yogthos

Best of luck with that.

That's basically what Takeshi's Castle is. :)

These "near-schizophrenic" economic controls are the reason China has had continuous growth for decades, meanwhile western economies have had three major crashes in the past three decades along. 😂

No argument there. Thing is that the military budget is basically a way to funnel taxes away from public spending which they're intended for such as building infrastructure, providing healthcare, education, and so on. Instead, tax dollars end up being fed into the war industry owned by the oligarchs, which is why the military budget continues to balloon each and every year.

The article is about Huawei having the capability to produce domestic 5G chips in collaboration with SMIC, these chips are of course used in phones as well. I'm simply pointing out that phone use isn't the interesting part.

There is no China debt trap. That's just concern trolling western trolls invented

• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3745021
• https://www.eurasiareview.com/01022021-chinese-investment-in-africa-has-had-significant-and-persistently-positive-long-term-effects-despite-controversy/
• https://theconversation.com/china-and-africa-ethiopia-case-study-debunks-investment-myths-177098
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gild/2021/01/26/how-chinese-investment-shape-new-growth-patterns-in-africa/
• https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-debt-trap-claims-in-africa-stem-from-us-rivalry-study
• https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/chinas-infrastructure-investment-helps-fast-track-development-in-africa-expert/

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You continue to be confused here. Postdam Declaration and One China policy are simply the basis for the dialogue between China and US, and that is the basis on which US acknowledges that Taiwan is indeed part of China. In terms of international law, the only thing that matters is the UN stance which is that Taiwan is part of China. This is in no way ambiguous.

I know the post doesn't have the details, hence it doesn't really much make sense to make extrapolations you're making based on the content of it. The post just says that Africa is building high speed rail, which I think is an interesting development. Whether there are going to be problems or not remains to be seen but to me this is clearly a positive development.

That's a fallacious argument. US led empire has dominated the world up to now because US wasn't directly involved in WW2. While the rest of the world burned, US profiteered from the war and the reconstruction after. That's why the world looks the way it does today.

It is, if you can't imagine how innovation happens outside of capitalism then educate yourself. Google exists, go read up on how socialist countries develop and innovate. For example, you can read up on how Cuba is one of the few countries in the world that managed to develop covid vaccines.