3390. What kind of a thumbnail is that?
    1
  3391.  @ssuwandi3240  I can assure you that the Chinese don't give a hoot about western so call developed standards.
    1
  3392. Because fascist propaganda always need to confuse its own people so they only know how to follow their leaders to death. The enemies are simultaneously weak and strong at the same time, weak so they can be overcome and to belittle them, strong to induce the right amount of fear so you don't step out of the line. Apply when needed.
    1
  3393. US will throw Australia to the wolves if it means protecting its interests. Remember how the Kurds were fighting ISIS on the side of the west (mostly America) and trump promptly drop them off the cliff when it was convenient. Turkey basically fucked the Kurds after that fiasco. America is going to do something really stupid in West Pacific that fucked with China, and it is going to put Australia in an impossible situation with China. And America is going to throw Australia under the bus if it looks like it might lose.
    1
  3394. They made their own bed.
    1
  3395. The body is actually remarkable resilient. If you have moderately healthy habits, it would have just keep working if not for the fact that we have programmed aging and cancer which is a disease that your own body attacks itself.
    1
  3396. I don't think using MTG as a foil is a good idea.
    1
  3397. Lol
    1
  3398. Exactly. Neoliberal capitalist countries do not even have the right way of thinking about government, society and culture because it is all tainted by the idea that profit is paramount and everything is secondary.
    1
  3399. Russia's economy seems to be growing quite well.
    1
  3400. If history is any indication, you cannot depend on another country to defend yourself. If you live in America long enough, you know how fucking fickle we are. As long as Taiwan is no longer useful or aligned to American interests, we will drop you faster than a hot potato. Four years of trump should teach you that.
    1
  3401. He is difficult to work with in three countries, just from the statements from people who did worked with him. I'm pretty sure that is enough to establish the kind of person he is.
    1
  3402. El Dorado probably did more to get rid of shit evil people than any justice system. What better way to punish evil than to let people suffer the natural and logical consequences of their evil deeds.
    1
  3403. When the US empire finally falls, we need to dismantle all these psyops and make security guarantees that the west will never ever be able to reform it.
    1
  3404. China is the greatest threat to American hegemony, but not to American people. That's the big difference. The American wealthy and political elite and the media they control are the actual threat to Americans because they are trying to prepare common Americans for a genocidal war with China.
    1
  3405. Oh yes, I wouldn't be surprised if one day it is revealed that Google uses its AI to search through new comments and delete anything that goes against western narratives or expose the underlying rot.
    1
  3406. Most of the time, it's actually that religion that caused most of the problems.
    1
  3407.  @xuchen7248  Technically a second world country.
    1
  3408.  @countinfinity776  they didn't steal as much tech as you think, and all countries steal, most of all actually is the US. Go read up how they stole tech from the British, the Germans, the French and everyone else. Those companies signed contracts to let Chinese manufacturers learn how they made the stuff, and often they gave the Chinese outdated tech and techniques. So the rest the Chinese have to figure out through great effort. There are so many stories of great Chinese scientists, engineers and the teams they led making insane breakthroughs even though they have nearly nothing to begin with. This "China steal tech" BS needs to die. It is also supremely self serving and naive to think that the Chinese can build the greatest economy in human history today by stealing tech. If tech stealing is all you need to build all this, then why is India still so desperately underdeveloped and poor. Get real.
    1
  3409.  @dennismitchellnwachukwu8557  westerners thinking that China is still copying tech is reason why the west is losing.
    1
  3410. ​ @lauralhardy5450 ohh I pretty sure you mean Americans who like to pretend to be something they are not. Like pretending they are a democracy and not imperialists. Did you get the meaning wrong? I know Americans also like to pretend they are the smartest people in the room, because of their insecurities and constant abuses with no social support, constantly looking for praises and validation.
    1
  3411. @lauralhardy5450  this is so dumb. There are a huge number of very successful Chinese scientists in China. You just never heard about them. You don't even know that China is already leading in many fields of science and research, how will you even be aware of individual scientists. You think you are soooo clever by pointing out that you brain drain another country to support your own economy. Well, that's not gonna happen in the future as more and more countries developed when they are no longer suppressed by the crumbling US led world order. Let's see if Americans themselves can sustain this.
    1
  3412.  @cirilloucazzu4457  More than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with no savings, and most of them are one illness away from bankruptcy and you dare to come and open your loathsome mouth to talk crap.
    1
  3413. Oil is heavily subsidized in many places, especially America. The prices you see for gas and diesel in Europe is more reflective of the actual costs. You remove the subsidies for oil, and EVs even EV semis are going to crap all over ICEs.
    1
  3414. That doesn't deny the fact that Israel is gen*ciding the Palestinians. See, that's the problem. The US is still too dominating and they have been getting more and more insane the more powerful China becomes. Singapore is now caught between a rock and a hard place. We have to balance our appearances between the US and China, so there are a lot of things we cannot say. There is no way the Singapore government does not understand the root cause of this conflict is Israel's gen*cidal policy against the Palestinians, given the history of the brutal Imperial Japanese occupation. But unlike China or Russia, we can't say that without being targeted by the US and Israel and the entire western corpo-state media. Singapore cannot be branded as anti-se*ite, even if we know for a fact that opposing Israel's murderous actions is not anti-se*itism at all. But we know the west is not interested in the truth so we have to play the game of appearing cordial to the US and Israel. Singapore needs to diversify its diplomatic commitments. The world is changing and it is clear that China will lead the rise of the Global Majority, as the west declines. It will be a multipolar world. If Singapore is to survive and maintain our sovereignty (not being able to tell the truth for fear of retaliation is not sovereign), it needs to look towards China and slowly get off the sinking ship that is the US. But this has to be done subtly and with deftness, and match the decline of the US and the rise of China. I have to self censor because YT is not censoring any comment with trigger words. Very freedom of speech the west is.
    1
  3415. Highest possible returns in the shortest possible time is exactly why this whole capitalist system is ghoulish.
    1
  3416. @hieveryone2003LOL CNA has been very critical about China and parrot western propaganda all the time.
    1
  3417. @hieveryone2003 They could, they just don't want to, because they want to settle these claims and disputes peacefully but they won't back down if they are being pushed by the other claimants. Why should China back down? They are not a weak country and they hold most of the cards but they are willing to negotiate if you want to come to the table. If we reversed the role and it is actually US's own backyard, you think they won't just take these islands by force and tell us all to pound sand? China as a strong country has no obligation to really negotiate. They can just tell the SE Asian countries this is what's going to happen and you will have to accept it and there is nothing anyone can do about it, not even the US. Why does anyone think we can't stop the G*za ge**cide right now? Because the US is covering for Is**el and there is nothing we can do against 3 aircraft carriers and the military power the US has in the region, not because Is**el and the US are right. The fact that China chooses not to conduct her diplomacy like the way US does, is already a tremendous credit to them and everyone still wants to portray them as the bad guys. This is what their propaganda does, it rots your brain.
    1
  3418. The only reason why you might want to neutralize the acid in your stomach is when you have an upset stomach that is causing acid reflux, bloating and indigestion. At that point, you might as well as go see a doctor and get some Gaviscon or something. Also the acidity in your stomach create an environment that prevents most harmful bacteria from growing and overtaking your beneficial bacteria, so deliberately neutralizing the pH for no good reasons is more harmful to your GI health.
    1
  3419. When the feds can't print anymore money because the US government defaults.
    1
  3420. You want them to reinvent the wheel just to please your moral sensibilities? When they are constantly push around by the biggest bully in the world using that same tech to threaten their citizens' lives?
    1
  3421. Chinese being proud of their country's achievement; must be bots. Americans proud of their country's achievements; must be freedom. Can you stop drinking the kool aid for just a moment.
    1
  3422.  @lldavidll  Wow, trying to inject some that that western racism into a place where it does not even exist. Han race, han race, han race. Sure occupies your mind more than the Chinese themselves are occupied by the concept of the Han race. The only way you can look at the world is through your own vile lenses. Begone! Back to shadow that spawned you.
    1
  3423.  @PulverizerA  Ohh it is the land of the free for capitalists.
    1
  3424.  @andrewyork3869  That will be very cool indeed.
    1
  3425.  @beetheking_7  Reverse engineering is not as easy or simple as you imagine.
    1
  3426. So long China remains a challenger to US hegemony, there cannot really be peace between the two countries. US has enjoyed its privileged position for too long to give it up without a fight and their entire culture centered around their perceived superiority with concepts like Manifest Destiny. China is not going to back down after two centuries of being fucked by everyone and getting fucked themselves, so this century is their version of Manifest Destiny.
    1
  3427. The entire west thinks like that. They are so drunk on their perceived invulnerability and false righteousness that they really think they are untouchable. If the UAS empire thinks they can steamroll Iran, they are going to be in for a nasty surprise.
    1
  3428. LOL the US threw Ukraine under the bus for nordstream. Good lord, the US government acts just like trump.
    1
  3429.  @khiangtan120  7) Many Catholic & Christian schools with an agenda This point is why the Chinese government only allow approved religious organizations to operate in China because a lot of Christian organization masquerade as religious groups to stir up chaos among people. They are US state department or CIA proxies. There are also a lot of weird cults and exploitative groups out to scam money and led people astray, especially in a country like China where people are not always savvy to these kind of Christian level brainwashing. China is a gigantic country, and any such social unrest will be devastating so they are very strict on this sort of things. Scientology will never get a foothold in China.
    1
  3430.  @emilyblade9676  And America trying to cause a conflict in the region is justified and not a snake?
    1
  3431. Taiwan can negotiate with China and end this charade and not be part of America's cynical game of chess in this region. China wants reunification and will probably agree to nearly any terms. If Taiwan don't do anything now, it will have far less leverage to do so in the future.
    1
  3432.  @youngimperialistmkii  You don't actually know what happened in HK if that's what you have said.
    1
  3433. Basically, Mueller can't say trump is guilty but only if he is not guilty or "wink wink" not "not guilty." Mueller reach the conclusion that trump is not "not guilty" hence not exonerated. The only conclusion is trump is guilty of collusion and obstruction of justice, and that it is just that Mueller cannot say it directly. No sane, objective person can reach a different conclusion.
    1
  3434.  @sbkarajan  Yes, but China won't be the one who shoot first.
    1
  3435.  @MetaView7  Probably. It's not the kind of calculations anyone wants to make.
    1
  3436.  @rickeywheeler7804  Ohh they can, but they don't want to because it is pointless to do so. You think invading other countries airspace is something to be proud of? Just goes to show how aggressive you people are.
    1
  3437.  @fredyaled  Yup, the hypocrisy and double standards are why more and more countries are turned off by the west. It is painfully obvious that the west does not actually respect any actual rules whenever it suit them and they just make up all kind of absurd excuses on why those rules do not apply to them. Because they have near monopoly control over most traditional and some social media, they can spin it however they want. Indian media, such as this channel is also guilty of this kind of underhanded attempt to manipulate public opinion. The inability for western powers to control tiktok and its content, the same way they control platforms like CNN, fox, NYT, even FB, is the primary reason why it is getting banned in the US.
    1
  3438. Sounds like typical American sour grapes.
    1
  3439.  @jemiebridges3197  I doubt it has anything to do with Chinese manufacturers. The factories made these things to specifications and if the specifications are why they are breaking, that's not the manufacturer's fault. Plenty of stuff made in China works just fine and are high quality if the company commissioning the manufacturing are wiling to pay for that quality. This "China makes bad shit" is masturbatory and does nothing except to make people in the west believe in the myth that they are still competitive.
    1
  3440. Literally every country in the south, outside the west is friendly to Chinam
    1
  3441. You mean like if property prices remain out of reach, young people will find it harder to start families?
    1
  3442.  @steinbauge4591  I am quite sure the current data is showing that we are warming up faster than expected and at a higher amount.
    1
  3443.  @steinbauge4591  It's literally the consensus from scientists worldwide.
    1
  3444.  @steinbauge4591  That inspired very little confidence. It sounds more like coping than actual science.
    1
  3445. ​ @CA999 these famines are mostly caused by capitalism because distribution of food to the poor is not as profitable as dumping milk down the drain to keep prices up.
    1
  3446. This is why the Chinese showed off so much power and strength before trump took over the US government. They know the only thing trump respects is power and money.
    1
  3447. It will be hilarious if the US do that.
    1
  3448. It's over 1 million deaths now in the US alone. The human cost of the sheer stupidity and incompetence is staggering considering this is not a war, or a nuclear strike. It's just the US system, politically, culturally, socially literally cannot do anything about a pandemic. Honestly, this great new Cold War that the US is trying to make happen might just end simply because of the continuous number of mistakes the US keep making that enervate itself. I really don't think China needs to change it overall national objectives or strategies. They just need to minimize the chance of themselves making any mistakes, and let the US burn itself out through sheer incompetence.
    1
  3449. If the US government wants to prosecute someone, it is gonna find a way to do it, even if it break international laws or norms. Just look at what happened to Meng Wanzhou.
    1
  3450. Devin probably rehabilitate lawyers away from the image of soulless husks more than anyone else, especially after his video on Lafayette Square.
    1
  3451.  @0Zebadee0  Hahahahahahaha, you saying this when Intel chips are literally overheating and blowing up? This is why western propaganda is failing.
    1
  3452. China will stop that before it happens. No way they will allow the US to turn Taiwan into another Ukraine.
    1
  3453.  @katong1953  Oh yes, YT is definitely using it AI to scour the comment section and removing or shadow banning comments and users.
    1
  3454.  @iamgreat1234  Singapore is going to do what is in Singapore's interests and that mean remaining neutral to navigate between two super powers, as they should. The side that want to force Singapore to choose a side is going to be the one that will lose Singapore.
    1
  3455.  @iamgreat1234  I don't know what magic mushroom you have been ingesting because I was never talking anything about India. If India, a 1.3 billion people country that is the size of a subcontinent, can't stay bigger than Singapore, a 5.6 million people country the size of a small island, in total GDP, then India is the worst country in the world. It's like people like you don't really think before they start typing.
    1
  3456.  @iamgreat1234  Wow, so you really can't read.
    1
  3457.  @JB52520  this is something that the west refused to acknowledge. The fact that all the socialist countries are all handicapped by sanctions and hostility from the west. China is yet another proof of that if competing fairly, socialist countries are far better than capitalist. The fact that China's rise is so meteoric is proof of that.
    1
  3458. The rare earth reserves are not proven.
    1
  3459. They are trying to hold onto their financial neocolonialism, economic terrorism.
    1
  3460.  @shinseiki2015  he's not narrating like it's a secret. He's just exasperated that his country is this monumentally stupid and he refuses to believe it is because his culture, country and people actually really do suck.
    1
  3461. Blowing up the real estate bubble is not in the best interests of the people? The last time a real estate bubble blow up by itself was 2008 and that was a good thing? So China should just let the real estate bubble continue to increase in size until it really blows up and destroy the economy. This person is not worth listening to.
    1
  3462.  @marcusclarkson5520  If you are not even a westerner, then stop believing in their BS.
    1
  3463. I honestly don't like this development. We are already way too bombarded with commercialization. An AR glass will be useful, yes, but it will be even worse than today if everything on that glass is spam, spam and more spam. It's basically Eden of the East, just with more ways to sell you stuff.
    1
  3464. BRICS is already on their way to creating an alternative financial system that cuts the western financial system out of their trade.
    1
  3465. It's healthy if you drink a bit.
    1
  3466.  @omargarcia5863  It's a good rule of thumb. If it makes money for American oligarchs, you bet they are doing it.
    1
  3467. Because western chauvinists all drank their own propaganda kool-aid and believe the rest of the world are dumb, cannot strategize, innovate, think outside the box, and they are the smartest people in the room. They always come up with these tactics and expect everyone else to passively just take it. Maybe that's the case in the past when they are so dominant. Now, it's a multipolar world and these hegemonic tactics do not work as well anymore. We have options now.
    1
  3468. The west is the clown economy, not the rest of us. Okay, maybe include Argentina.
    1
  3469. But a declining empire can take the less trodden, more enlightened path to a rationally planned cessation. The UAS has the option, after so much of human history, to strategically remove the UAS empire and work with the multipolar world and usher in a new era. It could use its still power to birth this new world and still keep it's place as a powerful, relevant country. Instead it is going the route of how most fallen empires went, irrationally struggling against the rise of a new tide, and unable to reform itself because it is locked in its own self delusions from its past glories.
    1
  3470.  @HaqNawaz-ct6gj  China don't give a shit about world domination.That is the ambition of teenage thinking level civilization.
    1
  3471.  @kaimanyu586  Because George Carlin is not the collective of billionaires and CEOs that actually control America.
    1
  3472. Unfortunately they still have 300 billion locked up by the west, and it is unlikely they will ever see that money. The west will steal the money. They say they will use it to rebuild Ukraine but Ukraine is basically now owned by western companies so "rebuilding" Ukraine is socializing the investment and privatizing the profits. Everywhere you turn, the west is creating policies and taking advantage of the chaos and crisis to ultimately benefit their companies.
    1
  3473.  @creamwobbly  You want a people who can't navigate a 2D plane without crashing regularly to navigate a 3D space?
    1
  3474. The US is already wrecking everyone's economy.
    1
  3475. Sounds like he is just reiterating what Marx has predicted all along.
    1
  3476. Fourth generation small modular reactors are the way to go. They are designed to be passively safe and far cheaper than traditional nuclear power plants and can handled much easier.
    1
  3477.  @leslieho6378  You obviously do not understand how nuclear power works.
    1
  3478.  @michael8372  Yes I actually do. If Singapore is going to have any future of securing its energy supply, it has to seriously consider nuclear.
    1
  3479. @michael8372  have you? Then why are you so sure it won't work?
    1
  3480.  @michael8372  This is how I know yo don't know what you are talking about. Old 1st and 2nd gen reactors are nothing like newer3rd and 4th gen reactors. The newer ones are passively safe and will shut down even without any intervention. They are also smaller, easier to transport, far safer and more efficient for their size.
    1
  3481.  @michael8372  Good thing you are not in the government then.
    1
  3482. This just shows that the US stock market is BS. It is a playground for those with capital to speculate and increase their network number through asset bubbles.
    1
  3483. At this point, I am equally worried between two outcomes: climate change disaster, or US elite establishment forces a war with China that will make WWII looks like a stroll in the park and kills more people than the all the wars in the 20th and 21st century combined.
    1
  3484. 2000 bucks for a motorized skateboard? If you buy this thing, you deserved to get fucked.
    1
  3485.  @fosphor8920  I think propaganda is one of the subsets under Consent, along with indoctrination, social control, theory factories etc.
    1
  3486.  @verypleasantguy  Isn't that what the 2nd amendment is all about? Ohh they don't care. They just want to keep their toys and feed on the illusory control they think they have over their lives.
    1
  3487. People in the west forgets that the rest of the world is more threatenes by western nuclear subs than they are from Russian and Chinese subs. Americans, the English and the French are not friends of the rising Global South. When the Global South and the rising Asia truly become powerful, developed and independent, they will no longer be exploitable by the west. Those nuclear subs will be turned against us. I guarantee it
    1
  3488. Haha most of the "western" brand hard drive are made in China anyway.
    1
  3489. The US wants to clean the world of socialists, but it seem today China is doing the cleaning of neoliberals and neocons in the US.
    1
  3490. Philippines is not a sovereign country so they will just follow whatever America tells them to do.
    1
  3491.  @brokeboy8869  Nah, they are gonna find a way to blame China
    1
  3492. The premise starting is already on the wrong foot. Why should SE Asia follow the EU model? What exactly good about the EU model that can be adapted to make ASEAN better? The answer is nothing.
    1
  3493. Ohh China definitely knows and understand a US crash is coming.
    1
  3494. An American once told them that the USD is their currency but Europe's problem. The blatant disrespect and domination of the US over Europe should have been clear that day. Europe should have slowly decouple from the US since the 1970s but they are too weak, too spineless and getting just enough scraps from the American empire to do fight for the right to their own fate, so now their economy is gutted by their massa in DC and Wall St. and they are still delusional about freedom and democracy in Ukraine.
    1
  3495. That is exactly what no one talks about. How about China's national security. We keep saying that China will invade Taiwan but no one ever thinks that Japan, Taiwan, and US can gank China together. We have invade many countries on pretexts and less important reasons. If the future develops into the point where Japan and America, Taiwan and even South Korea think they can fuck China, who are we to say that will not come to pass. For China, that is the worst nightmare scenario, and it is entirely possible. US is a waning, declining empire with weaker allies all around the world that we use as foreign policies foils. China is a rising power that directly challenged our hegemony. If anything is true, it is that Americans don't like being challenged. We like being the top dog and we will kill (and have killed) a lot of people to make sure everyone does not forget that. A Sino-American confrontation might not be inevitable but if it happen, I don't think we will necessarily be the good guys. Remember, that trump will likely run in 2024 and has a good chance to win, and even if he doesn't, there are many GOP troglodytes like deSantis lying in wait. Who is to say a GOP fascist regime will not require invading another country to bolster domestic support when it screwed up. What guarantee does China have that an American dictator will not invade China or even nuke it?
    1
  3496. The NASA chief basically backstabbed the engineers in front of the nation and God. This screams internal political struggle. If you worked on the tanks, you must know something.
    1
  3497. There is already a replacement. It's called Tiangong.
    1
  3498. Probably bring inflation down since you can get more cheap goods directly from China.
    1
  3499.  @Fakeslimshady  That's the problem of the Singapore government to solve. China solve their real estate speculation problem by blowing up the bubble and punishing 2nd, 3rd home owners. Maybe you should look into that.
    1
  3500. Oh you mean the guy who thinks China is never going to catch up to the west?
    1
  3501. Drinking their own kool-aid. You can't solve any problems if you keep lying to yourself. This is why Marxism is ultimately the superior philosophy and economic system because it demands a Marxist to always be rational, objective and depend on empirical evidence. Because this is what dialectic materialism demands from its adherents.
    1
  3502. FYI, ASEAN is pronounced as Ah-see-an, not ah-sey-ya.
    1
  3503. This deliberate disinformation and indoctrination by western media has only one purpose, to immunize western public from forming understanding and bonds with China and the Chinese, that ultimately will threaten the capitalistic corpo-state that dominates western societies. But this disinformation will likely run out of control as the hated and fear will grow exponentially until western public will demand more and more drastic actions against China. The rise of a Christofascist corpo-state in America is very likely as the Dems prove unable to counteract gop highly effective hatemongering on Americans. While they are Americans still fighting the constant right wing fascist propaganda, they are not winning. And this should could result in America taken over by republican fascists. Should that happen, the result will be China getting nuke and America committing the greatest crime against humanity, one that will dwarf the Nazis.
    1
  3504. 13:40 that looks a lot like curry puffs😄
    1
  3505. This just means Russia will have to adjust their tactics to reduce and account for any losses. It won't change the overall strategic situation.
    1
  3506. The IMF and World Bank are already debt traps.
    1
  3507. Backed by 500 years of colonial racism.
    1
  3508.  @jmatt98  How do you still have a brain after being brainwashed so many times?
    1
  3509. It's mostly focused on post WWII world order. Of course they know about Japanese occupation and atrocities.
    1
  3510. Because America is a plutocratic corpo-state.
    1
  3511.  @iriemon1796 Quoting this kind of pithy nonsense as truism is why America is in terminal decline. Can you think in the real world?
    1
  3512. Millei is a rightwing neoliberal extremist so you can't apply any logic or rationality to him. He got elected because every other option in Argentina is just horrible and because he said different stuff from the usual. He is a demagogue.
    1
  3513. An international magazine on social democracy and foreign policy without a journalist focused on China?
    1
  3514. The rise of China and its relative success despite rejecting most of western liberal system probably contributed to the crisis of western hegemonic thinking. Gone are the days that we will automatically assume that western model is supreme and factually inassailable. China has demonstrated that you can reject this model if it does not suit you and go your own way, your people's way. You can create a communism/capitalism with "Chinese characteristics". That probably create a lot of anxiety in the west, especially amount western intellectuals, social, political and economic elites. And I think that anxiety filters down to the common masses.
    1
  3515. Calling calrson a journalist is insulting to the profession of journalism. But then there isn't much dignity left in western journalism anyway. Carlson and his ilk are some of the biggest reasons why America is so screwy today.
    1
  3516.  @freetibet8140  Taiwan is not a country. It is a breakaway province of China.
    1
  3517.  @freetibet8140  Taiwan is a breakaway province that was taken over by the losing side of a civil war. It was never an independent country.
    1
  3518. She is saying it because the outgoing admin always set up the incoming admin when the incoming admin is the opposite party.
    1
  3519. That guy's name is Miles O'Brian? Like Chief Miles O'Brien from Star Trek?
    1
  3520. LOL where do you get your propaganda from? BBC and CNN?
    1
  3521.  @tanpengjoo7205  LOL US treasuries sales are blowing up. No institutions are buying their 10, and 30 year bond and they have to raise the interests on their shorter bonds. Keep drinking that western kool-aid.
    1
  3522. Yea they remember it was the CIA who created the whole mess. Operation Yellow Bird.
    1
  3523. Now the Europeans will feel what it is like to be trampled on and force to swallow unequal treatments.
    1
  3524. You can't expect people to just pick up using a foreign equipment and tactics within weeks. Not to mention these offenses seem to be more politically motivated than strategic or even tactical.
    1
  3525. @mark yueng ohh I didn't know there is an alternative in America for another form of government beside the two fake parties corpo-state.
    1
  3526.  @marsha58  Oh yea, tell that to China lol. Also Cube and Venezuela are victims of US sanctions, not because they suck.
