Thanks, I didn’t get that reference till you explained despite knowing that meme!

No, it’s the children who are wrong…

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean!

These developments look increasingly structural. The authorities’ stance since 2020, including regulatory tightening and zero-COVID lockdowns, appear to have inflicted long-lasting damage to China’s private economy, the dynamism of which was a defining feature of its economic miracle in the past four decades. Nearly 20 months into China’s COVID reopening, the private sector has yet to bounce back, despite many pro-private business utterances and gestures from China’s leadership. In sum, the findings here corroborate the view that China continues to suffer from “economic long COVID.”

I wonder how the “pro-private business” countries are doing and whether there are any other markers of a healthy political economy that might not be the profits or revenue of the private sector.

His channel has excellent insights and well put together. Short, easily digestable, well cited and nicely presented along with often beautiful drone photgraphy of China at the end.

He is a business analyst who sees through the western media smoke screen, the destructiveness of the western military indsutrial complex, the gains China has made, and the sophistication on how China develops out of poverty and builds out diplomacy. He clearly either lives in China or visits often and has first hand experience.

However, he is an excellent example of how deep Western delusion runs.

Despite all of this, what is the reason he believes China is winning? Christianity. And though he doesn’t understand it the language he uses to explain the trade diplomacy alludes to imperialism (remember he does not have marxist understanding of capital). It is almost as if it is from another channel. It is amazing that China’s strategy can even win loyalty from these kinds of people. The video in question:

https://youtu.be/7-WA64ecsgM

Ultimately the defence of anti-communism is the defence of fascism. That is the road this takes. The volunteer nazi safety advocates must be getting desperate to be triggered this badly; I wonder if they are cognizant at some level of that tap of superexploitation slowly turning off and their economies imploding.

Tea a la Menthe was a nice touch.

In a a capitalist state they may at some level be de facto correct.

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” - Helder Camara

The self help book - like many others - has no meaningful concept of externalities so fails to give the toolkit to find the solution to complex problems one may have, and has no real understanding of social cooperation to solve challenging problems. It is essentially relying on the luck of privilege; that your problems are sufficiently devoid of most people’s realities that neither externalities nor real social cooperation or organisation is required to solve them.

The New York Times published an article accusing various journalists and activist groups (including Code Pink) who criticised American Empire - including some Indian ones - were Chinese state proxies. I suspect this “information” had already been passed around US political elites resulting in Pelosi’s reaction.

The New York Times article was followed shortly by the Indian fascist government arresting / torturing journalists that were allegedly associated with those mentioned in the article; Indian governments have long accused journalists critical of them as Chinese proxies (eg “urban Naxalites”) because they document atrocities such as in Kashmir and BJP-associated pogroms where they go to a village and kill every Muslim/Christian/lower-caste child and women. The raids lasted over 100 days.

The liberals in the comments here do not understand or care the depravity of the American Empire.

I agree, there are much better systems of democracy.

Given your follow up queries - at this stage anyway - I am not sure you do know. For example, could you answer the following: why is China significantly more democratic than the US?

All liberal democracies are dictatorships of the bourgoisie no matter the technical processes of how they elect their political leaders and once you understand why and how then you will have at least the theoretical grounding to proceed further.

May be the first step is to understand how other nations could have systems more democratic than the West by letting go off the exceptionalism and bigotry that blinds one from this.

1. One lost Roe vs Wade under the Democrats. The defence against malevolence here is incompetence at best.
2. the racist privilege displayed by Americans (whatever the colour) at a chance (even then no guarantee) to divide the loot of imperialism more equitably is a sight to behold

The Democrats are more keen on continuing the genocide than beating Trump.

Who is this democracy for?

Harris is a vile racist piece of work.

Paper (2021) from the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University:

Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub (Centuria)

Table of Contents

Summary

Likely timeline of activities

The NAA: Shaping the Country’s Military Elite and Frontline Fighters with Western Assistance

Video, Photo Evidence Places Sonnenkreuz-Bearing “Military Order” inside the NAA

The Group’s Apparent Leadership: Ties to the Far-Right Azov Movement and Role in the NAA

Spreading the Message with Far-Right Allies that Draw International Condemnation, Media Scrutiny

“More Refined and Secretive Work”: Claims of Growing Influence in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Calls for Mobilization

Ukrainian Government, Western Militaries Do Not Screen Ukrainian Servicemen for Extremism and the Far Right Has Been Taking Advantage

Link (also has a PDF version enclosed) https://www.illiberalism.org/far-right-group-made-its-home-in-ukraines-major-western-military-training-hub/

Please note this is a liberal paper (from a series called the Illiberal Studies) so the findings come from that perspective (ie the sentiment is one of mistakes by the west as opposed to a deliberate strategy of imperialism supporting fascists. Try to search as a litmus test, for example, phrases alluding to “Operation Gladio”, “proxy war”, or “dependancy theory” appear anywhere in this paper.)

What a bufoon; pretty much ensuring the destruction of the US (and maybe the world) if 'murica gets trigger happy with their nuclear arsenal

1. form a functioning vanguard and subsequent democratic centralism
2. the associated media network to promote propaganda
3. the manufacture of a new currency the vanguard can produce and control; without this the existing private sector would eat up that $35 billion very quickly.
4. the creation of pro-social sectors using above point 3 including housing, healthcare, agriculture, education and arms & security apparatus to defend it all

A lot of us here were liberals (both “left wing” and right wing) once.

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (60 min read)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South. Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices. The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30. Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality. The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

Understanding Unequal Exchange: How does trade imperialism affect the global working class? (20 min read)

https://anticonquista.com/2021/05/19/understanding-unequal-exchange-how-does-trade-imperialism-affect-the-global-working-class/

“You cannot resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself.” - NC

Americans—including this author—believe that the international security order the United States constructed in the aftermath of World War II and has been the guardian of in the decades since then has been a remarkable era in human history. This unprecedented “long peace” has provided stability that has enabled not only Americans but most of the other eight billion souls with whom we share this small planet to enjoy greater increases in income, health, and well-being than in any other era of recorded history.

Only a self-deluded parasitic culture could produce such a failure of a human being.