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So apparently a Hong Kong Court has ordered Evergrande to liquidate. Now whether or not Beijing does anything about that is another matter, but the fact that even Chinese courts are beginning to pick up on it now? That’s bad news for China’s entire economy. And the domino effect of China’s...

I think traditional Chinese culture will “somehow” make a miraculous comeback after the regime falls. It might take a hundred years to make that comeback, but All Under Heaven cannot be so easily destroyed. As evidenced by the Greeks, it’s god damn difficult to wipe out a culture that has...

China is not a nation, it’s a civilisation. “The Empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” And a post communist China that’s got its shit together will be an empire nearly without limit. The question is, what will that China look like?

Ah, acceleration. I do understand the feeling, and to some extent it would be better to get it over with.

How far off do you lot think a Chinese economic implosion is? I have a feeling the state has just enough funny money and control to keep it from falling apart from the seams for a few more years, but beyond a decade is stretching it. And when China goes belly up, that’s when the real hard times...

Translation: Eastern Europe all but fled into America’s arms first chance it got. That should indicate what a “generous” overlord Russia was.

Communism twists the human soul in ways Fascism simply can’t. A similar thing happened in Russia. And I’d personally call them sociopaths, people made that way by their toxic government. I think it would take a century for a society to recover from something so traumatic, and the regime would...

Now that’s a fine reminder that for all the stupidity and problems of our police forces…bloody Hell it could be worse for us.

As much as I don’t like my country being under the US’s thumb, I am also a child of Pax Americana. And for that I am grateful. I’d rather have you lot in charge than the Russians or the Chinese by a very wide margin.

The “Celestial Empire” has always held itself as superior to any of the barbarians beyond the Emperor’s rule. Unfortunately those barbarians showed up with ironclad battleships to give China a century of humiliation. And what can be more humiliating than for the British Empire to make you its...

I heard about those, but apparently the current consensus on the matter is the initial analysts were over eager and those weren’t cracks but liquid spill of some variety. At least, that’s what I’ve heard.

Depends how inferior. If the Chinese can churn out in quantity kit of late Cold War quality at the very least (we know they have far shinier toys than that), then they remain a dangerous opponent. Right now America remains the military superior of China, but China has the luxury of being able...

To reiterate an earlier point, China has got too much bloody money to do as badly as Russia. They have a vast industrial base and manpower pool, they can reliably produce their own kit in serious numbers, and after a while quantity can become a quality all of its own. Not a foe to be...

I reckon China has a touch too much money to fuck up quite as badly as Russia did. That and the Chinese Communist Party of all things is a tad less corrupt than Putin’s circle.

Nah, the morons actually thought they could maximise efficiency with the farms and it all went horribly wrong because communists reject reality and substitute it with their own as a matter of principle. The thin the herd bit tends to happen when some party members shit their pants over these...

Wasn’t there some skirmish on the border a while back where the Chinese came off really badly against the Indians? At the very least I remember a picture of this Chinese officer (a very short one) doing a lot of shouting whilst the Indian officers look either calm or baffled. I think China...

I think India, by dint of being a massive country not run by totalitarian lunatics or corrupt to the point of brain damage oligarchs, is going to be the next superpower. Further to that, as I understand it, isn’t the quality of the individual Indian soldier quite superior to the Chinese?

Tragic, isn’t it? Asian societies that never had to deal with communism are such happier, cleaner, places that I can only believe communism gives a society brain damage.

And when there's no dicks to fuck the assholes, then everyone gets covered in shit.

I think everyone should just use their own sodding currency, and base it off gold and silver. Less fault lines and domino effects in that. Same goes for the Euro. I think "Francs" and "Marks" sound nicer than Euros.