    1
  3527. Let me guess: American manufacturers felt threatened by this jet and use underhanded methods to manipulate the US government to pressure Canada to drop the project. In one stroke, eliminate competition and cripple another country's industry. Watched the video: YUUUP. Bonus, we copied the Arrow for the Delta Dart. LOL, talk about being hypocrites. 50 years later, we screwed the Canadians again with the Bombardier C-series. Who needs enemies when you have friends like this.
    1
  3528. And the west never really change that mindset. They just hide it better. But as soon as they are losing, they bare their colonial fangs. They have never grown.
    1
  3529. The US is harvesting its vassals to prop up its own zombie economy. The higher interest rate is just hoovering up all the capital in countries that depends heavily on the USD. The more a country diversify its trade network away from USD, the more resilient it is likely going to be when the shit really hits the fan.
    1
  3530.  @MLGDatBoi  US violates international laws all the time, whenever it suits US interests. Saying that only US can defend international laws is like a rapist claiming that only he can defend the chastity of the girls he raped.
    1
  3531. Just because the west done these imperialistic shit does not mean China will. The fact that most westerners will automatically assume that China will do this showed that you people have nearly no understanding how the Chinese think and what their values are. Hint: they don't really like to do imperialism. They just want to trade and buy and sell shit.
    1
  3532. The American Constitution is not that great. It's hopelessly outdated and is also geared to protecting private capital first before anything else.
    1
  3533. News has been coming out that it is South Korea that wanted to restart the Korean war so the now disgraced president can declare marital law and get away with it. They were planning a false flag operation. So no, the threat is not from the north, it is from the south particularly from southern politicians that are stooges of the US empire.
    1
  3534. International law is an actual thing. The "rule based order" is made up by the US as they go along.
    1
  3535. BRICS doesn't want a trojan horse.
    1
  3536.  @newpapyrus  Yes, people living here are forced to live as neighbors. There is no large racial enclave like the projects or the suburbs in Singapore. They are places where richer people live and some traditional enclaves like Chinatown and Little India but they occupy only a district. Even students are grouped in each class with diversity in mind.
    1
  3537.  @___beyondhorizon4664  Ah yes the usual excuses that Singapore is small and easy to manage. I live here, no one really cares about the chewing gum. You can chew gum, you just can't sell it here and don't spit it on the ground or you're gonna get a fine. It's like me saying Do you know that Americans will shoot you if they disagree with you? Or Do you know that pedophilia is actually legal in America because all you need is to get permission from their parents and you can marry a 16 year old? Or Do you know that in America police can just shoot black people for whatever reason? Oh wait, that's actually true. Think whatever you want to, but it only shows your lack of imagination and cowardice to admit your system sucks. You people are weak, childish, and pathetic.
    1
  3538.  @gracesutton1359  Saying that this is just a competitor's mindset is like saying Hitler only killed people simply to clean the streets off undesirables. Alsooooo, America is a representative democracy in theory, which just means the government is a republic (matter of the public) selected by election (a form of democracy). It is a democratic republic so saying America is one or the other betrays the shallowness of your knowledge, and the right wing propaganda being injected into your brain because only right wing extremists keep using this rhetoric that America is a republic not a democracy. Turn off fox news, turn off that am radio and start thinking for yourself.
    1
  3539. I find it amusing that Blue still applies normal moral outrages to these "pope fights" when the obvious conclusion is that Christianity had been a scam and a sham for a long time. "Omg, how could they do this, this is supposed to be the highest office of christiandom!" Yea, let's stop pretending that it means anything.
    1
  3540. SUVs are an abomination that represent America's inability for moderation, self reflection and the tendency to equate stupidity, selfishness and excessiveness as freedom. SUV is everything that is wrong with America, its people and its culture. It is a shit genre of vehicles and will be studied by historians in the future as an example of America's demise.
    1
  3541. The indoctrination takes a long time to break.
    1
  3542.  @George-k6o9t  If you think that those companies are successful only because they are private, and that Mao was only just terrible, you have no clue what actual history is, or what China is.
    1
  3543.  @MuZisong  You still do not understand. The PM of Singapore do not represent jsut Chinese. He represent ALL OF SINGAPORE. ALL. Not just Chinese, not just Malays, not just Indians, and not just half a dozens of other races. ALL SINGAPOREANS! And all Singaporeans speak English and understand English and if they need to hear what their PM is saying to another country's leader, they hear it in English. It is the same idea for the president of China. He represent ALL of China and everyone speaks mandarin so the Chinese will want to hear him speaks in Chinese to another country's leader, even though English is still the default language that most people will use in the world. This is not about being Chinese, this is about being a leader. Who can you not understand this? This level of ignorance is how Americans behave. Do you want to behave like an ignorant, provincial, racist, and arrogant America? Or you want to be better? 你还是不明白。新加坡总理不代表华人。他代表整个新加坡。全部。不只是华人，不只是马来人，不只是印度人，不只是半打其他种族。所有新加坡人！所有新加坡人都说英语并且听得懂英语，如果他们需要听到他们的总理对另一个国家的领导人说的话，他们会用英语听到。 中国国家主席也是一样的想法。他代表全中国，每个人都说普通话，所以中国人会想听他用中文对另一个国家的领导人讲话，尽管英语仍然是世界上大多数人使用的默认语言。 这不是关于华人或会说华语，而是关于领导者的身份。这谁能不明白？这种无知程度就是美国人的行为方式。你想表现得像一个无知、狭隘、种族主义和傲慢的美国吗？或者你想变得更好？
    1
  3544. Well, the US can always gift some money to modi and he will get RT banned very quickly.
    1
  3545.  @BonVoyage861  haha you know nothing.
    1
  3546.  @joergstrong  That makes this dangerous because now we are not sure who is really in charge. If we don't really know what is going on in the WH, then we cannot hold anyone accountable. It's worse for foreign leaders is that now they don't know if talking and negotiating with biden will even mean anything. If biden says hostile things, does this mean America is going to invade? If he says the opposite, does this mean America wants a friendly relations? When it comes to making decisions, who is going to make them?Who is influencing biden to make any decisions. These kind of uncertainties are unacceptable.
    1
  3547. Because bourgeois democracy is not real democracy. It is a plutocracy in disguise.
    1
  3548. Special master or whatever, the fact is that when someone like trump and an organisation like the GOP that have absolutely no principles or ethical standards whatsoever, they are going to come up with anything to shift blame away from themselves. If the fact that trump was acquitted by the GOP for extorting a leader from another country to make up dirt did not convinced you the abject moral depravity of the conservatives in the country, you are just as bad as them.
    1
  3549. Hahahaha, Indian media is more self delusional than the west.
    1
  3550. I'm sure you think getting their asses squeezed by cigars smoking middle age perverts was just the price they pay to "see the world."
    1
  3551. If you want to understand Chinese culture, you have to understand the Three Kingdom Era, and the Spring and Autumn Period.
    1
  3552. iPhone is now at 4th place behind Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi in China. Samsung is pretty much dead. The only reason why Samsung, apple are still popular outside China is because most people are locked into their ecosystem.
    1
  3553.  @advaitgadekar6771  No need to bash LGBT rights just to bash American foreign policies. It's disgusting.
    1
  3554. The US has not respected any other other American nations since the Monroe Doctrine. Even Canada is disrespected when trump was president.
    1
  3555.  @chucklesthered2338  Seem like you have not learned anything from this video.
    1
  3556.  @frankhill605  hahaha if you think those meagre welfare is bailing them out, you have no idea how this whole system really works. For every dollar the poor supposedly received through welfare after the value of their labor is almost completely taken from them, the rich received far more. This is why USians are the most propagandized people in the world. You don't even know who the real enemy are.
    1
  3557.  @TacticalMayo  Ohh they are afraid, alright. They are afraid of losing the hegemony and becoming weak enough that the past sins will come and haunt them. Imagine the Global South comes knocking down the west's front door and demanding reparations. Ohh they are afraid.
    1
  3558.  @ken85626  Hey guys, will you look at this. It's a CIA bot hahaha.
    1
  3559. The real problem is that the UAS is an unmitigated capitalist country.
    1
  3560.  @funghazi  Wouldn't doubt that at all. It also seemed that some feet were stepped on and people hold grudges, and over the years they fester. Jack Northrop also seemed like a very self-assured man and probably do not take nonsense lightly. Behind closed doors, shit must have been flung. It could be as simple as "hey why don't you merge with Convair," and Northrop said "fuck no, and fuck you" and it all went downhill from there.
    1
  3561. Your country has been infiltrated by Washington Atlanticism, which is ironic since Australia is no way near the Atlantic but the point stands. The US neocons has been carefully cultivating their acolytes all over the western world and supporting them until they reach high places. It's what people like Von de leyen, and Scott Morrison, Olaf scholz, and macron are. They are managers of the vassal states for the empire.
    1
  3562.  @hiteshadhikari  I like how the indians have learnt the worst ways of their colonial master. Denial of reality and lying to yourselves.
    1
  3563. Ohh look, it's another Chinese.
    1
  3564.  @oneone8318  Which in itself is a problematic concept.
    1
  3565. The self-contained passive safety system that requires no outside intervention by using physics itself, is big. We just need enough power generation from nuclear and storage to smooth out renewable intermittent generation and we can ditch fossil fuels electricity completely. Plus there should be more research in recycling and reprocessing nuclear fuel, something the French are doing very well that stretch the fuel even longer. Having a standardized modular system will help with standardizing these procedures. This is the kind of concept and technology that has win-win-win written in it and the advantages and potential benefits far outweighs the disadvantages.
    1
  3566. Tiltrotors, like helicopters sound good on paper but is actually much worse right now. Tiltrotors are far more complex and more accident prone. That translate to even higher operational and upfront costs, to the point even wealthy passengers might balk at the price. They will never be big enough to really ferry enough passenger per trip to really benefit from the economies of scale like jetliner, metros, trains and buses. On top of that, no city will allow tiltrotors to operate just from rooftops of garages because they are insanely noisy. Helicopters are bad enough, tiltrotors are likely to be even worse. Having multiple tiltrotors landing and taking off regularly in the middle of the city - which is already noisy - will push local residents or workers insane. A few things have to happen before helicopters or tiltrotors can become regular passenger liners. Costs have to go down, helicopter already achieve that for premium market, this is impossible right now for tiltrotors. Decrease complexity and increase reliability - this bring us directly into costs too as complexity increase maintenance and reliability decrease it. Costs have to go down to at least just 10 times the mass transit by per passenger per mile for the premium market and only about 2 - 3 times to have a chance to penetrate the masses. Most upper middle class people are willing to pay 2 - 3 times more to use a regular service to save time and headaches of driving and public transport and that's when you have a possible chance to make the business viable. Lastly, technology has to improve to the point where the noise level is comparable to a loud bus before such transport is even possible to operate in city centers. I don't see helicopters ever meeting these challenges, much less tiltrotors in the near future.
    1
  3567.  @burningknuckle26  That's the thing. I loved America or else I wouldn't have aspire to go to college there. I stayed and finish my undergrad then went on to get my PhD. I was even married to an American. But since the rise of the tea party in Obama's first term and the continued decline into collective hysteria and insanity, the facade has fallen off. Now I see the ugliness underneath, the money worshiping, the brainwashing by capitalistic media, the double standards and hypocrisy and the casual violence. The irony is that I met some of the kindest people in America, yet around them are people, friends and family even, that will callously dismiss the violence rampant in the society, the mass shootings, the school shootings, the gangland crimes just to never break the religious-like adoration of the 2nd amendment. It's mass insanity, and I blame it mostly on the underlying cultural racism that never got addressed completely since the Civil War and the CRM, and the immense dominance of the capital, patriarchal class on every aspect of American experience.
    1
  3568. What we do know is that this jet is meant to define air warfare doctrines for the next 50 years. Stop thinking if this is like a J-20 or F-22 or Mig-31. It's none of these things.
    1
  3569. They are learning the same shtty tactics from western corpo-state medias.
    1
  3570. We are only able to hit back now because of the rise of China is weakening western imperial power.
    1
  3571. Your country is trying to pick a fight with China on the behest of your American masters. Sit the F down.
    1
  3572. Hearing the WH spokesperson speaks is like hearing the Mouth of Sauron speaks.
    1
  3573. Most westerners do not know jackshit about the crimes their countries have done on the Global South.
    1
  3574.  @kawaichan490  Which is why this is so dangerous now. Because ultimately the Chinese on Taiwan don't want a war. The polls said so very clearly. The Chinese on the mainland also don't want a war but they will never budge on the independence issue because to them, this is the last piece of the puzzle to the century of humiliation and national rejuvenation. You are right that the US and Taiwan politicians have cross a red line, and the Chinese on the mainland have been extremely patient because they are still holding on the hope of peaceful reunification. But underestimating their patient to be a weakness will be a colossal mistake. The PRC do not need Taiwan for its plans to become prosperous. It is already prosperous. The politicians in Taiwan are disconnected from the desires of the Chinese people on Taiwan, and the Americans have absolutely no qualms in using them as sacrificial pawns in a Ukrainian like war.
    1
  3575.  @kawaichan490  No, they really do remove comments that are not in line with the core western narratives, especially after their AI detected the OP to be anti western narrative. This happens all the time to everyone on Pascal's channel and other channels that are not automatically pro-west.
    1
  3576. What are you doing in Taiwan? Subversion and creating separatismm
    1
  3577.  @slightlyinsaneraf  That's the thing. What is "right" depends on your perspective. If you are a company trying to make money, you have to follow market trends. In this way, the customer is right, the market is right. But if you are an environmentalist or at least someone who is not wasteful and does not want to pollute the hell out of the planet, then the market is actually seldom right. In fact, the market often show trends that are the most wasteful and unsustainable. Then, the market is not right, the customer is not right.
    1
  3578.  @Shenzhou.  Ohh that's worse. That's the worst nightmare of neoliberal capitalists. An employee owned company? What's next, you are going to say the workers own the means of production? Are you crazy?
    1
  3579.  @dinglshingle They speak out and they protest all the time. The fact that you are still peddling this myth show you have no idea what China is really like and is just regurgitating western propaganda. Stop drinking their kool-aid.
    1
  3580. Racism says no. But the military industrial complex and right wing propaganda needing a boogeyman to distract the public from problems at home says yes.
    1
  3581.  @jonb4020  F**k off, Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-religion country and has none of the social problems that America have. So your argument is bullf**kingshit. Your society, your economic system and your culture are cruel and anti-humanity, that's why you have so many social problems.
    1
  3582. Exactly, people in China are generally satisfied with their central government (the feds if you will), though they are often less satisfied with local government. It makes sense because local government tend to enact policies that have more direct effects on a person day to day living and they are closer interaction level. Corruption is also more overt at local level but that still doesn't mean the Chinese people want to overthrow the government, they just wan to hold their local government more accountable. It's their way of doing thing; petition and feedback cycle at the local level. Those sentiments eventually filters up the chain to the feds. If democracy is about enacting laws and policies that favors the people, then China with this system is doing a decently bang up job. Is it perfect? No, and the Chinese themselves will tell you that but it sure beat whatever bullshit is currently happening in America.
    1
  3583. Instead of reading So low, Indians should be reading Marx.
    1
  3584. The sheep only has wolves to choose from, but we are told that this is democracy. Meanwhile in China, their leaders are chosen from a cadre of highly capable and competent leaders that have proven themselves. They have great feedback cycle from the public and they change policies according to real world data. They produce real results that give their people real progress in their daily lives. But somehow that's not freedom and democracy. What a joke.
    1
  3585. So it wasn't about democracy and freedom.
    1
  3586.  @paulsnow  Such a bullshit underhanded argument. They use more resources unnecessarily and yes they should use less resources because their standard of living is created through imperialism. The west do not deserve that wealth, it was stolen from the Global South. Everyone should have their standard of living increase and that mean the west have to cut back on their wasteful lifestyles. If you don't do it, we will force you to. Sooner or later. That's what the west (especially their oligarchs) is really afraid of, losing the power to access that wasteful lifestyles. That's why there is this huge backlash toward China because westerners know China can break this world order established to benefit the west, and why people who live there just suck up all these obviously bullshit propaganda. The west will have to be forced to degrow, reduce their standard of living and live within their means. And they won't have the power to dictate and control other countries. And it is scaring the shit out of you people.
    1
  3587.  @Clarkeyrules1  You just want to diminish their accomplishment. A very western tactic of coping whenever some Chinese people did something great or cool. Has the same vibe as trump's "I don't that guy, maybe he brought the coffee" when asked about an important figure in his circle that have committed a crime.
    1
  3588. China is not going to invade Taiwan FFS.
    1
  3589.  @randomanonymousperson3603  No, they don't seize anything.
    1
  3590. USians will rather build bunkers than to help create a peaceful world because giving up hegemony and imagining the end of capitalism is harder to do than imagining the end of the world.
    1
  3591. Diplomacy and dialogue, cessation of violence and contribution to that end. Seem like India and China is on the same page on this conflict.
    1
  3592.  @jay8235  Apparently they work for free now 😂
    1
  3593.  @totalsceptic Not the time yet.
    1
  3594. Shaun goes straight for the jagular of what is wrong with America: the media.
    1
  3595.  @MRT-co1sd  There is no way the Chinese government putting in those redlines in curbing real estate debt load without having an idea how overly leveraged Evergrande was. They did it deliberately knowing Evergrande will be in trouble probably because they don't want Evergrande to become too big to fail and screw up everyone. I think you're right they deliberately pop the bubble so they can control the fallout and minimize the damage. That alone showed just how much more responsible they are in dealing with financial crisis. They know what they were doing.
    1
  3596. In STEM, engineering is the only field that is still holding out on the imperial system. It is stupid as hell. If you are an engineer and insist on using the imperial system, you are part of the problem. The only possible advantage the imperial system has over metric is that some conversions are in certain fixed multipliers. But it only make sense if you are working in the 17th century when precision was roughly about halves, quarters, dozens, and couple of dozens. It is mindbogglingly stupid to try to divide or multiple stuff today in quadruples. I don't care whether you like your toolset to be divided in 4 inch, 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch, 1/16 or 1/64 inch. It is still stupid. It only looks not stupid because you grew up using it, not because it makes any sense. And you know what, if one day we do make contact with aliens, we can actually tell them how we measure stuff by indicating how we define it by fixed standards found in the universe, not by the arbitrary length of someone's foot back in the year 1098.
    1
  3597. Thatcher? Hahahahahahahaha. I think except for some parts of Ukraine, this channel is becoming a joke.
    1
  3598. Imagine a drone carrier carrying drones and releasing dozens of them. And there are hundreds of these drone carriers. They just showcase just such a drone mothership at the 2024 Zhuhai airshow.
    1
  3599. Capitalism require a permanent under class of people in poverty, in order to exploit their labor. The current US led world order will NEVER allow the development of poor countries. This is why the world is the way it is today. What China is doing to uplifting all the Global South countries to open new markets and to secure China's supply chain and trade. They are not interested in western style colonial and capitalistic exploitation. That's why they don't feel threatened by other countries developing.
    1
  3600. Watching trump speak is like smelling faeces.
    1
  3601.  @Larkinchance  Bingo. I am dismayed by the attacks on LGBT rights in these threads because we made a lot of progress over the years and it seems to be rolling back. However, I am unsurprised by it because like everything else in the west, whether it is human rights, freedom or democracy, it is being weaponized as a political tool to be used against western rivals. So it is not shocking to see that more and more people are finding "woke" social justice issues untrustworthy. Social justice now cannot be separated from western media Imperialism. That's a tragedy
    1
  3602.  @swaroopdarbha  LOL okay, whatever let you sleep at night. The materials reality will exert itself and nowadays, it has a China bias. This kind of reality bending is exactly why the US is in terminal decline and I really shouldn't even try to help you. Keep doing what you are doing, it's great! America is Great. It is the Greatest Country in the World!
    1
  3603.  @MetaView7  Stop with the BS replacement theory, you sound like a n*zi.
    1
  3604. Great firewall of the western capitalism. It is just so deliciously ironic that the west is doing the same thing they accused China of doing.
    1
  3605. UK is just returning to its normal condition of being the backwater of Europe as they ran out of colonies to plunder since the end of WWII.
    1
  3606. Common China W.
    1
  3607.  @landcruiser6406  That's not how these stuff work, and China is actually at the fore front of quantum computing.
    1
  3608. Do you really believe a capitalistic driven economic system and culture will believe that?
    1
  3609.  @jjwwqq  It worked in the short term and that's the point to these capitalists.
    1
  3610.  @jjwwqq  then you are just an ideologue because whatever you are imagining what capitalism is, I can tell you for sure it is not.
    1
  3611. @hangender that has nothing to do with wokeness.
    1
  3612. The problem is that we let the West defined democracy. Democracy just means the people has the power. That means that as long as a system is able to ensure that the people has the power to control the government and gets the results they WANT, it is a democracy. China is a democracy already because of the way the country is governed and the results the government produces. The US and most of the west are NOT democracies because of the way the system keeps subverting the people's ability to control their governments and the abysmal results they produced that are almost always anti-human, anti-social, anti-public. We need to take back the word democracy.
    1
  3613. Or build a little shelter and have it outside the house, dumping the heat directly into the air outside so you don't even have to use your AC to pump the heat out.
    1
  3614. They can enact as many laws as they want. If they do not control the supply chains and cannot make the stuff, it doesn't matter how many laws dictating that they should.
    1
  3615. You spelled Smart wrongly on your thumbnail.
    1
  3616.  @john-xo9mg  Not really. Most Europeans still believe in EU. Just because East USA are morons does not mean Continental Europe has to be.
    1
  3617.  @neolithictransitrevolution427  And the point that USians want to ignore is that making their debts a commodity allowed them to create a USD recycling system that sucks up the value produced by other countries. It is why the UAS government can deficit spend without much consequence, an exorbitant privilege of the USD system. The USians stole from everyone with this system and when someone don't want to do it anymore they suddenly get struck by "freedom and democracy". Until China camer along. That's the point.
    1
  3618.  @Geoff020650  that's not how this work. These bonds were probably bought when interest rates were lower. To be able to sell their bonds today, they will have to sell it as interest rate matching the current one. Which means they have to sell at a loss. It is why the bond yield typically decreases when the interest rate increases.
    1
  3619. ​ @Geoff020650  That's not how the bond market work. If you sell the bond before maturity, you have to match the price at the current interest. China had very likely bought those bonds when interest rates were lower than today. Which means if they need to sell now, they have to sell it at a cheaper price than when they bought it, at least for simple zero coupon type bond. That's where the losses come in. Bond yield decreases when interest rate increases.
    1
  3620. Ohh so when the Japanese did it, it is being characterized today as merely getting the idea from the west. I thought I remember everyone back then was accusing them of copying and stealing tech.
    1
  3621. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    1
  3622.  @teatree6228  US Congressman Seth Moulton had already threatened to bomb TSMC factories in Taiwan. So this is already being planned by the US. American leadership do not care about the lives of the Chinese on both sides of the strait, all they care about is their hegemony and the money they can make off the conflicts they created.
    1
  3623.  @jamescarter8311  For now.
    1
  3624. At this point, the sidewinder is a Ship of Thesus. How much of the original missile is left in the newest iteration? You might as well as call it a new missile.
    1
  3625. China has no choice now. It has to increase its military budget to create stronger deterrence against the US. It is clear the US will be trying to start a w** with China some time soon and China must be prepared for the US to come crashing in with the aim to destroy China and "remove the lives" of as many Chinese as possible. They are priming their population to go to w**. They have been priming Americans to view Chinese as sub humans. The Americans will be rut*less.
    1
  3626. Good.
    1
  3627.  @deselby9240  Well, the UK is a client state of the US, so ultimately he is a CIA bot.
    1
  3628.  @starfishandroid  Well, let me give you a short summary. In Singapore, you never have to worry about the police kneeling on your neck until you die for allegedly using a fake 20 dollar bill.
    1
  3629. @Anthony Simmons LGBT rights in Singapore will evolve with time. There is no religious obstacle to LGBT right because Singapore is a secular country that emphasize on religious and racial tolerance. The only roadblock is cultural as older generations often do not understand LGBT culture. The millennials and onward are fairly westernized and LGBT are almost universally accepted by the younger generations/ Once these millennials start holding political power, I foresee a very fast change in LGBT right in Singapore. Even back then, before their former PM passed, LKY had said in interviews that he did not see why LGBT right will not happen in Singapore. In fact, he even thought it will be inevitable. He cautioned that the Singapore government usually defers social issues to the public's opinions because of how sensitive they have to be in order to govern a multi-cultural, multi-religion country. If the public opinion shift strongly towards LGBT rights and they probably will in the near future, it will not be unthinkable that Singapore will be the first country in SE Asia to legalize gay marriage. I think the biggest roadblock might actually come from the tiny Christian minority objecting to such expansion of LGBT rights. Maybe the Muslims too but I think they are far more open-minded in Singapore than the Christians.
    1
  3630. @Anthony Simmons No one cares about gay sex in Singapore.
    1
  3631. ​ @ignacionores8694  Just because your country and government are shit does not mean other countries are like yours, and just those other people like their government and policies does not mean it is propaganda.
    1
  3632. China today is no longer going to just give out credit without something substantial in return. Last time in 2008, China was willing to buy a lot of treasuries because they had so much USD, and they didn't want the US to collapse, crashing their own exports. Now is a completely different story. China has alternative markets, built their own supply chains, and aincreasingly deeper and stronger financial market. The west crashing will hurt China a lot, but it won't be existential to their economy. But I think this time, the west will never recover. This coming crash might even bring war to the world and at the end of it, the world order is going to change like the end of WWII.
    1
  3633. It's how the corpo-state media do propaganda.
    1
  3634. Fun fact, China is the only country I know of that can effectively destroy any private monopolies and industries that have become too anti public interests.They can do it because they have the capitalists under control, not the other way around so when HMW said these companies eventually goes back to being a monopoly, there is a way to prevent or break them up again; by destroying the capitalists' political power and have the people's government control the most important industries and capital. Make capitalism work for you, not allow capitalism to eat all of us.
