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That declaration was, AFAIK, before China got its first nuclear bomb. Chinese rhetoric changed significantly after they acquired nuclear weapons and worked through the implications of having and using them...

Nah, remember the repression of Falun Gong, back in the... late 90s? early 2000s? I'm a bit surprised they didn't do this before, especially given how much Winnie the Pooh is tightening control over Chinese society.

I remember commenting in a thread(I think it was this one) that the official US position on Taiwan was a study in legalese needle-threading; here's a video that goes on more detail about it:

Business as usual. China(and other countries as well, but China does it a lot) blocks food shipments every once in a while on 'sanitary' concerns. Usually, it's a bargaining tool to lower the price, or to earn other concessions(don't know which one would be the case here - the Brazilian...

It's Azur Lane - most of the characters which don't have large bra sizes are lolibait.

Last I heard, the CCP was looking at limiting people(presumably only those with connections would be able to do so) who could trade in Bitcoins, so this is a bit surprising.

Biggest problem(and the reason why bailing Evergrande will ultimately be futile) is land prices. Land being horribly expensive is one of the big reasons real estate companies are in so much debt, yet these prices won't go down, because selling land is the main source of revenue by far for local...

Evergrande's total debt is at US$ 305 billion. They're trying desperately to get the Chinese government to accept their debt reestructuring proposal, but this will only kick the can forward.

When, I have no idea. It may even have started already(China's economy is taking a real hit with this COVID shit - recently I said in another board that China is a big 1970's Brazil; if so, it's quite possible we're on the 1974-79 phase, where there was growth, but what the government was doing...

It's not wrong, because that's exactly what it'll be.

This Evergrande business is going to be a shitstorm the size of Ida. China can't afford not bailing Evergrande, yet at the same time, they may not have the money to afford doing it(fiscal situation of the central and local governments is rather... concerning right now).

In the end, those who were saying that China 'wasn't really socialist' were as wrong as expected...

Pretty vulnerable supply line though.

At least for a while. I don't see, in the long term, the Taliban staying allies with the Chinese. Or with Pakistan, for that matter.

China has an advantage over the USA in that it has the will to massacre the locals who object to them. However it may(should?) have the same vulnerability of the USSR in that it lacked the endurance to keep massacring them for 1-2 generations in order to make it stick.

In that case, I do agree with you.

Eh, on this I disagree; the Bush family has been part of the establishment GOP for 3 generations at least.

Fully agree.

What I hear is that even Mao toned down his warlike rhetoric when he realized what having nukes entailed. I think this is ye olde bluff.

Japan is trying as well, but I don't know how it's going. One interesting thing is the Japanese direct their efforts into households that already have children - their experience is that providing incentives for a 2-children household have another child is a better use of resources than...