Tintin au Pays des Soviets

This is good, because El Jefe cannot tolerate a cabinet member who's 14 points higher than he

They are following the Japanese model, and that's a train you can get on, but never off of

the odds are good, but the goods are odd

that sounds about white

well Politico by Germans is owned? Maybe poor grammar that's why is used.

USAID's annual budget was approximately $30 billion. That's nothing in the context of the US GDP ($30 trillion) or Chinese GDP ($20 trillion) whether you read Confucius or not.

I didn't ignore that, I considered and discarded it because it's wrong.

China's economic problems are due to not enough household consumption.

The guy who mentioned Michael Pettis was trying to help you out, but you have to want the help.

our crown is just lying in the gutter, waiting for us to pick it back up

great, if you think the "it was Covid in 2023" assertion is now "pointless" that's fine

do you concede that China's shutdowns were in individual places for discrete periods of time Y/N

as opposed to ROW shutdowns that were open-ended across the entire country

and how long has it been since Pettis has identified Covid as a current issue for the Chinese economy? Probably Feb 23 (three years ago) at least.

you've just accordioned 4 years in to one paragraph because it's easier for you that way. It's not what is ailing the Chinese economy currently.

that's true, they had shutdowns, the suppressed the virus then they opened back up.

The fact you don't know shows how out of depth you are but OK

yes I posted this myself in 2020. But 2023 was 3 years after 2020

anyway their trade surplus last year was $1.2 trillion. USAID's budget was about $30 billion back when it still existed.

Facts are facts: Chinese people care about non-Chinese people if as and when those non-Chinese can give them something of cash value.

what is the connection between a disease no one cares about (including no one in China) and a bad economy

EU also sitting on its hands

they built 25,000 kilometers of high speed rail

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

wait you watched a whole 3 minute video? ok yeah I don't know what I'm talking about

lol it's the inside of a Washington Metro station

and yet it worked with abortion so you can't fault them for trying

R's made the border recede in public consciousness by closing it

yes

"the Islamic Empire"

cool story bro

what Chinese mathematician was Leibniz copying. Just give the name.

everything he wrote about Easter Island