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Don’t worry, if Canada or Sweden is close to become the next superpower, you’ll start to hear all kinds of negative reports about them.
by echevil 8y ago
Don’t worry, if Canada or Sweden is close to become the next superpower, you’ll start to hear all kinds of negative reports about them.
- throwaway855 8y agoYup. When Japan was challenging the US in the 80s, there were pervasive smear campaigns, and this was towards essentially a US vassal. It culminated in the Plaza Accords, which stagnated Japan.
- dev_dull 8y agoDid they stagnate? Isn’t Japan one of the most advanced and prosperous countries in history? And this despite being hit with two atomic bombs even...
- boomboomsubban 8y agoIt is both true that they stagnated and are one of the most prosperous countries. Their rate of growth was unsustainably high for a period before the 90's.
- tormeh 8y agoThey have continued productivity growth, but the working-age population is shrinking, so it evens out to stagnation.
- fermienrico 8y agoNationalism is a glorified tribalism which causes war, death by the millions but in return provides a mechanism of competition which improves/pushes human race forward. What a monstrous dichotomy!
- friedman23 8y ago'stagnated' I don't even know what that means
- raverbashing 8y agoThey stagnated because of several reasons other than just the Plaza accord. Like real estate bubble, culture and isolationism, ageing population, etc.
- omilu 8y agoAre you implying that china doesn't steal trade secrets?