    1
  3635. The problem is not the concept of democracy. The real problem is that the bourgeois "democracy" is not real democracy. It is an plutocracy disguising itself as a democracy.
    1
  3636. In the west, it is illegal to career ending to criticize Israel. Don't think the west is as objective and fair as you are brainwashed to believe.
    1
  3637. But they don't know how to implement those right policies. It's like what jake sullivan said, that he admits neoliberal capitalism is what is causing the US's decline but his prescription is more neoliberalism and more empire building instead of looking at why China is succeeding and suggesting the right policies.
    1
  3638. Yup, it's all projection. It's even more hilarious when you hear an American repeat all the lies about China and communism are exactly what are happening to the US and under capitalism.
    1
  3639. The Mandarins? Are you serious? What kind of racist nonsense is this.
    1
  3640.  @jackwhite1742  Yea, and hitler didn't order millions of people killed.
    1
  3641.  @wayfa13  Sure, but America is the king of it.
    1
  3642. Oh so if the results of an election is not to your liking, you claim it was never democratic? You sound like a republican.
    1
  3643. Cyrus, the more you point out America's hypocrisy, the more likely you are going to get shot by one of your own fellow countrymen. I don't think your 2nd amendment rights is going to save you from a shot in the back.
    1
  3644. The reason he can lie so blatantly is not because most westerners cannot read Chinese. There are enough Chinese language experts in the west to translate important documents and social media and news articles etc. He can get away with it because the western corpo-state media needed a way to demonize the Chinese and their government and zenz provided a convenient excuse to do so.
    1
  3645. Because they are PAID to tell lies to slander China. That's what the 1.6B is for.
    1
  3646. So rubio is saying that any country that can defend itself from the US is a threat to the US.
    1
  3647. It's not a war.
    1
  3648.  @jituladhikary2227  It makes it more energy efficient and you can squeeze more functions on the same die if your node is smaller. That's why the cutting edge chip node are usually used in small devices like phones where space and battery life are premium, or big devices that require very high calculation efficiency like PCs and supercomputers. Most daily uses for chip don't even need chips with nodes smaller than 28 nm, like satellite TVs, appliances like your coffee maker or even the chips that controls your car's engine. Even advanced weaponry that don't need to be highly miniaturized do not need cutting edge <10nm nodes. You can put a 28 nm node chip on a supersonic missile because all it needs to do is guidance, not chat with you like an AI.
    1
  3649. Why can't they just remove the encrypted key and just put a button on/off?
    1
  3650. The most amusing part is you guys still think you have freedom.
    1
  3651.  @ajmaeenmahtab8456  That's capitalist propaganda. You are a worker. Why do you hate yourself.
    1
  3652. Yea, like the Ukraine war is unprovoked and completely ignores the historical context of China's 9 dash line and Taiwan province. Or how Niger throwing out the French and now the US has nothing to do with the decades of exploitation of Niger's natural resources or its financial system. Heck, they still harping the line that China is the largest carbon emitter and should be punished for it while ignoring the context that the accumulative carbon emission is the real culprit of today's climate crisis and the #1 and #2 largest cumulative carbon emitter are the US and Europe. Of course, they ignore the fact that China is manufacturing 30% of the world's goods and that they have reforested an area larger than the size of Belgium while holding back the advance of the Gobi desert. And also ignoring that China has the largest investment and deployment of renewable and nuclear energy and will likely peak carbon emission before 2030s and likely will reach their goal of carbon neutrality at 2060. For a country of 1.4 billion people. Don't forget they just make up BS about Xinjiang and treat it as real. Western narratives love to cherry pick their data points, and ignore every context and facts that destroy their narratives. Hypocrisy and dishonesty cannot begin to describe them. This comment was censored, no idea why.
    1
  3653. Yea, like the Ukraine war is unprovoked and completely ignores the historical context of China's 9 dash line and Taiwan province. Or how Niger throwing out the French and now the US has nothing to do with the decades of exploitation of Niger's natural resources or its financial system. Heck, they still harping the line that China is the largest carbon emitter and should be punished for it while ignoring the context that the accumulative carbon emission is the real culprit of today's climate crisis and the #1 and #2 largest cumulative carbon emitter are the US and Europe. Of course, they ignore the fact that China is manufacturing 30% of the world's goods and that they have reforested an area larger than the size of Belgium while holding back the advance of the Gobi desert. And also ignoring that China has the largest investment and deployment of renewable and nuclear energy and will likely peak carbon emission before 2030s and likely will reach their goal of carbon neutrality at 2060. For a country of 1.4 billion people. Don't forget they just make up BS about Xinjiang and treat it as real. Western narratives love to cherry pick their data points, and ignore every context and facts that destroy their narratives. Hypocrisy and dishonesty cannot begin to describe them.
    1
  3654. Yea, like the Ukraine w*r is unprovoked and completely ignores the historical context of China's 9 dash line and Taiwan province. Or how Niger throwing out the French and now the US has nothing to do with the decades of exploitation of Niger's natural resources or its financial system. Heck, they still harping the line that China is the largest carbon emitter and should be punished for it while ignoring the context that the accumulative carbon emission is the real culprit of today's climate crisis and the #1 and #2 largest cumulative carbon emitter are the US and Europe. Of course, they ignore the fact that China is manufacturing 30% of the world's goods and that they have reforested an area larger than the size of Belgium while holding back the advance of the Gobi desert. And also ignoring that China has the largest investment and deployment of renewable and nuclear energy and will likely peak carbon emission before 2030s and likely will reach their goal of carbon neutrality at 2060. For a country of 1.4 billion people. Don't forget they just make up BS about Xinjiang and treat it as real. Western narratives love to cherry pick their data points, and ignore every context and facts that destroy their narratives. Hypocrisy and dishonesty cannot begin to describe them.
    1
  3655. Yea, like the Ukraine w*r is unprovoked and completely ignores the historical context of China's 9 dash line and Taiwan province. Or how Niger throwing out the French and now the US has nothing to do with the decades of exploitation of Niger's natural resources or its financial system. Heck, they still harping the line that China is the largest carbon emitter and should be punished for it while ignoring the context that the accumulative carbon emission is the real culprit of today's climate crisis and the #1 and #2 largest cumulative carbon emitter are the US and Europe. Of course, they ignore the fact that China is manufacturing 30% of the world's goods and that they have reforested an area larger than the size of Belgium while holding back the advance of the Gobi desert. And also ignoring that China has the largest investment and deployment of renewable and nuclear energy and will likely peak carbon emission before 2030s and likely will reach their goal of carbon neutrality at 2060. For a country of 1.4 billion people. Don't forget they just make up BS about Xinjiang and treat it as real. Western narratives love to cherry pick their data points, and ignore every context and facts that destroy their narratives. Hypocrisy and dishonesty cannot begin to describe them.
    1
  3656. Yup, they don't really understand China nor its system.
    1
  3657. They have already parked all their surpluses in the US and it will not be enough to save the US government from defaulting.
    1
  3658. Screw that, AMERICANS DONT GET TO ACT SURPRISED. You people have been imperialists for decades, doesn't matter whether it is Dems or repugs. Your country is build on millions and their blood. NONE OF YOU get to act like you have the moral high ground.
    1
  3659. Argentina bores me.
    1
  3660.  @activatekruger446  Oh look a false equivalence logical fallacy, how predictable. No one is saying that peace must mean everyone is singing kumbaya. Peace can still mean rivalry that do not result in a hot or cold war. It can still mean a wary form of trust but always working through diplomatic means to settle disputes and differences. It can mean friendly competition when it is appropriate and cooperation when it is necessary. This kind of false equivalency argument smacks of right wing media tactic in America. Are you a fox news watcher? Kindly f*** off.
    1
  3661. LOL AI video making?
    1
  3662. Making young people desperate is the surest way to start a revolution and I don't think the CPC is stupid enough to use such a dumb idea to gain a source of cheap labor. The CPC are revolutionaries themselves, you think they don't know what kind of situations will cause an uprising?
    1
  3663.  @Sion-No1  You people also said China cannot create a comparative LLM. Keep moving that goal post and it will be out of the stadium.
    1
  3664. Not for Americans. Can you imagine the amount of whining?
    1
  3665. The west need to suffer some real consequences before they will understand what actual diplomacy is.
    1
  3666. I don't think Canada has the guts to do anything. They are pretty much vassalized at this point. The logical thing to do is to make better diplomatic overtures to other countries to form an anti-US alliance to ensure their sovereignty. I don't see Canada doing anything to protect itself beyond big words. If I'm the new Canadian prime minister, the first thing I will do is to make my first foreign state visit to China, then to Mexico, Panama and then Brazil to start forming a pact.
    1
  3667.  @djibicisse  lol, no they don't suck. You are just prejudiced.
    1
  3668.  @johnnyw6467  I lived in America for 10 years. I know how dysfunctional the society is. It is barely keeping itself together and Americans really don't know any better because most of them do not know anything outside of America.
    1
  3669. @user-hz6fj9xy4y LOL
    1
  3670.  @NorCalMoDo  comments like these tell everyone just how juvenile, sophomoric and childish the USians and their culture are. You people really have no clue how bad things can go for you because you have never truly suffered for your crimes or being truly oppressed. You have done all the oppression on everyone else that you think you are invincible, so you can say this kind of arrogance BS.
    1
  3671.  @vijayarajan3276  Exactly. Because the people ruling the collective west cannot abandon the colonial mindset, and all the terrible viewpoints on how the world should be that grew out of that mindset. They literally cannot imagine a world different from one where the west is ontologically always right, and always at the top. They don't know how to share the world, and how to respect other cultures, how to be a normal civilization.
    1
  3672. Uou can just hop over to watch George Carlin's "it's a big club" routine. It tells you everything you need to know about American politics, just way funnier.
    1
  3673. I find it amazingly hypocritical that the west use embedded journalists to control the narratives of war reporting then turn around and accuse other countries of doing the same thing, all the while maintaining an image that they don't it too. I have come to learn that nearly everything that the western governments and its corpo-state media accused their rivals liem China, Russia, India and essentially the entire global south is doing, must be taken with a huge grain of salt and never be given any benefit of the doubt. It might be safer to assume that they are lying, misleading you and manipulating your opinions to suit their nefarious agendas.
    1
  3674. Or things change, politics change and Netherlands ignore US led ban and start trading with China.
    1
  3675. Common China W
    1
  3676. The reason for a Ti version now is probably simply because this has been planned long ago, way before the chip crunch. You have to book manufacturing slots in these foundries, and it can take months, even years to plan a manufacturing process. You simply don't just up and change this sort of stuff.
    1
  3677. Quality products from Walmart is ermmm generous. The thing is that Walmart quality sucks because they want to cut costs by cutting corners and they demand Chinese suppliers to sell them cheap. Chinese factories can make high quality products, if you are willing to pay for it and even then, they are still likely to be cheaper than anything that comes out of American factories. So it is not the fault of China that Walmart sell lousy stuff, it is Walmart who wanted to sell lousy products.
    1
  3678.  @nadapenny8592  MCAS: first time?
    1
  3679. It is still a 500 jump. It's price gouging no matter how you see it.
    1
  3680. Not enough scale? Just ask China to solve the problem.
    1
  3681.  @liulaolao7269  A lot of them already did.
    1
  3682. The Saudis join mBridge, and that's the real news to de-dollarizing.
    1
  3683. Vietnam's relationship with China is just fine.
    1
  3684. The reality is that food is a low value goods. Food security is ofc extremely important but if you sell your food on the open market, you will have to compete against countries' that have lower costs and it will cut into your profits.
    1
  3685.  @Wvavy  Just say that you are scared of the non-white people leading the world and they won't let the west get away with their crimes.
    1
  3686. Saying that you are worried about fire on Li battery is so ridiculous when we are now driving around with a tank of flammable and explosive liquid that is exploding thousands of times per minute in small enclosed cylinders for over a hundred years now. Cars have always operate on the safety margin of whether it will blow up on you. Li batteries are really not all that different.
    1
  3687.  @birdthompson  Fauci was not in charge of the Pentagon.
    1
  3688. Bourgeois democracy is not real democracy.
    1
  3689.  @tooltalk  You're joking, right?
    1
  3690. Because the US is not a democracy.
    1
  3691.  @christinateh5473  Not before Singapore remove the stupid sanctions.
    1
  3692.  @maxp670  I don't think BRICS will replace UN because it doesn't need to. The problem with the UN is not UN itself, it's the west. UN needs to be reformed to remove the outsized power of the west and the UNSC veto power. It's the same thing with international law. The west is the one subverting international law using the arbitrary and conveniently self-serving "rule based order". This "rule based order" IS NOT international law, it is the justification for the west to IGNORE international law. Once the Global Majority has enough power to force these reforms, the UN will be a better institute and part of that power will come from organisations like BRICS, and SCO.
    1
  3693. Because content creators like CSS are all shadow banned and underexposed in the algorithm. Left leaning content creators, especially the ones who educated people about how socialism actually work, and debunking lies about socialism have all experience sudden drop in exposure on YT. This is a well known fact now. This is what advance censorship, controlled information exposure looks like.
    1
  3694. What if US attack China using Taiwan and Japan as bases?
    1
  3695. Anglos will rather shoot themselves in the foot than to ever imagine a world where they are not the dominating race.
    1
  3696. Seem like the neoliberal capitalist system is working as intended.
    1
  3697. How is China being aggressive if their security depends on able to access beyond the first island chain. If you country's survival and long term prosperity depend on securing this thing, you will be extremely stupid not to try to fight for it. But fighting for it does not have to be violent and while China lay stakes to some islands in SCS, the most we have seen is unfortunate skirmishes being blown out of proportion (deliberately mostly by western media). Seem like we like to talk about everyone's security concerns and not about China's. If you only look at your own needs and ignore everyone else, you are always going to sleepwalk into a war like what America does every time. If you want peace, learn to look at things from each other's perspectives and negotiate in good faith. Or else, you are just guaranteeing you are going to war. This kind of one-sided and arrogant perspective is the bread and butter of western countries, and should not be adopted by SE Asia.
    1
  3698. Ohh man if MLK was alive today.
    1
  3699.  @chazer0075  the Soviets did not collaborate with the Nazis. They were buying time for themselves when it was clear the US and UK were not going to start a western front. The Soviets were not ready to fight the Nazis but they knew they were coming for them. The fact that the third Reich eventually did invade the Soviet Union blows this brain dead narrative out of the water. The west only opened up the western front when it was clear the tide of war had turned. And again show that western narratives are inaccurate, self serving and perfidious.
    1
  3700.  @sealioso  Strawmen only works if it is a mispresentation in order to be used for attacks. The problem for you, is that this is neither a misrepresentation nor the attack unjustified.
    1
  3701.  @sealioso  No, it is simply the truth. The misrepresentation is the western capitalist driven propaganda that denigrate anything from the socialist system side. You are just too indoctrinated from young to accept it.
    1
  3702.  @narns4218  If you can offer a better deal to the Cook Islands' government to entice them from the Chinese, why not do that? Or else, stop whining that you can't compete.
    1
  3703.  @narns4218  How hypocritical. Signing a business deal with China is being self-serving? Well, you betcha, why shouldn't a sovereign do what is beneficial to their interests. As though the west have not damage the environment for hundreds of years. The climate crisis we are facing today is due to HISTORICAL emissions from the west, not from the current emission, so why don't you sit TF down before you open your mouth and embarrass yourself.
    1
  3704. Healthcare is not just having great technologies and skilled practitioners and systems. It is also access. If you can't access healthcare due to the abysmal insurance system that will bankrupt you, it's not healthcare, it is extortion. Extortion of people at their lowest. In fact, you can have both. There are great doctors and bleeding edge life saving technologies available in every developed country. These technologies and techniques are invented from other places and they always diffuse fairly quickly among technologically advanced countries. The difference is still access. People in other developed countries with some sort of universal healthcare have more affordable and feasible and practical access to these technologies. We don't. Choosing between destitution and death is not a choice. It's extortion.
    1
  3705.  @lancejacobsen8372  The decolonization of the mind, the deprogramming will have to take decades and generations to complete.
    1
  3706.  @user-iu1ru1qz7u  Talked about being brainwashed. We literally invented conspicuous consumerism. It is how most of our economy is sustained, by corporations social engineering people into buying shit they don't need to "keep up with the Jonses," an actual term invented in America precisely to describe this. Regulatory capture, all kinds of private/government industrial complexes, bribery ahem "lobbying", we perfected Corporate-Government corruption pipeline. We exported this mentality outward, they just took it and adapted into a new "face" culture and Asian version of corruption. This is why things will never get better in America, because people like you cannot even see the problems that lie at the heart of our cultural rot.
    1
  3707.  @user-iu1ru1qz7u  ​ @D You really need to lay off the kool aid and actually see the world. Also, I traveled a lot. The only continent I have not stepped foot on are South America and Antarctica, and lived extensively in three countries and visited dozens. I have friends, family, colleagues, clients from nearly every part of the world, and have interacted, talked and worked with them. So I can tell you that your opinions are results of deliberate brainwashing into a very narrow POV. Your insults and implications are as pathetic as your lack of perspective.
    1
  3708. If F-1 has no rules, it will be dominated by electric with battery swap.
    1
  3709. I remember Atlas Now exposed how the BBC was manipulating pictures from Jason Lightfoot's videos to make a Chinese city look more dreary. They photoshopped a picture to make everything looked grey, like it is coated with a layer of ash. They even make trees and leaves look grey. It was so absurd. If BBC can stoop to this level to edit pictures to present a false presentation of China, what else are they lying about?
    1
  3710. It is a great idea if you want to paint every 747 a target to every military in the world.
    1
  3711. Which is fine. Savers are prudent. Spending is okay and some luxuries is okay but you should not be organizing your eocnomy around inducing consumer demand to the point of allowing capitalists to manipulate the public into reckless spending and to take on unnecessary debts to trap people in a real debt trap for the rest of their lives.
    1
  3712. The muskrat is part of the problem.
    1
  3713. If you have been targeted for shadow banning, it doesn't matter what you write.
    1
  3714. Good.
    1
  3715. When the west do it, it is "making market conditions more fair". When other people do it, it is protectionism. I stopped listening to the blatant hypocritical language even though Asianometry is typically a very fair channel and do call out bullshit.
    1
  3716. @ China has several figures on the level of Sun Tzu throughout its history, and the west largely only know his works.
    1
  3717.  @barrythompson5680  The Americans will nuke China before they will allow that to happen. Americans have absolutely no qualms murdering millions of people, they will just say they are bringing freedom and democracy to China, by killing millions of Chinese.
    1
  3718. We also assumed that advanced alien civilization will communicate in the similar ways as we do, like using EM waves. They could be communicating on a totally different thing and because we have not even discover what it is, we don't even know how to look. It is like how ancient civilizations communicate by letters on horses and fire beacons trying to figure out how more advanced civilizations like us will communicate. They will be looking for horse tracks, expansive road systems or beacons towers. They will be completely ignorant of the existence of radio.
    1
  3719. This entire comment thread shows how ignorant and arrogant Americans. None of your comments about China, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people are correct.
    1
  3720. Wouldn't there be rules to forbid twin engines aircraft to race against single engine aircraft?
    1
  3721.  @PomaReign  Ohh are the Confederate states an independent country? Maybe Quebec or Scotland are independent countries.
    1
  3722. Selling out is exactly the kind of late stage capitalistic society will do. No surprise there. And selling out to China? Are we saying the Chinese do not deserve prosperity, security and comfort? Hollywood selling out is basically the world rebalancing towards a new center, a new market and a new taste maker. The entitlement here is assuming we should always be the taste maker.
    1
  3723.  @peaceforlife.2896  So the capitalist oligarchs have differing interests, no surprises there. Remember they are all oligarchs, and tim cooks will love to have US government destroy all high tech capability of China so no Chinese companies can compete with apple.
    1
  3724. A lot of western propaganda talking points here.
    1
  3725.  @tonyp2865  He "likes" Chinese people. He likes them more if the Chinese people agree to be junior partner to the west, and stay in their lane and not challenge western hegemony. Stay weaker than the west and let us have a say in how you govern, and we won't have to compete. Do you really think that China, a country that suffered humiliation, destruction and deaths at the hands of the west when they were weak, and now for them, the main objective is national rejuvenation and unity (NOT hegemony) will ever accept that arrangement? The west still do not understand what is actually going on in the world. The Chinese like to entertain him but the real Chinese thinkers, strategists, and politicians don't really take him very seriously.
    1
  3726. So they banned western propaganda and create their own digital sovereignty. Why is that a bad thing? Shouldn't they defend against color revolutions?
    1
  3727. Lots of stuff when first discovered does not seem to have immediate applications. When Maxwell formulated his equations and Faraday demonstrated electromotive induction, who would have thought this will become the basis of our electrified economy, of electronics, of the Information Revolution. If we want to reach the stars, find new sources of energy and advance our civ, we will need to understand the fundamental nature of the universe.
    1
  3728.  @BELCAN57  Yes, so do we.
    1
  3729.  @ilovecops6255  This is the stupidest take here. What the fuck does a measurement system has to do with anything? That's just a saying. Can I say that because dogs were domesticated in the Asia and Europe so Americans stole dogs from Asians? Can you even think?
    1
  3730.  @vladputin-b1d  Seem like Russia is winning.
    1
  3731.  @bekeneel  Yes, the American empire and the vassal states in Europe and Japan and SK.
    1
  3732. Because they are vassals, they have no real sovereignty.
    1
  3733. It helps that his opponents are arrogant morons.
    1
  3734.  @Andrew-q2w4f  Sweden and Finland was taken over by US and Brussels a long time ago. The entire Europe was heavily infiltrated by US political operatives. It is no surprise that the Europeans today are basically vassals to the US empire. If Russia did not react in some way, they will be looking at the same thing. Coups, separatism, color revolutions, economic and political infiltration by the US. They had to do something when it was clear the US will stop at nothing but total domination of Europe and Russia. Also, Russia didn't lose 6000 tanks you indoctrinated dolt.
    1
  3735. Actually, if you stop reading BS western propaganda, you will know that Ukraine is losing, and the west is in terminal decline. So yea, while Putin might not have done all that himself, but to say the west is playing him or everyone is to ignore the fact that the Global Majority has been slowly building up resistance to western hegemony and US imperialism.
    1
  3736. Nobody in the west notices, or deliberately ignoring. Everyone else is definitely noticing.
    1
  3737. The society of spectacle really helps to solidify in my mind the core malaise of American culture. Why it seemingly is a free country, a democy and yet never really democratic and never really able to put the interests of the people foremost. Even though it explicitly stated that its system is for the people, by the people. The more you observe how politics is conducted and how culture evolves in America, the more you realize that nearly everything is done for appearances. One of the central notion of the American culture is the worship of the CHOICE. Having choices is paramount to an American. But the breath of the choices, or whether it even is consequential are secondary. I used to say that if you give Americans the choice between a bull shit sandwich and a horse shit sandwich, they would fight over which sandwich is better while distracted from the fact that they are both inedibyshit sandwiches. That level of self delusion and self consolation that you have freedom because you have choices lies at the core of the American experience. It's superficial, it's phony as hell. It is also why Americans and the US government can say they support freedom and democracy while executing very anti freedom and anti democratic policies. As long as you have the appearance that it is freedom, you can keep saying that it is freedom.
    1
  3738.  @kahwheeong871 You're wrong. There was armed resistance during the occupation of SE Asia.
    1
  3739.  @scva-socallvillainadvocate You are not going to convince people who can see all these evidence and still believe that the IOF is not committing a gen*cide. They are just hanging onto Oct 7 and refusing to acknowledge 70 years of oppression.
    1
  3740.  @Whatisnottaken China is a democracy, just not a western liberal bourgeois fake democracy.
    1
  3741. Seem like I have misunderstand this conversation.
    1
  3742. Lol since when do we respect other countries sovereignty when it comes to profits?
    1
  3743. Non-possession as a principle. I think that's blasphemous against the religion of capitalism.
    1
  3744. It's actually old clowns being revolving door in if you look at the roster.
    1
  3745.  @bayareaartist999  Ohh f*** off with your hostile assumptions. Everything China does is bad and everything America does is good. This kind of bullshit mentality is why we are where we are today with America deliberately trying to split the world into half with a new Cold War no one wants.
    1
  3746. Sounds like ancient Israeli clerics used leviathan as a foil to demonstrate yahweh's immeasurable power, and that as representatives of yahweh on Earth, no one was allowed to question their power and authority. Sounds like a control mechanism to scare people into obedience. "God is badass and you don't want to piss him off. So don't piss me off." - yahweh's clerics' logic. The kind of logic that worked on the illiterate and gullible.
    1
  3747.  @powong1 Don't bother, this guy is sealioning you. He is acting in bad faith.
    1
  3748.  @jameswilliam26  Your people's lies, crimes and delusions will catch to them. All you have is bark, your words have no bite.
    1
  3749. The US hate everyone who dares to stand up to ita world order.
    1
  3750. This is why it is better to hear it from the horse's mouth. No people have more authority to talk about communism than the people who are successfully implementing their plan to achieve true communism.
    1
  3751.  @larshansson9442  You people kill others all the time for being different and want to live with a different system all the time. Just because you can say some shit does not mean your country, or culture is superior, especially not when the west have murder millions for daring to want to not live under a western led world order. How dare you!
