Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. The European Union. 😂
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  2. I suspect it was a secret plot by the Americans to weaken them long term by playing on their fears of overpopulation, fears that were so prevalent during the 1970's and 80's and the Chinese fell for it hook, line and sinker. Anthropogenic climate change is now the new fear.
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  3.  @doujinflip  From at least the time of the Ming dynasty they have. Why do you think Japan had to give up Formosa (the former name of Taiwan) to China at the end of the Asia‐Pacific war with the USA if Taiwan hadn't originally belonged to it?
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  4. If the Chinese government can force its people not to have children, I'm sure it can just as easily force them to have children. Or find some technological solution to the problem – robots, automation, transhumanism, artificial wombs, etc.
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  5. China owes the money to itself and prints its own money so it can never go bankrupt. It's currency is also backed by gold and a vast manufacturing economy that makes and trades in real commodities. The USA owes money to usurious moneylenders who also print its money so it can go bankrupt. The currency of the USA is backed by an empty promise and a rentier economy based on intangible financial services.
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  6. Much of the GDP of the US is due to money laundering and tax evasion schemes inflating the figures, as well as by counting as high value a fiat currency of an essentially bankrupt state which would have been reduced to junk bond status long ago if wasn't for the system being so corrupt and rigged, resting precariously upon a phantom economy mainly made up of the FIRE and military‐industrial sectors rather than productive manufacturing and the building of infrastructure.
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  7. What makes you think you'll ever get close enough for them to even need to deploy their infantry against you. Missiles and drones and autonomous AI will be what the next war is likely to be fought with.
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  8.  @ChiRedWhiteBlue  Spanish, French and German are the languages to look out for. 1. Spanish (and possibly Portuguese) because of the growth of Latin America in the future. 2. French because of its widespread use in francophone Africa, another place of future growth. 3. German because it's currently the powerhouse of Europe and likely to become even more powerful as time goes by (along with France as the two main drivers of the EU).
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  9. It's been like that for millenia. And it seems to have worked well because China's still around. The Anglo‐American system on the other hand... a few decades, a century or two?
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  10. Why is ISIS attacking Russia? It's not, the USA is. So the question should really be why is the USA attacking the Russian Federation?
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  11. Probably the same as those neoliberal economists brought up on a diet of Mises, Hayek and Friedman.
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  12.  @Mark_Chandler  Owed to themselves. That they can literally write off. A state bank can never go bankrupt in the way a private bank can.
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  13. The threat of a good example. How can the neocons and the neolibs convince the rest of the world of the end of history when China keeps confounding them.
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  14.  @oldstyleman3819  Basically, a Saudi Arabia or a Kuwait.
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  15.  @tropics8407  to make us dependent on the USA and the EU.
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  16.  @raed3620  Your using an entirely erroneous analogy, as well as a fallacious form of reasoning.
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  17.  @raed3620  The PRC is the successor to the ROC and as the latter did claim control over Taiwan (Formosa) so does the current government, its claim being a continuation of the previous government's claim. Taiwan is considered by Beijing as a province and its right of secession is not de jure recognised by the PRC.
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  18.  @raed3620  I never said it had. The Peoples Republic of China recognises the factual existence of the Republic of China as an independent entity but does not recognise its political legitimacy.
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  19.  @raed3620  Almost all the countries of the world recognise, implicitly or otherwise, the Peoples Republic of China as the sole, legitimate de jure government of the whole of China, including Taiwan. They may give de facto recognition to the existence of the Republic of China but officially it is the mainland that represents them both. And your claim that the The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that lasted at most 2 decades could somehow wipe out 3000 years or more of Chinese culture is ridiculous. By that reckoning Chinese culture would have been destroyed by the Mongols long ago, indeed every time China had a revolution, civil war or foreign invasion – things far more destructive than what the Red Guards ever did. And the written language of China has been merely simplified to make it easier to understand but it's still quintessentially Chinese. All the PRC government has done is introduce spelling reform. It's not like Chinese is now written in the Cyrillic or Latin alphabets; it's still ideographic but slightly more simplified. The Guomindang led by Chiang Kai‐Shek/Jiang Jie Shi lost the civil war to Mao Tse‐tung/Mao Zedong and ever since it has been considered a renegade province.
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  20.  @snslifestyleorg  Yes, that might be a possible optimum. Likewise for India. But what makes you think it would prevent the middle income trap?
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  21. Touché.
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