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Cygnus

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is transforming itself into a nice city. There's definitely some Chinese vibe to it. The multi-bulb street lamps and LED building facade feels very Chinese.
Addis Ababa is a complete opposite to the capital city of a certain Supapowar who had wanted to claim leadership of the Global South. A clear example of quiet, but tangible progress versus loud, but hollow rethoric.
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Every Western idiots keeps on harping about India as being the next China or a global manufacturing power.

I keep hearing it since the early part of the year 2000. It has been decades already and India is no where close, in fact they are going in reverse. Meanwhile the dark horse resides somewhere on the African continent (Nigeria, South Africa or Ethiopia), South East Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam), South America (Brazil, Mexico) or Central Asia ( Kazakhstan etc). The ship has sailed for India, now all they are famous for is exporting their people into other Nations and turning it into the slums of India, Scammers and as a foreign infiltrator of their political system, Job market and Companies (CEO). That is not a good look for them.
 
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Ai Weiwei says West lacks moral authority to criticise Beijing on rights​




Wow, imagine getting cancelled so hard by Western media outlets for daring to criticize Israel that you come full circle to realize how hypocritical the West is....
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Look up the reddit comment threads about this today. So many highly upvoted comments about him being "insufferable" and "needs to shut up" and being a "CCP princeling" and whatnot. Speak ONE SINGLE PHRASE against the western masters and they dispose of you like a used condom. Again and again. You are DELUSIONAL if you think the west applies moral standards in an unbiased egalitarian way. DELUSIONAL.
 
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I don't know if anyone posted this, China's top app is a one to check if they are alive.

Sentiment and confidence is extremely negative in China these days. It's long past due for a big stimulus. Wage growth needs to happen quick and fast.

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I’ve mentioned it before because it’s the West’s latest claim China has created a lonely society and needs to embrace Western culture to fix it when lonely Westerners go on serial and mass murder sprees blaming society for why they’re sad.
 
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Ai Weiwei says West lacks moral authority to criticise Beijing on rights​




Wow, imagine getting cancelled so hard by Western media outlets for daring to criticize Israel that you come full circle to realize how hypocritical the West is....
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This reminds me how Americans teach their kids that there's supposedly a Soviet joke that says "Soviet Union also has freedom of speech, we can also go to Red Square and shout 'go to hell Ronald Reagan'"

It's funny because
- Reagan made it up and the Soviet didn't actually have that joke.
- He appears to think Soviet citizens are a lot smarter than Americans, because Americans apparently can't figure out their ability to criticize China doesn't mean they have freedom of speech.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
I’ve mentioned it before because it’s the West’s latest claim China has created a lonely society and needs to embrace Western culture to fix it when lonely Westerners go on serial and mass murder sprees blaming society for why they’re sad.
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The word incel came from the west. All the I hate women meme and incel culture came from western platforms like reddit, 4chan, Joe Rogan etc. They literally made it cool. Go on youtube and look at all those doomer cultures etc. Its considered somewhat mainstream/
 
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Trade deficit soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts​

The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled and the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs worked their way through the economy, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.

Following a month where the trade deficit hit its lowest level since early 2009, it shot up to $56.8 billion, an increase of 94.6% from October. Of that gain, about one-third came with the European Union, where the goods deficit rose by $8.2 billion. The goods deficit with China decreased by about $1 billion to $13.9 billion.

On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024.

The increase in the deficit counters Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to reduce imbalances around the globe. When announcing so-called reciprocal tariffs in April 2025, the White House used the level of trade deficits with varying countries as a baseline for determining the duties.

As the year went by, Trump softened his stance. A framework agreement between the U.S. and the EU in August put the tariff rate at 15% on most European goods and sought to stabilize relations between the two sides.
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AssassinsMace said:
I’ve mentioned it before because it’s the West’s latest claim China has created a lonely society and needs to embrace Western culture to fix it when lonely Westerners go on serial and mass murder sprees blaming society for why they’re sad.
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The sentiment is truly negative these days due to economic slump. Need a huge bazooka of stimulus aimed at tech growth and babies. @Jiang ZeminFanboy hopefully agrees.
 
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Nevermore said:
China's overall economy is holding up reasonably well, and the inflation data looks favorable. The main issues are the extremely high unemployment rate among college graduates and the excessively long working hours.
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3.9% nominal growth, 5% real gdp growth, retail sales up 3.7% are in my opinion far below China's potential and what China should be targeting.
 
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