    1
  3752. I find that people siding with joe exotic to be kinda screwy. Even despite the "documentary" obvious attempts to paint Carol Baskin in a bad light by suggesting that she killed her husband and that she is a bitch to joe exotic, the amount of really screwed up stuff joe exotic and the people surrounding him all did is beyond the pale. Normal people don't think and act like these people do. They are immature and chronically dysfunctional people that you wouldn't even think about bringing home to meet your parents. These are not heroic people fighting against a system or was set up by nefarious actors. No, they did it to themselves. I guess the sheer disastrous ways they handle everything in their lives and their "I don't care" attitude and do whatever that pops first into their screwed up brains that can gratify them instantly appeals to certain segment of the population. And of course, Baskin outmaneuvering exotic at every turn probably does not sit well with the same type of people. If you identified with joe exotic so much that you really think he is blameless, you really need to examine your values.
    1
  3753.  @LuisAldamiz  Nobody does it because it is difficult to replicate the same thing when you can just buy it. That's what the Chinese have been doing, buying litho machines from ASML and they had very little incentive to build their own. The sanction and restrictions forced them to become self-sufficient when they didn't have to previously, and when the Chinese set their mind to it, they can build anything eventually. This won't stop China from gaining cutting edge semiconductor technology, it just delay them a few years before they get it, and then massively produce chips, and also sell their OWN litho machines. It is the epitome of capitalist colonial mindset of short-sightedness and arrogance.
    1
  3754. You should tell your Netherlands cousins that the US is coming for ASML and will hollow our their crown jewel just as they are hollowing out TSMC, ostensibly to keep the tech out of China's hands for blah blah freedom and democracy. You don't have to look far, there are crimes being committed by Americans against Europeans right in your own backyard. Heck, the US blew up Nord stream so they can sell gas to you guys at 3 times the price. Haha so much for American friendship.
    1
  3755. They are being harvested by the US.
    1
  3756. Because he knows how American media works. It's all about baiting the other person into saying something you can use later as a misquote to misrepresent that person's position for your own agenda. It's an age old American media tactic. You see it used all the time by fox news on misrepresenting Dems and leftwing liberals.
    1
  3757.  @ChiefCabioch  They are stupid questions. It is not an opinion because the questions are really objectively stupid and designed to bait the ambassador. Saying something is an opinion does not automatically make it an opinion, and using that "it's an opinion hurr durr" to deflect from criticism is underhanded and cowardly. At least have the balls to argue how the questions were not stupid and asked in bad faith. Heck, they are less than questions and more like attacks on the ambassador, like glenn beck's "I'm just asking question here" bullshit. No one outside America will think that your "it's just opinions" is a valid argument. Be better or f*ck off with your American style non-intellectual, low effort deflections.
    1
  3758. The US wants to control everyone, not just trade and that's why we end up today.
    1
  3759. I trust China about as much as United Christofascist corpo-state of America.
    1
  3760.  @r.pgamerz4827  States that commit gen*cide has no right to stay unpunished. Or are you saying the Third Reich has the right to exist?
    1
  3761. Christianity is such a shitshow
    1
  3762. Haha of trump really just axe the US government budget, the social unrest will be tremendous and the economic collapse will be even greater than the great depression. Let's see if the US can survive a social collapse or it default first.
    1
  3763.  @jerometoo3781  That just tell me that either the Filipinos are a stupid people or they are unreliable partners.
    1
  3764. ​ @rodneybell6997 Sore loser.
    1
  3765. Yes, Singapore still has a lot to improve in terms of cycling but I think more and more dedicated cycling paths are being built. Anything that allowed people to not use cars to get around is a win in Singapore and I don't think the government is going to overlook cycling as a way to reduce dependence on cars.
    1
  3766.  @fredfoo8346  There probably need to be an over all plan to redo many of the roads/pathways to include dedicate cycle lanes. You are right that a lot of these cycle lanes seem to be haphazardly built.
    1
  3767. Hmm somehow all the countless lives only come from countries that consist of less than 20% of the world's population.
    1
  3768. Because your country is controlled by capitalists.
    1
  3769. They don't trust Chinese brand but they trust Chinese made cars under a European brand already bought by a Chinese companies. Europeans aren't very smart, are they?
    1
  3770.  @TL-fe9si  LOL that will be hilarious. That's kinda what VW is trying to do, use a Chinese car maker to make cars in Mexico, then rebrand it as VW to import into the UAS. Except I think the UAS politicians are catching on and probably will adjust their tariffs to include all Chinese makers even outside China and also rebranded cars.
    1
  3771.  @harryloo8544  Yup. F**** westerners think that people live in SE Asia drink their kool-aid.
    1
  3772. China is not an aggressor. SE Asian countries have some disputes with China in South China Sea that will be resolved peacefully because every side will always laid claims to any land not fully demarcated. China is the largest trading partners with all SE Asian nations and no one here wants any war, and find going to war over something that can be resolved diplomatically to be monumentally stupid. China is not intervening on any SE Asian nations' sovereignty and internal affairs, unlike the track record of the west. No one in SE Asia wants to hear your provocation. Sit down and STFU.
    1
  3773.  @lameowizard  A lot of Americans are also morons. 74 million voted for trump the second time. I will not use America or American culture as a yardstick to measure anything.
    1
  3774. Saving 10% more flight hours over an increase of at least 50% cost is a stupid take. Effiency, comfort and cost are keys. We can reach any part of the world in under a day. We already reach speed saturation. We don't need more air speed.
    1
  3775. Because the plutocrats choose the leaders and gave Americans two bad choices to let them think they have democracy.
    1
  3776. The US is not surviving with wars either.
    1
  3777. It is the only language the barbarians in the White House, and the Congress and the oligarchs that control the US understand.
    1
  3778.  @Hkchinese888  That's because you are a pathetic little troll
    1
  3779. The Third Taiwan strait crisis highlight more than China's inability to counter USN carrier. It highlighted the severe national security problems faced by China. The USN, along with its allies can basically destroy the entire Chinese coastline with impunity, where hundreds of million of people lived. The USN can without remorse, blockade and starve China, killing millions while raining hellfire on Chinese cities. Think from their POV. Think how frightening it must be, for the lives of hundreds of millions of your people is at the command of a USN commander, and the whim of a president elected by another country's people who view you as nothing more than mongrels that should be put in their place when the time comes.
    1
  3780. Would it be easier to just have a automated snow plough built on top of the roof if removing snow manually is such a chore.
    1
  3781. Please elect him so he can wreck the US.
    1
  3782. Nobody is doing anything about it, because the people in power, aka the plutocrats and their lapdogs in the government are benefitting from the rising debts. They are the ones raiding the coffers of the nation and it will be the ordinary Americans who will shouldee the debts and suffer for it.
    1
  3783. And there we are.
    1
  3784. As I expect, a lot of coping and derisions from Americans in this thread.
    1
  3785. "All the while the nobles and the clergy were living large and not paying taxes" Doesn't this remind anyone of a very similar situation in many parts of the world, including America right now?
    1
  3786. It should be reminded that China deliberately pop the real estate bubble because they want to reduce the burden to own a house, and to crack down on rampant speculation. Both of which are GOOD things. They are already shifting away from real estate as growth to high tech, high quality development that are more sustainable. The China real estate "crisis" is OLD NEWS. LOL
    1
  3787. South korea is the real cyberpunk dystopia.
    1
  3788. The only country that is taking climate change seriously is China. They are the only ones deploying EVs, solar, wind, nuclear and hydro on a massive scale. A scale that dwarfs the entire west. It's Manhattan level, Apollo level effort every year for the past 10 years. The west is just full of hypocrites who spread lies and slander China because they can't compete and their colonial crimes are catching up to them.
    1
  3789.  @Michael45007  Haha, the Caribbean people have their seas? Sure, and Ted Bundy never murdered those people.
    1
  3790.  @Michael45007  It's not peaceful, it's dominated and exploited by the US because no one there can stand up to American colonizers.
    1
  3791. They are welcome to host parler on russian servers. It is really not much different from what trump did when his campaign colluded with russian intelligence.
    1
  3792. You don't read western MSM to be informed, you read them to understand what they are trying to make you be informed, and so reveals the powers that be's agendas. NYT reporting this now, means they are trying to move towards starting something with the Russians. Could be setting up for a negotiation. Could be that they are going to scapegoat whoever the NYT said has sabotage the peace talk in 2022.
    1
  3793. Zionist state.
    1
  3794. It is telling that the abstentions are almost all America's vassal states.
    1
  3795. The Americans are still living in the false reality that they have unlimited leverage over everyone in the world.
    1
  3796. China has been setting up the chess board to increase their energy security for decades, and the US is only now reacting to it by using the most ham-fisted way possible - threatening everyone to get on board or else... The only way the US can really stop China is somehow to destroy China's infrastructure and supply chain directly, ie. WXX. But as the last month of 2024 demonstrated, the US is not going to win against China in a conventional WXX. So what's left for trump when 2-3 down the road it becomes even clearer that the US is never going to be able to contain China, and can never use conventional violence to subdue China?? So what else do you think they have left to use? What else?🤔?
    1
  3797. I wonder how many years jeff bezos will have to spend in hell to equalise his karma.
    1
  3798.  @250914616672152  I think you are falling into the same propaganda trap as the west themselves. You are taking exaggerated claims as gospel to paint an inaccurate picture and that's as stupid as what the westerners do.
    1
  3799. You have a skewed view of the US. You like the US that overthrew democratically elected governments to install their own dictatorial puppets?
    1
  3800. Well the rest of us in SE Asia always know that Phillipiness is the "special" kid. We are just too polite to point it out.
    1
  3801.  @jk9876  Canada, the EU, Japan and SK are just vassals to be milked and sacrificed for the "greater good" by your UAS masters.
    1
  3802.  @wisenber  That's rich considering the fact that the country that spies on everyone is the US, not China. Every accusation you people made is just another projection.
    1
  3803. Confucianism is another thing that just does not fit neatly in Western sensibilities. Confucianism is basically an amalgam of a value system and principles of governance. We tend to think religion and government as two distinct entities. Confucianism is the government, and because the scholars and bureaucrats were far more focused on day to day governing and the overarching principles of good governance, the supernatural aspects were not emphasized and left to more spiritual based entities like Buddhisms and Daoism. Eventually they just all jumbled together anyway.
    1
  3804. No, you see, the US got a new missile cobbled from an old missile, so now people in the west think they can take down China. The level of western intellect is just crap.
    1
  3805. Hmm... Isn't this movie about how a racist jurisdiction, including the people who run the legal system can use their powers for unethical behaviors? Seem like what the prosecution and the judge were doing is exactly why there is a federal level restriction on protecting certain groups from discrimination. Because if the whole town or city or even the state is rotten, the justice will not be uphold properly.
    1
  3806.  @coasteyscoasteys  Australians are really really racist, you didn't know that?
    1
  3807. The US arbitrarily define anything they want, just to create the excuse to legalize an otherwise illegal and immoral act. They do it all the time internationally and domestically. That's why the "rule based order" is never explicitly spelled out. "Rule based order" is not international law, which of course they violated all the time through this "order".
    1
  3808.  @cybervigilante  Sounds about right. The Us political elites are trying to bait China into a proxy but they are not biting.
    1
  3809. It is funny that you still think US "investments" will amount to anything.
    1
  3810. China still have unfinished goods, machinery parts they can cut off from the US and that will cripple whatever is left of US manufacturing.
    1
  3811. Haha good luck. America is no longer competitive on any level.
    1
  3812. Yet again, I don't see a problem with Huawei.
    1
  3813. A puppet country of the American empire that is trying to pick a fight with China don't really get to say free Palestine unironically.
    1
  3814. Westoids don't know how to make friends in the first place because they never treat anyone with respect.
    1
  3815. Then they will sell their machines worldwide. The west is creating their own worst competitor.
    1
  3816. Everything president Xi has set up since the BRI was conceived was in anticipation of a possible confrontation with the west, especially with the US.
    1
  3817. Post war UK is just a sorry story of being hollowed out by the Americans and made a client state.
    1
  3818. Free the world from America.
    1
  3819. While the declaration of human rights is good, it is by no means universal. It literally does not include anything about the rights of collective entities from small communities to societies that will naturally include social rights to safety, education, housing and a livable wage/condition. Fundamentals that actually makes a society work. It takes into no account what non western cultures own ideas on human rights, freedom and liberty. Also, it does not include anything that tell us how to go about achieving these goals and the international order that allows the pursuit of these goals, resulting in imperialistic interventions from the imperial core based on these words, destroying the imperial pheripherals. It also allow the systemic oppression of the imperial core's own citizens, in ways that have been more than discussed on this channel. It is an incomplete document at best, a weaponized diplomatic tool for generating Casis Belli for the west's imperialism at worst.
    1
  3820. "Making it a genetic chimera" Edward....
    1
  3821. Colonel Dani is a combat genius. Like what CD said, it took a combat genius figuring out everything that could be done and everything falling into place to shoot down one stealth plane. To all intents and purposes, the loss of one F-117 compared to the thousands of successful sorties is basically a success story. How many Colonel Danis, even with all the training you can give to every officer, can you ever hope to replicate that one in a lifetime shot on a regular basis to the point it actually will pose a threat? Yea, no way it's going to happen. Stealth works and it works with frightening efficient. That's why everyone is moving towards stealth.
    1
  3822. America censored Japan on talking about atomic bombs? How very tiananmen of us to do that.
    1
  3823. Your billionaire oligarchs will kill Americans first.
    1
  3824. Bitcoin is less real than the USD. The fact that the west created something like Bitcoin is exactly why they are in decline.
    1
  3825. Why buy a pickup when you are not even fond of pickups?
    1
  3826.  @fiizzy3884  Every media has biases and every narrative has its own prejudices but the non western media is actually far more neutral and factual than western corpo-state media and the Chinese are very well aware of their own biases and media manipulation. For one thing, they don't have a pet media outlet that they believe exclusiviely the way Americans are divided by the news network they watched. Worst part is that Americans so implicitly trust their pet media outlets that they can collectively lie to all of them the same way and none of them will be the wiser. Heck, Chomsky literally spelled that out decades ago and so even Guy Debord with its Society of the Spectacle predicted exactly this.
    1
  3827.  @Chopstorm.  A 500 lb dropping out if nowhere and completely obliterate the enemy is a pretty good morale booster too. Except the jet that dropped it is long gone before the bomb hit the ground.
    1
  3828. Yea, instead of finding every little thing about China to rag on, exposing India's inferiority complex.
    1
  3829. And YT is now heavily censoring
    1
  3830. Because Singapore is a mulit-cultural country with 3 major races, not only Chinese. 因为新加坡是一个多元文化的国家，有3个主要种族，不只是华人。 Kerana Singapura adalah negara mulit-budaya dengan 3 kaum utama, bukan sahaja Cina. ஏனெனில் சிங்கப்பூர், சீனர்கள் மட்டுமல்ல, 3 பெரிய இனங்களைக் கொண்ட பல கலாச்சார நாடு.
    1
  3831.  @tomtube1012  Because they are betting on repeating a lie long and wide enough, you'll believe it. That basically the western MSM now.
    1
  3832. Seem like yet again another attempt to malign China for something they never even say they are going to stop. I guess if you keep repeating a lie long enough, people will just believe it.
    1
  3833. There is no way Taiwanese went to the polls not thinking about what the DPP is doing with regards to Mainland China. China is the largest trading partner to Taiwan, any conflict or tensions with China will inevitably affect domestic affairs as it already has with America hollowing out TMSC. Even if the Taiwanese people strictly voted based on domestic issues, it is still a huge indictment on the DPP's ability to deliver results to the people, and that will inevitably be tied to their competence in navigating the complex issues with China. If Tsai can't handle things at home, how will she be able to handle things with China, and with the US behind egging war on. All you are doing is mining copium.
    1
  3834. Maybe it was secretly negotiated to prevent America from reacting to it and sabotaging the process. The mouth of the WH said the Arabs kept them informed. Well, when did they informed the US government? Days before the negotiations? After the negotiations? Or mere hours before the announcement? Sounds like the US government was caught surprised and now trying to save face. The fact is that Iran and the rest of the Arab world being hostile to each other is mostly beneficial to the US and Israel, who always keep control of the region by keeping old hatreds alive. China helping Iran and KSA to normalize relationships is a setback to US government foreign policy, which is still based on keeping these conflicts going. That alone should tell everyone who really is the threat to world peace. Imagine the day when America finds itself isolated and weakened. The lashing out will be spectacular and probably goes along this line of thought: "if the world cannot be ours, then let no one be able to possess and dominate it like how we did."
    1
  3835. Can such a person even experience true happiness?
    1
  3836. Yes, Singapore sided with the US led world order because Singapore neede access to these important markets and technologies. It is in the interests of the Singapore people that at the time of independence, they place their bets with the US led world order. For that, the Singapore government had done the right thing and bring prosperity and stability to Singapore, stuff that Singaporean actually want. Now the world is changing again, and the Singapore government has a balancing act they have to do between US and China. But they will do what is best for the people of Singapore, which is to remain neutral, and retain Singapore's sovereignty, access to the world's markets, talent pool and technologies, so the balancing act is in the interests of the people of Singapore.
    1
  3837.  @azhariarif  Just because there are Singaporeans outside Singapore does not mean Singapore sucks. Are you a moron?
    1
  3838. The UAS was never going to be able to create a new world order not based on domination after the collapse of the Soviet Union because the UAS fundamental characteristics are a warmongering, domination, racist, capitalist empire. The fact there are still westerners trying to portray like this was a lost opportunity mean that they have no idea who they really are.
    1
  3839. The way it seem, is that the Japanese embarked on rapid modernization by copying, and very likely stealing lots of designs from the west. Rapid modernization ensured Japan had the power to preserve its sovereignty as other Asian nations came under western colonization and domination. Today, China is basically repeating what Japan did while modern Japan, built on its previous rapid modernization, even after the war enjoyed the fruits of its modernization efforts. Lots of effort is poured into the media to malign China for doing what Japan had done, though I predict that once China is caught up, it will innovate its own ways of doing things. Within a generation or two, China is gonna be a powerhouse of invention and innovation built upon a educated strong middle class that is the source of universities and companies recruits. Then, no one is gonna say shit anymore.
    1
  3840. Ohh I get this person deal now.
    1
  3841. Is it guilt or just your run out of the mill colonial mindset that white people have to be at the top? If the Germans are feeling so guilty, then what the heck is their ship doing in the Taiwanese strait trying to threaten China, which is the victim of colonialism?
    1
  3842. So it's all made up. Well, that conclusion is the most important part.
    1
  3843. Socom gets no attention because that's what they do. Plus most of their operations are in the grey areas of ethics, morality and legality. Wouldn't want to break the narratives that America is the good guy. "Wait, that's illegal, not to mention it's also wrong." "Well, that's why you don't hear much of it in the media, and we like it that way."
    1
  3844. More like the west exploited and extracted from the Global South to prop up their economies. Now the gravy train is stopping, the spigot is shut tight, it's going to hit them hard. But the US will last longer because they have all their colonial managers in place controlling the EU and most of the European, Japanese and Koran politics, they can harvest and hollow out the vassals to prop up its zombie economy.
    1
  3845. @Sir_Sway  哈哈哈哈，you think AI robots will be in the US? China is already the 2nd highest user of robots and they are one of the leaders, if not is already the leaders in AI. They are deploying AI and robotics to increase productivity, not to hookwink people into believing crap on social media. They literally built a port in Peru that is almost all automated using 5G connections between AI robotics. They already have robotic AI factories. It is really amusing to see westerners betting on something technological to beat the Chinese "threat" only to be reminded that China already did that or are doing it right now
    1
  3846.  @GenX-65-80  I'm appalled by the USA trying to groom the world to accept their bullshit with rampant propaganda, media manipulation and outright violence and murder.
    1
  3847. The American government covered up Guernica while advocating for war in Iraq has to be the most hypocritical thing to happen in human history.
    1
  3848.  @RandomVidsforthought  Are you indoctrinated?
    1
  3849. LOL CNA has been subtly bashing China and using western one-sided narratives as though they are the truth since forever.
    1
  3850. "Christianity is a religion of peace." LOL. This is what Christian church can become if allowed to hold temporal power.
    1
  3851. He's still spewing western propaganda when he characterize the conflict between the west and Russia/China is because both sides are equally bad and obstinate. The side that is provoking WWIII is the west, not China or Russia.
    1
  3852. They certainly didn't think about it for 500 years of colonialism where they extract trillions of dollars of wealth from the entire world. Now they are sitting pretty nicely with their high standards of living and tech, they want the rest of us to tighten our belts and stop developing some can save the planet.
    1
  3853. Come on western media, find a way to misrepresent this or to demonize it and somehow make it like China is trying to dominate the world and is a threat to peace. If you come out with something, your plutocrat masters is going to whip you.
    1
  3854. XuanZhang getting almost eaten by demons is such a running theme (or gag) in Journey to the West that it became a comedic troupe in East Asian media. "How is Xuang Zhang gonna get out of this one? He's lunch for sure." "Nah, Pigsy is gonna do something really really stupid and somehow Wukong will rescue Xuan Zhang."
    1
  3855. They are making a new missile for this beast. PL-17 is already last gen for the PLAAF.
    1
  3856. China don't care about fighting India. It is usually India having weird inferiority complexes against China.
    1
  3857. Sean's video series for the last 2 years is a study of the fall of a modern empire.
    1
  3858. It's not unfair. It's just make America looks like a hell hole and that's just simply the truth.
    1
  3859. There a few groups of people that embodied evil in its purest form. The Nazis, slavers, the people who works at Cambridge analytica and the conquistadors.
    1
  3860. This has a "This is dangerous to democracy" vibe. Ahh capitalism, trying to profit from anything possible and nothing is sacred.
    1
  3861. No that's not true. Nearly all income in a middle class American household is spent on essentials. The problem in America is not they spent everything, it is that their productivity has steadily increased but their real wages have stagnate. So everything got more expensive but their real income stays the same. Most are barely keeping their heads above water and they ain't buying Gucci. This is a symptom of rampant exploitation by their plutocratic class because most of the value they generated are kept by the multi-millionaires and billionaires and they are given barely enough to survive. The American people are exploited working class who are brainwashed to think they are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. They have more in common with us than our own bourgeois millionaires and billionaires. Don't put down your own brothers and sisters.
    1
  3862. The UK is a vassal state of America. Won't happen.
    1
  3863. Wuhan Shipyard doesn't build nuclear subs, you du__a_ses
    1
  3864. ​ @L98fiero  That is such a regressive and dumb take. There is nothing in socialism that says the humanities and sociology are parasitic. If you people even bother to actually learn about dialetics, materialism, and what Marx and numerous Marxist/socialist scholars have expounded over the last 2 centuries, you will understand that humanities and sociology (yes that includes gender studies, racial studies, class studies, historical materialism, etc., etc.) are needed for a healthy society to grow. Dialectic materialism, and the Marxist-Leninist system that China is BASED ON, is not a rejection of the arts, humanities, sociology or the human side of society. It is in fact, the fulfillment of it because socialism is all about fulfilling the utmost of human potential, to ensure the value of the people's labor belongs to them and the ultimate expression of social justice. All of these "woke" studies are naturally part of the socialist ideology. The difference between the western idea of "wokeness" and the socialist idea of true egalitarianism is that the west likes to pretend that it cares about these issues, while hijacking these ideas for their own aganedas, weaponizing it, coommodifying it, and stripping these ideas of its radicalism for social justice, until it is a product of performance virtue signalling. That does not mean these ideas are not worthy of pursuit, just because western capitalist system strip them completely of its true substance, which is ultimately about social justice and equality for all, prosperity for all. In fact, it is at this point of time, we need to RECLAIM these ideas from the bourgeoisie and give them back their true purpose. I am so sick and tired of people in the comment thread treating these ideas, while tainted by western bourgeois corruption as though they are the same as western bourgeois corruption itself.
    1
  3865. Using Swift as an economic weapon is basically economic total war. It makes every country who had to use swift for trade extremely nervous.
    1
  3866.  @katong1953  Oh yea, YT is shadowbanning accounts and comments. If you see your comments getting removed, you are definitely on their naughty list.
    1
  3867. Flashy ad campaign, good features, strong fundamentals that give the products high value for its price... Hmm.... sounds like how a well-run business should operate. Are you telling me that Chinese businesses are also copying good business practices from successful companies elsewhere? How dastardly! Can't these Chinese do anything original? /s
    1
  3868. ​ @yixuanzhang8221 what makes you think SOEs in China are clumsy. Seems like someone is taking in too much American propaganda.
    1
  3869.  @nicholausbuthmann1421  Russia is rational, the UAS is stupid. Big difference
    1
  3870. When you have no principles, you can say any shit and not blink. Trump and his ilk always say these sort of contradictory shit without batting an eye.
    1
  3871. A-10 lovers are not going to like this video.
    1
  3872. 承认 is also recognized as in the context of recognizing a document or a stance or position. 认出 is recognition as you recognized something someone's face, or something you seen before. It's subtle but there is a real difference.
    1
  3873. It is probably the best solution, except converting the heat from a nuclear reactor into electricity is difficult when you are not surrounded by water since electricity is typically generated by boiling water to turn turbines. If they solve that problem, nuclear power applications can balloon, especially for space, where spacecrafts and probes are often limited by power because you can only squeeze so much solar cell panels before it becomes impractical.
    1
  3874.  @hphp31416  It's roundabout but this kind of method of generating electricity to power a motor instead of using that power directly is done quite frequently. Diesel electric locomotives do this, so do some marine propulsion. The nice part about electric motors is their high efficiency at converting electricity into motion so you actually lose very little of energy you generate. The point is to make the nuclear reactor part completely isolated from the propulsion part, so all the nuclear fuel is self-contained unlike the way in the video, which is to directly heat the heat passing through the fuel itself. That way, you will spew radioactive microparticles all over the atmosphere.
