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Thecore said:
Why waste energy with her when she will be booted soon enough when the Japanese economy implodes in the next few months. They are teetering on the edge of the abyss right now.

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Russia debt to GDP is 13.3% at end of 2024 which is big difference from 19.7%.

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Russia's external debt-to-GDP ratio falls to a record low
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:49:02 +0300]
Moscow – Saba

Russia's external debt-to-GDP ratio fell to 14% in the third quarter of this year, an unprecedented low in recent history, according to calculations by the Russian news agency Sputnik, published on Monday.

Based on calculations using data from the Central Bank and the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), the figure decreased by 0.7 percentage points during the quarter.

The debt-to-GDP ratio has only fallen once before, in the fourth quarter of 2024, when it reached its all-time low of 13.3%.
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Thecore said:
Why waste energy with her when she will be booted soon enough when the Japanese economy implodes in the next few months. They are teetering on the edge of the abyss right now.

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Anybody with more economic knowledge please correct my thinking here. That bubble chart shows government debt levels, but what about government assets on the other side of the ledger? China's 130% debt must be seen in the light that that the Chinese state owns all of the 10 million sqkm land, about 50% of the enterprise value of Chinese industry, foreign reserves and all the hidden reserves that it has control over. Do the other governents in that chart have comparable assets? What would the net assets bubble chart look like?
 
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FriedButter said:
The article you posted is talking specifically about external debt to gdp. Domestic debt isn’t included.
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you can add it to Ministry of finance and still not reach 20% gdp and this ruble has appreciated while debt static.
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Russia's national debt in 2025​

The Ministry of Finance discloses current information on Russia's public debt; the latest data can be found at
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. As of May 1, 2025, the Russian Federation's domestic public debt amounted to 24.99 trillion rubles, while its external debt amounted to $53.91 billion.
Moreover, according to the Central Bank's estimates [
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], Russia's external debt as of April 1, 2025, amounted to USD 312.4 billion, having increased by USD 22.1 billion, or 7.6%, since the beginning of 2025. The indicator's dynamics were determined mainly by a positive revaluation of liabilities in other sectors, the regulator points out.
The difference in estimates is due to the fact that the Central Bank includes in its external debt not only the debt of government agencies, but also the debt of the Central Bank itself, as well as that of commercial banks, companies, individuals, and non-profit organizations. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance only considers the debt of government agencies in its external debt structure.
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Scott Tracy, sorry, Bessent has said on Fox news earlier today:

Now Putin has started making incursions into the NATO borders. The one thing I can tell you is the US is not going to get involved with troops or any of that. We will sell the Europeans weapons".

I guess that about wraps it up for NATO then.
 
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Comac 919 said:
Inaction also has consequences, and red lines keep getting pushed back by adversaries. Remember when China said 九二共识 was the red line, and was disregarded by Tsai Ingwen. Nothing happened.

"The Japanese comments are an unprecedented provocation, but they are still too minor to justify significant economic retaliation by China."

Disagree. This is just allowing adversaries to further chip away at China's credibility. If 台湾有事日本有事 said by a Japanese PM is still too minor, then...dunno what to say.

Also, I doubt other countries "care" about who's in the right and who's in the wrong. They cares about who is "mightier" in the literal sense of word. You show might, other countries will come around. What China is putting out now is a circus.
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Remember when Taiwan still had control over their airspace and EEZ?

Tsai Ing Wen talked a good game, but essentially lost any territorial control they had. Due to low number of F-16Vs and age of Mirage-2000, ROCAF no longer conducts any intercepts.

Similarly, JASDF is in a similar situation. The only aircraft they have for interception is the F-15J, they are 40 years old and the age was considered a factor in a fatal 2022 crash.

Today there was a standoff at Diaoyu Islands. There is a dispute on how everything went down, but the hard reality is that Japan has difficulty patrolling the islands.

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In June, Japan said it had observed Chinese vessels operating near the disputed islands for a record 216 consecutive days.
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20 years ago, PLAN probably could not undertake this let alone the Coast Guard.
 
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