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[TK3600]

I've seen more Russia-China joint exercises in a single year than Japan-Taiwan, South Korea-Taiwan, Australia-Taiwan joint exercises in 5 decades. I don't see any evidence for those vassals to directly be involved. There is no evidence of joint-force cooperation or mil-to-mil training at any meaningful level against PLA. Same for the US. US even excludes Taiwan from RIMPAC exercises.

South Korean military and Japanese military are under American command.

She may not have much choice if all the top business elites in Germany are driving this. She can't say no to them or she'll see herself on their shit list. US imperialists have her from the front, but corporate Germany likely has her from the rear.immense blow back fro

OwO

 

[CMP]

This is why I think the One-Child Policy was a great policy. People these days are quick to criticize it because its consequences are somewhat poor demographics, but the policy was key to China being able to take advantage of that golden era of development. Having less children allowed parents to focus more on work and even more importantly allowed women to have a greater share in the labor market. The benefits of this seriously cannot be understated.

Fully agreed. I don't think indefinite population growth was ever a realistic trajectory without opening up to immigration. And of course that comes with its own price. Being generous with permanent residency for high value people (whether STEM, business, or culture) is a good move but doesn't really affect the demographics. We'll probably have to wait until the USD is dethroned before real money can go towards population growth programs.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

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Interesting piece from AA, it essentially underscores the sheer magnitude of China's developmental achievement that many propagandized and uninformed Westerners often seek to trivialize ("oh, it's not miracle, just big population", etc.). It shows that the much lauded "global development" of the post-Cold War world order was actually a mirage with development primarily concentrating in East Asia:

As a matter of fact, since 80s there are basically only three growth miracles and all of them are located in East Asia - South Korea, China, Taiwan. China alone was responsible for the bulk of global poverty reduction that is often bragged by the WB and similar insitutions:

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has been moving to a different trajectory, including the "supapowa":

There was a bright spot in 00-15 which was fuelled by the commodity supercycle due to Chinese demand but as all resource-driven development cycles, it eventually ended in a bust:

The real golden age of the GLOBAL development was actually during the period from 1950 to 1980:



This period has ended with the death of the Bretton Woods system and introduction of the fiat dollar (Nixon shock), followed by oil shocks of the 70s. Those events led to rapidly rising inflation which culminated in the Volcker shock:

The Western ideological mantra of "liberalization = development" could not be further from truth - not only it did not help to the economies back on track, in many cases it resulted in the total governmental collapse:

I will stop there because of the character limit but it is only a half or so of the article, so recommend reading it when you have time.

Mostly right but they get a few things wrong:

1. China isn't entering low level equilibrium. They don't even know what that term means. If you look at the definition, China has nothing to do with low level equilibrium.

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2. They don't understand that dollar metrics are losing relevance as the physical measures of development are decoupling from the monetary measures. For example, they say Chinese consumption is low. But how is it low from a physical point of view? Chinese per capita CO2 emissions are on par with European countries like UK, car ownership similar to other Asian countries, appliance ownership similar, etc.

So the only place to increase consumption significantly is monetizing what would otherwise be free, like how some self proclaimed advanced economies have done.

 

[CMP]

Mostly right but they get a few things wrong:

1. China isn't entering low level equilibrium. They don't even know what that term means. If you look at the definition, China has nothing to do with low level equilibrium.

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2. They don't understand that dollar metrics are losing relevance as the physical measures of development are decoupling from the monetary measures. For example, they say Chinese consumption is low. But how is it low from a physical point of view? Chinese per capita CO2 emissions are on par with European countries like UK, car ownership similar to other Asian countries, appliance ownership similar, etc.

So the only place to increase consumption significantly is monetizing what would otherwise be free, like how some self proclaimed advanced economies have done.

Don't waste too much time on this. The article was written by a student and rubber stamped by a propagandist. Look up the identities of the two authors.

 

[BoraTas]

Politico has a different read:

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But from what I glanced from her speech it's somewhere in the middle. She basically said a lot of words and they didn't really mean anything and it felt like a waste of time.

Perhaps German industrialists put a lot of pressure on her to not do a VDL.

The EU can very well be indifferent though. After all we were indifferent to numerous US, Israeli, French, British aggressions. In fact we supported a good chunk of them.

 

[pmc]

As mentioned in prior posts, organizations like the WTA have been Americanized that almost all of them are acting like Lindsay "Crying" Graham who made this quite statement against MBS:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646184414748065803

Lindsay went there for thanking this order of B787. 2018 was very different time as 2017 just happened where MBS put in jail alot of old guards. If there is no strong demand there was no need for this large order of widebody. and demand creation is due covid impact on developed world and increase use of Arabian airspace.
just to put in history. when US president met with Saudi King in 1945 he gave wheel chair and a DC-3 plane. and since that day US aircraft has reliably carried Royal family around the world and made millions of people visit there holy places.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645920609933881346

 

[Eventine]

I've seen more Russia-China joint exercises in a single year than Japan-Taiwan, South Korea-Taiwan, Australia-Taiwan joint exercises in 5 decades. I don't see any evidence for those vassals to directly be involved. There is no evidence of joint-force cooperation or mil-to-mil training at any meaningful level against PLA. Same for the US. US even excludes Taiwan from RIMPAC exercises.

Wouldn't Japan-US, South Korea-US, and Australia-US joint exercises be more relevant, in this case? I'm sure those countries won't get involved without the US being involved. Naval exercises with Taiwan are kind of useless because the Taiwanese are largely irrelevant as a naval power, analysts I've seen basically indicate their entire navy will be sunk on the first day of an attack.

 

[taxiya]

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WTA suspended tournaments when it was impossible to hold any due to the COVID policy, so they made a political show without any real loss (so they think). Now just after China opened again, they want to come back to make money? I think China should keep them waiting for another year, a payment for their suspension, then let them resume in 2024.

 

[H2O]

Scapegoat for something else *or* US security isn't as good as before that such a lowly, inexperienced, unvetted person might have been allowed access to such classified documents.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, on Thursday in connection to the leak of classified Pentagon documents.

 

[sheogorath]

Apprently the snitchs are the glowies at Bellingcat. Truly "independent"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646546839045394434