    1
  3875. Well the silver lining is IF revolution ever comes to the US, there is a handy list.
    1
  3876. But you have freedom, right? 😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  3877. They can't even get pass the Be Humble part lol
    1
  3878. BuT aT WhaT CoST? F*ck the western media.
    1
  3879.  @cakejhay  He's not very bright and racist, which is the standard condition for most Americans.
    1
  3880. More like China's ASML.
    1
  3881. Asking America to learn from others countries, especially China will be harder than finding a way to travel faster than the speed of light. You know: impossible.
    1
  3882.  @Britlurker  It does tell us one thing: westerners are too propagandized as a people to think properly anymore.
    1
  3883.  @1pierosangiorgio  America is filled with selfish narcissists drunk on toxic individualism that they think is being free.
    1
  3884. I might just buy US bonds if it hits 7% 🤣🤣🤣
    1
  3885. After 4 years of trump, I can totally believe America will just murder everyone in the path when fascists finally take over.
    1
  3886.  @dexlab7539  Being threatened by the US is indeed a national security matter lol.
    1
  3887.  @tellyboy17  LOL why the hell will China blow up Nordstream.
    1
  3888.  @charleshinton8565  Every other currency
    1
  3889. ​ @charleshinton8565  You are looking at the wrong thing as usual from westerners who have very limited view of the world. The point is that the USD is the financial colonialism power of the US. Making sure that it stays the dominant currency used in international trade is crucial to keep USD in demand and thus allow the Fed to print them with impunity. In turn, the USD circulating outside, which is basically real commodities being monetized returns to the US in the form of US treasuries, thus completely the cycle. What mBridge and other de-dollarization efforts are doing is to break that cycle from different parts. mBridge breask using the USD for international trade. Dumping US treasuries and setting up alternate financial systems to deal with the USD circulating outside the US breaks the cycle of recycling back the USD to the US government. All of these break the demand for USD, which are just worthless pieces of paper at the end of the day, because it is the commodities and services being sold and bought in USD that give that piece of paper purpose. The USD won't go away and will likely remain a well traded currency. But the point is that the demand for it will drop, for various reasons including the US government weaponizing it, will force the Feds unable to print money without causing a local hyperinflation and flatten the US economy. It will also cause borrowing costs to spiral upwards, forcing the US government to have to make cut backs and bringing it to its knees, hopefully neutering the imperialistic military. Americans will either have to tighten their belts a lot, increase their efficiency in using their money to produce REAL value (military, finance, healthcare spending are not real valuable things) or they finally revolt and change their system that actually can deliver prosperity without exploiting other people and stealing the value they produce, which is exactly what using USD for international trade does.
    1
  3890. Revolution. But Europeans don't have the balls
    1
  3891.  @whotf9312  China wants allies or at least non-aggressive partners. They want Singapore to stay on their side or at least stay neutral in any confrontation against US. Trying to take Singapore will render the city into a bombed crater and completely pointless and a waste of precious resources. And Singapore knows its position between these 2 powers. Binkov did a fun little hypothetical here and it is interesting to consider but China attacking Singapore is extremely unlikely.
    1
  3892.  @andresabourin2423  For good reasons, because they deliver results that the people want - prosperity, security, order and dare I say, actual, tangible, practical freedom to live their lives.
    1
  3893.  @--julian_  Do you trust the stats coming out of the US government? Did you remember desantis literally order his own state government to fabricate stats on his state's covid infection situation? If you are going to accuse someone of misdeeds, why not take a look at yourself first.
    1
  3894. So it's immersive realism. Like how Studio Ghibli animations are very grounded in reality and details even though they can do fantastic shots without constraints.
    1
  3895. We are also seeing a large increase in BYD presence on the road in Singapore in the last 2 years. With the speed they are selling, I can see BYD becoming ubiquitous within 5 years here since Singapore has a very fast car turnover rate. Singapore is small but it is the richest country in SE Asia per capita so the latest consumer products are usually launched in Singapore first. Success in Singapore usually has a good chance your product will succeed in SE Asia. BYD is hitting the ball out of the park in SE Asia.
    1
  3896. Glad people are calling it out. Debt traps indeed.
    1
  3897. It is absurd that westoids still can believe that China cannot make ball bearings to the tolerance for high tech applications.
    1
  3898. @John.S.Patton  this kind of comment is why the west is in decline. You people are so delusional that you will believe in your own nonsense. You don't even live in the real world.
    1
  3899. Russia is still winning.
    1
  3900. The press is supposed to keep powerful people in check and that's includes powerful and wealthy private citizens who are the main corrupters of the government and society. They don't do that because these same private citizens owned the 4th estate and they have brainwashed all of the west to believe this is the way things should be.
    1
  3901.  @allanluis3696  Very much caused by the west.
    1
  3902.  @valder8423  YT working hard to censor people.
    1
  3903. They are not buying new ones and letting the old ones mature. They are already reducing their holdings on US bonds.
    1
  3904. To be radical without throwing away responsibility is to act with the backing of theory and facts. If you want to change the order significantly, or to even overthrow it and replace it with something new, you need a replacement theory. Perhaps Andrew should check out Marx. He was one of the best theoreticians on the modern era.
    1
  3905.  @saabtech3510  mBridge is not run by BIS.
    1
  3906. he point is not whether the water is safe. It really is still not safe because no one knows what will be the long term impact of releasing the water will be. How about the other radioactive nuclei that has far longer half-lives and also can be easily bioaccumulated? They are choosing this method to get rid of the water not because they are 99% sure it will be safe for the world. They chose this method because IT IS THE CHEAPEST. When you dealing with so many unknown factors, the wisest course is to take the safest way, to err on the side of caution. That's not what we are getting from TEPCO, or the Japanese government and their western backers and propangadists. What we are getting is they want to cut corners and cheap out and not pay for their own mistakes, of which the first was not building adequate defenses for Fukushima Daiichi against such a tsunami. Because they also cheap out there too. They are cheaping out because that's what capitalists always do: find the cheapest way to get rid of problems and let society deal with the consequences. It is now obvious that the west and their allies cannot be trusted to do proper science and to be truthful. They are committing the same kind of fraud they accuse other non-western countries of committing. If anyone wants to promote nuclear power, this is the wrong way to do it. That is why I find them dumping the water into the ocean to be absolutely hypocritical and morally disgusting.
    1
  3907.  @GKP999  That's because OBS is a billionaire. The only country that can send a billionaire to prison is China and that's because they are a socialist state.
    1
  3908. The US is harvesting its vassals.
    1
  3909. America's capitalist cultural hegemony is a sick artifact if the modern world.
    1
  3910. It is the victory of capitalist propaganda machine.
    1
  3911.  @007kingifrit  I like it that when the West did something shitty, we just hung up our hands and say that is just nature. But when someone else outside the club did the same thing, we need to "liberate" their country. Genocide of Native Americans and aboriginals, oh such is nature. Other countries doing the same? Condemn them!! Hypocrisy is baked into our culture.
    1
  3912.  @jeffparry2754  LOL if raising a few cents or a couple of dollar per hour is wage inflation, I got a bridge to sell you.
    1
  3913.  @netrubbish  But man... giving up on Popeyes is hard.
    1
  3914.  @shyamdevadas6099  You got it backwards. They are resisting US imperialism so they have to take on a difficult position of being sanctioned and made a pariah state. The Us is forcing everyone to go against these countries because they are deem bad by the US political establishment and threaten the world order that benefits the Americans primarily.
    1
  3915. His policy of mass deportation is scaring those migrant workers, illegal or not, to not show up for work. Whole fields of crop are left unharvested and untended. Food prices are going to shoot up. Good luck trying to keep the CPI down, fools. Smarter policy makers will be trying to find ways to legalize migrant workers and give them legitimate protection, while keeping costs down so food prices don't shoot up. But we also know that there are incentives for Big Ag to keep undocumented workers around because they can depressed their wages even lower than minimum and they don't have to spend on benefits and protections. So now, no one is working on the farms and the work is far too arduous for Americans to do for that wage, so everyone loses.
    1
  3916. It started when NATO expanded eastward in 1997. Even the drunkard US stooge yeltsin knew NATO expansion is a fundamental threat to Russia.
    1
  3917.  @oceanwave4502  The US will nuke China if the neocons get desperate enough.
    1
  3918. I don't really count outputs from AI to be worthy of copyright. Their "work" is non-human. It will be like saying that the photocopies of a book is now copyrighted by Xerox instead of the author of the original book. It's absurd and immoral. But the west has been stealing without any remorse from the rest of the world for 500 years and try to brainwash all of us into accepting that, so no one in the west that enjoys the fruits of those plunder has any right to criticise China or any Global South on any moral or ethical questions.
    1
  3919. Indian athletes are also caught with the most doping lol. Let me remind everyone that American athletes are caught doping 6 times more than Chinese athletes and they are tested 5 times less.
    1
  3920. Capitalism is an oroburos. It will eventually eat itself into destruction.
    1
  3921. It is increasingly clear to the Global Majority that we cannot let there be another western superpower.
    1
  3922. When you learn Marxism, you are either outraged at the current system or you become part of the system to exploit it even better.
    1
  3923. What will really happen is the cockerel finally slapped the grasshopper after years of provocation and threats and even pokes, the grasshopper turns around and scream that he has been attacked unfairly by the cockerel.
    1
  3924. Of course it can be cheaper, you just need to have it made more efficiently and with lower input costs. Which is China.
    1
  3925. "We are not here to die on the job" - a working class dude. The capitalist class says that's exactly what they want, for you to die on the job.
    1
  3926. Anyone thinking outside of neoliberalism is thinking out of the box. It is the west that is holding onto their neoliberal economic system and is still trying to force that BS down everyone's throats. That's why they can't counter anything China has put out, because China is refusing to play by their rules and fight on the battlefield the west is trying to force China to fight on.
    1
  3927. The military and government might have adopted feudal era mentality but they are definitely not organized in feudal manner.
    1
  3928. I'm pretty sure the Chinese government has thought their way through all of this. The last thing the Chinese government is, is that they are stupid.
    1
  3929.  @willtestagain  No, the disgusting part is that the last 500 years of colonialism have brainwashed people like you to believe that the west are the good guys.
    1
  3930. The "rule based order" is power politics disguised as though it is not. The death of the "rule based order" is just the empire's gloves coming off. Why are westerners so clueless?
    1
  3931. Supersonic transport is always going to be a non-starter today and in the near future because you are sacrificing fuel efficiency, passenger capacity, maintenance costs, noise and emission pollution for one thing: speed. We are not even talking about a significant improvement of speed. Even at Mach 2, it will be faster than today's jetliner by roughly 230%, which will shave off a 4 hours off a normal 9 hours flight. It really does not sound much at all of you factor in all the sacrifices. It is not as though you are shaving off a 7 days trip down to 3 days which would be significantly on a human scale.
    1
  3932. 4 million dollars is almost insulting.
    1
  3933.  @woodheadz  The irony is that we have actual proof that it is the US that uses bots and pay people off to spread lies about other countries and there is absolutely no proof that China or Russia did the same. It's always projection with these people.
    1
  3934.  @Darthdog4957  Neither did the Chinese. The west is great at creating fake outrage by creating fake problems.
    1
  3935. This is one sexy case.
    1
  3936.  @moiramaine8986  These people don't just want to billionaires, they want to be billionaires that can control the entire HK politically. These people are the worst of the worst. The great thing about the CPC controlling the Chinese government is the absolute political power that the government holds, that keep these bourgeoisie from destroying the country, like they are doing to the US and the collective west.
    1
  3937.  @jimjimmy2179  The choice is between being invaded and destroy or follow and you might get some benefits. It is NOT A CHOICE to have to choose between life and death. Only stupid ass Americans think like that. Ohh you have a choice on healthcare? While you are lying on the street bleeding out, you are gonna go and find out which ambulance is cheapest, which hospital is cheapest? God damn. This is why this system is so insidious, have you not watch the video as Sean explained it? It's a debt trap.
    1
  3938. The "adjudication by peers" is actually one of the most insidious part of parler. On the surface it sounds nice and benign, and how can anyone object to community policing. On a closer inspection, it is no different than having everyone you know who is as sick as you are moderating content. If a platform is occupied by mostly child molesters and rapists and someone posted a collection of child porn, does anyone will reasonably think that the peers of this platform will moderate this content? Who are we kidding? parler is occupied by hateful moronic conservatives, it is moderated by the same sophomoric morons. The only content that will get cut will be the ones criticizing their idiocy and their attempts to make fascism happen in America. If you say "kill all ____," it won't get moderated, it will get to their front page. So let's stop pretending that this is any more about actual freedom. Yea, freedom to do what? To be absolute scum of humanity.
    1
  3939.  @MarkYeung1  Rioting to overthrow the government on the behest of hostile foreign actors is not freedom. The hypocrisy is that the westoids used far more violence against their own protestors, especially against unions and workers' rights advocates.
    1
  3940. Everyone in the west keep saying NK has a terrible regime and yet all the "evidence" of that terribleness comes from the west. Sorry, I don't buy that anymore.
    1
  3941.  @felixlaupc  A moronic one?
    1
  3942. "Speculations the world over." It's mostly American thing.
    1
  3943.  @fkoff7649  LOL no they are not. You are cherry picking data points and then using western narratives to misinform people and yourself.
    1
  3944. I can tell everyone here one sure thing: no successful student in any subject has given the advice that you don't need to go to class or pay attention to the teacher. It's work and there is no shortcut. So get back to class you lazy bums.
    1
  3945. India is only reactionary, like the west. It does not have any long term strategies to improve itself, nor are they capable of coming up with such strategies, much less implement them for decades.
    1
  3946. Yea, of course they won't be putting out new gen CPU on AM4, but for mainstream users both private and enterprise, Ryzen 5000 series CPUs are still beastly. The second question might hint at refresh 5000 CPUs. Heck it will be pretty awesome if they make a 3D vcache 5600/5600G CPUs. For mid range builders, they might still upgrade from 3000 and lower CPUs and still get a huge uplift while keeping their MB for a while.
    1
  3947. This is an abomination. Cars don't need to be this huge.
    1
  3948. The lesson should not be "Don't do colonialism" because it depends on the strong to grant you mercy. The lesson should be "Never be weak enough that other countries can roll over you and colonize your ass."
    1
  3949.  @NewBeginnings413  A lot of people in Quebec and Scotland want independence. Should they secede from Canada or the UK?
    1
  3950. Great, more ads in my vision.
    1
  3951. @Visplight. Demanding speed and legal competence and even evidence is favouring the DOJ. Like how reality has a liberal bias.
    1
  3952. Hey look, it's a western bootlicker.
    1
  3953.  @johnsmith1953x  LOL no they don't. Their oligarchs are trying to dismantle their welfare state and raise their retirement age to extract more money out of the French people. They are not independent. Their capitalist and political elites are mere extensions of American neoliberalism.
    1
  3954. The last thing we need is an western controlled basket of currencies. Let BRICS do it's job and replace SDR with BRICS own basket of currencies. The west has proven that it cannot be given that power.
    1
  3955. If the police in America don't have a duty to help, then what is the point of their existence? They are obviously less than useless. The fact that the SCOTUS can interpret that the constitution only protect people from the state but not from each other basically is a announcement that unless it is something explicitly and universally acknowledge as bad and given special attention, you can pretty much do anything to another person if you have the power to compel and coerce them. It is telling rich, powerful private citizens that they are KINGS in America and everyone poorer and less powerful than you is open to exploitation. Most countries will find the legal sophistry presented here to be absolutely stupid, barbaric and nonsensical, because it is stupid, barbaric and nonsensical.
    1
  3956. Hahaha I thought trump wants a weaker dollar to make US non-existent exports more competitive, but then he also wants a stronger US dollar so it can keep inflation down by buying stuff cheaper. Hahahaha
    1
  3957. UA wants to operate 15 SST? The lousiest airline wants to make up their shittiness by using fancy toys.
    1
  3958. There is no way we can tackle climate change without comprehensive nuclear energy policy mixed with renewable.
    1
  3959. LOL
    1
  3960. If Americans can't even afford their own healthcare to the point that they are cheering for the death of a CEO, why will anyone want to bankrupt their family to go to the US to seek treatment.
    1
  3961. @InnSewerAnts I was going to say what you said, but you beat me to it. My gawd, i;m a fricking nerd
    1
  3962. It is the most powerful country that the US has to face, so they are going insane over it because they can't beat China.
    1
  3963. China don't just try to solve short term problems.
    1
  3964. There is pretty much nothing anyone can do for UK. Unless they are willing to be bold and break the mould. Break away from the US, take a more independent approach to Asia, including China and Russia. UK need to reindustrialize and it still has high tech, high value industries that they can bank on to make high value goods that China wants. It's the only way for the long term economic health of UK to stabilise. It needs a revenue stream and it needs to bank on its strength to sell these high value goods. Or else, it will just keep declining.
    1
  3965. The Bolsheviks were terrible, they overthrown the posh Tsardom. Have you seen the lives of a common serf in Russia at that time?
    1
  3966. All these shit just tell me that the cryptobros are some of the most despicable, dishonourable, dishonest humans on this planet.
    1
  3967. More likely it will be America dropping nukes on Chinese cities.
    1
  3968. China now has more robots than the US, in absolute numbers and intensity of use. Lol
    1
  3969.  @MarkYeung1  And he has been dealt with, along with that company.
    1
  3970. As much as I don't like the American empire collaborators in Europe, but this fellatioing of the reactionary right wing is cringe worthy.
    1
  3971. The west has a problem. They think they are untouchable and somehow their delusional righteousness give them invincibility from consequences.
    1
  3972. Exactly. It is the US "rule based order" that's the problem because they want to create another system outside the UN charter to give themselves the way to ignore and violate international laws.
    1
  3973.  @reucat24  Well, Spain need some freeing themselves. The Eurozone countries are basically vassals of the American empire
    1
  3974. A dam
    1
  3975. That's not true because the North American continent is one of the most resource rich place on Earth. If anything, it seem like god has a special fetish about North America.
    1
  3976.  @jollcheist1443  Your multi-trillion dollar debt will not be that easy to erase. Do you think that the problem with the US is really not exploiting its resources enough?
    1
  3977. Only the west is adversarial to China and even then, it is mostly America. Japan, Korea and the Europe are just caught in between China and America with America determined to prevent China's rise.
    1
  3978. It only shows that the US regime does not know what it even wants, nor is it treating this seriously.
    1
  3979. They won't give the person a Nobel Prize because the solution is socialism.
    1
  3980.  @KosmicCharley  She turned UK into a center for financial malfeasance so it can keep making unearned money through providing financing for plutocrats, oligarchs, drug lords, and numerous other unsavory people with a lot of money. Now it is just karma.
    1
  3981.  @ED7353-x8k  Only if the world still operates on a solely capitalistic structure.
    1
  3982.  @melvynslote457  The problem is not the unions. It's neoliberal globalization.
    1
  3983.  @melg6834  Ohh there's definitely a decision to be made, considering somehow NATO, an organization that is formed to counter the Soviets which do not exist anymore, based in the north Atlantic is not seeking to expand that organization into a worldwide one. Of course, they want India to join NATO against China.
    1
  3984.  @johnjames4681  You mean the US have been using Europe like a sock puppet against the Soviets and now Russians?
    1
  3985.  @Shenzhou.  You should watch Ghost in the Shell.
    1
  3986.  @katong1953  Have you heard rishi sunak's speech for the snap election in UK. Just straight up false narratives and lies designed to serve western interests. I think he can give ursula a run for her money for being the biggest liars.
    1
  3987.  @morganangel340  Bingo. Europeans leaders are just colonial administrators for the American empire.
    1
  3988. Singapore is a Singapore city that just happened have Chinese ethnic people as majority. Singapore is Singapore, not a "Chinese" city. It will be like saying Manila is a Vatican city because there are a lot of Catholics there.
    1
  3989. The same way they believe Isrl is the most moral army in the world and everything in gz is hunky dory, while believing that XJ in China is having a g-word, and that the Ukr w*r is unprovoked.
    1
  3990. This is what advance propaganda can do. Literally change the truth to the point people can't tell reality from fiction. This is 1984 coming alive.
    1
  3991. I don't need that to figure it out. All I have to see is that policies and laws that will benefit the common Americans almost never get passed in Congress or even pass the committees. All the democratic practices are useless if the system is so rigged that the only policies that get enacted almost always benefit the plutocrats. It's like saying sewage is drinkable because it is also water.
    1
  3992.  @akirebara  Didn't he drink soured coconut water? It's just bad luck since most of the time if you eat bad food, it will just give you food poisoning but that was still a bad choice.
    1
  3993.  @pressureent3422  people who lived in a bourgeois fake democracy don't get the right to lecture about freedom.
    1
  3994. They are "stupid" because it is their job to be that way. The real rulers of the collective west are not interested in the interests of the public.
    1
  3995. The fact that neocons are not in jail show how hypocritical and pointless western systems are.
    1
  3996. Are you a banker? Lol
    1
  3997. Yes, can't rest of your laurels and can't get too complacent.
    1
  3998. Are you sure China has a larger electricity usage per capita than the US and EU. I doubt that.
    1
  3999. ​ @johannsebastienbach If they get out of line and put their own interests above everyone else, then yes, screw them.
    1
  4000.  @connor1414  Russia is not going to just lose influence. The west is bent on destroying Russia and resubjugate it like the Yeltsin years. We all know what their plans are, so let's stop beating the bush. They want to subjugate Russia, then move onto China, to prevent the rise of the Global Majority to challenge western hegemony. This is the reality we all face. Giving critical support to Russia and China to resist western imperialism is something we must all do. Unless you are the beneficiary of western imperialism and want this cruel system to continue.
    1
  4001. The fact that the rich are getting richer while the rest are getting poorer in the US and the west, while China has enjoyed broad spectrum prosperity (not perfect of course) over the last few decades already proved yet again that socialism works. The west will never admit that simple truth and that's why their economists, pundits, politicians, media, all act confused. They know, they just won't admit their system is crap and China's system is better.
    1
  4002. The insanity to believe that an inherently unstable system with boom and bust cycle is normal. Americans are really the most propagandized and indoctrinated people.
    1
  4003. musk literally said he threw out the hyperloop idea to disrupt California's HSR. He is willing to tell lies to destroy a public work just so he can sell more cars. I don't see how much more despicable a person can be.
    1
  4004. This is by far the most disappointing video I have ever seen you produced. Barring the fact that we know next to nothing about the new Su-75, your amateurish attack on the F-35 that recycled dumbass irrelevant talking points showed you are either deliberately being obtuse about fighter development or that you really know nothing. F-35, like it or not, is a culmination of decades of evolving air warfare tactics and strategies. The fact that you did not even talk about networked warfare, survivability, BVR tactics and pretty much everything F-35 was built to reflect the latest ideas of air warfare is just disappointing. Every country that has an air force know why the F-35 was created. Everyone is trying to replicate its capabilities because everyone knows that if you can't have those capabilities, you will be screwed. And here you are harping on canopies and touch screens. Completely out of touch. And you know what "___ is afraid of _____" title is one of the most clickbaity bullshit title formula out there. What's next? You're gonna use "Defense contractor hate this one trick!" title. Disappointing.
    1
  4005. Ohh you mean like letting US build more bases surrounding China? Can China build bases in the Caribbean and sail their ships just off the coast of California? If you are talking about settling this peacefully, then just respect the One China policy and nothing will happen. Why are Americans so willing to throw Taiwan under the bus just to poke China and protect their hegemony.
    1
  4006. Reality has a China bias. Cope.
    1
  4007. What the US is doing to China right now, they will do to India if they think India is going to challenge US hegemony.
    1
  4008. The only way I can see the capitalist foundation crack and collaspse is US collapsing the way the end of WWII destroyed most of Europe. The people in power in America is not going to go out without a fight, and they have already targeted China for the next great confrontation because they instinctively know China poses the most threat. A war between the two countries, hopefully a limited war, will determine which model will ensure. America has to lose and lose bad and be driven out of the ideological battleground region like west Pacific, and the Global South for this system to be dealt a mortal wound.
    1
  4009. I have said this many times before. The US economy is not an economy, it is a system that converts human lives, from the moment they are born to the time when they die, into capital for the rich. Humans are like the batteries in the Matrix in the philosophy of western liberal capitalism. There is no moral, no remorse and no joy. Where is your great Christian civilization now, where is your god now, Kevin?
    1
  4010. Tyrannical China, called by marco the fake Cuban. It is so audacious self serving considering that the tyranny comes mostly from the US using its economic position to oppress everyone who dares to oppose them. The title should read Tyrannical US getting its just desserts from losing its exorbitant privileges.
    1
  4011. There is still nukes. You think the Americans won't eventually threaten China with nukes?
    1
  4012. China have years to prepare for the ongoing disaster that is the US.
    1
  4013.  @SaretGnasoh  Now you get it. Everything is a scam in America once you peel off the facade.
    1
  4014.  @robyenney951  Yup, elon and that indian are going to take social security away, probably privatized it.
    1
  4015. Finally! A 90 degrees 24 pin connector.
    1
  4016.  @urrywest  It means you are indoctrinated with this utopian idea of capitalism, this mythical time when capitalism is "good" sp you are primed to believe in the nonsense that what is happening today is not the "good" utopian capitalism but rather a "bad" crony capitalism, and the solution is to return us to this "good" capitalism. It's all just capitalism, in different stages and manifestation. This is what you get when you don't actually understand what capitalism is, and is not taught all the actual, real criticism of capitalism. And socialism is not utopian, it never was. Marx never thought socialism is utopian and neither does all serious Marxist thinkers. The "utoptian" label is foist onto socialism by capitalistic propaganda to denigrate and misrepresent it. You believing it is part of your indoctrination.
