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> a member of the UN security council is apparently running prison camps for an ethnic/religious minority. You can say the name China lol China isn't scary lik
by skytayloriii 8y ago
> a member of the UN security council is apparently running prison camps for an ethnic/religious minority.
You can say the name China lol China isn't scary like voldemort.
In fact, China is a paper tiger desperately trying to oppress its citizens because its economy is collapsing.
China's import fell 10% in january, and expect to drop 20% in february. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade/china-january-exports-imports-seen-falling-again-in-blow-to-global-growth-reuters-poll-idUSKCN1Q10D5 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade/china....
It is in a long term decline, says morgan stanley, as it will have a account deficit not seen since 1993. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/china-economy-morgan-stanley-predicts-chinas-account-deficit-in-2019.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/china-economy-morgan-stanley....
Home sales in January declined 56%! across 14 major cities https://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2185836/china-new-home-sales-decline-56-cent-during-lunar-new-year https://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/218583...
Chinese firms are suffering from a wave of default. The government is propping up state firms and squeezing profits out of the private firms. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-debt/debt-guarantee-tangle-chinas-private-firms-hit-by-default-contagion-idUSKCN1Q107W https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-debt/debt-g...
It will continue its internal oppression because it has no chance of winning any war against the West or any of its neighbors. However, perhaps after some building up of its navy and airforce in a few years, it will think it has a shot.
- plink 8y agoYour Voldemort reference was genuinely hilarious. It also evokes a real unnameableness embedded in this subject: that US courts have determined it slanderous to speak the term "ponzi" in describing the DeVos family's great American fortune.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoUS courts have determined it slanderous to speak the term "ponzi" in describing the DeVos family's great American fortune Do you have a citation for that? People criticize Amway as a pyramid or Ponzi scheme all the time.
- plink 8y agoTouché! Such a citation would help elevate my post out of the realm of mere glibness. I must apologize, though, that it wasn’t a court case but an FTC decision: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/commission_decision_volumes/volume-93/ftc_volume_decision_93_january_-_june_1979pages_618-738.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/commission... On a related point, I am unable to prove, owing to the destruction of many DeVos family documents in the Great Fire of Massachusetts’s port town of Innsmouth, that Betsy DeVos’s real maiden name is humanly unpronounceable and that the Blackwater Company is a cryptic nod to Lake R’lyeh.