barbos
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Good for you, maybe you will sign something good in the next 160 years.
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China Prepares for War - Our Response?
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steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Yes, the military and economics are part of it. That is why NATO and the EU arose after the chaos and destruction of WWII. Mutually assured survival and prosperity instead of mutually assured devastation. Devastation, like the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia and China reject partnerships that promote international security and stability.
barbos
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I did not say it was a conspiracy, You mentioned HP, so I showed that they are a scam, that's all.
barbos
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No, Russia asked for membership in NATO, you REJECTED it.
NATO today is a criminal organization.
barbos
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That's the only thing to it. without it, you are nothing.
steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
On the contrary free market economics is the point. The old French term . LFC.
Ur government does not say what and how much gets priced, or prices. The sytem is not perfect but it runs by supply and demand.
Personal initiate is retarded. Modern LFC through personal initiative and entrepreneurship created the modern electrons industry. Computers and the Internet.
The original Dell Computer was started by a young guy making motherboards. Apple was started by two young guys in a garage.
Our stability in large part comes from belief that anyone with a new idea has a chance to make a profit with it, and it is largely true.
When communist China first started divesting government companies they let farmers grow more food than the required quota and let them sell it at a profit. And what happened? Food production went up. Human nature.
Putin's Russia has Putin's thumb on everything. To me a stifling economic environment. Self defeating.
Consumers in the free market economy decide which ideas succeed or fail by how they choose to spend their money, supply and demand. Government does not decide.
SLD
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And you are?
barbos
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Great, let Russia/China fail on its own then. Why do you start wars with countries?
Something to understand--the trade balance is grossly misrepresented most of the time. The thing is there is a large pattern of America importing goods and exporting services. When you measure flow through the ports the latter isn't captured.
barbos
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SLD
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And when did Russia end slavery?
EMP is pretty much harmless to a person unless they have electronics in their body (say, a pacemaker.) It's the other effects of the bomb that will matter to the pilots.
And the space electronics are hardened, not invulnerable. Juno will in time succumb to Jupiter's radiation despite being hardened and shielded. It has already exceeded expectations.
barbos
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SLD
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1861. Two years ahead of the U.S. not counting Stalin.
I cannot dismiss the legitimacy of this perspective from a Russian standpoint. After all, it isn't unfounded to consider NATO as an instrument of Western policy, especially given its origins as a countermeasure to the influence of Russia.
Agreed.
Disagree--what really turned things around was opening up to capitalism. That happened before western investment. The investment speeded up what was already happening.
I'm not sure "mismanagement" is really the right word. They've been doing what Beijing wanted--pushing the economy. Beijing is determined to maintain a 7% growth rate--something that will be impossible as they approach parity. The mismanagement is from Beijing, the banks are simply following orders.
Agreed.
China is always saber rattling. They're like the boy who cried wolf, it means nothing.
I object to the word "communist" here. At least in China it's a name, not a reality. I do agree on the control problems. It's not that they are ignorant--they are acting in their self interest. It's just their self interest doesn't line up with the interest of the country. If they loosen their control too much they're going to be overthrown and would be lucky to escape alive.
No. Slavery already existed. Many areas at the time had slavery. A few areas still have de-facto slavery.
Harry Bosch
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Negative Kemosabe. Nato was set up to prevent the Luxemburg hordes from dominating Europe again from the wine swept steeps of the Kneiffs mountains.
I cannot dismiss the legitimacy of this perspective from a Russian standpoint. After all, it isn't unfounded to consider NATO as an instrument of Western policy, especially given its origins as a countermeasure to the influence of Russia.
Indeed, it seems that you reside in one of the regions where this issue persists. Regrettably, the practice resembling slavery continues to be sanctioned within the United States through its prison system. The nation cannot truly claim to have eradicated slavery until incarcerated individuals are granted the right to receive at least the minimum wage for their labor.
Within the last 100 years China has fought with almost every neighbor it has. And it's currently attempting to seize territory without open warfare in the South China Sea.Two words: Combat gliders.
More seriously: It always amuses me when I see headlines like the thread title here. "China prepares for war"...really? How much is China spending compared to...oh, I dunno, let's pick a country at random, like, say...the United States? How should the rest of the world be reacting as the US constantly prepares, and increases it's "preparation" for war?
It's the hypocrisy of the bully.