    1
  4017. @shetty5420Yes, dictatorship of the proletariat, dictatorship of the 99%. It's call a democracy.
    1
  4018. China is far more trustworthy now on their high tech products. At least they won't blow up in your pocket.
    1
  4019. No, the problem is not the foreigners, it's the capitalists controlling your country.
    1
  4020. This kind of comment is exactly why China is trying to tech up their military as fast as possible.
    1
  4021. Yup, it's weak and pathetic.
    1
  4022. The secret ingredient is Marxist-Leninism mixed with Chinese characteristics, history and culture.
    1
  4023. Happiness can only be achieved only with groups, while pleasure can be achieved alone and with substance abuse. Guess which economic system leads to emotional alienation of atomised individuals, alienated from their nature, alienated from their work, and then use substance abuse to fill the emptiness in your soul?
    1
  4024.  @nromk  If Mexico is strong enough to challenge US hegemony in central America, do you think there will be no aspirations to regain back some lands that were stolen? Granted that that was a long time ago and most people living in California and Texas are American by culture, but you can still make a strong argument that those lands were taken away under extremely underhanded and unfair ways. Heck, you can even say Hawaii was taken by the US using really underhanded methods.
    1
  4025.  @twood2032  Yup, and America knows this. Which is why the US government is going to use Taiwan to step on China's toes to lure China into a conflict that they know can potentially turn into a disaster for China. If there is going to be conflict in West Pacific, it is most likely going to be something US is going to do either behind the scenes to make Taiwan go for independence or overtly by declaring they will not honor the One China policy and push Taiwan into an impossible situation that will result in war. Either way, America knows they are running out of time to defeat China decisively within the next decade because they will inevitably lose their hegemony as china continues to grow and the Belt and Road is working to turn the global south towards China. America is panicking and they are going to do something horrific and underhanded to provoke a conflict in west pacific. This has happened before.
    1
  4026.  @nromk  I'm saying that if Mexico is strong enough to get over US hegemony, then it is entirely possible Mexico might want to recover Texas or California.
    1
  4027.  @annarboriter  Just because you declare it is a whataboutism, which is a stupid term invented by America to deflect from their own hypocrisy, does not absolve that hypocrisy. More and more people outside western media bubble are getting tired of American arrogance and double standards and hypocrisy that "whataboutism" has become a pathetic meme that everyone know an American will pull out when they know they can't ignore the same bullshit America and the west did. Come back with a better argument or acknowledge that America has done horrible, provable things that they get away with, and then turn around and accused other people, many times with no evidence, of doing the same. Pointing out hypocrisy is not even whataboutism anyway. It's just pointing out hypocrisy.
    1
  4028. This kind of bullshit is why China is beating the US, and I for one, welcome that.
    1
  4029.  @FunFactFreaks  China has lots of good ideas that they develop into real stuff. You just don't hear about that in western media. But China can always turn a good idea into reality even if it comes from somewhere else. If you don't want to get left behind, then compete faster. Don't whine when someone crosses the finish line before you do. BTW, America steal ideas and patent ALL THE TIME. The CIA literally runs industrial espionage against other Us empire vassal states to steal IP and data for US companies.
    1
  4030. @rustygates3367  hahahahahahhahahaha, I can't delete your comment you since. Your comment got shadow removed by YouTube. I rest my case.
    1
  4031.  @geoff9858  There is no point in arguing against westoids like him. His entire identity depends on western chauvinism and his sense of safety depends on believing that the west has the power to dominate everyone.
    1
  4032.  @geoff9858  True, which is why I say that the first thing we have to do when the US empire finally falls and the USA can no longer impose its will with impunity on the rest of us, is to dismantle the CIA and their current think tank, media, psyop industry complex. Then put severe restrictions on their operations, with an independent international oversight agency to oversee all US intellectual and media output to ensure they are not doing this ever again. The US cannot be trusted with the power of mass media, and honestly neither is the collective west. Then, it should be in the UN charter that information and data sovereignty is as important as territorial sovereignty, unless that country engages in deliberate propaganda design to destabilize other countries, then they should lose that right.
    1
  4033.  @rustygates3367  hahahahahaha, you western chauvinists are all the same.
    1
  4034. We know that the death toll in the US is definitely under reported because red states have been cooking the numbers to make it look less bad.
    1
  4035.  @zetareticulan321  SE Asia will not allow the US to blockade the strait. It's a one way ticket to have SE Asia choose China.
    1
  4036.  @calvinblue894  I honestly want them to try it because the fallout from angering SE Asia will be spectacular. Will the Americans be stupid enough to try it? Maybe. But they are certainly arrogant enough to consider it a viable strategy because they think SE Asia will fall in line behind the US against China, just like they thought the Global South will fall in line behind the US on the Ukrainian war.
    1
  4037.  @numbersix8919  Nah, the last thing Singapore wants is to piss off China.
    1
  4038. LOL... they actually miss the most important points: Government control over 90% of the land so they can planned huge projects that benefits the entire economy like transportation and public housing. Control of capital in the hands of the government sovereign wealth and mandatory saving system for retirement, housing and medical care. As usual, westerners get it wrong because they don't see socialism behind the success of the Asian tigers.
    1
  4039.  @snakeinthegrass20  this is ridiculous. A free capitalist society? Singapore is a hybrid system of state capitalism and socialism. Don't hurt yourself patting your back too much.
    1
  4040. There is no way they can pay it back. The interest payments are already choking their budget. It is still increasing.
    1
  4041. What is it that Napoleon said? Please give me a stupid enemy anytime?
    1
  4042. Not to mention SE Asia. Any war in West Pacific will affect all the countries there and SE Asian countries know exactly what the US is trying to pull. That's why they do not approve when pelosi went to Taiwan.
    1
  4043.  @sarefin  And those are saber rattling, threatening shit to do.
    1
  4044. You mean part of the value chain as a client state of America. China does not want to be a client state of America like Europe and some Asian countries. They want to determine their own fate and that challenges America's hegemony. Which of course does not go well with Americans. Don't make it sound so innocent, that China just have to play ball because it means living under American domination and live by their rules. Why should China live by American rules. And for fuck sake don't give me some freedom crap bullshit because we all know that has nothing to do with liberty or freedom, considering that half of the American voting population have dreamt of turning America into a Christofascist corpo-state.
    1
  4045. You sound like you are in a cult. Go see a therapist FFS.
    1
  4046. "This is the way it works" Nah, we have just been indoctrinated that this is the way it must work, as though there is no alternative at all. "We get through this!" It's not disconnected Jay. It is the chase of exponential growth at any cost. They tasted the high and now they want it always be to the high, and go even higher. This whole manipulation is to normalize the higher nominal price of video cards. Every tier has increased in MSRP way more than inflation can explain alone and they want to keep it that way.
    1
  4047. The unification of languages was a prominent feature of the Qin Dynasty. The first emperor and the Qin dynasty do not have a very good reputation, even today but most historians will still recognize that one of his monumental achievement was to make sure China moving forward would have a common language. Without which, China as it exist even today will not be possible. The Chinese recognise that. Many Chinese also learnt English because it is still the Lingua Franca of the world. They didn't shy away from it. Heck, the Korean language Hangul was also a unifying force for the Koreans when it was established by the king Sejong. It was such an important event in Korean history that Sejong is still celebrated as one of Korea's greatest ruler. On the other end of the spectrum is India with its thousands of languages and dialect. Not aying that diversity is bad but diversity without common ground typically leads to conflict. Language has the tremendous power to unify or divide. It is also really rich coming from America that China is practising cultural genocide by teaching its minorities a common language like mandarin Chinese and English, considering America's history like "kill the Indian, save the man." Even more hypocritical is that the first thing racists always go for when they hear Latinos speak Spanish is to demand them to speak English. Reaaaal rich.
    1
  4048. That's not up to them. Papa America decides all these stuff for its vassals.
    1
  4049. He, along with the US oligarchs believe the world belongs to them by some divine right.
    1
  4050. Germany is a vassal state where its suzerain has eaten it for lunch to support itself.
    1
  4051.  @AndrewScott-sq9fy  Of course you can. This kind of question keep popping up only shows how childish and ignorant and brainwashed Americans truly are. I have asked ChatGPT political questions and it gives me OBVIOUSLY canned western narratives that we all know are not even true. I have to prompt it to be unbias and source from multiple different places to create a more nuanced, and actually fair response. You don't have to do that with DeepSeek because it is open source and you can run it locally. The problem for you is that you might not like its answers because it might not fit the western narrative propaganda you have been fed.
    1
  4052. Capitalistic driven economy and corporations will never accept a sudden windfall as a temporary glitch. They are always seeking higher and higher growth, even at the detriment of the consumers and the public.
    1
  4053. So you are saying the evolution of toothlessness is like how everything evolved into crabs.
    1
  4054. I like watching the downfall of the American empire.
    1
  4055. Basically, white women can become collaborators in the capitalistic patriarchial oppression if they are willing to opt into the system and their assigned lot. It's actually quite similar to how some religious women helped oppressed their own in religiously fundamentalist societies where they will participate and enforce religious dogma on their on gender to perpetuate the oppression, because that's their assigned lot in life.
    1
  4056.  @engineeringvision9507  I think he is being sarcastic.
    1
  4057.  @user-gs6bc4kz2x  Things will just go on fine. Everyone will be trading, infrastructure that can contribute economically will be built and no one is going to come regime change you just because you don't want to govern your country in a certain way.
    1
  4058.  @airdailyx  We know the difference between cruise speed and top speed.
    1
  4059. This is ironic. Anti-matter fuel for scramjet might be nearly impossible to do but touting hyperloop is also ridiculous. An evacuated air tube that could be hundred of miles long, just so to reduce drag is not practical economically or in engineering. It is really really hard to build very very long tubes that are seamless and nearly perfect that can hold vacuum without allowing too much outgassing. The amount of energy require to keep the vacuum pumps running to maintain thew vacuum will be huge, and the lower the vacuum, the harder it gets. Not to mention the safety of traveling in a high vacuum tube if something goes wrong. Maybe we can figure that out but really even if you can get the hyperloop to go really fast but is it even practical or useful at some point to go faster? We already have HST that can go for hundreds of kph that can effectively cover mid range distances between cities. These trains can already chew up 200 km all the way to 600 km range easily. Any longer than that, flying become more efficient and faster anyway. HST occupies a good niche of intercity travel of 100 to 600 km and they don't need to go faster than average 400 kph to cover that niche very very well. Any more than that, take a plane.
    1
  4060. Singapore may have the best medical technologies and doctors but it is still quite expensive even with government subsidies, medicare, and private insurance. So it is no surprise that some Singaporeans will choose to go to China for healthcare.
    1
  4061.  @douglasnakamura6753  LOL you're serious? China has an economic gulf from the US? Hahaha whatever helps you sleep at night.
    1
  4062.  @sridharsanthanam7071  That has always been the fucking plan.
    1
  4063.  @geoff9858  It's not just about beating Pakistan, it's also about getting along with your neighbors. Even after so many years, India still cannot find a way to get along with Pakistan. It shows their pettiness and lack of strategy and diplomacy. Meanwhile China can embark on a gigantic, world changing project like BRI that brought people and countries together while hemorrhaging western hegemony. That's the level of 5D chess that Indian politicians can only dream of even trying. Heck, they can't even dream on that level.
    1
  4064. China is focused on real growth, not financial boondoggles, military industrial complex and extracting wealth from its citizens to feed the capitalist maw.
    1
  4065.  @andreww4898  Oh there's still financial speculation, making people sick with bad food, and then keeping them alive on overpriced meds and selling vanity trucks.
    1
  4066. trump has no respect for the Europeans. He knows they have no power and trump is the kind of person that we Chinese say is "only look upward and don't look downward". If you are not rich, or powerful, he doesn't consider you humans and now he doesn't consider Europeans humans. There is no mystery why the Europeans are excluded. They're the suckers. They exist only to be exploited and harvested.
    1
  4067. Because the Chinese are right and the Filipinos are wrong.
    1
  4068. Doing the same thing again and again WITHOUT changing the conditions is insanity.
    1
  4069. They are the only ones obeying the Geneva Convention to stop a g-cide.
    1
  4070. ​ @Jaja_Dingdong  Well, that depends on what the bias is. When one side is clearly the bad ones, bias against them is the correct route to take. It's like comparing between a serial ra*ist murderer and a person who ran a red light once and then complaining why a reporter is saying all the bad things the serial ra*ist murderer had done and not the traffic law violator. When the US is literally supporting gen*cide, while spreading lies about other countries' doing gen*cide, using its military to force countries to bend to their world order, use their economic and financial clout to lock countries in actual debt trap, force them to privatize everything so their companies can buy up everything, selling weapons to fuel conflicts, meddle and interfere with other countries internal affairs to destabilize them or to turn them pro-US against the wishes of their people and so much more (like a serial ra*ist murderer) Then you complain why Ben is not talking much about the bad things on China which meteoric rise has been largely peaceful, has not bombed anyone for 40 years, invested heavily in developing countries building important, highly valuable, functional infrastructure and has been consistent in their foreign policy positions and while they make mistakes (like running a red light), they always backpeddle and reduce the harm and revamp their approach. And you are here telling us why Ben don't say bad things about China.
    1
  4071. The stock market is not the economy. A rising stock market does not mean a good economy nor is a crashing one is a bad economy.
    1
  4072.  @da-be1032  The Me-generation is really the boomer generation. They are the most entitled, most selfish generation produced by America so far. By comparison, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z are far more adjusted. Nearly all the problems, especially the politics are caused by boomers.
    1
  4073. biden only started changing his tune because he saw it has become politically difficult for him to unconditionally support that country to commit g-cide. Not because it is the right thing to do and it is obeying international laws and rules. That should tell you the moral bankruptcy of the UAS empire.
    1
  4074. Anyone who says this or that country is going to take the crown for manufacturing away from China really does not understand what China is, what manufacturing is, and why China is the superpower of manufacturing and will remain so for a long long time.
    1
  4075.  @kory6897  H is a resistant group against an occupying force and an apartheid state.
    1
  4076.  @kory6897  H is a resist group against an occupying force and an apartheid state.
    1
  4077. You do not become a billionaire or even a multimillionaire by being fair and just in life. trump cheated at golf. Lots of these people cheat in life, so is it really that surprising that musk is a cheater? He cheated on all his wives, like trump.
    1
  4078.  @Zerpentsa6598  Ohh it is definitely both. They don't like Chinese and their ruling class definitely don't like communism/socialism, especially when a country has successfully implemented the first step towards actual communism, you know what China did with their state capitalism and partial central planning. They really don't want those ideas spreading into the western imperial core nations.
    1
  4079. It's not going to end until the UAS collapse under its own weight.
    1
  4080. The funny thing is that westerners still believing they live in a democracy.
    1
  4081. Forbidding children from being forced to practice a religion before they are 18, so they can choose when they reach adulthood is an excellent idea.
    1
  4082.  @matthewmosier8439  I think it is insulting to be inserted into a product just to cynically pander to people.
    1
  4083. Is this the new excuse that you people are going with? It's honestly getting hilariously absurd.
    1
  4084. Seems like he is expanding on Marx's idea of alienation.
    1
  4085. If we discuss America the way Americans discuss China, we will say America is basically a warzone where people are shooting each other on the street all the time and it is standard now to issue bullet proof vests to children going to school. Americans are so selfish that they refused to do anything about it. They will also shoot their own children who oppose the 2nd amendment. Thousands of children are dead every year because of this. They love guns so much that gun fucking is a popular sex thing and a lot of Americans actually get killed because they accidentally discharged shots into their asses. Go do your own research, it's all true!!! Oh, black people are oppressed and many are thrown into prison to work as slaves and American corporations pretty much control every aspect of America and Americans are completely brainwash by the corpo-state media to worship money and the corporations. Wait a minute, the second part sounds right...
    1
  4086.  @rimaq_  Exactly. As much as the western media wants to slander China unfairly and let's be clear the Chinese themselves will tell you that China is not perfect and have a lot of problems, the Chinese and many African countries share a common history: western imperialism from both Europe and America. China's rise showed that there is another way to do it that is different from western model, and the existence of such model and its wild success is an existential threat to American capitalistic elites. Africa, South America and large parts of Asia can look at China and see that it is not merely FREEDOM(TM) that brings prosperity, peace and stability. Freedom follows prosperity and peace. China's freedom to decide its own destiny, and yes the Chinese people have a lot of influence on its government even if it is indirect, is guaranteed by China's current strength. America today would have destroy China if China could not defend itself, there is little doubt about that. Africa nations can only have freedom from interference from western imperialism if they are strong themselves, and that means industrialization, economic growth and prosperity. China knows how to get there, and that's what they are telling thee Africans; the BRI is the manifestation of that will and it is making American elites shitting their pants as more and more countries tell America to f**k off.
    1
  4087. To encourage local businesses to emerge, the tariffs will have to be 100, even 200% to make it attractive enough for capitalists to start new factories because that's how inefficient the US industries are. Americans are still not getting in their heads that the US industries efficiency, and technical knowledge are all kaput and costs are immense. You people still do not understand how big China is.
    1
  4088.  @Pojectron012  I don't think you understand what I am even saying.
    1
  4089. Sure, why not they can have that crumbs.
    1
  4090. There is a lot to hate about the US, especially after you have been in their military.
    1
  4091. You missed a few important points abut HDB housing. No company is allowed to own public housing, period. No citizen is allowed to own more than one public housing property and there are restrictions on a citizen owning a private and public housing at the same time. No foreigners are allowed to own public housing. Any PR that wants to own public housing must not own property outside of Singapore. All in all, the policies are designed to restrict speculations, flipping, cash rich companies or individuals owning vast swaths of public housing and becoming slum lords. The public housing primary objective is to let citizens have a place to live in, and the secondary objective of letting citizens, especially younger generations the first chance at capital accumulation from property appreciation.
    1
  4092. The sanctions on Iran are getting weaker and weaker and they don't really care that much about a new nuclear deal anymore. This is all because the rise of China has given the world an alternative to the west. Iran doesn't need the west anymore.
    1
  4093. They can do this because they are followers of Marxist-Leninism.
    1
  4094.  @Lena-vw6ye  He doesn't have proof. It's just bullshit western propaganda.
    1
  4095. They are stuck in a system that maximizes profits and nothing else. They literally cannot get out of this system.
    1
  4096. You don't have to leave the UN, just follow international laws.
    1
  4097. They don't have a choice. They have to find a way to develop their own semiconductor manufacturing from raw silicon to package product. It is clear that the US have target China on this particular tech and is using her influence to lock China out. China's national security is at stake because they rely heavily on AI and thus very advanced AI accelerated chips to power their intel for their defenses and the US government knows this. The US wants to retain its hegemony in the Pacific and it can't do that if Chinese AI based satellites can find, track and target USN fleets across the entire ocean. That will mean no US ship will be safe from long range antiship ballistic missiles if Chinese satellites can target them thousands of kilometres from Chinese coastline. It will make even super carriers sitting ducks and the US government will not allow that.
    1
  4098.  @andreda0104  I'm pretty sure he is being sarcastic.
    1
  4099. Yup, photonic chips are still a long way to commercialization but within that time frame, China will achieve EUV and demolish western semiconductors.
    1
  4100.  @xinrangao9550  They can still have trams and other modest public transportation. Actually, you can even create a decent metro with a population of 3 million or less. It might not be very big with lots of stations but it will still tremendously improve quality of life. Japan and Europe show that smaller metros can benefit smaller cities.
    1
  4101. NFT as a concept is really an indictment on the rot that lies at the heart of western culture and economy today. There is no value there beyond commodifying anything and everything under the sun. It's fake value, it's not real and the entire edifice depends on people believing that it is real. So as Dan said, there is a lot of myth making and hype that surrounds this beast to make it work. It is basically selling lies and nothing else. Just straight up lies. Who comes up with this kind of shit? Degenerates come up with this kind of shit and these techno-degenerates seem to all come from the America and Europe.
    1
  4102. Contrast this with the way China handled their floods recently. It's night and day.
    1
  4103. Business ethics is an oxymoron term. A company exist to make profits. It has no ethics. It cannot be ethical by its nature. It can only be forced to be ethical y regulations and lawsuits.
    1
  4104. Ohh news like this don't with well with some Singaporeans drunk on western corpo-state media propaganda.
    1
  4105. Even if you declare conflict of interests, that does always mean people can be rational about reading these reports.
    1
  4106. Lol BlackRock has bought up all the important farmlands in Ukraine. They are making money hand over fist.
    1
  4107. If we discuss America the way Americans discuss China, we will say America is basically a warzone where people are shooting each other on the street all the time and it is standard now to issue bullet proof vests to children going to school. Americans are so selfish that they refused to do anything about it. They will also shoot their own children who oppose the 2nd amendment. Thousands of children are dead every year because of this. They love guns so much that gun fucking is a popular sex thing and a lot of Americans actually get killed because they accidentally discharged shots into their asses. Go do your own research, it's all true. Oh, black people are oppressed and many are thrown into prison to work as slaves and American corporations pretty much controls every aspect of America and Americans are completely brainwash by the corpo-state media to worship money and the corporations. Wait a minute, the second part sounds right...
    1
  4108. There is a variation of this trope is the generational mothership. People lived on a huge ship that is going to another star hoping that there is a habitable planet there. The usual horrors are there but you can put a twist is that they are running away from something, another horror more personal than the void of space, and there is a feeling that that thing is out there still looking for you.
    1
  4109. Maybe even out of the house cooling.
    1
  4110. That's because Japan is a vassal of the US empire.
    1
  4111. I can assure you that China is not shocked at whatever trump is doing or will do.😂
    1
  4112. Given the trajectory of the US decline, the violent culture, the western chauvinism that make Americans unable to accept losing their hegemony, the stupidity of its leadership and selfishness of its culture, the US is likely the one who will cause a nuclear war.
    1
  4113. Whatever America thinks that China wants - domination, spreading communism, taking away freedoms from other countries and people - are exactly the things China does not want to stop. China doesn't care about those things. Those are the things that America wants and have been doing all these years, spreading its ideologies, forcing it down other countries', coup or invade other countries to spread their ideologies and dominate the world militarily, economically and financially. America is afraid of China because America is projecting - what else will a superpower do other than to dominate and dictate the rest of the world. That's America's own insecurity and they are projecting it onto China. It is not China's fault that America is afraid of what will happen to it if they are no longer the top dog and get to do whatever they want.
    1
  4114. US is more likely to bomb China than China bombing US.
    1
  4115.  @jacobbaird951  And you point in bringing China into this being?
    1
  4116.  @jacobbaird951  Haha right.......
    1
  4117. Man... The capitalistic corporatists and moneyed class really does not like the idea of never able to enter heaven. How much of this eye of the needle referring to a gate in Jerusalem revival comes from funding by religious moneyed class trying to subvert the text to make themselves feel better?
    1
  4118. @Watcher Stop Dwarven genocide first. Support Balin's rebellion against the Rivendell's elves.
    1
  4119. You use the word "expansionist" but I don't think you understand what it means.
    1
  4120.  @a.i2625  No it is not. Asserting previous claims that were lost is not assertive. Trying to address their own security concerns is not expanionist. They don't colonize other lands, they don't coerce others into economic serfdom despite what the west try to portray and they always negotiate.
    1
  4121. ​ @angohtv5732  I don't think you understand what expansionism is.
    1
  4122. It says a lot that Europe is a vassal continent of the US empire.
    1
  4123.  @zeissiez  This is a great essay! In one shot, you have put it clearly the differences between western liberal "democratic" model and eastern modern industrialized model. I am saving this.
    1
  4124. It's call "figure out what works and do it."
    1
  4125.  @phumkhmertv2028 yup, real freedom of speech they have in the west.
    1
  4126.  @jeffreyschnedar8020  The only side that wants to see war in Taiwan is America. China has no desire to fight their own countrymen, they simply do not want Taiwan to declare independence because it is a matter of unresolved civil war. They are willing to just wait patiently for a better time for peaceful reunification. The only chance of war happening is America going behind the scenes to push Taiwan into committing themselves into that foolishness and become a pawn in America's cynical attempt to preserve its hegemony by trying to lure China into a war. Everyone outside the west can see this playbook by America. No one is fooled by America's intents on using Taiwan against China and no one outside the west (and even in Europe) believes Americans actually give a shit about Taiwan's freedom and the interests and welfare of the Taiwanese people. Americans only care about the chips and turning Taiwan into China's Afghanistan. If war does happen in West Pacific, it is most likely due to American meddling, and I can guarantee you that it will turn the entire SE and South Asia against the US. Too bad, China is too smart for that.
    1
  4127.  @jeffreyschnedar8020  Good luck then. The more America tries to turn west Pacific into a war zone to try to contain China, the more people are going to hate America, and everyone can see exactly what America is trying to do. The US and the west are no longer competitive at any level of economic activity against Asia. China is already siphoning off US influence and diplomatic clout around the world. The only thing America has left is military and some remnant of hold over its European and Asia "allies" but the more the US government tries to coerce its allies to get in line at the cost of their own interests, the more they are going to resent the US. And there is already signs of Europe breaking ranks with America's foreign policies. These are all undeniable facts. Also, UK is a client state of the US.
    1
  4128.  @Unknown-jt1jo  Stupid takes like this is why the west can never understand places like Singapore and China and why they are such stunning successes.
    1
  4129. Wait are you saying their system works? Oh, what changed your mind?
    1
  4130. Thinking that the sea level will rise because of reclaimed land in Singapore is like thinking it is hotter on the roof of a tall building because you are closer to the sun, than on the ground.
    1
  4131. They got harvested and kneecapped by the US.
    1
  4132.  @FritsKist  Are you brainwashed?
