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The thing about Chinas GDP is we don’t know their real GDP. We only know what we have been told. Just like COVID. We are told there’s very few COVID deaths, bu
by philliphaydon 4y ago
The thing about Chinas GDP is we don’t know their real GDP. We only know what we have been told.
Just like COVID. We are told there’s very few COVID deaths, but we don’t know how many deaths there are and no one talks about the days long queues for cremation.
- FooBarWidget 4y agoPeople have been saying for 30+ years that all numbers out of China are lies. If that's true then China is as poor as Africa. When it's so weak, why worry about China all the time? Just let them die in their misery, there is no China Threat. In the mean time, you could also visit China, talk to people, and ask them whether they prefer the China today or the China from 30 years ago.
- philliphaydon 4y agoJust because they can lie and fudge statistics doesn’t mean they are poor or weak. If it’s so great why aren’t you there though?
- FooBarWidget 4y agoThat's such a weird argument. Do people only leave their home country if their home country is bad? Do people who live abroad have no right to defend their home country from slander? The answer is generally "no" to both, but when it comes to China people can't comprehend anything other than "yes". Just think about how weird that is. I increasingly believe that such hypocrisy simply indicates bad faith.
- philliphaydon 4y ago[flagged]
- FooBarWidget 4y ago[flagged]
- emptysongglass 4y agoHysteria as you call it is just words and punitive policies. When the CCP starts arming Russia or invades Taiwan as it has signaled it will do with increasing volume over the last five years—reunification is a must—those are violent acts that will lay at the feet of China, not the hysteria of the West. They've already taken a side with a country determined to wipe the identity of tens of millions of people from the earth and do so with tanks, shells and hundreds of thousands of armed men. What is there to defend there? How many tens of thousands of people must be murdered for their soil for China to disavow it's unlimited friendship?
- FooBarWidget 4y ago[flagged]
- philliphaydon 4y agoYou should atleast check who you're replying to before you throw your toys out of the cot.
- FooBarWidget 4y agoAh you're right, I apologize on that point.
- emptysongglass 4y agoAnd in any case you completely side-stepped addressing my point that any violence that results from Western hysteria (as you put it) lies squarely at the feet of China. China alone will be responsible for the deaths that result from a forcible invasion of Taiwan. China will share bloodied hands with Russia if they sell arms to Russia to advance its crusade of terror.