Comments by "Andy Hughes" (@andyhughes1776) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

@simpleman1942 I posted my answer but it got deleted. Which country is Communist, again?
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@后宫后 It began in 1990.
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China is collapsing because the U.S. is taking it down...just like the U.S. took Japan's economy down in 1990 with the Asian Economic Crisis. At that time, Japan was the 2nd Largest economy in the world just like China is now. Their economy became so big that they threaten U.S. global dominance. That is why the U.S. must take them down (via Tariffs, sanctions, de-coupling, etc) Whatever drastic policies China is taking now are just efforts to save themselves from U.S. wrath. Their efforts are NOT the cause of their economic woes.
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If China stands to lose the most in these oil wars in the Middle East, then guess what they will do? Can you say, "global war", boys and girls?
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They understand it enough to bring 80% of their population out of poverty in 30 years - never before done in the history of humankind. Now, they are the second largest economy in the world and are rivaling us! And guess who taught them and helped them do that? Meanwhile, we pushed 80% of our people INTO poverty in the last 30 years. All due to corporate greed that never helped ordinary Americans. By blindly praising America while our fellow Americans are going under is NOT patriotic!
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@simpleman1942 Then how could they bring 80% of their people out of poverty in 30 years? And our supposedly "decentralized" form of capitalism created millions of homeless people now (yes, millions if you count people who live out of their car and those who squat on their friends' couch.) And we are NOT a free market capitalism because our government manipulated the market by sanctioning other countries so that they can't trade with us freely. We can't compete with EV production so we tax Chinese EVs 100% so they can't sell in the US. Result: our people can't buy Chinese EVs. Is that free market Capitalism? There's a lot more I can't even begin to cover in a short post.
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@simpleman1942 That kind of political control of the free market is PRECISELY what Communists do! But we are a free country, right? Why are we doing Communist control? And what do you call minimum wage mandates? Government price fixing is COMMUNISM!!!
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@后宫后 It started in 1990 when US corporations moved all their factories to China to take advantage of the low cost of labor - American greed! That started the ball rolling and turned China into the global manufacturing powerhouse it is today. America became the richest nation on earth during the 20th Century precisely because of their manufacturing might. Biggest mistake of America was to move all our factories to China as well as other overseas locations. Now, China has become the dominant global economic empire.
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Wrong! Blinken went to China to beg them not to dump anymore U.S. treasuries. China just sold off $300 billion out of $800 billion they own. If they sell anymore, the U.S. Dollar will collapse and we all will be eating Chinese shit! Stop spreading American arrogance. Saudi Arabia already abandoned the U.S. Dollar as the de facto currency for international oil trade. The Greenback is hanging by a thread now. American arrogance writes checks our weakened Dollar can't cash!!!
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And don't piss off the U.S.!
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And don't piss off the Galactic Empire!
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The Chinese don't have alliances? Ever heard of BRICS? This is clearly a U.S. take down of the Chinese economy using sanctions, Tariffs, and Covid (yes, Covid is a U.S. bioweapon!) Reason? Because China's economy had grown so big, it threatened U.S. global dominance. The same thing happened to Japan in 1990 after Japan's economy became the second largest in the world at that time (except the U.S. didn't have to use a bioweapon to take down Japan then). This is why half the world is joining BRICS to de-throne the U.S. Dollar, thereby taking down U.S. global dominance. This is an economic war that could lead to WWIII.
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The U S. is always looking for war: 250 military attacks and invasions since 1990 Look it up!
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Don't we all wish. It's the US, indeed, the entire West that are crumbling. Look around you - homelessness everywhere, people can't afford food, car repossessions up 25% from just a few months ago, school shootings every other week, road rage every single day, random violence in the streets, - all signs of a collapse of an empire. I really do wish all this were not happening in America. And trying to twist the narrative isn't going to magically turn that collapse into China's problem.
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Yet, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin immediately came out and said, "We didn't do it!" Same thing my little boy said when I walk in on him doing something bad. If he didn't say anything, I would've missed it. 😃😄😁😀
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