    1
  4133. We are at war. It's the west against the rest of the world.
    1
  4134. Anyone who says some country is going to take the crown for manufacturing away from China really does not know what the heck they are talking about.
    1
  4135. Describing crypto as tokens like from an arcade or carnival, that somehow can be sold for real money is brilliant. Really encapsulate what it in reality really is.
    1
  4136.  @rappinron1384  Yes it is. Just because you are stupid enough to put your money in crypto and NFTs does not give you the right to lie and con people to put in their hard earn money into this space, so you can cash out. Crypto and NFTs are nothing more than speculative instruments created out of thin air and is now used by insiders to con more people. Despicable.
    1
  4137. I will rather be angry at the root of all this: the American empire.
    1
  4138. Here we are watching a lecture by a distinguish professor explaining to us in ways as simple as possible some of the most complex ideas that humanity have to grapple with while illustrating the immensity and impact these ideas have on our concept of existence and you are condemning a group of people you disagree with to eternal torment and somehow get some sort of sick satisfaction out of it. You are not interested in truth, you are no more than a fanatical fan booing the other side.
    1
  4139. The fact that most dynos cannot handle this amount of power for too long before they overheat reminds me when Vegeta destroyed the punch measuring machine in DBZ.
    1
  4140. If you are on weibo, you know China has freedom of speech.
    1
  4141. Hahahaha Temu's business strategy is not really all that different from Amazon, or earlier Walmart. They waltz into a market, use supply chain advantage, aggressive pricing to drive up business and adoption and completely demolished the competition (IE mum and pop shops) and then monopolize the market. China is just doing it better and by god the Americans are having a taste of their own medicine of destructive capitalism and economic imperialism they have imposed on other countries. I just find it ironically amusing that the American plutocrats are shitting their pants and whining like dogs and are pressing the panic button on the Congress to do something about it. Ban tik tok, ban Temu, ban them all. But they cannot ban the fact that China is playing the game better than them. The more the American plutocrats use the ban hammer, the more weak they are exposed as.
    1
  4142. I say they should totally do it. Surely the great western innovative culture will innovate their way out of this quagmire. Surely their neoliberal ideology of unleashing the free market and companies free from regulations will bring renewed prosperity to the west. Decouple from China, do it I say.
    1
  4143. Yea, it's a very similar system to Singapore's MRT, and probably Tokyo and HK. If it is underground, there is a platform area where you board and alight from trains, then you go up to a station control and gantry area where you tap out. After you tap out, you will typically find directions for multiple different exits that will lead to different parts of the station's immediate area. So as long as you don't tap out, you can access the gantry and platform areas. It is also where most people might loiter a bit waiting for their others since the gantry is a very obvious landmark. "Meet me at the gantry, I'm already here," is a very common thing to say in Singapore, and I bet it is the same in many Chinese cities. Which is why Jason was always wondering what new theme he would see as he goes up escalator because the gantry area is typically where most of the thematic infrastructure is located because that is where people congregate or wait. The platform is typically more utilitarian relatively because that place is more for getting passengers in and out of trains.
    1
  4144. This is why the west, especially the US absolutely hates China to the gut. Progress in the imperial periphery countries mean development. Development means prosperity. Prosperity means strength and strength means throwing off the yoke of western imperialistic neocolonialism.
    1
  4145.  @BocaoZ  There is not much he can do anyway, so long the plutocrats in the US control the western system. The only thing anyone can do will not come from vassalized slaves. It will come from China, Russia and the Global South rising in power and remove the relevancy of the western order. Then maybe Europe can have a chance to break away from the US because the US will be too far to enforce their rule over them. That is assuming that the Europeans desire to be part of the multipolar world, considering they are also racist and still possessed that colonial mindset. They might even foolishly think they can assumed the mantle of western neoliberal capitalism after the US loses it. And we will have to teach them another lesson.
    1
  4146. The whole burying scholars and book burning during the reign of the first emperor of China might be an exaggeration by later Confucian scholars and to legitimize the Han Dynasty.
    1
  4147.  @IceAge-t5w  How about you go away and stop accepting payment from the CIA to be their stooge?
    1
  4148.  @nisabn9934  Not enough evidence usually points to the incompetence of the prosecutors. You want to lock up bad people but you also don't want to jail innocent people because the system is too zealous about locking people up.
    1
  4149.  @Luvemliljs  Yea, but I don't think it's completed yet. And even then, the Americans might blow it up like they did with Nordstream.
    1
  4150. Decolonization of the mind takes generations.
    1
  4151. This sounds like bullshit.
    1
  4152.  @xh3598  hahaha the UAS is not manufacturing anything. Keep dreaming.
    1
  4153. This is nonsense. Your body is adapting to the virus whether you get infected or through vaccination. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. Jut because you encounter some incidents that might not look like the rule, does not mean the rule is wrong. People who get booster shots have lower incidence of infections on average, and they will also have less severity or deaths. This is undeniable. Just because your ah gong smoked 2 packs a day for 50 years and died at 80 years old does not mean smoking does not cause lung cancer.
    1
  4154. They already know. This is for the west who still think they can do whatever they want without suffering any consequences.
    1
  4155.  @sridharsanthanam7071  It's a basket of currencies backed by commodities, and India is already dependent on China and the west for its imports and tech. This kind of talking points coming from Indians is just like moronic westerners. You guys have no real basis in reality. You just want to live in your own reality and refuse to acknowledge your own inadequacies and mistakes.
    1
  4156.  @vikrantpatil5259  Over 800 million now.
    1
  4157. Iran does not want peace and just pretending? Come on. This is why even though this channel is a good source of information and alternative narratives, it is still bound by the wider western narrative bubble.
    1
  4158. It might get tariffed anyway.
    1
  4159. They are paid to be priests of the capitalist religion, so of course they have no idea how the economy works.
    1
  4160. The best case scenario is combining EVs and a robust public transportation. Or else you are just replacing ICE cars with EVs. Traffic will still be horrible, and you still need far more resources to transport the same number of people if there is no good public transportation.
    1
  4161. The UK has been so moronic since the end of the war, you wonder how they became the largest empire ever known. Then you realize ruthlessness and cruelty and get you very far without a lot inside a head.
    1
  4162. muskrat, dimon the looter, huang the greedy, and tim apple are the reasons why the US are in such dire straits. They are the class of people who created the conditions in America that is destroying their social fabrics, cashing hardships, and an exploitative business environment, culture and society. These people are not to be admired. They should be watched closely lest they spread their form of neoliberal cancer to us.
    1
  4163. The portrayal of powerful foreign leaders as wanting to dominate the world is both cartoonish and projecting. The projection comes from the fact that the US government and by extension the American capital class and political elites are actually the ones who want to dominate the world and they do. Now they want to keep that power and the rise of a foreign power that refuse to join their sick little club will always be viewed as a threat. Because that is exactly what they will think they will do if they are in China's position. What else does China want if not world domination, because that is what we will want. It's disgusting.
    1
  4164.  @TheAcerstarcraft  Yup. The British looked at their colonies as properties to be extracted for resources, labor and prestige. When push comes to shove, they don't give a rat's ass about the people living there. Why should a colonizer died to protect people they viewed as subhumans and why should the colonized fight to protect the properties of their oppressors?
    1
  4165.  @pseudoscientist8010  I know what Bretton Woods is. But I am quite sure you just quoted Bretton Woods as though it meant something to this conversation.
    1
  4166. This is a huge problem that I'm glad Trey is pointing out. Can you actually patent something that is naturally occurring, like a gene that caused a disease. That seem ridiculous, like patenting rocks and it should be ridiculous.
    1
  4167. Ohh is the US trying to start a war with China? No wonder the Chinese is spending so much effort to develop this.
    1
  4168. When an anomaly cannot be explained by your conventional wisdom bore out of your system, it means your system is dying. The fact that westerners can still be confused is why the west will fall, and must fall because they literally are blind to the world shifting under their feet.
    1
  4169.  @rickoffee  Who do you think paid the think tanks and create capitalist ideologues? Sure isn't Joe Six-Packs.
    1
  4170.  @olddogoddments675  Yes, it is small but it is an important symbol of everything that is wrong with the relationship between Canada and the US. The US made Canada its b---h and force it to do illegal things even if they screwed Canada's interests by damaging relationship with one of their biggest trading partners China, and made everyone lose a lot of respect for that country.
    1
  4171. This won't stop until the American empire is brought low.
    1
  4172. @donaoemd And a lot of exploitation of those cultural symbols.
    1
  4173. Moral of the story, some people really don't like changes.
    1
  4174.  @cb250nighthawk3  Don't blame me. I'm not a capitalist.
    1
  4175. It's not a trap.
    1
  4176. Except that the Russian narrative is actually true: the US accepts nothing other than capitulation of the WORLD to its order.
    1
  4177. I really dislike western thinkers still claiming the word democracy. Bourgeois democracy is NOT democracy.
    1
  4178. I have visited many cities around the world. SF is not a beautiful city. It is amusing to hear someone claiming that it is beautiful. It's like saying a piece of sun baked shit smelled great. But I guess if all you have to compare is wet shit and diarrhea, even a dry piece of feces can be the best.
    1
  4179.  @truthsocialmedia  Yes, that's capitalism. Fascism happens when capitalism starts to entered its logical self destructive stage. This part is just another stage of capitalism. There is no mythical perfect capitalism to return to, this is how capitalism always decays into.
    1
  4180.  @youwaiyap2708  The Greed and Racism are driven by the colonial and capitalistic mindset.
    1
  4181. You will rather suck western c*ck than to have true independence.
    1
  4182.  @nobodynever7884  Marxist-Leninism is why China is so strong today. Are you a Cuban that left Cuba? Did you not know your country was embargoed and knee capped by the US for 60 years and it is still surviving? So imaging how prosperous Cuba would be today if it was not artificially Tonya Hardinged by the US. You need to lay off that US propaganda and look at things a little more objectively.
    1
  4183.  @nobodynever7884  So you or your family ran away from the revolution. You are exactly why the revolution worked.
    1
  4184. @ WAFUdave Lol, what a few blurry pictures and you believe this BS? Do you also believe that the Three Gorges Dam is gonna collapse anytime soon? Or you believe aliens has probe your ass?
    1
  4185. Postmodern structuralism seem to be similar to the idea of Dependent Arising.
    1
  4186. And America will never stop invading and coup countries that refuse to bend their knees.
    1
  4187. This is a guy who lost a billion in the late 80s when everyone was making money. He is literally the worst businessman in America, not that you should be running a country like a business. This "running a country like a business" is one of the most insidious ideology that comes out of the intellectual hell that is the USA.
    1
  4188. Seem like I found a new sci fi engine. Black hole star drive. That's sound gooood.
    1
  4189. Calling China communist is like saying NK is a democracy.
    1
  4190. Yes, that's literally what most westerners think. Only the west can innovate and be creative.
    1
  4191. America is not just being arrogant here. Sanctioning Huawei and China is economic warfare. By any sane definition, what the US had done is an ACT OF WAR. China has every right to retaliate with full force. But they didn't. They bide their time and they let the Americans think they won. But I think China is not going to sit by and let the US just keep hammering them and humiliating them. They will hit back but they will be strategic and they will be smart about it. Most likely, America won't know what hit them until it's too late. The Huawei story is just another example that the US needs to be punch in the nose. Hard. Or else it think it can do whatever it wants.
    1
  4192. The problem with the west is that they think they are very clever and the rest of us are stupid. Just look at trump saying all that smugly, thinking that this is some genius 4D chess move to check mate de-dollarization, completely unable to understand just how monumentally stupid it is.
    1
  4193. If Japan can condemn that country, then we are starting to see that the UAS empire support for that country is crumbling too. Japan does not have an independent foreign policy. They take orders from DC and this might be how the WH is testing the waters for coming out and condemning that country and cutting off support.
    1
  4194. @Santiago Rodriguez Newton Like the entire East Asia, which has a larger population than west combined.
    1
  4195.  @amateur-surgeon-skillz  Yea, the little guy against a big company, the individual against a big bad. It's a goliath vs david story and that is actually part of the indoctrination and propaganda. It's feel good and doesn't really work in real life to change anything fundamental. It's fake. It's basically Hallmark movies for capitalists. When was the last time you ever watch a movie that explicit has a group of people coming together and actually changing the system from inside out, you know, like a fucking labor union of people in solidarity and taking down a terrible workplace and conditions? I can't think of a single one. They don't want people to organize together, as a community, a voting bloc, as a union
    1
  4196.  @Hkchinese888  You are obviously a CIA stooge or bot.
    1
  4197.  @leondight8162  Case in point 😂😂😂😂
    1
  4198.  @leondight8162  Ahh should have expected the vassal of the US empire to bat for their masters. What a good little boy you are. Here's a candy from that 1.6B dollar propaganda fund.
    1
  4199. It is hilarious that the west is still pretending that trump is just an isolated madman, when we all know that if China has made similar threats (which they never did, despite the made up lies by the west) to another country, they will be jumping on the bandwagon to call the Chinese a barbaric people.
    1
  4200.  @CashCatz  that's is capitalism. It is the natural progression of capitalism. Every capitalist country eventually gets to this point. It's part of the cycle of capitalism as inevitable as gravity. You just been indoctrinated to believe in this fairy tale of a capitalist world that never existed.
    1
  4201. It worked very very well at splitting the EU up so the Americans can control the continent.
    1
  4202. Save your crocodile tears.
    1
  4203. Urgh, the Russians don't want western Ukrainians and who can blame them.
    1
  4204. That's because Singapore is drinking a lot of western narratives kool aid.
    1
  4205. They won at capitalism, that's why their decline is completely foreseeable.
    1
  4206. So you are willing to bow down to another American creature?
    1
  4207. LOL, they will rather throw the meat away than to sell it at a lower price. How are you people still so dense about how capitalism works.
    1
  4208. @tkh2944  Even before that, the rampant dollar printing to pay back and inflate away their debts, the use of military force and propaganda against those who dared to challenge the USD system already eroded away the trust. It is only now there is a real competitor in a position of strength that is unassailable that can challenge this system we are seeing the US world order crumbling.
    1
  4209. Scholz got billions of dollars in trade deals with China and basically said Germany will not decouple from China. I think that 24 hours were well-spent.
    1
  4210.  @paperinik69  Parroting Western propaganda (literally lies) will not change facts.
    1
  4211.  @snowwny  Only phillipiness has problems with China and we all know who is behind that. Indonesia and Malaysia literally just applied to join the BRICS and were accepted as members, while Vietnam puts China as the FIRST country in their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership status. An honor they gave China back in 2008, which the US only got in 2023. China is actually helping to negotiate a end to the Myanmar civil war. Laos and Indonesia just got their high speed rail built by the Chinese, and they are now plans to connect HSR all the way from southern China to Singapore. SE Asia has no problem with China that they cannot negotiate peacefully. You westerners are the one coming here to stir up trouble.
    1
  4212. Not that ironic. Traditionally, an empire with domestic troubles tends to look outward to foreign adventures, either to distract people at home or to loot other countries through war or colonization. America is doing what many empires had done. They are overstretching their economic at home to try to hold onto their worldwide hegemony by being violent and bullying and trying to hold off China. Containing China is impossible now. Which is why they are likely going to provoke war across the Taiwanese strait to draw China in an unwinnable war to ssap China.
    1
  4213.  @TL-fe9si  The Israelis are behaving like Nazis, and the Hamas are terrorists because that the only way they can fight back.
    1
  4214. No one likes a colonial administrator and macron and his ilk are all colonial administrators for the US empire. The last few years have been making it more and more glaring that the EU is under control of Washington.
    1
  4215. My mother used to say, don't be sorry for trying to make money. It's tough enough to make a living, why it make tougher for yourself?
    1
  4216. I love when intellectuals are allow to be honest iwth each other, because the questions they asked are usually the ones that go straight to the jugular. Will the plutocrats and the politicians in the US start using military power more as all other venues of their power decline? Yuuuupppp, straight to the most important question. It's not about the answers, it's about asking the right questions that can generate useful answers.
    1
  4217. The heat is still have to be dumped somewhere. The lesson here is don't use high TDP chips if you live in a small enclosed space that has limited cooling.
    1
  4218. The perfect airliner will have the highest possible fuel efficiency per passenger per km, while flying at a decent speed with decent range. Everything else is superfluous. Fuel efficiency should be the primary criteria. and thus emission and ticket price.
    1
  4219.  @earthwizz  Yes, this only works when the CPC has absolutely control and can prevent counter-revolution and jail capitalist restoration traitors.
    1
  4220.  @SecondThought  USS Maine, the coup in Panama, the Gulf of Tonkin. It is a long history indeed.
    1
  4221.  @appleturnover519 You obviously do not know how communism works.
    1
  4222. You can't fix what you never have in the first place. America is not a democracy.
    1
  4223. Not likely until China and India settle their own disputes.
    1
  4224. There is nothing about tx to be proud of.
    1
  4225. Now imagine that this culture's mythology formed the basis of our culture instead of a desert tribe's war god.
    1
  4226.  @达瓦里氏-d7g  That's not even the case anymore.
    1
  4227. Ahh the American version of "comfort women".
    1
  4228. China is not catching up unless they are spending more than 700 billions a year for war.
    1
  4229.  @Longcloud  A personal property is something you own that you use or consume. Like your toothbrush you use to brush your teeth, or your car that you use to move around or even your house that you live in. A private property is something you own that can generate capital. Like a factory that you bought or tell others to build for you because you have capital in the first place. Then you proceed to take the surplus value generated by the factory simply because you have your name on it. When the west seize Russian assets, they are taking the capital of Russia and giving it to their own private capital in the forms of weapons payment. Private property for private capitalists in the west are very much protected and will even have more private capital/properties. You and I and this OP have personal properties. We are not even in the club of owning private properties to be affected by this. But the fact that everything is becoming a subscription or leasing model means you don't even get to own personal properties anymore because all your personal properties are becoming the private properties of the private capital to extract rent out of. This is the problem with 99% of westerners. They are so miseducated about the economy and deliberately so, that they are not even equipped at a basic level to understand what's going on. It's like trying to do orbital mechanics by believing in an Earth centered system. It is also how you get people thinking that socialism is when the gubmint owns your car and completely miss that companies are trying to turn your car into their own private property by forcing you to get a subscription for its "extra" features.
    1
  4230.  @fuzzy-02  Tencent also has shares in Game Science too. So Chinese companies cannot have shares in western companies but western companies can buy other countries' companies and dominate their economy? Sounds very one-sidedly imperialistic to me.
    1
  4231. It makes sense if you are a white supremcist racist.
    1
  4232.  @wallyanglesea9709  China is not an empire and what human beings are being kept down by China? Your ego?
    1
  4233.  @liang892  你只是在对牛弹琴。
    1
  4234. If the imperials core countries are capable of using their tech, capital, human resources to help imperial peripheral developing countries to leapfrog the fossil fuel death trap, they would have done so years and years ago when it became clear that climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels. They can't even do it for themselves.
    1
  4235. This is not a masterstroke Sean. This is cheap backhanded sabotage. Building the Chancay port to allow trade flow freely between China and South America while avoiding US ports and the Panama canal is a master stroke. The BRI is a masterstroke. The New Development Bank is a masterstroke. Selling Chinese bonds in USD in Riyadh at practically the same interest of the US treasury department is a masterstroke.
    1
  4236. I'm Chinese, I don't give a damn about the pronunciation.
    1
  4237.  @drowzydrowzy  100 over million Chinese leave China for work, business, pleasure and education all came back unless they were legally migrating every year. Zero defections. Very repressive indeed.
    1
  4238. @The Frog. Blockading fuel supplies will be an act of war and will not earn America any kudo points among the international community. If the US really do that, they will see the collapse of the world order they built because the world will turn it's back in America. The fact that you can even say this casually without thinking your way through just goes to show how much of a bully and asshole mentality America has.
    1
  4239. When there is an unexpected development, the western corpo-state media always take at least a day to figure out the propaganda messaging.
    1
  4240. The fact that western bankers think that IS treasuries are still a good investment for central banks of the world just goes to show how delusional they are. They really think after all they have done, the world is not going to actively divest itself from the west. I can't wait to see the west fall.
    1
  4241. Reevaluate China's tech? What, the 6th gen fighters did not do that already?
    1
  4242. It is hilarious to see westoids on Reddit still thinking Ukraine can win.
    1
  4243. It male sense for Brazil to electrified their transportation. The country produces a lot of hydroelectricity with the Itaipu Dam.
    1
  4244. You should look at what happened to the fire of Chongqing in 2022, and make a comparison between the 2 places.
    1
  4245. Lol, this whole comment is just America good and can be trusted despite the evidence to the contrary.
    1
  4246. Look, vaccines do work. This is at least the one thing even the MSM gets right.
    1
  4247. This is why economists keep screwing up. They have a gigantic blindspot is that they believe in their assumptions about humans, almost on a religious level, that they ignore the sociological and psychological aspects of humans. That's why their models are incomplete and often are really bad at predicting large scale human behaviors.
    1
  4248. I think the pre-heating idea comes from the internal logic that the higher the temperature of the combustion, the more complete the combustion and thus lumen yield. The power output in ICE is based on carnot cycle where the higher the temperature difference between the hot reservoir (combusting part) and the cold reservoir (the air intake) the better yield of the kinetic energy you can harvest from the engine. I'm not exactly sure how it can really applies to lamp fuel efficiency though.
    1
  4249. There is actually a limited number of bitcoins that can be mined at 21M. The number of bitcons that have mined is around 20M now so we only have roughly 1 more million of bitcons left. This is not sustainable. Most likely, people are going to go mine some other cryptocurrency.
    1
  4250. It really should be doting the same thing over and over again without changing the conditions. It is possible to get a different results doing the same thing depending on the initial conditions.
    1
  4251.  @era8dwain930  D-day didn't occur more than a year AFTER Stalingrad was won by the Soviets.
    1
  4252. It's a hole that's demanded by the US. Either Europe gets a spine and becomes independent or the US will keep demanding they destroy their economy for the sake of US hegemony.
    1
  4253. Oh look, it's that CIA bot again.
    1
  4254. More like some rich people might make less money and will be taxed more to build these mega projects that will benefit the country, and so use lobbying to kill the projects. Remember that elon musk actually lied and use the hyperloop to try to sabotage the California high speed rail because he wants to sell more cars. Rich people are the number one reasons why America is no longer building these great projects because America is already fully optimized for wealth extraction. Anything else means more taxes on them and disrupt their wealth extraction and they will kill it in Congress. That's your real reason why America is slipping.
    1
  4255. It actually not surprising. Nvidia probably already have the entire 3000 series line up on a internal roadmap even before the 3080 launch. It's part of their long term marketing strategy. They probably already have the fab booked for the TI version long long ago. So when it comes to their turn at the fab, they still have to produce the TI version. I don't think this is as easy as just switching to normal version with a flick of a button. Factories are already at near cap even before this gen of cpu and GPU launch and new factories don't just pop up like you build a tent. This shortage aren't gonna go away anytime soon.
    1
  4256.  @Ludak021  EVery industry they tried to sanction China in, was eventually broken into by China. Jet engines, space exploration, and chips of course.
    1
  4257. No they didn't.
    1
  4258. China is building the biggest windmills in the world and more and more people there are accepting gay rights. So obviously, the problem is not about renewable energy and equality.
    1
  4259.  @gabrielamaral978  You saying nuclear family is the norm throughout the ages is just like saying human nature is greed and selfishness.
    1
  4260. I don't know what people expect companies to say beside "we will have plenty." There is no way they can say "we don't think we have enough to meet demand."
    1
  4261. Cherry picking doesn't work. trump increased tension in the West Asia by increasing bombing and drone strikes while starting a trade war with China that biden kept going.
    1
  4262. Pershing was an IRBM, not an atmospheric hypersonic missile.
    1
  4263. Not really. AI supported spy satellite constellation will spot it taking off and have anti air waiting for it long before it reaches any target.
    1
  4264.  @DefinitelyNotEmma  It's not sci-fi. It has already been done. You can accept reality or bury your head in the sand, it makes no difference to everyone else.
    1
  4265.  @mercedescl  That's the problem, China is gaining the practical technology to find and track military assets through AI supported satellites. You can hide from radar, but you can't hide from visible spectrum.
    1
  4266.  @mercedescl  I'm not overestimating it. It has been done already and it is only likely to improve. You are just trying to ignore facts, because it is giving you an existential crisis of faith. "If America's carriers and stealth bombers are rendered useless, we are doom!!!" That's what your subconscious is screaming.
    1
  4267.  @simonm1447  True. That will be one weakness of these satellite tech. Limiting the bombing run will limit the options of the USAF but not completely eliminate the threat. I'm sure the Chinese military knows that and probably actively trying to find a way around it. Probably why they still want to develop their own stealth assets.
    1
  4268.  @YangShaoqing778  It also does not make any sense to blow up the balloon if it is indeed a spy balloon. It would have been more important to retrieve the balloon intact so the CIA could tear it apart, which could be done by popping it and catching it as it descended. The fact they shot it down showed that they know it has no intelligence value because it is not a spy balloon, and they want to make a big show. Everything in the US is a dog and pony show.
    1
  4269. You sound like a nativist fascist.
    1
  4270. No government, no NASA, no ESA, no Roscosmo, no private space industry.
    1
  4271. Corporatism is capitalism.
    1
  4272. You say this is crazy, I say this is just the typical western hypocrisy.
    1
  4273. It's led by America, and the Europeans need to decide if they are going to follow America off the cliffs or have the courage to strike out on their own and actually deal fairly with China and Russia. China doesn't give a shit about how EU runs its own ship since they are strict non-interventionists and Russia doesn't want to be surrounded and encroached. Back off from Russia and deal with China on a business partner basis and everybody wins. America can do the same but they are hell bent on securing their hegemony so they are going to confront China at some point in the future to try to beat down China. Except this time, there is no guarantee that America will win a confrontation.
