Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "CNBC Television" channel.

  1. Seems like the Chinese can't win however they play it.
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  2. Japan?
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  3. China is playing the USA at its own cold war game... and is clearly winning. When will the rulers of the USA learn: cooperation is better than conflict. Weapons sales may prop up the economy, but war will surely destroy it if those weapons are ever used against the wrong enemy.
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  4. Made for and by western companies to specifications set by western companies and then sold by the same companies to western consumers at inflated prices. Like iPhones made by US companies operating in China and made by highly exploited Chinese labour.
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  5.  @furryrupert3739  Because, as the Americans themselves are always saying, they are the exceptional nation. And if you're exceptional, well....
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  6. I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you. As the saying goes, dogs bark and the caravan moves on.
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  7.  @bobcharles7716  Agreed, no one is forcing these western corporations of the US empire to do business in the Peoples Republic of China.
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  8. Oligarchic plutocracy is how I'd describe the elite in the USA, basically an aristocracy (rule by concentrated, inherited wealth). But then I suppose all elites are oligarchic and plutocratic almost by definition, so it's really an unremarkable observation.
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  9. A war criminal.
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  10.  @deeplorable8988  Why invent the wheel twice? Or fire? Or penicillin? Sharing know-how instead of hoarding it makes the world a better place because humanity as a whole gets to benefit from it. The wheel, fire, penicillin… is the common heritage of us all and we, as societies, are better for that. Capitalism is all about the few enclosing the commons and denying it to the rest of us.
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  11.  @jiaxiangchen6743  And I would add, appears to be at the beginning of an existential crisis similar to what the late Roman republic went through. It's system of government is riven with corruption and cronyism/clientelism and unable to keep pace with a changing world by making reforms necessary to maintain even the status quo.
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