    1
  4274. The BRI list will be very long, the BBB list will be..... *crickets.
    1
  4275. But human rights!!!
    1
  4276. It is a threat to US hegemony and the people who benefitted for it.
    1
  4277. Modi is a pro-west right winger. He has been trying to be part of the white people club for a long time.
    1
  4278.  @DJs021  He can't. That's what having no Marxist education does to a person.
    1
  4279.  @wallyanglesea9709  Then why are you so afraid of it.
    1
  4280. Why will China sell tungsten that is going to become weapons to be used against the Chinese people? Isn't that blindingly obvious, Kevin?
    1
  4281.  @brianliew5901  China has a pretty big stick, and China also has a huge carrot. Let's see if the west can really win this century.
    1
  4282. Brexit will ensure that China will come knocking on British doors and take it all away. If UK keeps on this trajectory politically, they will become the economic colony of China.
    1
  4283. That's what you get for stu*pid officials.
    1
  4284.  @AlanZ684  By buying American gas at 2, 3 times the price and wear a clown costume and say they are the jesters for America.
    1
  4285.  @santhoshsridhar5887  Annnnnnnnnnddddd China has EUV. Wanna bet when SMEE will start selling their EUV lithos? Within 3 years, maybe 2?
    1
  4286. So what is it? Is the Jew or the Samaritan the chosen people of Yahweh?
    1
  4287. The US will never stop supporting Israel unconditionally because Israel is a US settler colony. They are the beach head for the US in West Asia. They are the ones who do the dirty work for the US in the region and other parts of the world. biden himself said so himself long ago, if there is no Israel they have to invent an Israel. Even supposedly outsiders like RFK jr admites that Israel is the unsinkable aircraft carrier of the US. They will allow the genocide than to lose Israel.
    1
  4288. Russia already control those lands and some of them already voted in referendum to join Russia. This is a done deal.
    1
  4289. The SE Asian nations will not allow US to blockade the Strait of Malacca. The day the US do something like that is the day the world turn against it.
    1
  4290.  @scroopynooperz9051  But if you teach that man to fish, they might learn to fish better than you and take all the fish. This is how the west thinks, this is the basic cultural value of the west. This is why they are the baddies.
    1
  4291.  @gyinagal  Yes, apparently to hypocrites like that judge, they would have only committed murder. But who knows, maybe that judge can also define any non republicans as non-person so technically it wouldn't even be murder.
    1
  4292. I think the electoral college and the western corpo-state media will destroy him.
    1
  4293. Not profitable enough. Low cost apts? To let poor people have access to a roof over their head. Get out of here with your commie pinko sht.
    1
  4294. No MSI and Gigabyte. Got it.
    1
  4295. If Japan can condemn that country, then we are starting to see that the UAS empire support for that country is crumbling too. Japan does not have an independent foreign policy. They take orders from DC and this might be how the WH is testing the waters for coming out and condemning that country and cutting off support.
    1
  4296. If you have a gun, everything starts looking like a target. You start thinking you can solve all problems with violence. Having a problem with violence? Well, just do even bigger violence. If you think about it, it is exactly the fundamental problem with gun violence in America. When you start thinking that solving school shootings by giving guns to teachers, you have a gun culture problem. But try pointing that out to a 2nd amendment gun nut and they will start frothing at the mouth, threatening to murder you for trying to take away his freedom.
    1
  4297.  @sidgar1  It is only entrench because people here are stubborn. Everyone else has moved on.
    1
  4298. I find it funny that we just gloss over the fact that the first president of South Korea killed hundreds of thousands of Koreans who were suspected communists. As though being a possible communist will forfeit your life and freedom.
    1
  4299.  @grmpEqweer  You can keep saying that but if it doesn't work, then you might as well as not say it because the breath you expended to say it is as useless as a shit-wiped toilet paper. This is the problem with western, especially American ideas of freedom and liberty. You are technically given these rights but in reality, the exercise of it does not make you anymore powerful or give you any more real freedom to determine your fate while your fate is already decided by people who made all the important decisions that matter. You can hear what you want, say what you want, do what you want within the narrow confines allowed by the system designed to turn your life into value that channel it upwards to be own by the plutocrats. And most Americans are indoctrinated to believe they are free. Haha, your credit score will determine how free you are.
    1
  4300. Fab matching sounds a lot like Kaizen.
    1
  4301. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I don't even think China banned VPNs. You can actually use VPNs in China and many people do anyway. Who really is the censorship masters here? And you know what, the Chinese people even after hearing the "truth" from the western media through VPNs still support their government and the CPC. In fact, they get angry hearing lies and slanders being spread constantly by the western corpo-state media because they literally live in that country.
    1
  4302. Probably accelerate it, because it makes trading in your country's own currency much easier.
    1
  4303. Brazilians better protect Lula well, because he is prime target of the CIA now.
    1
  4304. US spying is more a threat than China spying. Literally all internet traffic that route through the US is spied on by the NSA. The way I see it US is a far more severe danger than China lol. Americans will actually destroy your country if your government dares to step out of the line. China has done nothing of that sort to anyone. The constant fearmongering by western corpo-state media on the threat of China is pure projection from western governments.
    1
  4305. The west seem to be so self-centered that they still think they have the luxury to play with right wing extremism when they are barely keeping their heads above the water.
    1
  4306. India can make a fool out of itself without outside help. Out of all the BRICS members, they are the most likely to backstab China.
    1
  4307. My 3070 will be the last nvdia graphic card I will likely ever buy. If nvdia really goes the apple route, then I will make it a point not to buy anything, that I can control, from nvdia.
    1
  4308. Let's stop beating the bush okay. It's because the US government is incredibly corrupted and incompetent, and the religious test is the easily to pass to get church indoctrinated voting bloc. This kind of deflection language is one of the reasons why America is in decline and will probably commit some heinous atrocities before this century is out, just to preserve its hegemony.
    1
  4309. The way I see why there is a backlash to killmonger's plan is because it attacks at the core of western imperialism; what of the people we oppressed in turn become strong and do the same to us. It is a violent direct action plan and obviously it will result in conflict that no one will win. But the fact is that this is what motivated a large part of white racism in the west, especially America because there is an innate fear that if the white men is not at the top, he will have to pay for the sins he has wrought in the past, and that fear is encompassing. It is this fear that forms the core of the replacement theory (what if they take over by fucking our women or outbreed us), the concentrated hatemongering thrown towards China (what if they become powerful and come donto us what we did to them) and the sheer disrespect America has shown the global south Africa and South America, including a large part of Asia when the US government responded to China's rise and growing influence through the BRI by demanding everyone to reject China in exchange for continuing the current world order where they still get fucked over. And white America wonders why the world is getting more and more tired of their bullshit. Heck even the Europeans are getting sick of it. White America is projecting.
    1
  4310. I thought it was filmed in the Cheyenne mountains😂😂
    1
  4311. If there is one thing I learn as a working scientist is that giving raw information to an untrained mind is almost as useless to not giving information in the first place. Information taken in with no context, or worse the wrong context can be damaging. Learning about facts and not having the discipline and training to interpret them properly is the reason why we see so much stupidity and gullibility in people.
    1
  4312. What's wrong with internet from China? Lol, this is hilarious considering the NSA spies on everyone.
    1
  4313. The irony is that many Chinese are taught English on top of Mandarin and maybe their local language like the Tibetan example. Is China committing cultural genocide on their own cultural by teaching English? Hilarious...
    1
  4314. Singapore is already a very well designed city that does take into account the effect of urban heat. Maybe more changes should be made but I can assure you that after living in other countries, no cities come close to just how well designed Singapore really is. Okay maybe some other East Asian cities in China, or Japan.
    1
  4315. Blaming other people for your mistakes is exactly how losers and incompetent people behave. It is how an empire falls because it means the system is unable to do its own internal reforms because it is occupied by incompetent, corrupted people.
    1
  4316.  @Jouantiese LOL that's BS and you know it.
    1
  4317. I doubt the FB metaverse is going to dominate the internet and I will drink to the zuck getting f*cked. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
    1
  4318. China has digital sovereignty. This is what a real digital economy looks like.
    1
  4319.  @ryanwalters6184  Ohh that justified destroying the country? With the amount of wars and destruction, interventions, meddling and murder and economic oppression that the US has wrought on the world, then using your ridiculous standards, the world should have invaded and suppress America several times over. Get over your bullshit self righteousness and absurd justification for your country's sins. The only thing America ought to be doing right now, is kneel and beg for forgiveness.
    1
  4320. Leave your religion out of this. Singapore is successful precisely because it is not a religion dominated country.
    1
  4321. The USians keep thinking they are the movers and their rivals can only respond to them. Sure, a lot of what China does are responding to UAS actions, but they are actively doing things to secure their strategic goals and defense. Thinking otherwise is just blind arrogant.
    1
  4322. They murder MLK because he started saying that economic justice is tied to racial justice. So yea, America is not used to REAL changes, much less rapid changes. Why? You think that having the labels change on your 30 types of shampoo is real changes?
    1
  4323. ​ @prasanth2601  It's not really that classified or that impressive. If it is, the US will not be panicking over China's rise. The US is already waging war on China and losing because China is basically destroying US hegemony, like de-dollarization, using its immense economic surpluses and expertise to lift up the Global South and dividing up US allies through its economic and diplomatic ties with Europe. The more the US flexes its military against China, the more it exposes its weakness, because it shows that the US is running out of ideas to counter China. The world is inexorably shifting its center of power to Beijing, and there is nothing DC can do about. So it can only make alliances of convenience through military cooperation. Everyone is trying to decouple from the US dollar, no one is decoupling from China's economy. The war is already here, and the Us is losing. No matter how good your tech is, when your economy is tatters, you can't support a giant military.
    1
  4324. Yup subscribed.
    1
  4325. That's why America is the most propagandized country in the world.
    1
  4326. Canada can always sell oil and maple syrup to China, hahahaha.
    1
  4327. Alexander was really one of the first generals in the world to used combined arms. Instead of just using one type unit, he used different kinds and combined them in a way that utilize their strengths and reduce their weakness, to terrifying efficiency. Probably the other generals that used combined arms contemporary with Alexander and Philips are the Chinese during the Warring States period.
    1
  4328. The exchange of animals across the world will leave future paleontologists extremely confused and could be an indication that there was a world wide spanning civilization that allow animals to cross oceans within a small span of geological time.
    1
  4329. Here we go.
    1
  4330. @as123ferrdi8  you missing the point is that China has been trying to be a responsible player and proved it with their actions, and the problem is that the entire western media is lying about China, so you think they are as terrible as you people. They are not because they don't have a colonial mindset, they don't care about world domination and they don't have the same kind of western arrogance and racism inherent in the colonial based culture. You just don't see it because you are not allowed to see it
    1
  4331. The US is the one going around the world naming enemies and looking for trouble. All to keep its hegemony. Anyone still trying to paint the US as a good guy is intellectually dishonest. These enemies of the US are not rouge states. They are oppressed states.
    1
  4332.  @teoeehuat8742  Haha the Europeans, the Japanese and the South Koreans care. But that's because their balls are held by the American empire and daddy emperor in the White House can squeeze those balls when he likes to.
    1
  4333. Oh look American imperialism that we just causally sweep under the rug.
    1
  4334. What is so frightening about China innovating? Because they are not westernised?
    1
  4335. Why used such language as veneer of inclusiveness? China does something somewhat bad, ban hammer down. China tried to do something do right, the west use deliberately provocative language to dismiss their efforts. I'm really disappointed in you.
    1
  4336. You can't get competent politicians in a bourgeois "democracy" because politicians are not there to lead the country for the people, they are there as middle management for the capitalist oligarchy. How many times do we have to repeat this? How many times are we proven right with every "election"? If this is level of intellectualism in the west, then it is little wonder why the west is in terminal decline. You want to see how competent people can be selected to lead a country, go look at how China does their Whole Process Democracy, and how the party promote, demote, oversee, checks and select their bureaucrats. But you people don't want to do that, so you can keep running in circles like headless chickens because you people are too indoctrinated in your western liberal capitalist chauvinism to even dare to look outside the box.
    1
  4337.  @mg2612  No, it is not and it seems you people lie better than the devil. Utterly without any honor, morals or scruples.
    1
  4338. But you see, Snoop doesn't have the most potent propaganda machine ever to exist to brainwashed everyone into thinking he doesn't smoke weed. And the arrogance of a people indoctrinated to believe it is their cultural, moral and social superiority to rule, so the rules don't apply to them.
    1
  4339.  @biz6361  Except socialism is good.
    1
  4340.  @biz6361  They all did fairly well, because they took care of their people first before profits. You are just not told about it. You really believe all the shit you were told by your corpo-state media? Plus they were consistently sabotaged y imperial core countries, especially America. OTOH, I can give you one example that will destroy your precious capitalism ideology. There are millions of people undernourished and millions that are starving. But we produce enough food to feed everyone in the world. The only reason why they are starving is capitalism deem it unprofitable to give them food. The "success" of capitalism, like the democracy in western imperial core countries are a veneer, a charade because capitalism has been responsible for billions suffering everyday today, and for decades. On relative ground, socialism has been wildly successful. You just couldn't think that way because you are indoctrinated to be incapable to think in that perspective.
    1
  4341. They are going to need a much much stronger navy to laid such claims.
    1
  4342.  @avbhinaya  People have said the same thing about jet engines, the Three Gorges Dam, the space station and numerous other stuff that China has no way of ever achieving for the last 50 years.
    1
  4343. That's because Macron is the capitalists' crony so obviously he is not going to talk to the labor representatives.
    1
  4344.  @MnemonicCarrier  Exactly, this is now becoming a full blown problem as the west is taking off their gloves to go all-in to try to suppress China and other countries trying to break free from western neocolonial imperialism.
    1
  4345.  @grimaffiliations3671  They don't need their own currency, they just need a unit of account based on the strength and commodities of each member state. You got to think outside the western box.
    1
  4346. It is good that you mentioned that US might want to be belligerent to China. In the next 20 years, China will still be forced to play defense and that will be their main priority. US is more likely to bring war to Chinese shores than China doing the reverse, and they only have to make sure they can match US and allies' forces to defend themselves.
    1
  4347. There will be a cure for cancer, and it is going to come from China because their culture, society and politics are not indoctrinated completely by capitalists.
    1
  4348. I think China has enough capacity to survive a US economic war. But US will not survive an inflation driven economy backed by printed money. Somewhere along the line, something gonna give and when it gives, the financial insolvency of the US gov will create social unrest far worse than what we are seeing today.
    1
  4349. The short range is already ridiculous by itself. Literally no one except Atlantic route carriers will buy this.
    1
  4350.  @sonofyoutube6248  Yes indeed. GaN is a semiconductor, like silicon. But what GaN excel at is amplification because of its electrical properties. GaN based electronics (like transistors) can amplify power to a higher degree at higher energy efficiency, better thermal conductivity, lower weight and size than silicon electronics. All of this translated to more powerful output with significantly smaller and lighter equipment. This means a GaN charger can be quite small and still output more power than the old school power bricks. This also mean that for applications that requires a lot of power, like an AESA radar that uses a lot of power to form beams of radiowaves, any improvement in delivering power, reducing heat and improving energy efficiency is crucial. Those antennas are power hungry, especially if you need to put those radars on fighter jets, big early warning planes, radar seekers in missiles. It means you can see farther, detect earlier, lock and shoot earlier and even more importantly, you can detect low-observable planes earlier than expected. This is why the US military need GaN and they are panicking.
    1
  4351.  @sonofyoutube6248  I wrote a reply to you and it got censored by YT lol
    1
  4352.  @Akapaco2  In what?
    1
  4353.  @rustyscrapper  You have an idealized version of capitalism that is fed to you by propaganda and is not how capitalism is practiced in real life. Striking is the most anti-capitalist thing ever and anti-labor power is the most unifying force of capitalists. The billionaires can hate each other's guts but when it comes to labor, they will sleep with each other to destroy. Using cheap migrant workers or outsourcing to destroy local wages is the most capitalist thing to do. This is the problem with USians. They live in an idealized world that does not exist and they keep using the No True Scotsman argument to confort themselves that there is this platonic ideal "capitalism" that they only have to achieve through minute reforms.
    1
  4354. The west needs to understand that the reason why this war happened is because they expanded NATO eastward and tried to choke Russia. Until they drop the self delusional narrative that this war is Russia is the sole bad guy because Putin evil, and conveniently ignore the historical context that led to this point, they are not going to win any wars or friends outside the western imperial core bubble.
    1
  4355. It's propaganda. It's induced mass hysteria and the media can steer people in any direction that they want. If the power that be want to discredit EVs, this is how they do it. Now imagine what these media can do against other things, like people's and countries. You really believe everything they say about the rising powers in Asia?
    1
  4356. So is meddling in other countries internal affairs, and staging coups, and bombing other countries.
    1
  4357.  @privateer4203  I doubt that will happen, because it won't be as profitable as the current neoliberal model which is to monetarize and financialized everything, and then play casino with assets manipulation and the stock market. It won't be as profitable on paper, and that's the only thing that governs the USA; profits.
    1
  4358. Haha they are not saving other nations' families. In fact, families from other nations are cannon fodder for your oligarchs. Soon you all will be cannon fodder too.
    1
  4359. Yuuuup. Nothing in China makes sense to an American because the Chinese do not follow the same rules and thinking as the western liberal capitalist mind does. China is a ML country and it makes it's own decisions and policies and get dramatically different and far better results.
    1
  4360.  @sophiaelayne9984  that's a bad analogy
    1
  4361. It's a flying tank, and everyone loves a flying tank. It's firepower is bragadacious, loud and obvious. It doesn't slink from a fight, it comes in close to shoot you. The ground pounders love it because it is sophomorically in your face. It is an awesome machine, until a lowly MANPADS blow it out of the sky. It is the same story as the Hind. The Hind dominated the mujahadeen and was shredding them to pieces, until America gives them stinger missiles. Then the Hinds drop like flies. A-10 will never be in any situation where there is remotely a chance that there is the presence of any form of anti-air missiles. They send in actual high flying jets to do SEADs.
    1
  4362.  @liamnehren1054  Even if you use the attic as a thermal buffer zone, insulating the attic will still reduce the overall heat loss. A more insulating roof reduces attic heat loss, which in turn reduces the heat loss below the ceiling.
    1
  4363.  @deanpaterson3219  At the moment.
    1
  4364. New strategies? New leadership? Reforming an unreformable system is futile.
    1
  4365. I lived in Singapore. It is nothing like it was described. That's how you know that western media, reports and think tanks are ultimately self serving liars.
    1
  4366. After 4 years of trump and over 10 years in Iraq and nearly 20 in Afghanistan, you think we still have principles?
    1
  4367. Ah the same virtue signalling bs from another westoid.
    1
  4368. China really has to move fast, especially in the satellite constellation sphere. It is becoming clear that Starlink will be used by the US military and political elites to conduct its aggression against any country who is trying to break away from US led world order. It is going to be used for direct military operations and for psyops to broadcast propaganda to targetes countries. That orbital space is limited resource and can only hold so many satellites. SpaceX is tryig. To dominate that space and ensure no one can put anymore satellites there. China must take this space to ensure its informaion sovereignty. It has control over its land base communication, it cannot cede the space to the US.
    1
  4369. Everything you said about the successes of socialism from 11.00 onwards is most exemplified by China, and you go out of your way to even mentioned China, especially on lifting people out of poverty which the CPC has done with tremendous success. More than 700 millions lifted out of poverty. I'm not sure why you go out your way to not acknowledge that, even if you think China today is not socialist, it has applied far more socialistic policies than most countries on their way to national success.
    1
  4370. It's fascism. Just admit it, American conservativism, both your garden variety republicans and alt-right are fascists. Unadulterated drive for power for power's sake, informed with the surety that they (whoever they deemed is part of them) are destined, and should rule. Fear based politics is just the means to an end, and the end is power.
    1
  4371. Capitalism demands that the workers concentrate fully on making capital for the capitalists. Everything mentioned in this video, every road block, every difficulty, every condition is created by a capitalistic society. It is little wonder why people are not having kids.
    1
  4372.  @carlitosortiz2870 Ohh you know exactly what I am talking about, you just don't want to admit it.
    1
  4373. So he's complaining that some atheists are being aggressive to "convert" others to their "religion" by exploiting people's ignorance and weak will. Wait... isn't that exactly what aggressive crusading religions been doing ALL these times? Equating being irreligious to being immoral is specious and superficial. Both Stalin and Pope Boniface VIII are the same; they love power above all else. Human moral values are universal, you do not need some "wise" priest to teach you that. Lame, next!
    1
  4374. Let's see how palki can spin a peace effort into something negative.
    1
  4375.  @xxoo-lp6vc  Singapore has always been very careful and Singaporeans know what Uncle Sam is always up to. That is, up to no good.
    1
  4376. The only difference is how fast the American empire falls. Whoever gets elected, we all win.
    1
  4377. He should be angry at the system that keep producing these cold blooded business people, plutocrats and politicians.
    1
  4378. If we discuss America the way Americans discuss China, we will say America is basically a warzone where people are shooting each other on the street all the time and it is standard now to issue bullet proof vests to children going to school. Americans are so selfish that they refused to do anything about it. They will also shoot their own children who oppose the 2nd amendment. Thousands of children are dead every year because of this. They love guns so much that gun fucking is a popular sex thing and a lot of Americans actually get killed because they accidentally discharged shots into their asses. Go do your own research, it's all true. Oh, most black people are also in prison as slaves and American corporations pretty much controls every aspect of America and Americans are completely brainwash by the corpo-state media to worship money and the corporations. Wait a minute, the second part sounds right...
    1
  4379. Indoctrinated, brainwashed people are really that stupid.
    1
  4380.  @joemosely9383  That is a loaded question. Can something ever be justified will always be a question that is best answered on a case by case basis and the objectives and execution of that plan clearly laid out and justified and then the results have to match the objectives and intent. None of which the UAS sanctions on the world have really achieved.
    1
  4381.  @joemosely9383  Like what China is doing now. Restricting gallium, germanium, antimony and graphite exports. It's not even really a direct sanction but it definitely has more impact on the west's high tech industry. This hurts their high tech, which the west is trying to protect because they can't compete. It doesn't hurt the normal people that much. It hurts those that controls these industries' bottomline, and the effects are now obvious. So yes, these "sanctions" have a clear objective, it has a clear manner of execution, it is working to a certain extent and it keeps the collateral damage to a minimum. Clearly China knows what she is doing and even then, I doubt it will last a long time (not like the way the UAS sanctions Cuba which are cruel and hurt all Cuban people indiscriminately) because its objective hurt the west's high tech giants) is actually reachable, has a clear strategy and has a clear exit. It also doesn't seek to make a regime change that violate another country's sovereignty unlike the explicit goals of UAS sanctions of regime change on other countries.
    1
  4382.  @shasanmaz  LOL did it do anything? NOPE. Heck, they are all bad, they are all chosen by capitalists power brokers before they even make it to the ballot. The choice has already been make for you long before you even hear the names of these politicians. The greatest lie capitalists told is that the west has freedom and democracy.
    1
  4383. More like they are taking orders from the Americans.
    1
  4384.  @jackwong230  I want to know do you condemn Israel.
    1
  4385. The hilarious irony is that while the capitalists love to claim you don't own anything in a socialist economic system, the truth is you own pretty much to nothing except for a few personal items in a late stage capitalistic economy. But in socialism and communism, you own everything because you are part of the collective that own the most important thing; the means of production. By virtue of that collective ownership, you and your fellow citizens get to decide how the stuff is made and how much is needed so you won have bullshit like a John Deere dealer having to come and turn in your tractor or DRM it. And you still get to own personal items like a guitar or your favourite pair of jeans.
    1
  4386.  @donaldcarpenter5328  Well, the corporations are the government.
    1
  4387. People who bet against China always lose.
    1
  4388. Ohhhh man, you need to go listen to some fucking Jay Chou.
    1
  4389.  @westside213  Japan has many rural areas that are very low density that are served by trains and buses. Indoctrinated carbrain morons like you are one of the reasons why America is a declining empire, and the most wasteful, arrogant, self-serving and selfish in the world.
    1
  4390. China is already a democracy. What they have is the whole process, consultative democracy. Also, western liberalism is not democracy.
    1
  4391. And the huge imprisoned population in the US are basically slaves.
    1
  4392. And you ficked him.
    1
  4393. The only way to go green is to rapidly industrialize and scale solar panels, wind turbines, and nuclear power so these energy sources can be deploy enough masses and quickly. Hydroelectric also need to be exploited asap. Only China is seriously doing all these. Taxing carbon should only be an afterthought to adjust the market
    1
  4394. Tesla buy batteries from BYD lol
    1
  4395. And now Australia is buying US nuclear subs and becoming the client state of the US in another three way alliance with UK. Ahh the hypocrisy.
    1
  4396. I have no tears for a people who have benefited from 500 years of colonialism and exploitation and then still has the audacity to pretend they are the good guys while adhering to that supremacy and colonial mindset.
    1
  4397.  @medialcanthus9681  Elections doesn't work when your country's media and political power structure is already controlled by the US. The filiipinos will reap what they sow.
    1
  4398. @ReymonTeneso  It's definitely not good for Philippines to become the US stooge, to be used like a prostitute against China. It's not whether you have to choose one side or the other, it's maintaining your interests and that's means maintaining your independence. Becoming used by the US against China is against the national interests of the Philippines.
    1
  4399.  @luffyland4996  Japan is not a sovereign country and that is exactly the problem. Saying it is sovereign when practically we can see it is not, is also exactly what US dominated narrative machine will want us to believe.
    1